Your browser does not support this video. The tanker’s seizure is a new twist in America’s intensifying campaign against Mr Maduro’s regime. Since early ...

President Donald Trump and his Pentagon chief say U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats in waters off Latin America are saving lives by preventing narcotics from reaching America’s shores. But ...

Since September, the Trump administration has been using military power to blow up alleged drug boats in international waters as a tactic in its war on drugs. As of Sept. 2, there have been 21 strikes ...

When the United States began sinking boats on suspicion of drug trafficking – with no warning, no arrests and no evidence recovered – we crossed a line. These so-called narco-terrorist strikes may be ...

The term “narco” is derived from the culture of violent crime that grew out of Latin American drug cartels. As the U.S. cocaine and crack epidemics exploded in the 1980s and the government declared a ...

Divers in Colombia discovered a big haul of cocaine underneath a ship that was preparing to set sail for Europe, the country's navy announced Tuesday. Navy crew members at a port on the Pacific coast ...

The United States and Venezuela appear to be edging closer to direct confrontation. At the same time, some of America’s closest allies are questioning the legality of U.S. strikes on speedboats ...

The U.S. government has designated several drug cartels as terrorist groups and launched military strikes against boats suspected of carrying narcotics. Screenshots via Secretary of Defense Pete ...

Venezuelans coined a figure of speech for the phenomenon of generals corrupted by drug money: “Cartel de los Soles.” Then the United States started talking about it as a literal organization. The ...

President Trump said on Monday that he is willing to launch strikes inside Mexico if it is necessary to thwart the smuggling of illegal narcotics into the U.S. “Would I launch strikes into Mexico to ...

At a Justice Department conference in February, then-acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove told the department's top drug prosecutors that the Trump administration wasn't interested in interdicting ...