Mexican Official: Zeta Leader's Body Was Stolen From Funeral Home
A prosecutor from the Mexican state of Coahuila dropped a bombshell today: The body of Zeta founder and leader Heriberto "El Lazca" Lazcano was stolen from a funeral home.This is big news because the...
View ArticleHow The Government Set Up A Fake Bank To Launder Drug Money
In the early 1990s, Colombian drug cartels had a problem: They had more money than they knew what to do with."They were having a very difficult time with just the logistics of laundering millions and...
View ArticleAnimals Seized From Colombian Narcos Find A Home
Villa Lorena, in southwestern Colombia, is an animal refuge like no other.There are four lions, nine Bengal tigers, jaguars, cougars, a crocodile, a speckled bear and an ostrich. There's a chimpanzee...
View ArticleMexico's Drug War Is Changing Childhood
Mexico has a very high rate of school bullying. Many teachers, parents, and psychologists say it's connected to increased violence of the drug war. And it's not just that kids pick on each other more —...
View ArticleFlying High: Cannon Fires Cans Filled With Marijuana Across Mexican Border
Last year, smugglers tried using a catapult to get pot into the U.S.Now, U.S.
View ArticleMexico's New President Changes Drug Trafficking Tactics
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: It has been a busy year in Mexico's war on drugs. The administration of former President Felipe Calderon struck major blows to the country's largest cartels, slowing the...
View ArticleBuyback Program Gets Some Guns Off Mexican Streets
In Mexico, a country plagued by drug cartel violence, the mayor of the capital city is offering residents cash, new bikes and computers in exchange for their guns. He says the buyback program will get...
View ArticleJuarez Priest Finds 'Hand Of God In The Midst Of Mayhem'
Father Kevin Mullins steers his old Chevy pickup up a steep road to a hilltop dominated by a large statue of the virgin. She has a commanding view of this troubled corner of Christendom.Here, the...
View ArticleCatholic Priests In Mexico Encourage Country To 'Forgive' Narco Killers
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View ArticleAs U.S. Consumes Less Cocaine, Brazil Uses More
As cocaine consumption falls in the United States, South American drug traffickers have begun to pioneer a new soft target for their product: big and increasingly affluent Brazil.And the source of the...
View ArticleU.S.-Mexico Alliance Against Drug Cartels In Jeopardy
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne.STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And I'm Steve Inskeep. Mexico is considering changes to its collaboration with...
View ArticleU.S. Faces Fight At Intersection Of Crime And Extremism
A suspected drug kingpin from the tiny West African nation of Guinea-Bissau was captured on the high seas by agents from the U.S.
View ArticleMexican Authorities Free 165 Immigrants Near Border
Mexican authorities announced today that their military freed 165 immigrants being held captive just across the border from McAllen, Tex.Government spokesman Eduardo Sánchez Hernández said the military...
View ArticleOnce Home To A Dreaded Drug Lord, Medellin Now A Model City
Of all the violent cities of Latin America, one stands out as a great success story: Medellin, a metropolis nestled in the mountains of northwest Colombia.Once the home of the cocaine kingpin Pablo...
View ArticleVicious Cartel Leader Arrested In Mexico
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.DAVID GREENE, HOST: And I'm David Greene. Good morning.One of the most brutal and vicious cartel leaders in...
View ArticleHow Americans Said No To Cocaine After Years-Long Addiction
In the 1980s, if you moved in certain circles — or picked up the newspaper — a certain white powder was everywhere, common as dust.But cocaine use in America has dropped by almost half since 2006, The...
View ArticleMexican Court Frees Drug Lord Convicted In Killing DEA Agent
A Mexican court has thrown out the conviction of infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, 28 years after he was convicted and imprisoned for the 1985 kidnapping and murder of U.S.
View ArticleAK-47s, Accordions And Angels Of Death: Narcocorridos Hit The Big Screen
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View ArticleAt The Border, The Drugs Go North And The Cash Goes South
The international drug trade goes in two directions: Narcotics go north and money goes south. All the drug profits made on the streets of U.S. cities like Chicago and Atlanta and Dallas are funneled...
View ArticleOn The Mend, But Wounds Of Violence Still Scar Juarez
We had just finished our time in Juarez, Mexico, when we had dinner with some distant relations on the U.S. side of the border. "You," one of my relatives said, "are the first Juarez survivors we've...
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