The left-wing elite magazine the Economist called for the legalization of cocaine in a column this week, calling leftist President Joe Biden “too timid” for not publicly considering it and going so far as to claim that Marxist Colombian President Gustavo Petro – who called for decriminalizing the cocaine trade at the United Nations last month, also needed to be more extreme.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken continued his ongoing tour of Latin America, landing in Peru on Thursday, where the Organization of American States (OAS) will be holding its annual General Assembly.
The Biden administration’s exchange of two convicted Venezuelan drug traffickers related to socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in exchange for seven imprisoned American citizens drew a barrage of criticism this weekend, particularly given the precedent set by the Trump administration with the release of American citizen Joshua Holt.
President Joe Biden conducted a prisoner swap with the socialist regime of Venezuela that materialized on Saturday, releasing two of dictator Nicolás Maduro’s nephews who had been sentenced to 18 years in prison in America for cocaine trafficking in exchange for seven imprisoned American oil workers.
BRUSSELS (AP) – Belgium’s justice minister remained under protection Monday after four people suspected of taking part in a plot by alleged drugs criminals to kidnap him were arrested in the Netherlands.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro devoted much of his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to call for an end to the United States’s “war on drugs” while denouncing the consumption of “poisonous” coal and oil.
The government of Marxist ex-guerrilla member President Gustavo Petro in Colombia sent an ambassador to Venezuela on Sunday and accepted his counterpart representing the socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro, restoring ties broken under the previous conservative president over the illegality of Maduro’s leadership of the country.
Actress Anne Heche reportedly had cocaine in her system at the time of the car crash that destroyed a woman’s home last Friday.
Colombia inaugurated the first leftist president in its history, Gustavo Petro, on Sunday, who delivered an inauguration speech that promised an end to the nation’s drug war, radical wealth redistribution, a potential end to the nation’s fossil feul industry, and dialogue with “everyone – with no exceptions.”
Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has seized over half a tonne of Colombian cocaine at the London Gateway port.
A model avoided being criminally convicted for trying to smuggle cocaine into an event where there were drug-sniffing dogs.
Two men facing charges for trafficking fentanyl in late June failed to appear at a court hearing in California on Thursday, Fox News reported.
Jaylon Ferguson, the 26-year-old Ravens linebacker who died unexpectedly in June, succumbed to the “combined effects of fentanyl and cocaine,” an autopsy revealed.
The deadly synthetic opioid known as fentanyl is hitting New Zealand hard, and drug abuse experts say the authoritarian government of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was completely unprepared for its arrival.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published a report on Monday finding “record-high” cocaine production around the world in 2020 even has one of the world’s biggest producers, Colombia, decreased the amount of its land cultivating coca.
A police officer from El Paso will spend two years in prison for her role in helping her stepfather run a cocaine distribution operation out of his house.
Police in Portugal said Thursday they found just over 8 metric tons (8.8 short tons) of cocaine concealed inside banana shipments from Colombia.
A former U.S. marine who ran a drug-smuggling organization that worked with several Mexican drug cartels will now spend 16 years in prison. The former Marine conspired to smuggle at least 10 tons of cocaine into the US each month.
Boris Johnson’s government is proposing new punishments for the “middle-class coke heads” fuelling “gang violence and turf wars”, such as requiring them to surrender their passports when their football team is playing abroad.
An illegal immigrant who claimed to be a minor after being arrested for possession of cocaine with the intention to sell has been revealed to be an adult after a medical examination. The man, a Moroccan national, had claimed to
A K9 officer named “Nuggetz” took $10.5 million worth of cocaine off the Las Vegas streets during a traffic stop Friday morning, police said.
A Texas high school football player who was accused of attacking a referee during a game in December is in trouble again.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s second-in-command, United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) leader Diosdado Cabello, mused on Monday that his country could engage in a Ukraine-style invasion of Colombia to “de-cocainize” the country.
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office arrested Axel Giovany Casseus, 21, on Friday in connection to the drug overdoses of six cadets from West Point military academy.
Six West Point students in Florida for spring break were hospitalized last week after after four ingested fentanyl-laced cocaine and two others tried to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and were overcome by the drug’s effects.
Two men were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for trying to smuggle £250,000 worth of cocaine into the United Kingdom.
Upstate New York Democrat Legislator Anthony J. Arquiett was arrested earlier this month on cocaine possession and drunk driving charges.
Perhaps the cocaine clampdown should start at the Palace of Westminster which makes Scarface look like The Muppet Christmas Carol…
The Speaker of the House of Commons is taking seriously reports of widespread drugs abuse amid traces of cocaine being found in several lavatories in Parliament, saying he will raise the allegations with Scotland Yard.
Law enforcement seized nearly two dozen kilos of carfentanil, which is 100 times stronger than fentanyl and 10,000 times more powerful than morphine, in Riverside County, California.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection aircrews teamed up with the Coast Guard to seize nearly nine tons of cocaine in three separate incidents in July and August. The 17,620-pound seizures had an estimated street value of more than $333 million, officials stated.
A mail carrier who reportedly helped traffick approximately 11 to 33 pounds of cocaine from California to Richmond, Virginia, was sentenced Wednesday to prison for three years and four months, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The Biden administration is reviewing the cases of U.S military veterans deported for crimes, along with their families, allowing some to return.
Police officials have positively identified 745 cocaine buyers, claiming that a large portion are parents in affluent areas of the city.
A Border Patrol K-9 team near a California interior immigration checkpoint discovered roughly 60 pounds of cocaine during a smuggling attempt. Officials estimate the cocaine to be worth approximately $1 million.
Illegal drug production in Europe increased during the pandemic as lockdowns helped move drug sales from streets to online platforms.
A traffic stop resulted in Indiana State Police Troopers finding $2 million worth of meth and fentanyl on Monday afternoon.
CBP Air and Marine Operations agents assisted in the interdiction and seizure of more than one ton of cocaine from a semi-submersible vessel near Puerto Rico. The seizure led to the arrest and indictment of three people for a variety of drug trafficking and maritime law violations.
An 82-year-old former NFL player faces narcotics distribution charges after getting busted trying to sell six kilos of cocaine to an informant.
A man was arrested this week in Long Island, New York, once he called a medical center to inform them he left what police believe was cocaine at the facility.