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Deadly Night In Reynosa up to 120 Killed
Clashes between rival Gulf Cartel (CDG) gangs lasting 3 hours left up to 120 dead and not two, as announced by the authorities in Tamaulipas. The massive full scale fire-fight started because of an...
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Suriname Connection
Trafficking links between Brazil and Southern Africa appear to be growing. While only about 15 per cent of South America's cocaine exports pass through Brazil, the country has become a base for...
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Guyana Connection
Ricardo ‘Fatman’ RodriguesThe recent seizure of liquid cocaine bound for Africa shows that Guyana continues to be an important transit country for cocaine destined for the United States, Canada, the...
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Are You A Bleacher?
The wolof expression “Khess Petch” means “all white.” It is also the name of a brand new skin whitening cream that has been advertised throughout Dakar in the past few days. The large placards in the...
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Inside A $1 Billion West African Cocaine Cartel
The mystical Baobab Island is located in a serene setting next to Kuloro, in the Farasuto Forest, among the few remaining and now isolated forest patches left in the whole of the Gambia. A businessman...
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Europe's Appetite for Cocaine Endangering Africa
A Boeing aircraft from Venezuela landed on an improvised landing strip in Mali’s Gao region, with ten tones of cocaine on board. News reports about aircraft in West Africa filled up with cocaine are...
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Crystal Meth Labs in West Africa Sparks Crime Wave
May evening last year, as a tropical downpour lashed Lagos, Nigerian drug enforcement agents received the tip off that would lead to a game-changing bust. Hours earlier, Baez Benitez Milan,aka Fabian...
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Crack Epidemic Hits West Africa
Local consumption of crack or ‘Pedra’ as it is called has increased in recent years since the country became a major hub for coke on its way heading to Europe from S. America, and crack is highly...
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West Africans Dominate Swiss Cocaine Trade
A number of major drug busts in Switzerland have underlined the growing influence of West Africans in the cocaine trafficking trade and the methods used. In February, a Lausanne court jailed two...
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Guinea-Bissau Bubo Na Tchuto Arrested in DEA Sting
Public television in the Cape Verde Islands says U.S. authorities operating at sea have arrested a former navy chief of the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau who is suspected of being a...
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Is The U.S. Working With The Sinaloa Cartel?
According to an article by the US publication Business Insider a senior Mexican diplomat says America pretty much invited the Sinaloa Drug Cartel across the border.Leaked emails from the private U.S....
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A Drug Family in the Winner’s Circle
Just three years ago, Jose Trevino Morales was working as a bricklayer in Texas, and his wife, Zulema Flores Trevino, was an office clerk for a staffing company.They lived in Balch Springs, Texas,...
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Mexico's Drug War
Mexico's Drug War: Balkanization Leads to Regional ChallengesThis Security Weekly assesses the most significant cartel-related developments of the first quarter of 2013 and provides updated profiles of...
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Narco-Corruption In Africa
In the last decade, West Africa emerged as a major transit hub for Latin American Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) transporting cocaine to Western Europe. Since that time, there has been cause for...
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Rate of Use of illegal Drugs in Africa is On the Rise
The United Nations says the rate of consumption of illegal drugs in Africa is on the rise. Africa in terms of hard drugs has never been a continent for consumption, however that situation is rapidly...
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Traditional African Herbal Plant May Cure Drug Addictions
We all know that drugs are causing an untold cost to society and to personal lives, in ruined lives, family breakdowns, escalating crime, bursting prisons and human misery - the opposite of what we...
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Africa # 2 Global In Trafficking and Consumption of Drugs
Africa now occupies second position worldwide in the trafficking and consumption of illegal drugs.According to UN statistics 37,000 people in Africa die annually from diseases associated with the...
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Pura Calma Rehab Africa Project
Get Involved, Make A DifferenceWest Africa has only recently experienced an increase in the domestic consumption of narcotics among its populations. However according to UN statistics 37,000 people in...
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Brits’ drug use is fueling organised crime in West Africa
There’s a disparity between the way we choose what we buy in stores, and what we buy on the streets. As a result, one of the world’s most deprived areas is being plunged further into violence crime and...
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Brazil And Cracolandias
Brazilian health officials say an epidemic is taking hold — an outbreak of crack cocaine use nationwide, from the major cities on the coast to places deep in the Amazon.It's an image at odds with the...
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