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From the cells of the narco bigwigs, you would hear the incessant racket of narco-corrido banda music.
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There's certainly a risk of glorifying narco life; I have interviewed several gang members, and they will often say they watch narco soaps and movies.
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One of Mexico's most revered narco journalists was gunned down outside his office One of Mexico's most revered narco journalists was gunned down outside his office One of the most experienced and respected journalists covering Mexico's brutal drug war was murdered Monday in Sinaloa, a state plagued by narco violence.
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Still, producers of narco fiction do struggle with this question.
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Recently, two narco banners were found strung across Juárez streets.
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On February 6, Manaf was extradited from Estonia—where he had been jailed since October—to New York City, where he faces federal charges of attempted narcotics importation, narco-terrorism and attempted narco-terrorism.
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In his last book, "Narco-Periodismo" ("Narco-Journalism"), published in 2016, he delved into the complexities of the press-freedom crisis in Mexico by revealing compelling stories of journalists influenced and killed by organized crime.
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It hung "narco mantas," banners marking its territory, around the city.
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There are many still mourning what happened during the narco war.
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"If Keiko wins, Peru will become a narco state," Antezana warns.
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Peña doesn't realize Berna is also a narco working with Moncada.
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It's gangster rap with accordions, the soundtrack to the narco lifestyle.
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"Fighting narco-trafficking is tough," the president said at the time.
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"It's like a narco movie," Rosa Alvarez said, "in real life."
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Organized crime advances, narco-politics advances, but society is going back.
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But there is a downside to hyping the narco-terrorism narrative.
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"In the narco culture of Sinaloa, there's been a long tradition of drug traffickers promoting themselves in song and film," explains Ioan Grillo, a journalist covering the drug war who wrote Gangster Warlords and El Narco .
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It also raises questions for the whole business of narco pop media at large, a world where drug lords are lionized in narco-ballads, in American hip-hop tracks, and in blockbuster films and television series.
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I don't consider myself a narco; I'm more of an Avon salesperson.
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"Fighting narco-trafficking is tough," Obama told reporters in China in September.
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" He added, "We cannot lose Afghanistan to a future of narco-terrorism.
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The quandary reflects bigger dilemmas in the growing world of narco fiction.
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Nonetheless, the narco state label vastly oversimplifies the problems facing Guinea-Bissau.
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But the cocaine trafficking is what's lifting Albania to narco-state status.
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READ: So here's a Coast Guard dude just surfing a 40-foot narco-sub packed with cocaine Before that, in June, the Coast Guard stopped a narco-sub carrying a whopping 17,000 pounds of coke worth roughly $232 million.
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It's not all that uncommon for the Coast Guard to intercept narco-subs.
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And it doesn't matter what happens to the narco business after he's gone.
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"The narco-state is advancing and we have to stop it," Kuczynski said.
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"Massacres are the narco-dictatorship's state policy," he said, accusing the security forces.
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"Fighting narco-trafficking is tough," Obama said in China before departing for Laos.
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Prosecutors said that Maduro's role in narco-trafficking dates back to the 1990s.
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The FBI just put "Narco of narcos" on its 10 Most Wanted list.
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Estos tres lustros han sido consumidos por la llamada guerra contra el narco.
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Times Insider A narco-trafficking case implicated the Honduran first family, including the president.
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Herrera's novels, however, while using elements of the tradition, buckle against the narco label.
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Mexican politicians slam narco culture for glamorizing, and even feeding, the blood-soaked trade.
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Santrich was indicted by a US federal grand jury on a narco-trafficking charge.
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Related: A Parade of Narco-Tied Politicians Are Winning Elections in Peru Alejandro Toledo.
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Eventually El Chapo started his own marijuana business, and the rest is narco history.
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Getting too much plastic surgery appears to be an unwritten rule in narco textbooks.
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"Like a lot of people, I have a kind of narco-fatigue," Ruiz said.
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Shaul Schwarz's 2013 documentary "Narco Cultura" illustrates the back-and-forth in devastating fashion.
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The boarding team would later remove one bale of cocaine from the narco-sub.
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They deploy tools like drones, submarines, and narco-torpedoes to get around border security.
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In it, the narco denied attacking Guzman's sons and called "El Mayo" his friend.
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Some Mexican priests have reportedly taken narco alms—or donations from the drug traffickers.
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That's to strengthen rule of law, counter narco-trafficking, support judicial reform and police professionalization.
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An iconic figure within the Gulf Cartel, he is mentioned repeatedly in narco rap songs.
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He goes on the record to discuss how entrenched Colombian politics is with narco culture.
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Many in its ranks are thought to have close links with the city's narco gangs.
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Jesus Santrich, is responsible for narco-trafficking crimes committed after the signing of the accord.
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Plus, don't miss a check-in with up-and-coming Florida rap sensation Icy Narco.
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They've also developed narco torpedoes that they can bolt to the hull under the vessel.
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"Jalisco combines both those models," said cartel expert Ioan Grillo, author of book "El Narco".
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Instead, the State Department used another law aimed at sanctioning international traffickers and narco-terrorists.
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His account was delivered in a gritty style that might be described as narco-Gothic.
