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Spain fights to lose status as drug gateway to Europe
Spain, the main gateway into Europe for cocaine and hashish, has stepped up the fight against drug trafficking by rings which are shifting their tactics to keep their access to the lucrative European market. “We are winning battles but it will be difficult to win the war,” said the head…
Convicted rapists put to death by hanging in Iran
Iran on Saturday hanged an Afghan drug trafficker and four Iranians, three of them convicted of rape, local media reported. The 27-year-old Afghan from Herat, identified only by his initials MM, was sent to the gallows in the northern city of Damghan after being convicted of selling around two kilos…
Iran hangs 10 drug traffickers despite Amnesty appeal
Iran executed 10 drug traffickers in a prison in Tehran on Monday, despite repeated calls from Amnesty International to halt such hangings. The men sent to gallows were convicted of trafficking more than a tonne of opium and a tonne of methamphetamine, according to the website of the prosecutor’s office…
Sandra Avila Beltran, drug ‘Queen of the Pacific,’ extradited to U.S. to face trafficking charges
US authorities extradited one of the most notorious women accused of links to Mexico’s drug trade on Thursday, Mexican officials said. Mexican police handed over Sandra Avila Beltran, a 52-year-old known as the “Queen of the Pacific,” at an airport in the central city of Toluca. Avila is expected to…
Top Colombian drug trafficker arrested: authorities
BOGOTA — The leader of a major drug trafficking organization known as the “Oficina de Envigado” was arrested Wednesday in the northeastern city of Medellin, Colombian authorities said. Calling the arrest of Erikson Vargas a “death blow” to the crime group, President Juan Manuel Santos said at a news conference…
Colombian authorities seize drug submarine
BOGOTA — A semi-submersible ship, ready to be loaded with six tons of cocaine, was seized by Colombian military near the northern coast of the South American nation, the Navy reported Monday. The watercraft, roughly 66 feet (20 meters) long, was kept in a workshop, part of a four-building complex…
Authorities discover drug-smuggling tunnel on U.S.-Mexico border
US and Mexican authorities have unearthed a 240-yard-long drug smuggling tunnel under their joint border, the latest such find in the violence-scarred region, officials said Thursday. The six feet high by two feet wide (1.8 meter by 0.6 meter) tunnel, equipped with lighting and ventilation, was discovered on Saturday when…
China executes four drug traffickers on ‘anti-drug day’
China executed four convicted drug traffickers and sentenced at least 15 others to death Tuesday as the nation marked global anti-drug day, state press reported. Courts in four Chinese provinces sentenced a total of 117 people for drug trafficking on the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, Xinhua…
Five bodies found in burned car on Arizona drug smuggling route
LOS ANGELES — Five bodies burnt beyond recognition have been found in the smoldering wreckage of an SUV on a popular drug trafficking route in the Arizona desert near the US-Mexico border, officials said. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said he suspected the incident that took place off Interstate 8,…
Women on the rise in Mexican drug cartels
The high mortality rate in Mexico’s drug war has seen women progress quickly in the shadowy underworld of the cartels and they are increasingly taking on key management roles, a new book says. “Female Bosses of Narco-Traffic,” by Arturo Santamaria, a researcher at the Autonomous University of the State of Sinaloa, traces the…
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