Turnover of Global Organized Crime: $870 Billion… a Year
“Transnational organized crime reaches into every region, and every country across the world. Stopping this transnational threat represents one of the international community’s greatest global...
View ArticleIs The War On Drugs A War On Race?
Attorney General Eric Holder called for sweeping changes to America's 40-year war on drugs. Holder is the first African-American in the nation's top law enforcement post. He's also part of a growing...
View ArticleLatAm Drug Cartels Set Up in Africa
A recent study has shed light on the links between Latin Am organized crime and West Africa,showing how drug trafficking has corrupted the stateof Guinea-Bissau and spreading through the region.The...
View ArticleWest African Cocaine Routes To Europe
The lucrative cocaine trade from Latin America to Europe has furthered the globalization organized crime, causing an increase in violence and a deterioration of the rule of law in countries throughout...
View ArticleMarijuana Now Legal In 18 States And Washington DC
These are heady times for supporters of legalized marijuana as well as those looking to cash in on pot’s growing national acceptance. This month, voters in Washington state and Colorado agreed to...
View ArticleThe OG American Narcos
As the body count climbs across Mexico, the drugs continue flowing across the border by the ton. Despite the evident disconnect–a “war” on drugs that increases the supply while lowering the price, in...
View ArticleTop Narco Movies
In no particular order:How to Make $ Selling Drugs Ten easy steps show you how to make money from drugs, featuring a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for...
View ArticleShort History Of The War On Drugs
In a significant expansion of the war on drugs, the United States has begun training an elite unit of counter narcotics police in Ghana and planning similar units in Nigeria and Kenya as part of an...
View ArticleAfrica, Europe and the Cocaine Business
Today, drug trafficking is the most lucrative branch of organised crime, and cocaine yields are one of the most profitable. In 2006, in Spain alone, authorities seized 50 tonnes of coke, Twelve million...
View Article334 Legal Weed Shops To Open In Washington State USA
As of last Thursday, it's legal under Washington law for anyone 21 and over to possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana, 16 ounces of "solid marijuana-infused product" (in other words, a pound of pot...
View ArticlePharmageddon - Legal Drugs Prescibed By Doctors Cause Over 100,000 deaths A Year
Illegal drugs, including cocaine and heroin, are responsible for an estimated 10,000-20,000 American deaths per year. Prescription drugs taken as prescribed in hospitals are the fourth leading cause of...
View ArticleGuinea-Conakry Cocaine Trade
Ousmane ConteThe report is a chilling indictment of political and military elites in West Africa who are making common cause with drug traffickers and money launderers in order to advance or protect...
View ArticleNarco Technology In West Africa
International global drug cartels have ploughed millions of dollars into a secret system letting key players keep in touch.Last night one insider with knowledge of the network claimed underworld bosses...
View ArticleVenezuela Connection
The term “Cartel of the Suns” (Cartel de los Soles) is used to describe shadowy groups inside Venezuela’s military that traffic cocaine. It is in some ways a misleading term, as it creates the...
View ArticleAfrican Drug Cartels Taking Over Latin American Drug Shipments
Troops from Senegal, Gambia, Guinea and Burkina Faso train with DEA FAST units July 2012 in SenegalFor years, West African cocaine traffickers have worked as mules for Latin American drug cartels...
View ArticleVenezuelan Leader Hints at DEA Role in $270 million Air France Cocaine...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro he was investigating whether DEA agents were involved in a huge cocaine drug bust as part of a plot to brand Venezuela a "narco state."President Nicolas Maduro...
View Article$1.2 Billion of Cocaine Passes Through W. Africa Each Year
Guyanese ConnectionThe U.N. secretary-general says an estimated $1.2 billion worth of cocaine transits through West Africa each year. The council issued a presidential statement Wednesday after Ban...
View ArticleThe OG American Narcos
As the body count climbs across Mexico, the drugs continue flowing across the border by the ton. Despite the evident disconnect–a “war” on drugs that increases the supply while lowering the price, in...
View ArticleTurnover of Global Organized Crime: $870 Billion… a Year
“Transnational organized crime reaches into every region, and every country across the world. Stopping this transnational threat represents one of the international community’s greatest global...
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