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"This is never going to stop, neither the narco trafficking nor the illegals," he says.
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He later insisted that he had resigned because the government was descending into narco-corruption.
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This is a criminal narco-funded mafia with close ties to FARC, Iran and Hezbollah.
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Hernández, a close friend of the U.S. government, has long dodged accusations of narco ties.
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From a broader historical perspective one could argue that Britain was the first true narco-state and even a narco-empire when we consider the financial importance of not only the tea (caffeine) and opium trades but also reliance on alcohol and tobacco taxes.
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Pablo Escobar was the mastermind behind drug trafficking and narco-terrorism in Colombia during the 1980s.
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"The public knows much more about jihadi terrorism than they do about narco-terrorism," he said.
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Related: Surviving the Narco-Blockades of Mexico's Jalisco State Enforced disappearances have also become increasingly common.
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"It's time for this narco-government to fall down," Perez said in video of the incident.
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Some drug smugglers build complex narco-submarines that silently and effectively evade authorities in open waters.
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They are part of a wider narco culture, ranging from pop-music ballads to fashion trends.
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This tale of Hollywood involvement in a real-life narco drama is strange and quasi-comedic.
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So they've been able to smuggle drugs all the way to Europe in these narco torpedoes.
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Afran joins a list of narco-smugglers who got caught and survived to tell the story.
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Judge Cogan has been similarly cautious in restricting testimony on high-level narco-corruption in Mexico.
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Targeting narco-traffickers, dirty cops, scam artists and mob enforcers, I seamlessly transformed into Jimmy Falcone.
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Instead, López's arrest sparked one of the most audacious displays of narco firepower in recent months.
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I live in Mexico, where children are also kidnapped and coerced to join the narco bands.
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UN officials warned more than a decade ago that the country risked becoming a "narco-state".
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The Coast Guard said it intercepted a record six narco subs during the 2016 fiscal year.
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Simply transform all Islamic militants into "narco-terrorists" who are bankrolled by the drug trade. Abracadabra!
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"The government lauds Chapo's arrest as if it were the end of drug trafficking or the end of the Sinaloa cartel," says Valdez, who writes for the Sinaloa investigative weekly Rio Doce and whose most recent book is titled Los Morros del Narco, or Narco Youth.
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But while in Matamoros, Big Los recorded one of his biggest hits with another narco rapero, 5050.
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One of 5050's most well-known narco rap songs is 2016's "Malandro Graduado" ("Graduated Thug").
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And for me, it was important that this movie was not glamorizing the world of the Narco.
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What worries me is the image of him that says, 'It's cool to be a narco trafficker.
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Here are 6 things you didn't know about these clandestine operators fighting the evils of narco-terrorism.
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The US expanded its counter-narco mission in Afghanistan in 2005 with the DEA at the helm.
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For narco traffickers in the area, the many holes in law enforcement make moving the drugs easy.
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Mexico could do far more to weed out the narco corruption, which is destroying its political system.
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I read Mr Nice by Howard Marks, the famous dope smuggler, and El Narco by Ioan Grillo.
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Grillo previously penned El Narco, which profiled how Mexican cartels rose to power in the mid-aughts.
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He was arrested and, in his taped interview, named the narco-traffickers he knew, including Mr. Rivera.
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What's a little blood sacrifice if it gets you some face time with a sexy narco-terrorist?
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As loggers, miners, and narco-traffickers moved in, aislados fled across the border into Brazil, seeking sanctuary.
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His tomb is surprisingly modest for the narco once known as 'jefe de jefes' or 'boss of bosses'.
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"Narco trafficking and corruption have expanded like a weed through society," said Rojas, the Reynosa journalist, in May.
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He also claims that, thanks to narco culture, most Mexicans now prefer Scottish whiskies like Buchanan's over tequila.
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Brazil's intelligence services are puny compared with those of Peru and Colombia, which fought off Marxist narco-guerrillas.
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Nobody says "Fuck, I'm the bad guy" and I think that the same is true of narco traffickers.
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The video ends with a presumed trafficker emerging from the narco-sub, putting his hands up in surrender.
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What about Mexico which roils in a cauldron of poverty, corruption, and the bloodbath of a narco-insurgency?
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Previously, Mr. Baumblit had required tenants to go to groups at Narco Freedom and New York Service Network.
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And so it takes us ever deeper into the byzantine worlds of narco-crime and South American politics.
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The Coast Guard released video footage of the operation, which was the largest narco-sub seizure to date.
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"The narco-business in Russia is known for never being far from the siloviki [security officials]," Levinson explained.
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The narco discourse also assumes that poor children will, like them, inevitably become involved with drugs and gangs.
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"It's time for this narco-government to fall on July 18," Mr. Pérez said in a brief interview.
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Your mission is to clear out the Santa Blanca cartel and rid Bolivia of its narco-state ties.
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We also take a look at the emergence of a new narco-state in west Africa, Guinea-Bissau.
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Its size, at 22 meters, is larger than any previously recorded narco-submarine and indicates increased know-how.
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"Just to let you know, sir, inside his wallet, he has a little bag of narco," Gaxiola said.
