Articles tagged with
Cocaine Trafficking

Panama police arrest 80 members of cocaine ring

by Associated Press

Authorities in Panama say they have broken up a major cocaine trafficking organization that moved drugs from Colombia to Panama and then north to Mexico and the United States

Brazil moves to prevent 'massacre' of Amazon tribe by drug traffickers

by Guardian

Brazilian indigenous protection officers to make emergency visit to isolated community facing threat from heavily armed gangs

Colombia and U.S. bust mafia company cocaine ring

by AlertNet

Four of 26 suspects are wanted for extradition to U.S.

Colombia vows to break up drug gangs, beat rebels

by Reuters

Colombia issued a new security plan on Tuesday, vowing to break up criminal gangs, minimize drug trafficking and improve security in the next three years in the world's No. 1 cocaine producer, still wracked by a guerrilla war

Dominican police and soldiers are increasingly getting in the drug trade

by Miami Herald

More than 5,000 Dominican police officers and soldiers have been fired in the past three years over widespread corruption, including widespread drug trafficking

Caribbean drug kingpin's ex-wife faces money laundering charges

by Miami Herald

The ex-wife of a reputed Caribbean drug kingpin is back in the Dominican Republic to face accusations she laundered money for her former husband's alleged trafficking network, an official said Sunday

Suspected drug lord held in Guatemala

by Guardian

Juan Ortiz Lopez, who is wanted in Florida on cocaine trafficking charges, is arrested at a house in Quetzaltenango

Bolivia seeks wife of jailed former drug chief

by Washington Post

Bolivian prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for the wife of a top counternarcotics official who U.S. officials say ran a cocaine-trafficking band

Top Bolivian official arrested on drug charges

by New York Times

A senior Interior Ministry official who recently headed Bolivia’s counternarcotics police has been arrested in Panama and sent to the United States to face charges that he ran a cocaine trafficking ring

US considering anti-drug aid plan for Central America

by Washington Post

The Obama administration is considering an anti-drug aid plan exclusively for Central America, a U.S. official said Wednesday