War on Drugs

Cocaine: Colombia weighs a new aerial war on drugs - Financial Times 249131
Drug Policy - WOLA 249115
Operation Intercept - Wikipedia 249158
The United States Advances America-First Drug Control Agenda at the 69th Commission on Narcotic Drugs - The White House 19.03.26 511413
US strikes against suspected drug boats have killed 157 people, official says - Reuters 17.03.26 511410
Trump asked Latin America to use military force against drug trafficking. Here are the risks - CNN 17.03.26 511406
Trump's new plan to attack cartels with military force - ABC7 16.03.26 511409
Video: Trump encourages Latin American leaders to use military action to help US fight cartels - NBC6 09.03.26 511408
Trump vows to use US military force against cartels across Latin America - Politico 07.03.26 511407
Video: Sec. Pete Hegseth visits South Florida for talks on War on Drugs and border security - CBS 05.03.26 511415
Dismay as Hegseth urges Latin American allies to join ‘offense’ against cartels - Guardian 05.03.26 511412
After El Mencho's Death, U.S. Shifts Focus to Sinaloa Cartel Leaders in Tijuana - Latin Times 01.03.26 509931
Bolivia revives anti-drug alliance after nearly 18-year break with US - Al Jazeera 25.02.26 511414
Drug use is on the rise as U.S. spending on the War on Drugs tops $1 trillion and cartel leaders drive violent eruptions in Mexico - Fortune 23.02.26 511411
The “boat strikes” are still happening. Five things you need to know. - WOLA 13.02.26 508957
Podcast: U.S. Military Attacks Inside Colombia and Mexico: A Conversation We’re Actually Having - WOLA 28.01.26 509074
Was Nicolas Maduro ‘flooding’ the US with fentanyl, as White House claims? - Al Jazeera 15.01.26 504863
Before Executing 2 Shipwrecked Sailors, US Admiral Consulted Top Military Lawyer: Report - CD 24.12.25 503811
Tell Your Reps: Stop Trump’s Warmongering Against Venezuela - CD 16.12.25 501820
The Trump Administration’s Chaos in the Caribbean - New Yorker 15.12.25 500984
U.S. Realizes It Can Seize Boats After All - Intercept 10.12.25 501123
‘He’s going to be next’: Trump threatens Colombian president - Politico 10.12.25 501120
Trump Says Ground Attack on Venezuela Imminent—Plus Colombia, Mexico Also in US Crosshairs - CD 09.12.25 501383
The Caribbean Strikes and the Moral Collapse of American Power - CD 09.12.25 501379
Trump pardons major drug traffickers despite his anti-drug rhetoric 07.12.25 500989
Europe faces most difficult moment in bid to avoid split with U.S. - Japan Times 06.12.25 500974
Video: How Congress Must Respond to Trump's Boat Strikes - Brennan Center for Justice 05.12.25 501129
Internal Report Shows the Military Always Wanted to Join the Drug War - Intercept 26.10.25 495600
President Petro accuses US of killing Colombians in attacks on ‘narco-boats’ - Guardian 09.10.25 492520
Trump’s War on Drugs - Intercept 08.10.25 492483
Why US military action against Latin America’s cartels won’t win the war on drugs - Conversation 08.10.25 492482
American Ammo Trump Calls Cartel Members “Terrorists.” They’re Armed With Bullets From a U.S. Army Factory. - Intercept 02.10.25 495079
‘Patently Illegal’: Experts Raise Major Red Flags About Trump’s Drug Boat Bombings - CD 24.09.25 490069
Is Venezuela the big cocaine menace Trump claims it to be? - Al Jazeera 04.09.25 486130
‘It’s a war’: Marco Rubio labels Ecuadorian cartels ‘foreign terrorists’ - Al Jazeera 04.09.25 486123
Why is the US military building up its presence in the Caribbean? - Al Jazeera 04.09.25 486128
“The Fort Bragg Cartel”: Book Exposes U.S. Special Forces’ Involvement in Drug Trafficking & Murder - DN! 14.08.25 484395
Why Pointing the US Military at Cartels Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs - CD 12.08.25 484246
Trump’s New Secret Directive OKs Military Action in Latin America Under Guise of Drug War - DN! 12.08.25 484242
Failed 'War on Drugs' Redux? Secret Trump Order Would Aim US Military at Overseas Cartels - CD 08.08.25 483907
Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels - NYT 08.08.25 483905
Mexico’s drug corruption has more to do with US demand than crooked politicians - Conversation 25.02.25 459036
The Dangerous Folly of Labeling Mexican Cartels 'Terrorist Organizations' - CD 25.02.25 459187
Mexico warns the US not to 'invade our sovereignty' in fight against cartels - NPR 20.02.25 459024
Terrorist Designations of International Cartels - U.S. Department of State 20.02.25 458541
A look at the 8 Latin American crime groups designated as terrorist organizations by the US - AP 19.02.25 458547
C.I.A. Expands Secret Drone Flights Over Mexico - NYT 18.02.25 458788
Trump labels drug cartels as terrorist groups – what it means for Mexico and beyond - Conversation 24.01.25 458542
US asks Mexico to extradite son of 'El Chapo' - DW 28.02.23 332226
U.S. officials will negotiate a new security deal with Mexico during talks Friday - NPR 08.10.21 257298
