MEXICO CITY, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Authorities in Mexico say 5,376 people have died this year in drug violence -- more than double the number for the same period last year.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. government has provided Mexico nearly half of a $400 million aid package for its southern neighbor's ongoing battle against drug traffickers.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Journalists are increasingly among the casualties of the drug cartel wars in Mexico, with 28 killed and eight missing since 2000, a reporters' group says.
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Mexico says it is cleaning house in its attorney general's office after five anti-drug officials were arrested for secretly working with drug cartels.
NEWARK, N.J., Aug. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. authorities said they seized more than 2,000 pounds of the main ingredient in methamphetamine at a Newark, N.J., port.
WASHINGTON, April 28 (UPI) -- U.S. President Bush and Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom Caballeros discussed a wide variety of issues Monday, especially trade and drug trafficking.
CAMARGO, Mexico, March 30 (UPI) -- Mexican drug cartels have conducted military-style training camps in northern Mexico, according to U.S. and Mexican authorities.
MEXICO CITY, March 19 (UPI) -- Mexican police found a "James Bond" style vehicle said to belong to drug traffickers, replete with a smoke machine and other gadgetry to elude the authorities.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- A popular Mexican singer of songs about the country's drug trafficking was killed by drug gang members, El Universal reported Thursday.
MERIDA, Venezuela, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Wilber "Soap" Varela, reputedly one of Colombia's biggest drug traffickers, has been found dead in Venezuela, it was reported Saturday.
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. Border Patrol agents launched pepper spray and tear gas canisters into Mexican border neighborhoods to counter human traffickers.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. government has named 23 Colombians and a like number of Colombian companies to a special list of narcotics traffickers.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 1 (UPI) -- Brazilian authorities arrested six major drug traffickers ahead of an alleged planned attack against a rival gang in a Rio de Janeiro slum.
MADRID, May 11 (UPI) -- A U.S. anti-drug official said in Madrid that Latin American drug traffickers are increasingly using the euro as currency.
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Successful U.S. efforts to control the sale of chemicals used to produce methamphetamine has led to a mushrooming production of the drug in Mexico.
