Drug Trafficking

MANUEL "TONY" NORIEGA ROSE TO POW- er at an opportune time in Central America, and Noriega is nothing if not

Mexico is, according to the U.S. State Department, “a major supplier of heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana” for the U.S. market

Cuernavaca, Saturday, June 13, 1998: At 1:55 in the afternoon I park my pickup truck on Avenida Central, across the

ON JUNE 12 OF LAST YEAR, GEN. ARMANDO Ochoa Sdnchez of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) was arrested on charges

ON JUNE 28 OF LAST YEAR, SHORTLY BE- fore Bolivia passed a new law aimed at control- ling coca production,

A grizzled group of men gathers every evening on the veranda of Tingo Marla's Hotel de Turistas to drink beer

Peru and Bolivia both produce some refined cocaine for sale in international markets, but their main role in the international

AS UNIQUELY PERPLEXING AS THE SCOURGE of cocaine may seem, it is but the youngest of a long lineage of

Prosecutor General Alfonso Valdivieso has set himself the goal of separating Colombia's political elite from its murderous friendships and entanglements

Central America and the island nations of the Caribbean primarily play a support role in the international drug industry, serving

Reports of massacres in the Mexican countryside have become alarmingly common in recent years, but a recent incident was among

Colombia’s drug industry is the most complete and diversified in the world: Colombia is the world’s only important producer of