MEXICO CITY – The recapture of kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was a boost to the Mexican government, but his Sinaloa drug cartel lives on despite the loss…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 95 drug offenders Friday, more than double the number of commutations he granted earlier this year in…
NEW YORK – Alleged Mexican drug lord Tirso Martínez Sánchez pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges Friday, one day after he was extradited to face the charges in…
NEW YORK – Two nephews of Venezuela's first lady appeared in a Manhattan court Thursday and denied charges of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the United States. Efraín…
NEW YORK – Venezuela's national guard chief has been accused in a soon-to-be-unsealed U.S. indictment of being on the payroll of drug traffickers, The New York Times reported…
TIERRADENTRO, Colombia – Illegal coca cultivation is surging in Colombia, erasing one of the showcase achievements of U.S. counternarcotics policy and threatening to send a burst of cheap…
The number of adults using marijuana in the United States more than doubled in recent years, according to new research culling data from two massive surveys. In…
PITAL DE SAN CARLOS, Alajuela – A cassava packing company in the northern Costa Rican community of La Tabla de Pital de San Carlos and a pineapple processor in Chilamate…
LIMÓN – The name “Macho Coca” is well-known in Costa Rica’s Caribbean port city of Limón. His real surname is Bell, and for many years locals quietly…
MIAMI – The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday it had seized cocaine and marijuana worth an estimated $11.8 million in the Caribbean Sea as part of an effort…
