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Drugs trade

July 2024

  • A favela in Rio.

    Rio’s ‘narco-pentecostal’ gangs accused of ordering Catholic churches to close

    Bible-bashing drug boss accused of targeting Afro-Brazilian religions and Catholic congregations
  • Man in suit in front of American flag and California state badge

    Newsom scraps plan to put California Prop 47 reform measure on ballot

    Governor says tight schedule to blame for withdrawing proposal to crack down on theft and drug possession
  • a bag of assorted pills and prescription drugs

    Manchester graduate who sold Viagra-style drugs online is jailed

    Antoine Kolias invented own branding and said the medicines were a ‘natural remedy’ for erectile dysfunction

June 2024

  • A middle-age man in suit and tie grimace-smiles.

    Ex-president of Honduras sentenced to 45 years in US prison for drug trafficking

  • Police search granny flat where Jhoni Fernandes Da Silva is believed to have stayed in Lurnea, Sydney

    Police search for blood in Sydney granny flat in hunt for alleged missing cocaine diver

  • Guardia Civil officer kneeling in front of lab equipment

    Spanish police arrest 10 after discovery of ‘highly sophisticated’ meth lab

  • Bed of white pickup truck is open at night to show stacks of a few dozen rectangular, beige, plastic-wrapped packages.

    US accuses Chinese ‘underground bankers’ of laundering $50m in cartel drug money

  • German prosecutors announce country’s biggest ever seizure of cocaine

  • Bloodlines
    A cycle of debt, sex work and cocaine: the women in west Africa caught in Europe’s drugs trail

  • The Audio Long Read
    From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker: are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people? – podcast

  • Europol smashes Balkan cartel shipping drugs from South America

  • Bloodlines
    ‘The gangs never used to kill children, now they do’: how cocaine created Argentina’s first narcocity

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

  • The age of extinction
    Rare birds at risk as narco-gangs move into forests to evade capture – report

  • Bloodlines
    Beaten and tortured: the north African children paying a bloody price for Europe’s insatiable appetite for cocaine

  • Bloodlines
    Revealed: drug cartels force migrant children to work as foot soldiers in Europe’s booming cocaine trade

  • Bloodlines
    How big is Europe’s cocaine problem – and what is the human cost?

  • Cocaine worth about $450,000 washes up on Alabama shore

  • US seizes $63m worth of cocaine after dramatic shootout on high seas

May 2024

  • A person holds a packaged NARCAN naloxone nasal spray

    More than 100,000 people in the US died of drug overdoses in 2023

    Sobering figure obscures the fact that the number of overdose deaths in the US declined for the first time since 2018
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