Tag Archives : Illegal drug trade

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. [...]

A report of the Congress of the USA notices about a strong penetration of the drug traffic in Venezuela, with a very significant increase of the volume of exports of drugs and of the complicity in the high civil and military authorities that collaborate and they protect to guerrilla and the Colombian criminal organizations. Substantially, the report [...]

The trafficking of cocaine in Guinea-Bissau is controlled within mansions in Bissau, where the South American heads of trafficking and their men manage the arrivals and departures of tons of cocaine. A global network and local consumption, high profits and political risks of explosion, this is the summary on the general impact of the sudden transformation [...]

“It was like being the Super-Man or James Bond” said Rosalio Reta to the detectives who arrested him, boy who was only 13 years old when he was recruited by a Mexican drug cartels, called the Zetas, because of promises of good payments , expensive cars and sexy women. He was only one of many teenagers who were recruited by the cartels. But [...]