Drug hitmen killed two senior law enforcement officials on Monday in Mexico. From Reuters: Suspected drug hitmen ambushed and killed two senior police officers with grenades and guns in Mexico, where escalating cartel violence has killed more than 4,000 people this year, police said on Monday. In the latest of a wave of police murders, gunmen threw grenades [...]

The suppliers of up to half of Western Europe’s heroin was convicted of drug trafficking. From the AP (via the Washington Post): Two brothers from Kosovo were convicted Thursday of running a massive drug smuggling ring that prosecutors said supplied Western Europe with up to half of its heroin. Ragip and Kemal Shabani channeled 1.5 tons of heroin [...]

The funeral industry in Mexico is seeing a surge in bussiness due to the thousands of deaths stemming from the ongoing drug war in the country. From Reuters (via Yahoo News): Mexico’s drug wars are fueling a boom in the funeral industry near the U.S. border as undertakers capitalize on soaring murder rates and gruesome killings. As Mexicans [...]

United Nations Officials believe that the Taliban is hiding opium and preventing it from entering the world drug market to keep prices high. From Time Magazine: According to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, between 6,000 and 8,000 tons of opium have vanished during the past three years somewhere between the poppy fields of Afghanistan — [...]

Mexican drug cartels were able to infiltrate the US Embassy and spy on anti-drug trafficking operations. From the AP (via CNN): A major drug cartel has infiltrated the Mexican attorney general’s office, and one cartel worker says he even spied on Drug Enforcement Administration operations from inside the U.S. Embassy, Mexican prosecutors said Monday. Five officials of the [...]

More and more Mexicans are using the illegal drugs that are trafficked through their cities. From the Boston Globe: Once mainly a smuggling corridor for drugs heading to the United States, Mexico is grappling with the effects of a fast-rising addiction rate as relatively cheap versions of cocaine and methamphetamine find a market south of the border. [...]

Guerrilla group Hezbollah raised funds for its organization through cocaine trafficking in Colombian. From the Los Angeles Times: U.S. and Colombian investigators have dismantled an international cocaine smuggling and money laundering ring that allegedly used part of its profits to finance Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Shiite militia, officials said Tuesday. Culminating a two-year investigation, authorities arrested at least 36 [...]

The on-going drug war in Mexico is leading more and more children to be traumatized by the acts of violence. From the IHT: The little boy, his school uniform neatly pressed and his friends gathered around, held up 10 fingers, each one representing a dead body he said he had seen outside his school one morning. He [...]

As the United States and Colombia continue to make progress against traffickers in Colombia, Venezuela is picking up the demand by transporting cocaine from its territory. From the Boston Globe: The number of flights transporting tons of Colombian cocaine from Venezuela, destined for the United States, has risen sharply, according to US and foreign intelligence reports, presenting [...]

John Walters, US Drug Czar, stated that Mexican Drug Cartels are kidnapping and killing victims on US territory. From Bloomberg News: Mexican drug cartels, which have caused a surge in violence south of the border, are kidnapping and killing people inside U.S. territory, said John Walters, director of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy. “Some of [...]