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He argues that it is further reinforced by narcocorridos — popular ballads that glorify the narco lifestyle — and general narco-culture that has become so pervasive in recent years that it is now common for young schoolchildren to tell their teachers they want to be cartel hi tmen when they grow up.
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But do I believe that narco-traffickers and despots and organizations like that will use lethally autonomous robotic weapons?
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But collecting money from Colombian guerrillas and narco-traffickers from thousands of miles away in the US is tough.
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It kind of permeates Mexico's economy — construction, banking, you name it, there's probably some narco money flowing through it.
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Photo by Simeon Tegel/VICE News Meanwhile, the huge underground cannabis industry has fueled a wave of narco-violence.
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Lirik Dog, a Reynosa-based narco rapero, told me, "I'm one of the cheap ones," charging $200 per dedication.
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The police are corrupt, known to take bribes, and have been implicated in working with narco-traffickers and gangs.
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On Friday, the Treasury Department imposed financial sanctions against a key regime henchman and accused narco- kingpin , Diosdado Cabello.
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From Australia and Asia to Africa and North America, meth is the poster drug for the global narco economy.
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He is a soft-spoken man of gentle demeanor and hardly seems connected by blood to a narco gangster.
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Some would even call Mexico a narco-state, since organized crime has so deeply penetrated various levels of government.
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Watch "Peru's War on Drugs" Read "Peru's Booming Cocaine Business Is Turning It Into Latin America's Newest Narco State"
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The first so-called narco tunnel was built in 1989, by the Sinaloa cartel of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
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The affair seemed to bolster Mr Kuczynski's claim that, if his opponent won, Peru risked becoming a "narco-state".
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Coast Guard officials have pointed to narco subs as a sign of smugglers&apos ability to adapt to pressure.
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A Coast Guard cutter intercepted a "narco sub" carrying 12,000 pounds of cocaine in the Pacific Ocean this month.
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The Coast Guard is catching more drug-running subs, but most 'very stealthy' narco subs are probably going undetected
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As Lozada raced toward the crash, he saw the narco emerge from the car and disappear into the forest.
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More pressing, as the FARC withdrew from territory, the paramilitary narco-gangs were moving in, killing as they came.
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"I needed some legitimate income," he tells VICE, the implications immediately clear given the narco narrative prevalent throughout TM22.
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Spanish authorities in Galicia seized more than three tons of cocaine traveling on a "narco sub" Sunday, CNN reported.
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In 2012, a U.S. Senate investigation concluded that H.S.B.C. had worked with rogue regimes, terrorist financiers, and narco-traffickers.
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As this film makes clear, movies were indulging in borderland bloodshed long before the reign of the narco-kings.
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Yet, Mexico also needs to fight the narco corruption that infests its police and politics at state and federal levels.
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Her name has appeared in dozens of "narco banners" and messages left around the southern resort cityover the past year.
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In fact, government officials are so enmeshed in the drug trade that they have a name for it: narco-politics.
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As a result, the church began looking more carefully into "narco alms," as the New York Times reported in 2011.
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Self-propelled submersible vessels, often called "narco-subs," are sometimes used by cartels and traffickers to smuggle drugs across borders.
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Mariachi is like folk music for mexicans, but narco-corrido banda is mariachi's bastard step-child with a cocaine problem.
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The night descended into this weird, sex-fueled ritual dedicated to Santa Muerte, who is basically the narco death God.
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Raised in luxury, these "narco juniors" have turned Sinaloa's capital, Culiacán, into a racing circuit for their high-performance cars.
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In 2015, a federal judge voided Bagcho's narco-terrorism conviction after questions were raised about a witness' testimony, Higgins said.
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Testimony has painted an extravagant narco lifestyle featuring private zoos, multimillion dollar beach houses and gutted jetliners brimming with cash.
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The Coast Guard intercepted a makeshift narco-submarine hauling a hell of a lot of cocaine in the Pacific Ocean.
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Narco Freedom, which was accused last year by federal and state prosecutors of bilking Medicaid, has since been shut down.
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The Maduro regime has continued to repress human rights, engage in narco-trafficking, and abuse the rights of its people.
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"Narco subs" have become increasingly popular with smugglers, as they can carry huge drug loads and are hard to detect.
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The Coast Guard in late 2017 said it had seen a "resurgence" of low-profile smuggling vessels like narco subs.
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Schultz and other Coast Guard officials pointed to narco subs as a sign of smugglers' ability to adapt to pressure.
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Narco-deforestation, as it's known, has long been a problem, but America's opioid epidemic is almost certainly making it worse.
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FARC started as a guerilla group in 1964, but morphed into a terrorist organization relying on narco-trafficking and kidnapping.
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A single narco sub can carry anywhere from six to 12 tons per run, and they're extremely hard to detect.
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Meanwhile the state is failing to provide its people with basic food, health care, education and protection from narco-violence.
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In the narco discourse, physical violence is essential to survive, literally, in poor neighborhoods which participants referred as "the jungle."
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These are the same generals who for years colluded with the drug cartels to turn Venezuela into a narco-state.