A half-century of an endless drug war - Japan Times 30.06.21 249140
The U.S. Needs to Enforce Its Own Laws on Foreign Military Aid to Colombia - The International Affairs Review 22.06.21 249094
The U.S. should own up to its share of the bloodshed in the drug war - WaPo 16.06.21 249135
The U.S. war on drugs helped unleash the violence in Colombia today - WaPo 08.06.21 249136
Biden's Border Agenda Collides With The Realities of Mexico's Violence - The Intercept 07.06.21 249134
As the drug war turns 50, the US is still public enemy number one - Al Jazeera 07.06.21 249179
Why does Mexico have the world’s ‘most violent’ cities? - Al Jazeera 05.06.21 249178
Afghan Withdrawal and the Loss of America's Ultimate Drug War - Common Dreams 06.05.21 249174
U.S. backing for Guatemala drug cartel fight key to ending graft, minister says - Reuters 05.05.21 249177
U.S.-Mexico Efforts Targeting Drug Cartels Have Unraveled, Top DEA Official Says - NPR 03.05.21 249130
Plan Colombia - The Intercept 27.04.21 249101
Analysis: Uruguay joins US “war on drugs” despite its long and checkered history - The Rio Times 27.04.21 249133
Biden takes a reformist drug strategy, but the challenge of supply countries remains - Brookings 19.04.21 249169
The U.S. War on Drugs is Driving the Displacement Crisis - Foreign Policy in Focus 31.03.21 249154
‘These people are broken’: Why the UK’s war on drugs has failed - Al Jazeera 22.03.21 249129
The U.S. has spent billions trying to fix Mexico’s drug war. It’s not working - WaPo 15.03.21 249132
The War on Drugs in Colombia’s Countryside - International Crisis Group 10.03.21 249111
The war on drugs has not only failed, it’s worsened drug use in America - The Baltimore Sun 08.03.21 249175
To End The Drug War, Help Coca Farmers Find A Way Out - NPR 05.03.21 249176
U.S. Tells Mexico Drug War’s Failure Requires New Strategy - Bloomberg 03.03.21 249128
Drug Policy - Council on Foreign Relations 26.02.21 249122
Video: U.S. Counter-Drug Policy in the Western Hemisphere: Is it Working? - Woodrow Wilson Center 17.02.21 249281
U.S. Counter-Drug Policy in the Western Hemisphere: Is it Working? - Wilson Center 17.02.21 249058
Mexico’s Drug War Is Taking a Turn for the Worse - Bloomberg 22.01.21 249125
The wicked problem of drug trafficking in the Western Hemisphere - Brookings 15.01.21 249093
Responsible Statecraft Analysis: Can Biden and Harris ‘Just Say No’ to the Endless War on Drugs? - WOLA 18.12.20 249145
Video: The Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission: Charting a New Path Forward - House Foreign Affairs Committee 03.12.20 249282
U.S. 'war on drugs' in Latin America needs overhaul amid COVID-19 challenges, report says - Reuters 01.12.20 249117
End the War on Drugs Now - NYT 20.11.20 249118
DoD Report: America's New Ally in The War on Drugs is Mexico - SOFREP 07.11.20 249167
U.S., Mexico Cooperate to Reduce Cross-Border Drug Flow - U.S. Dept Of Defense 06.11.20 249168
The US Cannot Whitewash Away Its Role in the Mexican “War on Drugs” - Jacobin 11/20 249126
Colombia's War on Drugs Will Thrive No Matter Who's in the White House - Vice World 29.10.20 249127
Trump and Biden ignore how the war on drugs fuels violence in Latin America - The Conversation 28.10.20 249156
Video: Bolivia On the Brink: Natural Resources, the War on Drugs, and the Future of Democracy - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs 20.10.20 249258
U.S. policies created the border and drug crises—and can end them - Fortune 23.09.20 249112
Is a new Plan Colombia putting a fragile peace at risk? - The New Humanitarian 15.07.20 249100
The Business of Drugs: inside the economics of America's longest war - The Guardian 14.07.20 249124
As the global war on drugs fades away, the only people who benefited were drug traffickers - Salon 15.03.20 249139
U.S. Empire and the War on Drugs in the Philippines - Washington University in St. Louis 25.02.20 249147
Watchdog: Trump administration lacks strategy to fight Afghanistan's dangerous heroin trade - USA Today 23.02.20 249092
In Honduras, the U.S. War on Drugs Is Empowering Corrupt Elites - Foreign Policy 11.12.19 249146
Should the U.S. Be More Involved in Mexico’s Drug War? - The Dialogue 05.12.19 249113
Video: Mexico says no 'interventionism' over US plans to target cartels - Al Jazeera 28.11.19 249267
Mexico rejects US intervention after Trump outlines drug cartel plan - BBC 27.11.19 249065
Video: Trump calls for war on Mexican drug cartels - Fox News 05.11.19 249268
The U.S. and Mexico have waged war on drug cartels for decades. They've fallen short - NBC 05.11.19 249110
Video: How the U.S. is fueling President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs in the Philippines - Democracy Now 04.09.19 249272
Video: Is the so-called US 'war on drugs' really working? - Al Jazeera 18.05.19 249279
How the US military's opium war in Afghanistan was lost - BBC 25.04.19 249091

Global War on Drugs
DRUG TRAFFICKING & Money Laundering