Deborah Bonello
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A Homemade Submarine Was Found Carrying 2 Tons of Cocaine and 2 Dead Bodies
The narco sub was discovered floating off the Pacific coast of Colombia carrying some $87 million worth of cocaine. → Read More
Mexico Just Captured El Chapo’s Son—Again
Ovidio Guzmán, a Sinaloa Cartel leader, was arrested—for the second time—in the city of Culiacán by government forces. → Read More
The US Just Put a $5M Bounty on the Narco Queen of Honduras
Herlinda Bobadilla, also known as “La Chinda,” allegedly runs the Montes drug cartel with her two sons. → Read More
Mexico Is Detaining More US-Bound Migrants Than Ever
Authorities in Mexico detained more than a quarter of a million migrants this year, and most of them were from Honduras. → Read More
This Woman Ran Her Own Mexican Drug Cartel — and It Ended Very Badly
Luz Irene Fajardo Campos was just sentenced to 22 years in a U.S. prison for drug-trafficking from Sinaloa, Mexico. → Read More
Mexico Threatened to Kick Out the DEA to Get US Charges Dropped Against Former Top General
The arrest of Mexico's former defense secretary on drug charges triggered a diplomatic crisis —and the U.S. caved. → Read More
Mexico Just Arrested a Cartel Boss Known as 'The Sledgehammer'
The move is an attempt by AMLO's government to claw back a semblance of control in the violence-plagued state, but it gives an opening to a rival cartel. → Read More
Mexico Just Arrested a Cartel Boss Known as 'The Sledgehammer'
The move is an attempt by AMLO's government to claw back a semblance of control in the violence-plagued state, but it gives an opening to a rival cartel. → Read More
There's 'Blood-Free' Weed Growing in the Middle of Cartel Land
We spoke to Mexican farmers in Sinaloa growing "ethical" cannabis with no ties to the drug cartels. → Read More
Mexican Farmers Are Growing Cartel-Free ‘Ethical’ Weed
We spoke to farmers in Sinaloa growing "blood-free" cannabis with no ties to the local drug cartels. → Read More
The Honduran Drug Boss Who Helped the US Now Faces Deportation—and Death
Digna Valle Valle helped the DEA bring down some of Honduras' most powerful drug traffickers. Now she could be deported back to the country to die. → Read More
The World's Biggest Legal Coca Industry Might Get Shut Down
A right-wing power grab in Bolivia could spell the end of a system that has likely kept the drug war in check. → Read More
Weed-Curious Politicians Should Look to Uruguay, Where There's No Fuss Over Legal Pot
People freak out about weed legalization, then realize it’s better and stop caring. → Read More
It's Game of Thrones in Cartel Land Now That El Chapo's in Prison for Life
In Mexico, his sons could struggle to survive. → Read More
How One of Mexico's Biggest Cartels Is Trying to Dominate the Country's Wildest West
In a shift in the drug war, Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación is convincing self-defense groups representing southwestern Mexico's rural poor to fight the government. → Read More
Extreme Cartel Violence Has Come to Mexico City
Vigilantes are threatening action as authorities seem unable to stop the rise of homicides and racketeering. → Read More
Venezuela's Government Is So Corrupt It Basically Has Its Own Cartel
They call it the Cartel of the Suns, and it's no joke. → Read More
In El Chapo's Mexico, Fentanyl Is the New Boom Drug
Despite the drug lord's take down, the narco-trade in Sinaloa is thriving as producers shift from heroin to deadly opioids. → Read More
This Mexican Filmmaker Casts Real Cartel Members in His Movies
Eduardo Giralt Brun is offering at-risk youths from Sinaloa a potential way out of an early grave by playing themselves on screen. → Read More
How Cocaine-Fueled Corruption Helped Spark the Migrant Caravan
Honduras is being eaten up by the drug cartels and their violence, so it's only natural people want out. That's just the end of a long story. → Read More