Organized crime groups are mining or stealing gold in Latin America and using it to quietly fund operations around the world, ...

The Coast Guard seized $510 million worth of illegal narcotics aboard drug smuggling vessels, including a narco-sub with over ...

A billion dollars’ worth of cartel drugs seized in recent months shows law enforcement’s reach—but demand remains the root of the crisis.

The crew of U.S. Coast Guard cutter James offloaded more than 44,550 lbs. of cocaine and 3,880 lbs. of marijuana valued at ...

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who enchanted readers with his intellectual rigor and lyrical prose for five decades and ...

A flood of cocaine from Colombia and Peru through Ecuadoran ports has created a plethora of mafias with striking names and ...

Gangs use three main methods to smuggle cocaine into shipments: hiding drugs in cargo before it reaches the port, breaking ...

According to an indictment by Peru’s public prosecutor’s office, Álvarez extorted, threatened and ordered the assassination ...

This fall, a global regulatory body could move to decriminalize the demonized plant for the first time in more than 60 years, ...

By Clare Nuttall in Glasgow Over the past two decades, organised crime groups from the Western Balkans have firmly embedded themselves in South America’s cocaine trade, transforming into key players ...

SEOUL, April 2 (Reuters) - South Korean authorities found about two tonnes of suspected cocaine on Wednesday on a ship docked at a port, the customs service said, in what appears to be the largest ...

Costa Rica, like other Central American nations, continues to serve as a transit point for cocaine originating in South America—primarily Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru and ultimately destined for the ...