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Drugs trade

January 2024

  • Ecuador Declares Internal Armed Conflict as Gunmen Take Over Live TV Broadcast and Narco Violence Spreads Across The Country<br>GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR - JANUARY 10: Police present detainees in the case of TC Televisión on January 10, 2024 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. President Noboa declared "internal armed conflict" after hooded and armed men broke into TC Television's live broadcast, among other violent incidents across the country on Tuesday. Ecuador has been hit by explosions, police kidnappings, and prison disturbances since Noboa on Monday declared a nationwide state of emergency after gang leader Adolfo "Fito" Macias escaped from a prison in Guayaquil. (Photo by Romina Duarte/Getty Images)

    The Guardian view on Ecuador’s gang violence: a domestic crisis with transnational roots

    Editorial: The Latin American nation, once relatively safe, is now in the grip of organised crime. There are no swift or easy solutions
  • Ecuadorian police officers respond to the storming of the television station in Guayaquil.

    Is Ecuador at war with its armed gangs?

    Storming of TV station by gunmen follows gang leader’s escape from prison and declaration of state of emergency

    • First Edition newsletter
      Wednesday briefing: Why masked gang members stormed an Ecuadorian TV station

    • Ecuador declares emergency as drug-gang kingpin vanishes from prison

    • As the mayor of Amsterdam, I can see the Netherlands risks becoming a narco-state

      Femke Halsema

December 2023

  • Some of several packages, suspected to contain cocaine, that have washed up on beaches between Newcastle and Sydney over the past week.

    Cocaine packages totalling 124kg found washed up on beaches between Sydney and Newcastle

  • bales of cocaine

    Crew arrested after yacht in Atlantic intercepted with £96m worth of cocaine

  • A farmer works at an illegal poppy field in Myanmar’s Shan State.

    Myanmar becomes world’s biggest producer of opium, overtaking Afghanistan

  • An x-ray of a suitcase alleged to be part of a UN drug mule scam.

    AFP warns travellers about new scam where ‘UN officials’ recruit drug mules

  • Clash between criminal gang and villagers leaves 14 dead in central Mexico

  • Rights and freedom
    Dutch fightback to save teenagers from ‘narcoterrorism’ and drug gangs

November 2023

  • FILE - Mexican Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval announces the arrest of Ovidio during a press conference in Mexico City, on Jan. 5, 2023. The U.S. government thanked Mexico for arresting a hyper violent alleged Sinaloa cartel security chief, but according to details released Friday, Nov. 24, 2023 the arrest of suspect Nestor Isidro Pérez Salas this week may have been highly personal for the Mexican army. Sandoval said Pérez Salas had ordered a 2019 attack on an unguarded apartment complex where soldiers’ families lived. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

    Biden hails arrest in Mexico of notorious Sinaloa cartel enforcer ‘El Nini’

  • Xi Jinping and Joe Biden in Bali in November 2022.

    Biden and Xi to announce deal cracking down on fentanyl export

  • A young member of the Brazilian crime group, the First Capital Command, shows off his revolver on the outskirts of a city in the Amazon.

    How a Brazilian prison gang became an international criminal leviathan

  • Peso Pluma has produced some of the most notorious recent examples of narcocorridos.

    On mute: Tijuana passes law banning ballads praising Mexican drug trade

October 2023

  • From left, Cheryl Shaw, Charlene and Sophie Ellis, and Letisha Shakespeare on New Year’s Eve, 2002

    Families of victims of UK’s notorious ‘Burger Bar Boys’ killers targeted 20 years on

    Campaign of intimidation began after the Birmingham gang were jailed for new year’s shooting of two teenage girls
  • Rows of black bags on the floor of a warehouse

    EU warns of ‘child soldiers’ exploited by drug gangs

    Young people are being ‘groomed to become killers’ as figures show half of homicides in bloc are drug-related
  • Container ship at Le Havre, Normandy, France.

    ‘The tsunami just keeps coming’: Europe’s growing cocaine market

    Customs officials face losing battle as €10bn cocaine trade leads to dramatic increase in violent crime in north-west Europe

September 2023

  • Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, Pool)

    Blinken unveils steps to tackle ‘global threat’ of synthetic drugs at UN summit

  • Properties, homes and businesses were searched by police as part of the week-long joint operation.

    Almost 1,000 people arrested and $500m in drugs seized in police raids across Australia

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