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'Los Zetas Inc.’ Author on Why Mexico's Drug War Isn't About Drugs
The Zetas and groups like them have morphed into transnational corporations with interests in everything from coal mining and the extraction of oil and gas to cornering the market on avocados. By Melissa del Bosque.
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Duterte's Son Denies Meth Smuggling Claims as Case Rivets Manila
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s son denied any involvement in a drug smuggling case that is captivating the nation. Paolo Duterte, the vice mayor of Davao City, on Thursday appeared before a Senate committee investigating how 604 kilograms (1,330 pounds) of the drug known as crystal meth slipped through the Bureau of Customs in May. A broker who handled the shipment initially said his customs transactions were facilitated by a group claiming to have links with Paolo Duterte and his brother-in-law, Manases Carpio.
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Son of Philippines' Duterte linked to $125 million drug shipment as his father's drug war kills thousands
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's son on Thursday told a Senate inquiry he had no links to a seized shipment of $125 million worth of narcotics from China, dismissing as "baseless" the allegations of his involvement in the drugs trade. Opponents of the president, who has instigated a fierce crackdown on a trade he says is destroying the country, say they believe his son Paolo may have helped ease the entry of the drug shipment at the port in Manila, the capital.
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A drone was used to smuggle meth from Mexico. Officials say this could become more common
A 25-year-old U.S. citizen has been charged with using a drone to smuggle more than 13 pounds of methamphetamine from Mexico by drone, an unusually large seizure for what is still a novel technique to bring illegal drugs into the United States, authorities said Friday.
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The Drug Runners
The Tarahumara of northern Mexico became famous for their ability to run incredibly long distances. Now, they’re running for their lives. By Ryan Goldberg.
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The Brutal Rise of El Mencho
With El Chapo behind bars, an even more dangerous drug lord has emerged. On the hunt for Mexico’s next-generation narco. By Josh Eells.
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‘It’s raining needles’
Drug crisis creates pollution threat. By Michael Casey.
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The Politics of Terror Mirrors the Politics of Heroin
The West’s policies in the Middle East are coming home. Remember the “Vietnamese” heroin that showed up in the body bags at home? Well there’s a lot of body bags at home right now… By Aidan O’Brien.
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How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb
Freshly-released CIA documents show how the largest U.S. newspapers helped the agency contain a groundbreaking exposé. By Ryan Devereaux. (Sept. 25, 2014)
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'We are the market': Tillerson faults US for evils of Mexico's drug trade
If there was a single theme to emerge from today's second go at joint Cabinet-level meetings with the Mexican government, it came across stunningly loud and clear: That the real heart of Mexico's ongoing, bloody battle with hard drug production, organized crime and murder lies firmly in the United States. "We Americans must own this problem. It is ours," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated bluntly during a news conference. America's "pervasive demand" for illegal drugs was brought up repeatedly throughout the day...
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2 major drug traffickers killed near U.S. border, authorities report
Two top drug traffickers have been killed in pre-dawn shootouts Saturday with federal forces in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas, authorities reported. The Tamaulipas security spokesman’s office said the men were killed in separate confrontations, which left highways littered with burned-out vehicles.
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Nearly $1M worth of drugs seized at U.S.-Mexico border
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly $1 million in smuggled drugs at the U.S-Mexico border crossing in Nogales last week, officials said Monday. Border agents arrested five U.S. citizens and two Mexican nationals in separate attempts to smuggle drugs into the United States from Mexico. They involved 412 pounds of methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine that was worth more than $919,000, the agency said in a media release. The seizures occurred over three days last week. CBP provided these details:
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Hunting for Mexico’s mass graves with machine learning
As many as 300,000 victims of Mexico's drug war could be hidden in fosas clandestinas.
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The Nasty Truth About the CIA
"I got in that morning, past the receptionist, past the armed security that the public never sees, picked up my mail, got my telex’s and opened the door to my office. To my astonishment a Latin looking gentleman was there..." By Gordon Duff.
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Big Tobacco Has Caught Startup Fever
It’s not smoking. It’s platform-agnostic nicotine delivery solutions. By Felix Gillette, Jennifer Kaplan, and Sam Chambers.
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Nobel Laureate Takes on Purdue Pharma and OxyContin as a Corporate Fraud
At the recent 2017 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) meeting in Chicago, Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton described the American healthcare system as “optimally designed for rent-seeking and very poorly designed to improve people’s health…” By Maureen Meehan.
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Officials: Unfilled border tunnels in Mexico a security risk
Mexico's inability to fully seal up border tunnels dug by drug smugglers poses a security risk and is an "open invitation" for cartels to carve out new tunnels, according to officials in the United States. On the U.S. side, drug tunnels have been filled with concrete since 2007, after the Los Angeles Times reported that they were being left unfilled because of budget constraints within Customs and Border Protection.
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My High School Girlfriend Became America’s Most Wanted Drug Queenpin
By the time I read these Facebook comments I was one-hundred percent obsessed with and embroiled in the story of Elizabeth Barrer — the girl I’d once cared for deeply, the girl I hadn’t seen for exactly half the time I’d been alive and yet thought more about than almost anything else.
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My High School Girlfriend Became America’s Most Wanted Drug Queenpin
I lost my virginity to the baddest goth girl at theater camp. When I tracked her down fifteen years later I discovered just how dangerous Liz Barrer really was. By Jonathan Reiss.
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What It’s Like Saving Lives on the Front Lines of Canada’s Opioid Crisis
Front line mental health and social housing staff in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside say they’re feeling the weight of Canada’s opioid crisis, and are now responding to more overdoses in housing than they are at the neighborhood’s world-renowned safe injection site. By Sarah Berman.
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