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Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros, a Honduran power broker who connected Colombian and Mexican cartels during the 1980s cocaine boom, died in a hospital in Springfield, Mo. He had served over 30 years of a life sentence for distributing cocaine in California and Arizona. At the height of his power, Matta
Cocaine
Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros, a Honduran power broker who connected Colombian and Mexican cartels during the 1980s cocaine boom, died in a hospital in Springfield, Mo. He had served over 30 years of a life sentence for distributing cocaine in California and Arizona. At the height of his power, Matta
Cocaine
Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros, a Honduran power broker who connected Colombian and Mexican cartels during the 1980s cocaine boom, died in a hospital in Springfield, Mo. He had served over 30 years of a life sentence for distributing cocaine in California and Arizona. At the height of his power, Matta
Cocaine
Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros, a Honduran power broker who connected Colombian and Mexican cartels during the 1980s cocaine boom, died in a hospital in Springfield, Mo. He had served over 30 years of a life sentence for distributing cocaine in California and Arizona. At the height of his power, Matta
Cocaine
Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros, a Honduran power broker who connected Colombian and Mexican cartels during the 1980s cocaine boom, died in a hospital in Springfield, Mo. He had served over 30 years of a life sentence for distributing cocaine in California and Arizona. At the height of his power, Matta
Cocaine
As the Ecuadorean coast guard commander gazed at the submarine used to carry drugs, he expressed frustration over the endless interdiction efforts that seem to go nowhere. The cartels, he said, are always one step ahead, building more sophisticated vessels to evade authorities. Despite the Ecuadorean Navy's best
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Tensions between the United States and Colombia have escalated to a boiling point as Washington imposed sanctions on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, accusing him of refusing to stop the flow of cocaine into the US. The sanctions, announced by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, follow a heated exchange between Petro
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The US President is weighing options to target cocaine facilities and drug trafficking routes inside Venezuela, according to three US officials, despite Venezuela not being a major source of cocaine. The administration has cut off active talks with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in recent weeks, but Trump has not ruled
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The United States Treasury has imposed sanctions on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his family, and the country's interior minister, Armando Benedetti, in an escalating diplomatic feud between the two nations. The sanctions come after the US accused Petro of failing to rein in Colombia's cocaine industry
Airports
A would-be drug smuggler, Casimiro De Lemos-Francisco, has been sentenced to six years and nine months in prison after being caught attempting to smuggle almost £900,000 worth of cocaine hidden in a mobility scooter at Manchester Airport. De Lemos-Francisco, 56, was stopped by Border Force officers after arriving on
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Kimberly Hall, a 29-year-old beautician from Middlesbrough, was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare airport in 2020 after two suitcases containing 43kg of cocaine were found in her possession. Hall claimed she was forced by two British men to take the suitcases, which she believed contained £185,744,
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A 29-year-old beauty therapist from Middlesbrough, Kim Hall, has been sentenced to six years in prison for smuggling £15million worth of cocaine through Chicago's O'Hare airport. Hall was charged with possession with intent to supply and faced a substantial sentence, but a plea agreement reduced her
