Mexican Drug War

A "drug-use map" is set to be drawn up by the Turkish government, as part of its strategy to combat drugs, with "narco-teams" apparently set to play a significant role in this action plan.

Masked demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails and shot fireworks at police near Mexico City's airport on Nov. 20 as thousands prepared to protest President Enrique Pena Nieto's handling of the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers.
   

Nestle, one of the world's top food companies, apologized on Monday for an offensive tweet about 43 missing trainee teachers apparently massacred in southwest Mexico, saying it was "unauthorized".
   

Some 33 people have been detained in an anti-drug operation in Istanbul, with police accusing the suspects of selling drugs in front of walls where they had written anti-drugs graffiti in order to cover their illegal acts.

The hunt for a fugitive ex-mayor and his wife accused of running their Mexican town as a narco-fiefdom and ordering an attack that killed six people and left 43 college students missing ended Nov. 4 in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Mexico City where they were hiding.

Three men were arrested in Athens on Tuesday after police raided a home in the southern suburb of Voula and seized 230 kilos of cocaine.

Police said that one of those arrested is a Greek man from Kalamata. The other two suspects are foreign nationals: a Colombian-born Canadian citizen and a man from Mexico. They are alleged to be members of an international drug smuggling ring.

The case of 43 Mexican students missing since an attack by gang-linked police took another grim turn Thursday with the discovery of new mass graves where suspects said some were buried.

The bodies of 31 people, some mutilated, have been exhumed from a mass grave in Veracruz, a stronghold of the Zetas, one of Mexico's most bloodthirsty cartels, a military official said.
      
The bodies were of 24 men and seven women, the official said, raising a toll of 28 given earlier by prosecutors.