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South Africa is again in news because of controversy surrounding arrest of Sheryl Cwele, wife of Siyabonga Cwele who is South Africa’s intelligence and security minister. Sheryl Cwele is also director of health and community services at the Hibiscus Coast Municipality. She is said to be involved along with Tessa Beetge who was recently arrested in [...]

Mexico has been besieged by gigantic drug cartels that have been causing widespread violence in the country. Drug violence in Mexico has been particularly alarming in 2009. It is said that there are two kinds of cartel wars in Mexico: the government of Mexico vs. drug cartels and the various cartels fighting one another. This is for the obvious reason [...]

The long–extending ‘war on drugs’ began in May 1971 when former US President Richard Nixon actually proclaimed a so-called “war on drugs.” Ever since, the US and the Western Hemisphere have not won such a war, with every proclaimed victory ending up a fiasco. In the 1970s and early ’80s, Mexico and Jamaica pummeled marijuana producers. [...]

The idea of legalizing narcotics used to be supported by only a smattering of minority groups that see interest in such a move. However, the drug trade and markets have since bloated exponentially since the early 1990s that the question of prohibition of a long list of drugs is now affecting the decision of policy makers and law enforcement agencies. [...]

Mexico’s biggest problem is the optimized power of drug cartels and organized crime. No government policy to crack down these groups seemed to have worked to solve the problem. Mexico recently announced it would decriminalize possession of small quantities of drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, LSD, methamphetamines, heroin, and opium if these are for [...]

Evidence has surfaced showing the connection between the supporters of deposed President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya and the largest South American supplier of illegal drugs to North America: the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). This is the missing link that directly explains why Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been openly working [...]

Tajikistan, a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia, has Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Pakistan as its bordering neighbors. The Rasht Valley, an administrative and geographic unit of Tajikistan, became the stronghold of the opposition forces during the Tajikistan Civil War (1992-1997). Rasht was the stronghold of the Islamists [...]

Drug trafficking on an industrial scale is happening in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. The country is said to be the African gateway for European and South American cocaine. The country has also been ravaged by poverty, civil war (1998-1999) and a national culture of political murder. It is also said that regional distribution of Guinea-Bissau cocaine [...]

Parents, school officials, and health care workers in Ohio have been shocked by revelations that abuse of prescription drugs and heroin is slowly replacing alcohol and marijuana abuse among the youth of the US state. The trend has been rising towards more lethal drugs as prescription pill abuse has progressed into synthetic narcotics like OxyContin, [...]

US and Afghan troops recently destroyed a stronghold of the drug trade in southern Afghanistan. The offensive launched in the city of Marjah was a vast military operation to gain control of a stronghold of Taliban insurgents that is also used as a hub for storage and processing of drugs. “The four-day operation has seriously disrupted one of the [...]