Raising voices - Empowering female farmers in drug crop cultivation areas GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit und OSF – Open Society Foundations GIZ and the OSF produced, edited, and authored this report. Both organizatio…

Guatemala joins ranks of cocaine producers as plantations and labs emerge GUATEMALA CITY. Guatemala is no longer just a transit point for traffickers seeking to smuggle cocaine north towards the United States, authorities said on Thursday after sec…

Fentanyl, Inc: How Corporate Sales Floors Dominate the New Drugs Market On the edge of Shanghai, men wearing balaclavas meet journalist Ben Westhoff at sunset. He’s blindfolded, pushed into a pickup truck, and driven out into the Chinese jungle. Wh…

UNODC Warns of Rising Role of Organized Crime in Southeast Asia  Transnational crime groups in Southeast Asia are growing increasingly aggressive and illicit businesses are generating massive growths in profit though the trafficking of drugs…

Afghanistan/Indien. The Afghanistan-India Drug Trail – Analysis India’s geographical proximity with the ‘Golden Crescent’- the area comprising Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, which is infamous for illicit production as well as transnational smuggl…

USA. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Sinaloa Cartel leader, sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years Drug kingpin was convicted of running a continuing criminal enterprise and other drug-related charges including murder conspiracies. (US Departmen…