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President Trump threatened to designate Mexican cartels "narco-terrorists," a meaningless step meant only to frighten Mr. López Obrador's team.
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Despite being a NATO country on the verge of joining the European Union, Albania has become Europe's first narco-state.
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Using the habitual narco offer of "plata or plomo," or "silver or lead," gangs extort refinery workers into providing crucial information.
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The caricature of the narco — a furtive actor engaged exclusively in crime — describes but a fraction of the country's organized crime.
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"The narco must go, JOH must go!" protesters chanted, using the president's initials, as they marched through central Tegucigalpa toward Congress.
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Over the past 25 years, authorities have found 181 narco tunnels under the US-Mexican border, according to The New Yorker.
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During the height of Colombia's Pablo Escobar lead narco-violence in the early 2800s, Caballero was in college studying business administration.
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Narco subs have appeared in the waters between the US and South America for years and have only gotten more sophisticated.
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"While the narco-heroin producing labs may be replaced, we can strike them as fast as they re-appear," Garcia said.
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The most famous narco-media are narcocorridos, accordion and horn-centric ballads about the exciting lives and deeds of drug traffickers.
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Of the drugs that arrived on US shores by sea, 30 percent were found to have been smuggled in narco-subs.
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Watch "Gangs of El Salvador (Full Length)" Read "Peru's Booming Cocaine Business Is Turning it Into Latin America's Newest Narco State"
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"The aliens we encounter are not narco bosses and murderous kidnappers but their victims: bewildered, disoriented, helpless migrants," wrote our reviewer.
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The Sinaloa Cartel has played a major role in narco violence between rival gangs that has torn areas of Mexico apart.
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Colombian President Ivan Duque, who has criticized the peace deal for being too lenient, has called dissident FARC members narco-terrorists.
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It wasn't a priority for the government until there was a problem, until suddenly you had narco-tours led by Popeye.
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Labelled a "narco-state" by the UN, last year saw the country's biggest ever drug bust, nearly two tonnes of cocaine.
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The courtroom drama drew celebrities and so-called narco-tourists attracted to the Latin American soap opera atmosphere of the proceedings.
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Some believe the Mexican government may be letting him live free to bring some sort of balance to the chaotic narco wars.
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"They can't go on threatening and narco-ing to the same extent as they did in the past," points out Mr Deas.
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" President Hernandez reiterated his previous denials of the claim in a public address Thursday, saying his country was not "a narco state.
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In September they seized some $165 million worth of cocaine off a narco-sub heading toward the U.S. in the Pacific Ocean.
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Pleasure in a rival's death alleged Perhaps some of the most compelling testimony from Zambada Garcia touched on a violent narco war.
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These incidents are symptomatic of Venezuela's role as a narco-state, and indicate an ongoing threat to U.S. and regional security interests.
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Project Cassandra should be revived and resourced, because the narco-terrorist threat did not go away — if anything it became more sinister.
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As with the increasingly violent lyrics of other narco-corrido subgenres, the song's lyrics are enough to make any priest cross himself.
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There are now many Venezuelans who can have hope for clean, democratic elections, not rigged elections with the taste of narco-terrorism.
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In this case, federal agents finally busted the operation, seizing more than 400 "narco horses," which they auctioned off for $12 million.
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Almost all narco subs intercepted previously have been found in the Pacific Ocean, making the transatlantic venture a new wrinkle for smugglers.
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Related: Narco-Guerrilla Group Suspected of Kidnapping Spanish Journalist in Colombia But he also insisted that the task would not be easy.
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A Moment in Mexico: Children of the Narco Zone What it's like to grow up as the child of an avowed gangster.
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But a rail-thin grower with narco-style chain necklaces in the nearby hamlet of Amatitlan said he won&apost plant poppies again.
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Peru for many years was headed towards narco-state status, competing with Colombia for the title of #1 cocaine producer in the world.
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But the same gangs traffic cocaine and cannabis and it is frequently impossible to distinguish which drug a narco-hit is related to.
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"They did not want to become known as a narco (or narcotic) nation," said Hall, who met with government officials about the problem.
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All three of those members have other legitimate jobs; Lirik Dog is the only one among them who makes money for narco dedications.
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Meanwhile, priests themselves have also been attacked for motives as frivolous as not allowing an accused narco to become a baptized child's godparent.
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Mota se había pronunciado en contra de la corrupción en Temixco y luchaba por una reforma que la convirtió en objetivo del narco.
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In 2008 the country was labelled a narco-state by the UN; diplomats say the crooks have diversified into people- and arms-trafficking.
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He was just as comfortable railing against Yankee imperialism as he was serving up rivals and narco-associates in exchange for DEA commendations.
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Because Afghanistan's main export crop, opium poppy, was declared illegal by the US government, we have turned the country into a narco state.
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He called his client a "dedicated, devoted, die-hard D.E.A. agent" who had risked his life hunting narco-traffickers in Colombia and Thailand.
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Duterte initially gave police six months to suppress drugs and crime, warning the country was on the verge of becoming a "narco state".
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US authorities nearly caught a white whale this week: A semi-submersible "narco sub" carrying around 210 tons cocaine worth nearly $22015 million.
