Tag: DrugTrafficking

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U.S. Boat Strikes Fail to Dent Cocaine Supply

Since September, U.S. forces have attacked at least 67 suspected drug-trafficking vessels and killed at least 221 people under Operation Southern Spear. Yet internal assessments by the Drug Enforcement Administration and Pentagon officials found that the campaign has not reduced the price, availability or purity of cocaine in the United…

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Wagner Remnants Run Drug Trade in Africa

Roughly 500 fighters from Russia's Wagner Group remain based up the Ubangi River in the Central African Republic, controlling a tramadol trade that lets them exploit the country's gold and forest resources beyond the reach of local law enforcement or Moscow itself, according to The Wall Street Journal. Tramadol, an…