But behind the headlines lies a nagging question: Why now? Why did Mexico, after years of shielding its most notorious criminals, suddenly hand over 29 of them in a single day—the largest such transfer in history? Could this be less about capitulation to US pressure and more about a calculated play—perhaps to secure the return of a figure like Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the Sinaloa Cartel’s elusive mastermind, who remains a prize Mexico might want back on its soil?…
Yes, Biden’s Safe “Crack” Smoking Kits Include Free Crack Pipes. We Know Because We Got Them….
Crack pipes are distributed in safe-smoking kits up and down the East Coast, raising questions about the Biden administration’s assertion that its multimillion-dollar harm reduction grant program wouldn’t funnel taxpayer dollars to drug paraphernalia…
Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering for Drug Cartels…
Major Mexican Cartels: Drug Wars and Business…
Cocaine from Colombia supplies most of the U.S. market, and most of that supply now passes through Mexico, with Mexican drug traffickers the primary wholesalers of cocaine to the United States. According to official estimates, coca cultivation and cocaine production in Colombia have risen or remained constant over the last couple of years, with the […]
From Peruvian Coca Farmers to Paris Drug Pushers, Wuhan Virus Upends Global Narcotics Trade…
Suspects Accused of Running $7M Fentanyl Ring Released on Bail…
Six suspected drug dealers who are accused of running a $7 million fentanyl distribution operation out of a Bronx apartment were released without bail under the state’s new criminal justice law early Wednesday. The suspects — Livo Valdez, Jaslin Baldera, Frederick Baldera, Frandi Ledema, Diego Tejada and Parfraimy Antonio — were arrested Monday when officers […]
How Chemists, Chinese Factories, and ‘Dark Web’ Dealers Spread Fentanyl Across the U.S….
The Wizard of OxyContin—where is he now? That nickname, revealed in leaked documents, belonged to an employee of Abbott Laboratories, which partnered with Purdue Pharmaceuticals to sell the drug. Starting in the late 1990s, he and his colleagues canvassed clinics around the country, hard-selling doctors on their flagship product. Purdue wooed doctors taught to distrust […]
Study: Opioid Deaths Rise in Towns Where U.S. Auto Plants Have Closed…
How Afghan Opium Poppy Farming Has Grown and Grown and Grown…
The US has spent $1.5m (£1.15m) a day since 2001 fighting the opium war in Afghanistan. It’s November 2017. The night vision camera shows a network of streets in a town in Helmand province, the poppy-growing centre of Afghanistan. The camera wheels around the targets before the missiles come arcing in. There are nine strikes […]
Purdue Pharma Hired PR Firm That Rebranded BP After Deepwater Horizon Spill…
Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical firm that manufactures OxyContin and allegedly helped fuel widespread addiction to painkillers, has turned to some of the same corporate spin doctors hired by BP after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. The relationship was revealed in a legal document disclosed on September 15 when Purdue filed for bankruptcy protection. The filing, […]