TIME

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AMID ALL THE LONG-NEEDED NATIONAL debate following the murder of George Floyd, one element is emerging as particularly polarizing: the discussion over “defunding the police.” The phrase has come to mean a wide variety of possible actions—from shuttin

Los Angeles Times

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MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities have arrested the alleged leader of the Zetas drug cartel - long one of the country's most powerful and notoriously brutal criminal groups. Jose Maria Guizar Valencia, who is accused of overseeing an organization tha

Los Angeles Times

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Last week the United States told its citizens not to visit five violence-ridden Mexican states, placing them on the same warning level given to war-torn Somalia, Afghanistan and Syria. The State Department's newest travel advisory for Mexico included

Los Angeles Times

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MEXICO CITY - The only gun shop in all of Mexico is behind a fortresslike wall on a heavily guarded military base. To enter the Directorate of Arms and Munitions Sales, customers must undergo months of background checks - six documents are required -

Time Magazine International Edition

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AMID ALL THE LONG-NEEDED NATIONAL debate following the murder of George Floyd, one element is emerging as particularly polarizing: the discussion over “defunding the police.” The phrase has come to mean a wide variety of possible actions—from shuttin

The Atlantic

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U.S. policy continues to harm Colombia while failing to prevent immense quantities of cocaine from reaching American soil.

Psychologies

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In cinemas now INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS, this is the feature debut from writer-director Henry Blake. It explores drug trafficking from inner cities to rural areas, exploiting vulnerable children. Set in the heart of working-class east London, County L

The Guardian

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In the country’s heroin-producing heartland, Bishop Salvador Rangel Mendoza is attempting a radical solution to drug violence

Newsweek

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In "Hunting LeRoux," Elaine Shannon reveals a vast, shadowy alternate economy with "bad people doing very bad things....The body count is going to keep rising."

Los Angeles Times

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MEXICO CITY - The U.S. State Department announced Friday that a former governor of Nayarit state in western Mexico was involved in "significant corruption," an official designation that bars him and family members from entering the United States. Rob

NPR

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Mexican drug cartels have gotten into the lucrative avocado business in Michoacán Province, where most of the avocados imported into the U.S are grown.

The Guardian

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Caught in the middle of a drug trafficking route, island countries are in danger of falling under the control of drug cartels

NPR

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Currulao combines drums and marimbas and is popular along the country's Pacific coast where most of the population is Afro-Colombian. One verse goes: "We no longer have peace in our paradise."

NPR

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The former major leaguers headlined a list of suspects named in a huge drug trafficking bust by Dominican authorities. But a judge says there's not enough evidence. Dotel still faces a weapons charge.

NPR

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Sombra, a 6-year-old German shepherd, sniffed out large amounts of cocaine, angering the criminal organization that hid them. She has been moved away from the group's territory for her safety.

Los Angeles Times

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A dissident rebel suspected of running drug trafficking operations in southern Colombia and ordering the killing of three Ecuadorean journalists in April has been tracked down and killed, Colombia's defense ministry said. Walter Patricio Arizala, 29,

Global Voices

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Run by young reporters from the 130-year-old Colombian newspaper El Espectador, La Pulla combines hard analyzes with a raw sense of humor to delve into complex topics.

Los Angeles Times

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MEXICO CITY - A former top Mexican security official has been arrested in the United States for allegedly taking millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa drug cartel long headed by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. An indictment unsealed Tuesday in a

NPR

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Retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos was arrested in October at Los Angeles International Airport by U.S. law enforcement, outraging Mexican officials who demanded and obtained his extradition.

Independent on Saturday

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Scores of people paid their last respects to alleged Wentworth drug kingpin’ Simone Jasmin who was killed last Thursday. She was known as “Queen of the South” – because of her striking similarities to the main character in the Mexican telenovela. See

Presidential Actions

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Presidential Determination No.     2017-12        MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT:         Presidential Determination on Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2018 Pursuant to section 706(1)

VOGUE India

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Through various phases of the lockdown, it has fallen upon the nation’s already overburdened police force to enforce the changing rules, maintain peace, and assist the fluid movement of essential services. As reports of police brutality started makin

NPR

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President Trump says he plans to designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. The remarks are stoking fears that such a move would trigger a military response.

Los Angeles Times

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BOGOTA, Colombia - The killers found Hugo Albeiro George Perez sitting and chatting at a fruit juice stand. It was May 2, and he had been protesting against construction of a massive hydroelectric project in northern Colombia. George, 48, was fatally

Presidential Actions

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Presidential Determination No.  2017-10   MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                                         THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SUBJECT: Continuation of U.S. Drug Interdiction Assistance to the Government of Colombia By the

Evening Standard

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Police today vowed a crackdown on dealers using social media platforms such as Instagram to sell drugs to children following an Evening Standard investigation. A senior Metropolitan Police detective went on the offensive after dealers were found post

Los Angeles Times

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President Donald Trump's response to the massacre in Sonora, Mexico, of three women and six children at the hands of suspected drug cartel thugs was all too typical. He took to Twitter - and offered to send U.S. troops across the border to set things

NPR

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Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda was accused of working on behalf of one of Mexico's deadliest cartels. On Tuesday, Attorney General Barr said the former general will be investigated by Mexican authorities.

The Guardian

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Murder and violent crime found to have decreased most in states bordering Mexico as drug cartels lose business to regulation

NPR

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A relative of the three women and six children who were killed tells President Trump to stop U.S. "loopholes from systematically injecting high powered assault weapons to Mexico."