#Drug Trafficking
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🇺🇸 Officials seize over 5,000 pounds of meth from hidden Mexican lab
[USA]
Naval personnel also seized "thousands of liters and kilos of chemical precursors," the Secretariat of the Navy said Wednesday.
Related: #Law Enforcement, #Mexico-U.S Cooperation -
🇬🇧 'Fear is everywhere': BBC reports from Mexican city turned into war zone by drug cartel feud
[United Kingdom]
Culiacán in northern Mexico has seen a surge in violence as rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel battle for control.
Related: #Cartel Violence, #Human Cost, #Power Struggles -
🇺🇸 DEA memo from Epstein files raises question: Did he facilitate drug trafficking?
[USA]
A memo shows Jeffrey Epstein was the subject of a previously undisclosed U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency investigation targeting him and 14 others for suspicious money transfers possibly linked to illega...
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🇺🇸 Mexican Forces Say They Tracked El Mencho to Cabin by Following His Lover
[USA]
Top security officials revealed details of the operation that led to the death of Mexico’s most wanted drug cartel leader.
Related: #Security Operations, #Cartel Violence -
🇺🇸 25 Mexican National Guard troops killed after cartel leader's death
[USA]
Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes — known as "El Mencho" — was the boss of one of the fastest-growing criminal networks in Mexico.
Related: #Organized Crime, #US-Mexico Relations, #Security Violence -
🇺🇸 The violent history of "El Mencho," the cartel leader killed in Mexico
[USA]
Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes — also known as "El Mencho" — was the leader of the notorious Jalisco New Generation Cartel prior to his death on Sunday.
Related: #Organized Crime, #Mexico-US Relations, #Public Safety -
🇺🇸 Cop turned crime boss, Nemesio ’El Mencho’ Oseguera leaves bloody legacy
[USA]
Related: #Organized Crime, #Violence and Intimidation, #Political Corruption
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🇺🇸 Mexican army kills Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader "El Mencho," official says
[USA]
The Mexican army killed the leader of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, "El Mencho," in an operation Sunday, a federal official said.
Related: #Organized Crime, #Security Crisis, #Political Violence -
🇺🇸 Another alleged narco-trafficking boat destroyed in Pacific as U.S. military strike kills 3
[USA]
The U.S. military carried out another strike against an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Pacific Ocean on Friday, killing three people.
Related: #Military Operations, #International Relations, #Legal Ethics -
🇺🇸 3 men suspected of shipping opium poppy to the U.S. arrested in Spain
[USA]
Police in Spain seized a stash of about 1,161 pounds of Papaver somniferum, also known as opium poppy.
Related: #International Crime, #Pharmaceutical Security -
🇬🇧 US military strike kills three in second alleged drug boat attack this week
[United Kingdom]
<p>Move brings total number of people killed in US strikes on suspected boats since September to at least 148</p><p>The US military launched a strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the eastern P...
Related: #Military Operations, #Legal Concerns, #US Foreign Policy -
🇺🇸 4 tons of cocaine seized from "narco sub" in Pacific, video shows
[USA]
Mexico said it seized about four tons of drugs and detained three people from a "narco sub" 250 nautical miles south of Manzanillo.
Related: #International Cooperation, #Security Operations, #Regional Tensions -
🇬🇧 What is fentanyl? The drug Trump is waging war on
[United Kingdom]
The Trump administration has highlighted tackling substance abuse as one of its priorities, promising to "respond to a crisis of this scale with the attention it deserves".
Related: #Public Health Crisis, #Policy Response