An especially hot news item in 2024 has been the surge of drug-related violence in Ecuador. Until recent years, Ecuador was hailed as an island of - Ted Galen Carpenter for Antiwar.com
The rapidly evolving scam, run by the Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG), is estimated to have fleeced hundreds of millions of dollars from Americans each year.
Just a month after DEA officials in Atlanta seized 855 pounds of meth from a storage unit in Norcross, another massive drug bust in DeKalb County led them to find even more drugs and money.
What started as prescription painkiller is now the cause of a public health emergency. Where does it come from? Stephen Gibbs and Keiran Southern follow the.