USA. Air Force to Scrap Planes Used to Surveil Drugs at the Border—Over Objections From Police The United States Air Force is fast-tracking a plan to shutter the small fleet of planes used to surveil drug trafficking at the border, despite critic...

Mexiko. Cartel: Fentanyl’s deadly surge - Inside the daunting hunt for the ingredients of fentanyl and meth (…) Cartels are increasingly manufacturing drugs entirely from chemicals, rather than relying on plants. If Mexico’s kingpins once owed th...

USA. Kampf gegen Drogen: US-Behörden beschlagnahmten 2022 genug Fentanyl »um alle Amerikaner zu töten«  50,6 Millionen Pillen mit Fentanyl sichergestellt, dazu mehr als 4500 Kilogramm Fentanyl-Pulver: Das ist die Bilanz von US-Fahndern für d...

Asien. Tse Chi Lop: 'Asia's El Chapo' extradited to Australia Asia's most-wanted alleged drug kingpin has been extradited to Australia where he faces potential life imprisonment. (BBC, UK, 22.12.2022) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-640...

Kolumbien. From fighting to farming: Colombia’s ex-FARC seek alternatives to war ‘Peace is not only the silence of the guns. Peace is also social investment. Peace is generated employment. Peace is development. Peace is taking care of the environ...

USA/Mexiko. The Cienfuegos Affair: Inside the Case that Upended the Drug War in Mexico A Times Magazine-ProPublica investigation reveals how the U.S. painstakingly built a case against a Mexican general suspected of links to organized crime — and...