Mexican Drug War

Four foreign nationals were arrested after Greek authorities, in coordination with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Thessaloniki customs, seized more than 45 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a refrigerated banana container at the northern city's port.

The suspects, described as members of a powerful drug cartel, will testify before a magistrate on Wednesday.

A frontline pine grower was murdered in Wanahuato, a state in central Mexico where a war is raging between rival drug cartels, local authorities announced yesterday, Sunday.

The victim, Ricardo Vega, was the owner of the Cuna de Tierra winery on the Dolores Idalgo highway.

More than 80 contemporary works of art confiscated from the Italian mafia, including by Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol, went on display on Dec. 3 in Milan.

The exhibition is the second stop on an itinerary that opened with a preview from Oct. 16 to Nov. 21 at the Hendrick Christian Andersen Museum in Rome,

On Friday, July 25, everything seemed to be running smoothly at the private airport in El Paso, Texas, as a private Lear jet landed in the midday heat.

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the “invisible” leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel and the man who believed he succeeded El Chapo, was as calm as he could be with a hood over his head until the plane came to a stop.

U.S. agents arrested two top leaders of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel in Texas on July 25, the justice department said, striking a major blow to one of the most powerful and violent criminal organizations in the world.

Undated images of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia provided by the Mexican Attorney General's office in Mexico City on August 1, 2003. Two top leaders of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, including its co-founder Ismael Zambada Garcia, were arrested on July 25, 2024 in Texas, the US Department of Justice said.

In a sweeping police operation targeting drug distribution networks across Bulgaria, authorities have made significant strides in dismantling a key channel for narcotics trafficking. The intensive operation, as reported by Nova TV, has uncovered a clandestine greenhouse facility dedicated to cultivating marijuana.

Mexico's government has acknowledged that at least two well-known Mayan ruin sites are unreachable by visitors because of a toxic mix of cartel violence and land disputes.

A photographer for a newspaper in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, which has been dominated by drug cartels, was found shot to death, prosecutors said Thursday.

The body of news photographer Ismael Villagómez was found in the driver's seat of a car just after midnight Thursday in Ciudad Juarez, a violence-plagued city across the border from El Paso, Texas.

Authorities in North Macedonia said Monday that 10 men were arrested as suspected members of an international people smuggling ring following an investigation that lasted nearly two years.