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Suspected drug trafficker rescued from Florida plane crash had bag of cash for unnamed politician in the Bahamas, investigators say

Jonathan Eric Gardiner, 58, is charged with cocaine import conspiracy for allegedly smuggling cocaine since 2023

The Independent UK

Trump threatens Colombia with military action – as it happened

US president says an operation in Colombia ‘sounds good’ and elections in Venezuela will happen at the ‘right time’

The Guardian - UK

Chicago DEA office’s most-wanted list adds cocaine-trafficking suspect Oswaldo Espinosa

Espinosa is a fugitive facing charges of drug conspiracy and money-laundering, accused of shipping thousands of pounds of cocaine to Chicago and other U.S. cities.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Fentanyl: America’s struggle to contain a deadly drug

The potent synthetic opioid is claiming lives in the US at an alarming rate. Campaigners say it is time to call it what it is: a weapon of mass destruction

Financial Times

Editorial: AMLO’s ‘Hugs Not Bullets’ policy is failing Mexico

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s soft approach to confronting criminal groups is not working. In fact, it seems to be backfiring.

Tribune News Service

Drug kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero’s capture in Mexico could be signal to U.S. government

Caro Quintero — wanted in the torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in 1985 — has been captured by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison.

Chicago Sun-Times

1 million fentanyl pills seized in record drug bust in California

‘Staggering number of teens and young adults are unaware that they are ingesting fentanyl in these fake pills and are being poisoned’

The Independent UK

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Honduran ex-president Hernandez pleads not guilty in U.S., decries treatment

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, with chains around his ankles, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. drug and weapons charges in Manhattan federal court while his lawyer complained of "prisoner of war" conditions in jail.

Reuters

California lawmakers target fentanyl as opioid overdoses surge

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers are responding to a surge in fentanyl overdoses and deaths in their cities with a list of bills that include imposing stronger penalties for distributing the synthetic opioid and easing access to safer consumption and treatment.

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