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US authorities nearly caught a white whale this week: A semi-submersible "narco sub" carrying around 270 tons cocaine worth nearly $194 million.
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This worked well, until the US got so pissed off about the nation's reputation as a narco-laundering hub that they overthrew him.
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Watch "The World Leader in Counterfeiting: Lima's Fake Dollars" Read "Peru's Booming Cocaine Business Is Turning It Into Latin America's Newest Narco State"
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As the youngest member of a storied narco dynasty, Mr. Cifuentes was already helping his father dry and pack cocaine at age 10.
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In August 2628, "Junior Cápsula," the most powerful narco in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic was sentenced to 28503 years in prison.
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The seizures of narco-submarines in Colombia also showed how their use has become almost standard for drug trafficking groups overseeing shipments overseas.
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Hope suggested that will have two primary impacts in its neighbor country, and that neither was particularly likely to decrease narco-related violence.
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On Tuesday, an estimated 100,000 protestors of all political stripes marched peacefully in downtown Lima chanting "Keiko doesn't pass" and "No narco-state".
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"No Mexican narco would voluntarily turn himself in to the U.S. government without negotiating their terms," noted Alejandro Hope, a prominent security expert.
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Likewise, aims to eliminate or reduce the production of synthetic drugs and precursors, and crack down on narco-money laundering, have all been unsuccessful.
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Because of government offensives that toppled narco kingpins in recent years, Mexico's drug cartels have splintered and are eager for new sources of revenue.
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But the victory could open the door for other victims of guerrilla violence looking to use blocked or hidden narco-cash to satisfy judgements.
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Even with Chapo incommunicado and locked away in the U.S., business has continued as usual with the narco-empire he left behind in Mexico.
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On one hand, federal prosecutors alleged that El Chapo controlled a "vast global narco-empire" worth billions of dollars for more than 30 years.
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One of the most experienced and respected journalists covering Mexico's brutal drug war was murdered Monday in Sinaloa, a state plagued by narco violence.
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Despite the extensive effort that goes into constructing narco tunnels, and the huge loads that travel through them, they are often hard to detect.
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Mr Peña has no regret about the death of Escobar, the "sick narco-terrorist" who he estimates was responsible for upwards of 10,000 murders.
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As the turf war between narco-Vampire clans heats up, Ana, a Mexico City cop finds herself in the midst of this bewildering mess.
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The US Marshals Service says it has custody of Bagcho while attorneys in Washington prepare for his re-sentencing without the narco-terrorism conviction.
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In more recent decades, corridos attracted the prefix "narco," as a subgenre sprang up celebrating the exploits of drug traffickers as gangster anti-heroes.
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During a June bust, a Coast Guardsman leaped aboard a moving "narco sub" as his fellow crew members pursued it in the Pacific Ocean.
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In the video game, according to a synopsis, a Mexican drug cartel controls Bolivia and has turned it into a violent, anarchic narco-state.
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International drug cartels have used "narco-drones" to ferry drugs across the southern border, over Border Patrol agents who are largely powerless to intervene.
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Amilcar Alexander Ardon, a former mayor and confessed killer and narco trafficker, testified before jurors in the US Southern District Court of New York.
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Video of a Coast Guard crew member jumping onto a moving narco sub in the Pacific in June rocketed around the internet this summer.
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I'm not really sure," says Malcolm Beith, author of "The Last Narco: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord.
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"Narco sub" is often used as a catch-all term, sometimes describing true submarines or semi-submersibles but usually referring to low-profile vessels.
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Narco subs typically cost $1 million to $2 million to build, but their multimillion-dollar drug cargoes more than make up for the expense.
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But unlike narco wars of the past, everyday Brazilians now have a window to watch these gruesome murders up close on their cell phones.
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Members of the cartel began to evangelize their leader as a narco-saint, bolstered by Moreno's "ghost" appearing on the streets dressed in white.
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Last year, the US Coast Guard identified and intercepted a narco-sub about 200 miles south of Mexico carrying about 413,000 pounds of cocaine.
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Mr Duque, who calls FARC 2 a "gang of narco-terrorists" sheltered by Venezuela, may be tempted to strike its bases inside that country.
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Hollywood has become addicted to the narco narrative because it offers a tried-and-true tale of good and evil on an epic scale.
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Details: "Narco-traffickers" packed cardboard boxes with the drugs, and UPS employees helped move them through the carrier's delivery system, officials told the Post.
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What the narco ranchers had found in the park, McNab realized in the wake of the fires, was a "protected" area without effective protection.
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Street stands sell hats embroidered with the face of El Chapo, devotional rosaries to the narco-saint Malverde, and pendants shaped like AK-47's.
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When we made possible Colombia's journey from a failing narco-state to a market for American exports, manufacturers in my home-state of Pennsylvania won.
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But when the topic turns to narco rap, the other three members of the Crazy Family besides Lirik Dog don't have a lot to say.
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Navarro was included in Duterte's updated list of "narco-politicians" which his office made public in March, ahead of the May 2019 mid-term polls.
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For much of Honduras, the trial of Tony Hernández, the president's brother and a former congressman, played out like a narco-novela come to life.
