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How a Law No One Understands Brought Down Florida Drug 'Kingpins'
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 6 months agoPhotos, left to right: Charles Burton Ritchie, Ben Galecki; U.S. Department of Justice Bizarro: The...
Airstrikes kill well-known Syrian drug kingpin
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAirstrikes over southern Syria early Monday killed one of the country’s most well-known drug dealers, an opposition war monitor and a pro-government...
Once Colombia's most-wanted drug lord, the kingpin known as Otoniel gets 45 years in prison in US
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFor years, the man known as Otoniel was seen as one of the world's most dangerous drug lords, the...
U.S. requests extradition of drug kingpin's son, Mexico says
CBS News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe United States has asked Mexico to extradite a son of jailed drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman...
Under US pressure over fentanyl, Mexico wages “imaginary war on drugs” with raids on inactive labs
Reuters via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMexico's army appears to be raiding only a handful of active drug labs every month, despite U.S....
Ecuador in state of emergency after drug boss’s prison break
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA notorious trafficking kingpin linked to the escalating drug gang war in Ecuador has broken out of...
Mexico's former top cop on trial in New York, accused of working for Sinaloa cartel
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFormer Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro García Luna, shown in 2010, is on trial in the...
How Forest Whitaker plays a poet, philanthropist, murderer and drug kingpin all at once
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year ago"Here's a guy who was a chess player, a poet, a philanthropist, a murderer and a drug dealer,"...
Drug lord, trafficker, killer of wedding singers: How the ‘New Mouse’ followed in the bloody...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOvidio Guzman’s arrest was hailed as a major blow to Mexico’s all-powerful Sinaloa Cartel. The son...
'Mexican miracle' kickstarted modern U.S.–Mexico drug trade
United Press International via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe story of the Mexico-U.S. drug trade is less a tale of cops and kingpins than it is a fable about...