OPINION — “Extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels that the United States has designated as terrorist organizations have wrought devastating [...]
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EXPERT INTERVIEW — The Trump administration is prioritizing going after Mexican drug cartels as a key national security objective. It has designated [...]
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EXPERT INTERVIEW — The Trump administration is prioritizing going after Mexican drug cartels as a key national security objective. It has designated [...]
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DEEP DIVE — When the U.S. intelligence community (IC) declared last week that the greatest danger to American national security is old-fashioned [...]
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DEEP DIVE — When the U.S. intelligence community (IC) declared last week that the greatest danger to American national security is old-fashioned [...]
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Whoever the American people elect to be our next president in November, she or he will inherit numerous problems, including terrorism, the hollowing [...]
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One of the most prominent and visible characteristics of a transnational drug trafficking organization is the existence of a highly formal hierarchy [...]
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From May 8 through May 13, I had the opportunity to participate in the international Special Operations Forces exercise “Fuerzas Comando” in Lima, [...]
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My name is Pedro José Arenas Garcia. I am a former Colombian congressman and the director of the Observatory on Growers and Crops Declared Illicit in [...]
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In 1992, Peru produced an estimated 60 percent of the world’s cocaine. At one time, cocaine production was the largest industry in the country, at 17 [...]
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For a very long time, the word that most often followed a mention of Colombia was cocaine. Colombia was the world’s largest producer of the illicit [...]
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Two assumptions about transnational crime disrupt the design of effective security policies worldwide: Assuming that corruption is mainly an economic [...]
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Major and growing illicit trafficking networks link Latin America to Europe, Asia, and North America. Through these networks, illicit drugs and [...]
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With over 30 years working as a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent, Michael Vigil has an extensive understanding of illicit trafficking [...]
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