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Some have associated their brand with "narco-culture" and criticized the company for "looking to profit from the glorification of the drug trade," she said.
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Su mirada indica que se ofrece a romper el silencio que impera en Sinaloa, ese clásico que enfrenta el reportero en los lugares del narco.
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To step into the shoes of Narco queen Vicenta Acero in Telemundo's hit series Señora Acero, Carolina Miranda had to learn how to handle guns.
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Narco-submarines, funded by South American cartels and hauling hefty amounts of drugs, are mostly handmade in the jungle to remain as inconspicuous as possible.
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Some investigators say that the scope of the syndicate's operation puts Tse, as the suspected leader, on par with Latin America's most legendary narco-traffickers.
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The Justice Department chose not to retry Bagcho on the narco-terrorism charge because he was serving life sentences on the other charges, he explained.
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More than a decade ago Guinea-Bissau was named a "narco state" by UN officials because of how deeply drugs traffickers had penetrated its government.
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The jury, which given the defendant's violent history is anonymous and partly sequestered, already has heard sworn statements befitting a made-for-TV narco drama.
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A narco-government has been consolidated around President Juan Orlando Hernández, who has appointed a national police chief and national security chief with cartel ties.
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But the story of how Coasties took down the so-called "narco sub" began about 12 hours before the video took place, according to Capt.
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The 43 fiscal year ended and the 2020 fiscal year began with busts of "narco subs," stealthy vessels that carry multiton loads of the drug.
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In the late eighties, Lozada went to Ecuador with a group of guerrillas to kidnap a wealthy narco-trafficker linked to the Cali cocaine cartel.
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A whole slate of narco culture has grown up around drug lords and their battles, influencing everything from fashion, to architecture, to music and film.
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Jurors heard from cooperating witnesses, law enforcement officials and others who described a real life narco-drama, allegedly involving cold-blooded murder and epic corruption.
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The Bald Lady doesn't care if you're gay or straight, rich or poor, a narco trafficker or a narc — death has a place for you.
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A few days after that, an American aid worker was kidnapped and taken to Mali, and a notorious Toubou narco-trafficker was assassinated in public.
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TROPHY The documentary filmmaker Shaul Schwarz ("Narco Cultura"), directing with Christina Clusiau, looks at the economics surrounding one of the ultimate scarce commodities: endangered species.
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Spanish police are investigating what appears to be an ocean-going narco-submarine that sunk in the waters of Galicia in the country&aposs northwest.
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Mexico's foreign minister admitted on Saturday that the government feared upwards of 200 civilian casualties if the operation to extract the young narco had continued.
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Most of the country, including several provincial capitals, is threatened by the Taliban, even as the insurgency devolves into a network of narco-criminal enterprises.
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"A gang of narco-criminals was trying to use the diplomatic courier service of the Russian embassy to ship the drugs to Europe," she said.
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They're instead going to find other ways to smuggle drugs — like cigarette boats and narco-submarines, which drug traffickers make a lot more use of today.
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It took more than a decade of dogged and sometimes defiant persistence as Klapper and her colleagues chipped away at layers upon layers of narco bosses.
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It appears to have happened again in Colombia over the weekend, when voters rejected a "peace" deal with the Marxist Narco-trafficking guerilla army called FARC.
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Yet Duterte made a direct appeal to Uncle Sam Tuesday, asking for help in stopping meth traffickers who've turned the island country into a narco-state.
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A DECADE or so has passed since a ferocious war between the state and the FARC, an army of leftist narco-guerrillas, dominated life in Colombia.
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If President Gaviria isn't interested in negotiating with a "narco-terrorist," Escobar reasons, then he'll answer this "act of war" with some aggression of his own.
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Venezuela has become a "narco-state," where powerful members of the government are actively involved in facilitating the international drug trade to the U.S. and Europe.
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Hooked: Episode 3 Synopsis: Murphy encounters the depths of government corruption when he and Peña try to derail Escobar's political ambitions by proving he's a narco.
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For years, the United Nations described Guinea-Bissau as a "narco state" in which drug traffickers had become so powerful they controlled parts of the government.
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García's second presidency saw strong economic growth but numerous controversies, including the "narco-pardons" scandal, in which jailed drug-traffickers bought presidential pardons from his aides.
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How does it compare to the Pentagon's partnership with Afghan warlords, politicians and security forces — the elements of a narco-state — in campaigns against the Taliban?
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This runs counter to recent trends since all narco-submarines caught in 2019 so far, whether in Colombian or US waters, were found in Pacific waters.
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Because of this, and after two escapes from high security prisons, El Chapo continues to be an iconic figure of the narcocultura—the culture of the Narco.
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And now narco rap is spreading rapidly to other criminal groups throughout Mexico, like the Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel, and the MS-13 in El Salvador.
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And as one of the biggest-name narco rappers in the biz, Big Los makes the most money per song: around $3,5003, and another $3,000 per video.
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And if we do catch those, there are "narco-torpedoes" now; these can be bolted under the hull of a ship with release cables and homing devices.
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"My take would be that Honduras is among the three countries of the Northern Triangle with the clearest characteristics of a mafia or narco state," he added.
