Tag: war on drugs

• 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 ›

• What Western medicine can learn from the ancient history of psychedelics

  July 10, 2025

  Psychedelics such as MDMA, LSD, psilocybin (another compound found in magic mushrooms) and ketamine have been gaining attention in the Western world as a possible way to tackle burgeoning mental health… more ›

• Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna

  July 7, 2025

  The Colombian navy on Wednesday seized its first unmanned narco-submarine, equipped with a Starlink antenna, off the Caribbean coast. No drugs were found, but officials and regional security sources suspect… more ›

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  May 26, 2025

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  March 17, 2025

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• What will happen to al-Assad’s Captagon empire now?

  December 18, 2024

  Following its ousting of the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria last week, the opposition alliance led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) invited international reporters to witness vast stockpiles and… more ›

• Netherlands: The children of a country held hostage by drug trafficking

  July 28, 2024

  On the edges of society, adolescents navigate the mafias that recruit them and the efforts of police officers, social workers and the few politicians who try to keep them on… more ›

• Brazil’s top court votes to decriminalize marijuana possession in move that could reduce prison numbers

  June 26, 2024

  Black Brazilians make up almost two-thirds of the country’s overcrowded prison population, despite comprising just 10% of the national population, Bloomberg reported. https://www.semafor.com/article/06/26/2024/brazils-top-court-votes-to-decriminalize-marijuana-possession 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 ›