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Drug trafficking

  • August 27 2025
    Mexico
    The Mexican town putting Sheinbaum’s crackdown to the test
    State of Chiapas looks to quell armed groups in Pantelhó ahead of delayed election and US pressure over security
    A group of residents and members of El Machete stand around a burnt truck during a protest on a street in Pantelhó, Chiapas
  • August 25 2025
    Sinaloa drug cartel kingpin ‘El Mayo’ pleads guilty in US court
    One of Mexico’s most powerful crime lords faces a minimum sentence of life imprisonment
    A courtroom sketch shows Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada raising his hand to take an oath before entering a guilty plea, with a guard and another man seated beside him
  • August 25 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The devastating global boom in narcotics
    Demand for harmful drugs must be curbed in order to squeeze powerful cartels
    Packages of seized drugs stacked on a table, with Peruvian Armed Forces and Anti-Drug Directorate agents standing in the background
  • August 11 2025
    Mexico
    US army will ‘never set foot’ in Mexican territory, vows Sheinbaum
    President hits back at reports that Washington could strike drug cartels in its southern neighbour
    President Claudia Sheinbaum
  • July 11 2025
    ‘El Chapo’ scion pleads guilty to US drug trafficking charges
    Ovidio Guzmán, son of the Sinaloa Cartel’s co-founder, could produce trove of data on group’s ties to Mexican politicians
    Ovidio Guzmán in a video still being arrested
  • July 10 2025
    El Chapo’s son expected to plead guilty to US criminal charges
    Ovidio Guzmán, whose father ran Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa Cartel, is due in a Chicago court on Friday
    Ovidio Guzmán Lopez
  • May 29 2025
    Ireland
    Top Kinahan drug cartel sidekick extradited to Ireland from UAE
    Pressure rises on organisation’s boss Daniel Kinahan, who remains in Dubai, as Sean McGovern is charged in Dublin
    Members of the Gardai armed support unit patrol outside the Special Criminal Court in Dublin before the court appearance of Sean McGovern,
  • May 21 2025
    News in-depthMexico
    Mexico uncovers new ‘death camp’ as pressure on president rises
    Remains of 42 people found scattered on cartel ranch, highlighting crisis in which 120,000 people have disappeared
    Montage of Carmen Sepúlveda, an activist campaigning for missing people, and a map showing the location of the Guamúchil ranch
  • May 20 2025
    Mexico City
    Mexican officials assassinated in rare attack in capital
    Senior advisers shot dead in Mexico City as president takes tougher approach to security
    Crime scene investigators work at the site where the personal secretary and an adviser to Mexico City’s mayor were killed in Mexico City
  • April 23 2025
    OutlookChristine Murray
    The hit music accused of glorifying violence in Mexico
    ‘Narcocorridos’ that romanticise cartel figures face a ban in some parts of the country
    Band Los Alegres del Barranco portrayed images of kingpin El Mencho at one of their shows in Mexico
  • April 8 2025
    Ecuador
    Ecuador’s deadly crime wave threatens to bring down president
    Daniel Noboa set to face Luisa González in repeat of 2023 election, with security voters’ main concern
    A police officer stands guard in Guayaquil, Ecuador
  • February 28 2025
    Mexico
    Mexico extradites wanted drug lord to US in attempt to ward off tariffs
    Rafael Caro Quintero, sought since 1985 for murder of DEA agent, among 29 prisoners sent across border
    This image released by the FBI shows the wanted posted for Rafael Caro Quintero
  • February 8 2025
    Mexico
    Mexico tries to tame ‘monster’ cartels to please Trump
    President Claudia Sheinbaum faces hurdles in fighting drug violence to placate US
    An army soldier walks past burning drugs at the VII Military Zone in Escobedo, Nuevo Leon State, Mexico
  • January 10 2025
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    Montage of the back of a female, a laptop, pills and a bag of white powder
  • December 4 2024
    Mexico
    Mexico makes largest fentanyl bust as Trump’s tariff threat looms
    Drugs seizure comes after US president-elect says he will impose levies if flow of narcotics is not halted
    Packages of fentanyl and meth next to a vehicle, being guarded by a soldier, outside Mexico’s attorney-general’s headquarters in Tijuana, Mexico
  • October 29 2024
    Belgium
    Over 100 sentenced for drug-related crimes in Belgium’s largest trial
    Decryption of Sky ECC messaging system leads to 119 convictions
    Lawyers in black robes and white neckbands gather in a courtroom before the trial
  • October 21 2024
    Ireland signs extradition treaty with UAE in effort to catch Kinahan cartel
    Daniel Kinahan is one of Europe’s most wanted criminals and prominent member of Dubai-based ‘super cartel’
    Ireland’s Garda presenting a screen with images of Christopher, Daniel and Christy Kinahan, offering rewards of up to $5mn each from the US Drug Enforcement Administration in April 2022
  • October 8 2024
    Claudia Sheinbaum
    Mexico’s new president announces security plan amid wave of violence
    Claudia Sheinbaum appoints former police chief to oversee strategy in a shift from approach of populist predecessor
    Claudia Sheinbaum
  • September 28 2024
    US arrests spark cartel ‘war’ in northern Mexico: ‘Like a narco pandemic’
    Sinaloa city rocked by killings and kidnappings in the aftermath of the capture of accused kingpin ‘El Mayo’
    Mexican army soldiers aboard military vehicles patrol a highway as part of a military operation to reinforce security following a wave of violence in recent days in the city of Culiacan, Sinaloa State, Mexico
  • September 18 2024
    Europol
    Global police dismantle encrypted messaging app used by criminals
    Ghost platform was used to distribute drugs and order hits by gangs in many countries
    An Australian federal police officer arrests a suspect allegedly involved in the Ghost encrypted messaging app in an undated photo
  • September 9 2024
    Traffickers use Polish-flagged yachts to move drugs across Atlantic
    Legal loophole means law enforcers cannot get green light from Warsaw to search vessels at sea
    Law enforcer watches a yacht amid a plume of smoke and a larger vessel
  • August 17 2024
    News in-depthMexico
    US arrest of cartel chief ‘El Mayo’ leaves Mexico rattled
    Dramatic apprehension of Sinaloa co-founder threatens to drive a new wedge between the neighbouring countries
    Person displays newspapers showing the arrest of ‘El Mayo’
  • July 26 2024
    US arrests Sinaloa drug cartel chief and son of ‘El Chapo’
    Ismael Zambada García was known as ‘unquestioned senior leader’ of fentanyl trafficking syndicate
    Undated images of Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada Garcia provided by the Mexican attorney-general’s office in August 2003
  • June 27 2024
    Money laundering39 min
    Chinese brokers launder hundreds of millions for global crime groups | FT Film
    The FT investigates links between Chinese underground banking and global crime cartels
    FT Film: dirty money, cartels and underground banks
  • June 27 2024
    FT Investigations
    The new money laundering network fuelling the fentanyl crisis
    US officials say Chinese organised crime groups are laundering much of the cash accumulated by Mexican drugs cartels
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