Tag: drugs

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 05:03 UTC

  Major cocaine catch in Paris shipped from Venezuela triggers more questions than replies

  

  With more arrests and airline workers suspected, Venezuela's top police official said that the smuggling of 1.5 tons of cocaine in 31 suitcases on an Air France flight from Caracas to Paris has led to nine arrests on two continents.

• Wednesday, June 26th 2013 - 18:11 UTC

  UN warns about the rise of legal ‘designer drugs’ which entice young consumers

  

  A sharp rise in the variety of legal “designer drugs” with names that entice young people into thinking they pose no risk is alarming from a public health standpoint, the United Nations drugs agency said.

• Friday, May 24th 2013 - 06:17 UTC

  Drug trafficker in Rio challenge authorities and the pacifying campaign in favelas

  

  Drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro ordered shops closed in one of its biggest slums, defying efforts to restore order to the city's vast shantytowns and renewing safety concerns in Brazil as it prepares to host the World Cup and Olympics.

• Sunday, December 9th 2012 - 20:04 UTC

  British scientist sentenced in Argentina after falling into drug smuggling by honey trap

  

  Currently confined to a two bedroom flat in a Buenos Aires city neighbourhood, just a few blocks away from the National Congress building, is Professor Paul Frampton, 69, from Kidderminster, who was recently sentenced in Argentina to four years and eight month imprisonment on drugs smuggling charges.

• Friday, November 23rd 2012 - 05:19 UTC

  Mexico’s war on drugs a “failure” according to public opinion poll

  

  The war on drugs launched by outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderón six years ago has been a ‘failure’ concluded a public opinion poll on public security and law and order, done by the Mexico United against Crime non government organization.

• Thursday, October 25th 2012 - 06:37 UTC

  War on drugs has failed and requires new radical reform, says LSE report

  

  The global war on drugs has failed and international policy requires radical reform to remove outmoded, unscientific thinking, according to a major new report from the London School of Economics and Political Science which has been endorsed by President Santos of Colombia.

• Thursday, September 6th 2012 - 03:43 UTC

  Loan to help Uruguay lower violent crime rate in Montevideo

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$5 million load to help Uruguayan officials fund a program to lower the violent crime rate in the capital city of Montevideo.

• Tuesday, October 11th 2011 - 07:54 UTC

  Brazil satisfied with first chapter of “Strategic Frontiers Plan”

  

  President Dilma Rousseff revealed Monday that in the last four months Brazilian forces in the framework of the ‘Strategic Frontiers Plan’ had seized over 62 tons of drugs and 650 kilos of arms and explosives.

• Saturday, October 8th 2011 - 08:09 UTC

  Latin America has highest rates of intentional homicide, says UNDOC report

  

  The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, has released its first “Global Study on Homicide”, which shows that young men, particularly in Central and South America, the Caribbean and Central and Southern Africa, are at greatest risk of falling victim to intentional homicide.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 20:25 UTC

  Chile purchases UAV from Israel for border control of contraband and drugs

  

  Chile confirmed it had purchased Israeli manufactured Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) which will be used for border surveying to control contraband and drugs. However the UAV won’t be operational for at least another two years.