Why the price of cocaine in America has barely moved in decades
Tom Wainwright, author of "Narconomics," is the former Mexico City bureau chief for The Economist. He explains the reason why the price of cocaine in the United States has barely moved in decades....
View ArticleThese are the kind of profits Mexican drug cartels are making
Mexican drug cartels are making billions of dollars by flooding America with cocaine and other drugs. Ioan Grillo, author of "Gangster Warlords," breaks down what drug traffickers invest and the kind...
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Colombian traffickers have added drones to their smuggling arsenal
Drug traffickers in northern Colombia have turned to drone aircraft to move illicit cargoes across borders, according to Colombian police.Police in the coastal town of Bahía Solano, in the department...
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Here's what the charts say about oil
After many months of speculation, OPEC finally delivered. Member countries agreed in principle to control oil production for the first time in several years. Production was agreed to be cut by around...
View ArticleThis is how the legal marijuana industry is affecting Mexican drug cartels
Tom Wainwright, author of "Narconomics," is the former Mexico City bureau chief for The Economist. He explains how the legal marijuana business in the United States is affecting drug cartels in Mexico....
View ArticleEX-DEA AGENT: How I got Mexican drug cartels to trust me
Retired DEA agent and "Deal" author Mike Vigil spent roughly 20 years undercover in Mexico and Colombia. He spent a lot of time working alongside killers and drug dealers. Gaining their trust was one...
View ArticleWhy the price of cocaine in America has barely moved in decades
Tom Wainwright, author of "Narconomics," is the former Mexico City bureau chief for The Economist. He explains the reason why the price of cocaine in the United States has barely moved in decades....
View ArticleEl Chapo's been extradited to the US — here's a look at his dangerous life
The story of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has captivated millions of people. Now he's being extradited to the US.Here's a look inside the life of the billionaire kingpin....
View ArticleHere's footage of 'El Chapo' arriving to the US
Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was extradited to New York.The Sinaloa cartel leader's charges include money laundering, drug trafficking, kidnapping, and murder. Follow BI Video: On...
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Mexican police commander charged allegedly leaking information to help drug...
A Mexican federal police commander has been charged for allegedly leaking confidential law enforcement information to warn members of a Mexican drug cartel about a U.S. narcotics probe, the U.S....
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Cartels are growing marijuana illegally in California — and there's a war...
In the gray half-light of dawn, eight figures creep through the dry pine forest near Quincy, California. Seven of them wear camo uniforms bearing the logos of various government agencies: U.S. Forest...
View ArticleEX-UNDERCOVER DEA AGENT: What I did when drug dealers asked me to try the...
Retired DEA agent and "Deal" author Mike Vigil spent roughly 20 years undercover in Mexico and Colombia. He reveals what he'd say to drug traffickers when they would ask him to try some of the drugs...
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Mexico captures cartel leader opposed to El Chapo's gang
Mexican security forces on Tuesday arrested accused drug kingpin Damaso Lopez, believed to be locked in a bloody struggle for control of the Sinaloa Cartel against the sons of its captured leader...
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An award-winning journalist was just gunned down in Mexico
An award-winning Mexican journalist was gunned down on Monday in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, the fifth reporter killed in the past three months as the country struggles to contain resurgent...
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Here's how Mexican cartels actually operate in the United States
The Trump administration has zeroed in on the threat of drugs and crime.But the relationship between transnational drug traffickers and gangs in the US is complex and varied.Policies that don't account...
View Article8 key takeaways from Trump's State of the Union address
President Trump delivered his second State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night. Initially scheduled for last month, his speech was postponed because of the partial government shutdown—...
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A Mexican gang hung 9 dead bodies from a bridge in a gruesome battle linked...
Warning: This post contains graphic details.Mexican authorities found a total of 19 bodies scattered across the city of Uruapan in Mexico's Michoacán state on Thursday morning.Some of the bodies were...
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The brutal ambush of 9 American Mormons in Mexico is part of a surge of...
Nine members of an American Mormon family were brutally ambushed and killed on a Mexican roadside on Monday.It's just the latest Mexican massacre to capture international attention, occurring not long...
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At least 21 people are dead after a gun battle near the Texas border between...
An armed group believed to be associated with the Cartel of the Northeast gang in Mexico stormed Villa Union, a town of 3,000 people near the Texas border, staging an hour-long attack for unclear...
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America's appetite for avocados is helping to fuel the Mexican cartels, but...
US consumption of avocados has increased drastically in recent years.But the increase has also become a boon to Mexican cartels, who have extorted avocados farmers for money.While the long-term...
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