Former Argentine President Carlos Menem and 17 members of his government were acquitted Tuesday of charges that they violated international weapons embargoes on Ecuador and Croatia in the 1990s

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

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

Panamanian authorities seized 1,025 kilos (2,257 pounds) of cocaine in the Caribbean province of Colon, 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of the capital, a senior prosecutor said Tuesday

Panamanian authorities seized more than 3 tons of cocaine in the northern province of Colon, as well as 30 assault rifles in a separate operation in the western province of Veraguas, officials said

Mexican federal police say they have detained a regional leader of the Zetas drug gang who trafficked drugs from the Dominican Republic and Panama to the United States

Panamanian authorities seized three tons of cocaine near the Caribbean Sea, a short distance from the site where nearly eight tons of cocaine were seized less than two weeks ago, naval air service spokesman Vladimir Rodriguez told Efe