2 week agoDiosdado Cabello reports results in the fight against drug gangs: 52,769 kg of drugs seized, 153,000 kg of precursors, 6,284 arrests, 400 aircraft, and 92 runways neutralized. He accuses María Corina Machado of colluding with militants and asserts that the DEA is "the largest cartel in the world."
Maduro announces a new "massive enlistment campaign" for Friday the 29th and Saturday the 30th.
2 week agoDiosdado Cabello accuses the DEA of being "the largest drug cartel in the world." "It controls the drugs that go to the US here (in Venezuela) if we combat drugs, not occasionally. Here we combat drugs at their roots," he stated.
2 week ago"Chalamán," a relative of "El Mencho" and alleged member of the CJNG, was arrested in Colima.
France also announces mobilization of resources in the Caribbean to "confront" drug cartels.
In Baalbek, the army launches a raid campaign and destroys dunams of cannabis.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she is in favor of non-intervention regarding the alleged military operations that the United States is carrying out in the Caribbean Sea, near Venezuela, and which have set off alarm bells in the region.
3 week agoReporter: I wanted to ask about 3 warships being sent to Venezuela and the 4000 marines… Is there a possibility of boots on the ground there. Leavitt: The president is prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country and to bring those responsible to justice. The Maduro regime is not the legitimate government—it is a Nacro terror cartel
US deploys warships near Venezuela to combat drug threats. The sources said the ships are the USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham and the USS Sampson.
Three US Aegis guided-missile destroyers will arrive off the coast of Venezuela in the next 36 hours as part of an effort to address threats from Latin American drug cartels, two sources briefed on the matter said
Gustavo Petro: "For the good of Colombia and Venezuela, there should be no binational armed groups led by foreigners in our territories."
Petro accuses the FARC and ELN of operating in Venezuela, trafficking "dozens of tons of cocaine" and bribing public officials.
The Iraqi Interior Ministry: We provided the Lebanese army with information that led to the dismantling of a Captagon factory in the Bekaa.
Camilo Ochoa Delgado, an influencer known as "El Alucín," was murdered in Morelos, Cuernavaca; authorities are investigating alleged links to the Sinaloa Cartel.
3 week agoOn the same day that Camilo Ochoa "El Alucin" was executed, three young men were tortured and shot in Temixco, Morelos.
US military deploying over 4,000 additional troops to waters around Latin America as part of Trump's counter-cartel mission: CNN
Mexico is expelling 26 cartel members to the U.S. - AP
Venezuelans protested outside Chevron's headquarters in the Netherlands: "Oil stained with blood and cocaine."
President Trump has secretly instructed the Pentagon to employ U.S. military force against Latin American drug cartels, now labeled as foreign terrorist organizations. - NYT
1 month agoSanta Rosa de Lima Cartel (CSRL) Sicarios Raided Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) Safe House, Executing Six, in Santa Mónica Ozumbilla de Yuriria, Guanajuato, Mexico
1 month agoThe Security forces dismantled a drug trafficking gang in area of Masyaf (W. Hama). An arsenal was also seized
Drug raid at Korydallos prison leads to 4 arrests
Iraqi Interior Ministry: An international drug network was arrested in Syria in the first security coordination since the fall of the Assad regime.
1 month agoBSF and Punjab Police nab 2 smugglers and recover 2 drones with heroin in major anti-narco ops on Punjab border. Drones carrying heroin seized in Fazilka and Amritsar; smugglers caught in Ferozepur
1 month agoCounterterrorism Division: 5 tons of hashish seized during a raid in the Tacnis area (127 km east of Benghazi)
A deadly firefight erupted during a pre-dawn raid on a major drug trafficker near Qamishli city, NE_Syria. One Asayish officer was killed and four others injured
U.S. drug enforcement agents seized more than $10 million in cryptocurrency linked to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel during raids that also netted massive quantities of fentanyl and other drugs, officials say
1 month agoCustoms and FSB officers found 820 kilograms of cocaine worth 12 billion rubles in the port of St. Petersburg
1 month agoLast night, the Jordanian Army thwarted 2 infiltration attempts by Captagon smugglers coming from South Syria. 100,000s Captagon pills were seized. The packs bear the Lamborghini logo and the "made in Germany" marking - which is now the most widespread design
Mexican president Sheinbaum says security agreement with U.S. will not include the entry of U.S. security forces into the country