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In September, Coast Guard cutter Valiant tracked down another narco sub in the eastern Pacific, pursuing the 40-foot vessel over night and into the early morning.
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U.S.-Venezuela: In a highly unusual move, the U.S. charged a head of state, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, in a narco-terrorism and cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Thursday indictments against Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro and members of his inner circle for effectively converting Venezuela's state into a "narco-terrorism" enterprise.
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Ioan Grillo, columnista de opinión y periodista, es autor de El Narco: En el corazón de la insurgencia criminal mexicana y, más recientemente, de Caudillos del crimen.
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"We still remain leary [sic] of Uribe's own narco connections," said one cable in 1992 where American diplomats discussed counternarcotics operations carried out with Mr. Uribe's support.
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In Afghanistan, the United States has been propping up a narco-state, routinely glossing over institutionalized drug corruption, in its efforts to battle a drug-funded insurgency.
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This no-frills approach to cross-Atlantic travel has yielded results and it is highly unlikely that this was the first narco-submarine to reach European shores.
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Cicig was conceived by Guatemalans and foreigners concerned that after decades of military dictatorship and internal war, the country's fledgling democracy was becoming a corrupted narco state.
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And if we do catch those, there are 'narco-torpedoes' now; these can be bolted under the hull of a ship with release cables and homing devices.
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A leader of Colombia's Norte del Valle cartel, Chupeta had so much plastic surgery during his time as a fugitive that he now looks like a narco Nosferatu.
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Big Los, one of the pioneers of narco rap, admits he regularly gets death threats via social media from people claiming to be contrarios — members of enemy cartels.
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But in recent years critics allege the FARC's estimated 7,000 soldiers had become a narco-terrorist force, reaping millions of dollars from cocaine shipments to the United States.
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Almost. Luckily, when the American media gets wind of the fact that a government agent let a notorious narco fly away, it puts more pressure on the search.
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The mayor was on Duterte's list of local officials branded as "narco-politicians" who allegedly have ties to the illegal drug world, according to CNN affiliate CNN Philippines.
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So Marks decided to get with the times and flog ecstasy instead—which he found terrifying: the big narco-gangs were rapacious businesses, not cheery, rubber-faced hippies.
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Aristeguieta is an outspoken opposition campaigner who regularly compares what he calls the "narco-tyranny" of socialist President Nicolas Maduro to the 1952-1958 dictatorship of Marcos Perez.
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Narco-related wares have sprung up throughout Mexico and around the world, Vigil said, describing Chapo-themed products ranging from caps to cupcakes on sale in Mexico City.
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The 40-foot vessel, of a type often called a "narco sub" (though most are not fully submersible), was first detected and tracked by a maritime patrol aircraft.
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They caught up with the narco sub in the early morning hours and boarded it with the help of the Colombian navy, which arrived a short time later.
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All three Northern Triangle countries rank among the top 85033 globally for murder rates and have been beset by narco trafficking organizations branching out from Mexico and Colombia.
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A new class of gold barons emerged, many of whom are familiar names associated with smuggling and narco-trafficking who enjoy close relationships with high-level government officials.
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Related: Peru's Booming Cocaine Business Is Turning It Into Latin America's Newest Narco State The agency has, however, ruled out a specific investigation of the presidential candidate herself.
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Two years into his term, Peña Nieto had passed major structural reforms, overseen declining levels of narco violence, and imprisoned Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Mexico's most wanted kingpin.
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The other was that the argument, even if true, did not exclude the possibility that Mr. Guzmán was a narco lord guilty of the charges he was facing.
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"The ELN is there, commanders of the ELN, and those commanders are going to work in coordination with this narco-terrorist group that was announced (Thursday)," he said.
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In Honduras, president Juan Orlando Hernández has been embroiled in corruption controversies and charges that he and his allies have been operating the country as a narco-state.
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Instead, "El Camino" has more in common with the narco-drama half of "Saul," which hunts the "Breaking Bad" desert to unearth origin stories and hide Easter eggs.
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Colombia's narco-terrorist Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was essentially defeated by President Alvaro Uribe's courageous leadership after nearly a half century of murder and mayhem.
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Instead, "El Camino" has more in common with the narco-drama half of "Saul," which hunts the "Breaking Bad" desert to unearth origin stories and hide Easter eggs.
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Three years ago we traveled to those countries, as well as 11 others in Latin America, to write "Narco América," a book about the impact of drug trafficking.
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Police visibility was doubled or tripled and that is way better than the past six years of agony and pain created by Aquino administration and their narco supporters.
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"While the narco-traffickers did not seize power [in Guinea-Bissau], they were indeed extremely close to the centre of power," wrote Gambian historian Hassoum Ceesay in 2017.
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A new film, "Birds of Passage," involves the Colombian drug trade from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, but it has no use for narco-drama clichés.
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At the Malverde Chapel in Culiacán, Jesús González and his family watch over a roadside shrine filled with paintings and busts of the mustachioed narco-saint year round.
