The U.S. and its allies have spilled blood and treasure to kill drug lords and defeat cartels, but the drugs keep coming and the new groups are more violent than ever.
The Trump administration rationalizes the blowing up of Venezuelan boats and crew members suspected of drug smuggling based upon America’s “war on drugs.” We must give thanks that the White House hasn ...
Last month, the U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a bipartisan resolution recently that would have prevented the Trump administration from launching military strikes in Venezuela without congressional ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bags with coca paste, a crude extract of the coca leaf, are pictured at a laboratory in a municipality in Nariño department, ...
The United States government first launched a War on Drugs on June 17, 1971, when President Richard Nixon declared: "America's public enemy number one…is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this ...
So far President Trump’s regional drug wars zero in on Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean. Will he now go after the most threatening narcotic exporters, the traffickers based south of the border?
Tony Perkins is president of the Family Research Council. “There was no ‘kill them all’ order.” That is what Navy Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley told lawmakers last week in a classified briefing on the ...
So, let me see if I have this straight. The guy in the White House (who thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize) has declared his administration’s war on drugs. And toward that end he is waging an ...
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The Trump administration’s undeclared war on what it calls “narco-terrorists” in ...
Last month, the U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a bipartisan resolution recently that would have prevented the Trump administration from launching military strikes in Venezuela without congressional ...