7 h. ago Cardiff student who became drug trafficker and ended up in Ecuadorian jail

Pieter Tritton, 49, a former archaeology student at Cardiff University, was imprisoned at Ecuador's notorious Penitentiary Litoral de Guayaquil after he was caught with 5kg of cocaine embedded in a tent

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68 h. ago Pregnant Brit 'drug mule' Bella Culley's freedom hopes dashed as family fail to pay fine

The family of pregnant Brit, Bella May Culley, 19 has been given more time to raise the £215k needed to release her from an ex-Soviet jail in Georgia after being accused of drug trafficking

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69 h. ago Bodies of five men found naked with 'signs of torture' near church

Police have said all five bodies present similar markings. "It's probably related to drug trafficking, but we're not going to dismiss other angles,"

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3 d. ago The £1.8million narco mansion hidden in upmarket London suburb: Seized seven

EXCLUSIVE: The Baybasin clan were once considered one of Europe's most powerful drug trafficking organisations, with control over 90 per cent of the heroin flowing into Britain.

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6 d. ago US struck another boat illegally carrying drugs off Venezuela coast, Trump says

President said US would turn attention to drug trafficking happening on land during speech at navy ceremonyUS forces on Saturday evening struck another vessel illegally carrying drugs off the coast of Venezuela, Donald Trump said on Sunday to thousands of sailors at a ceremony celebrating the US navy’s 250th anniversary. He added that the US would also start looking at drug trafficking happening on land.Trump made the comment during a speech at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, next to the Harry S Truman aircraft carrier. It was not immediately clear if he was referencing a strike announced on Friday by defense secretary Pete Hegseth. Continue reading...

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1 week ago As US warships prowl the Caribbean, our region must hold fast against Trump’s gaslighting

American attacks have killed more than 14 people they claim were drug traffickers in our waters. Now our islands are at risk of being dragged into a manufactured conflict we are ill-equipped to endureFor decades, the Caribbean has been caught in the slipstream of other people’s wars – from cold war proxy battles to Washington’s “war on drugs” and “war on terror”. Our islands have too often been turned into the frontlines for policies scripted elsewhere but fought in our waters, our communities, and on the backs of our most vulnerable.The recent US naval strikes against alleged “drug boats” leaving Venezuela, and the decision of Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, to grant access to territorial waters without first consulting the Caribbean collective of developing countries, Caricom, risk dragging our islands into yet another manufactured storm. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Drug traffickers livestream Argentinian women’s torture and killing

Brenda del Castillo, Morena Verdi and Lara Gutiérrez were lured with a promise of a $300 payment for a ‘sex party’‘The gangs never used to kill children, now they do’: how cocaine created Argentina’s first narcocityThe murder of three young Argentinian women whose torture by suspected drug traffickers was livestreamed on a private Instagram group has sent shock waves through a country unused to such extreme levels of narco violence.Brenda del Castillo, 20, Morena Verdi, 20, and Lara Gutiérrez, 15, went missing on Friday, after they were lured to a house in the outskirts of Buenos Aires by a promise that they would be paid US $300 for taking part in a “sex party”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Drug traffickers livestream torture and killing of young Argentinian women

Brenda del Castillo, Morena Verdi and Lara Gutiérrez were lured with a promise of a $300 payment for a ‘sex party’‘The gangs never used to kill children, now they do’: how cocaine created Argentina’s first narcocityThe murder of three young Argentinian women whose torture by suspected drug traffickers was livestreamed on a private Instagram group has sent shock waves through a country unused to such extreme levels of narco violence.Brenda del Castillo, 20, Morena Verdi, 20, and Lara Gutiérrez, 15, went missing on Friday, after they were lured to a house in the outskirts of Buenos Aires by a promise that they would be paid US $300 for taking part in a “sex party”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Drug traffickers livestream torture and killing of young Argentinian women and girl

Brenda del Castillo, Morena Verdi and Lara Gutiérrez were lured with a promise of a $300 payment for a ‘sex party’‘The gangs never used to kill children, now they do’: how cocaine created Argentina’s first narcocityThe murder of two young Argentinian women and a girl whose torture by suspected drug traffickers was livestreamed on a private Instagram group has sent shock waves through a country unused to such extreme levels of narco violence.Brenda del Castillo, 20, Morena Verdi, 20, and Lara Gutiérrez, 15, went missing on Friday, after they were lured to a house in the outskirts of Buenos Aires by a promise that they would be paid US $300 for taking part in a “sex party”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Donald Trump must face criminal proceedings for deadly strikes carried out on drug smuggler boats in the Caribbean, UN is told

Colombia's leader condemned three attacks this month, which were defended as operations against drug traffickers. He accused the former president of criminalising poverty and migration.

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3 w. ago Woman with cartel links found with 'enough fentanyl to kill 12m people' in car with child

Celia Lara-Rios who was allegedly found with 25kg of fentanyl in her car, reportedly has links to 'one of the world's most violent and prolific' drug trafficking cartels

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3 w. ago Donald Trump claims 3 narcoterrorists killed as US military destroys boat

The US military carried out a strike against alleged drug traffickers that killed three 'narcoterrorists,' US President Donald Trump has said. Footage showed a boat exploding

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3 w. ago Venezuela begins military drills after lethal US strikes on ‘drug trafficking’ boats

The drills come days after President Trump confirmed another strike on a boat allegedly carrying drugs to the US

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