Tag: cartels

• Borderland: Dispatches with Katarina Szulc: BONUS: Venezuela in the Wake of Maduro’s Capture (with Ioan Grillo)

  May 24, 2026

  Listen: https://ift.tt/25KOPGX This weekend, Borderland: Dispatches host Katarina Szulc was able to connect with acclaimed cartel investigative reporter Ioan Grillo, from the border of Columbia and Venezuela, who gave an… more ›

• Inside the CIA’s secret fight against Mexico’s drug cartels

  September 10, 2025

  Working with special Mexican army and navy units, the CIA for years has been running covert operations to hunt down Mexico’s most-wanted narcos, a Reuters investigation finds. Among the captures:… more ›

• A killing at sea marks America’s descent into lawless power – Defense One

  September 10, 2025

  The peremptory strike on a speedboat is a warning to all who serve. Remember your oath. This was not a counterdrug operation. It was not law enforcement. It was killing… more ›

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  March 17, 2025

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• Kinahan Cartel: Wanted Narco Boss Exposes Whereabouts by Posting Google Reviews

  October 14, 2024

  One of the world’s most wanted men, a notorious narco kingpin whose gang is implicated in multiple murders, has left a trail of Google reviews providing valuable new insights into… more ›

• ‘The cocaine superhighway’: how death and destruction mark drug’s path from South America to Europe

  June 13, 2024

  The submerged section of the ‘iceberg’ shows a man being searched by police, labelled packets of cocaine from a seizure and a customs official searching a box of bananas for… more ›

• Drugs, violence and organized crime in Belgium

  December 17, 2023

  The answer is, of course, cocaine. Antwerp, Europe’s diamond capital, is now better known as a key way station on the drug superhighway into the EU from Panama, Ecuador and… more ›

• Hot Money: The New Narcos

  December 5, 2023

  Hot Money is back with a new season. “A middle-aged electrician is murdered in a quiet Amsterdam suburb. The case leads to a web of drugs, money laundering and state-sponsored… more ›

• Criminal Leviathans

  November 16, 2023

  What happens when state repression strengthens the very criminal groups it aims to constrain? Under mass incarceration, sophisticated prison gangs have learned not only to organize inmate populations, but to… more ›

• ‘An atmosphere of terror’: the bloody rise of Mexico’s top cartel

  April 2, 2021

  It was mid-spring when residents of the wasteland behind Guadalajara’s international airport noticed a dog roaming their community with a strange object in its mouth: a human forearm. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/02/jalisco-cartel-mexico-rise-guadalajara more ›