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Lawyer Enrique Aristeguieta is an outspoken opposition campaigner who regularly compares the 1952-1958 dictatorship of Marcos Perez to the current "narco-tyranny" of socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
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At the start, a struggling cantina singer named Lobo grabs at the chance to be a drug lord's court musician, writing narco-corridos in exchange for a home.
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Dramatic steps would be necessary to ensure workplace dignity in countries where narco-mafias, often working in conjunction with business interests, exert a systemically repressive force on organized labor.
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It is a staggering cocktail of collapse, too readily labeled by the White House as the product of the personal economic ambitions of migrants, or simply corrupt narco-barons.
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However, Escobar also viewed himself as a benevolent dictator, and was notably celebrated by the poor residents of Medellín for sharing narco money to build communities and housing projects.
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U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, say the ELN is increasingly using Venezuelan territory to carry out narco-trafficking and illegal mining of minerals like gold and coltan.
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Related: A Narco-Sant, a Death Cult, and a Lost-Cause Apostle Await the Pope in Mexico In Ecatepec, the visit of the Pope was unexpected by local residents.
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"If conversations between the Colombian government and the 'narco-terrorist guerrilla' are resumed, they must exclude the Cubans from the process," said Henry Ramos, head of Venezuela's National Assembly.
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"The hierarchy of the church in Mexico has been timid when it comes to narco traffickers but that could change," religious scholar Elio Masferrer told TIME earlier this month.
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Jaime Antezana, a leading independent analyst of Peru's booming cocaine trade, says that his research has identified 17 narco candidatos, among Popular Force's congressional candidates, mainly in the provinces.
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A day after Matobato took the witness stand, Duterte announced a list of about 1,000 "narco-politicans" and government officials, including mayors, governors and judges, with suspected drug links.
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Of course, the majority of drug dealers are, by and large, not the gang-bangers or narco kingpins Sessions and his pearl-clutching ilk imagine them to be. Sure.
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The end of the Cold War had not ended the violent legacies of anti-communist interventions around the world, or narco-conflicts, or the installation and maintenance of strongmen.
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My mother's family is from Mazatlán, Sinaloa, and I grew up hearing stories about a certain narco—the nickname for narcotraficante, that is to say, "he who moves drugs".
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"Bouteflika is demonstrating that he is a man of the people and trying to portray Ouyahia as motivated only by unsympathetic fiscal calculations," said Geoff Porter at NARCO consultancy.
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Max Perlich is best known for playing the homegrown drug accomplice Kevin Dulli -- who turns snitch on Boston George played by Johnny Depp -- in the 2001 narco film 'Blow.
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A boarding team was able to take control of the narco-sub before the people onboard could use a system designed to sink the craft, the Coast Guard said.
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So even though his vice president has been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department, President Maduro — backed and surrounded by narco-terrorists — is simply allowed to continue with impunity.
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But it's harder to say whether narco fiction contributes to the violence in Mexico — millions of people watch these same films and don't go around decapitating victims on video.
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Halili had also been previously placed on a "narco list" -- a list of people allegedly associated with the drug trade -- by the National Police Commission, Philippines News Agency reported.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's former anti-drugs agency boss has been placed under formal investigation over allegations he aided and abetted narco-traffickers, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Friday.
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After decades of civil war and narco-terrorism, Colombians were enjoying the fruits of an aggressive United States-backed military campaign that had largely decimated the country's drug cartels.
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Chávez and his military had a warm relationship with the main guerrilla army in neighboring Colombia, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ), which was involved in narco-trafficking.
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He was a a senior press officer for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad from 2006-2010; in Pakistan he managed a counter-narco-terrorism program funded by the Dept.
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Flores lived in the Madre de Dios region—a vast jungle surrounded by an even vaster wilderness, frequented mostly by illegal loggers, miners, narco-traffickers, and a few adventurers.
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Although the show's unfussy style could never have been mistaken for a documentary, its just-the-facts approach mapped out the Colombia narco state with admirable clarity and comprehensiveness.
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Related: Partying at the Shrine of the Narco-Saint Jesús Malverde "It's not true that Malverde is a saint just for drug dealers," the younger González told VICE News.
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Even so, Javier Valdez, author of the book Miss Narco, said it remains difficult for women to be taken seriously within the industry unless they have strong family connections.
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"As a result of the war against narco-trafficking, the most serious violations of human rights have been committed, including crimes against humanity in the name of security," he said.
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It's also cropped up in Spanish-speaking communities in the US with narco rap songs delivered in English for the Latin Kings in Chicago and the Sureños in Los Angeles.
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Related: Backed By China, a Massive Narco-Army Angles for More Power in Myanmar Stripped of their citizenship rights in 1982, the minority are among the world's largest stateless populations.
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Twin brothers Margarito and Pedro Flores, were two of El Chapo's closest henchmen and are credited with helping take down one of the most infamous narco-terrorists in the world.
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The 28500-year partnership between Washington and Bogota that saved Colombia from becoming a failed narco-state is a bipartisan success story that has endured political transitions in both countries.
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He also appeared to have been placed on a "narco list" -- a list of people allegedly associated with the drug trade -- by the National Police Commission, Philippines News Agency reported.
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The 6623-year-old war between the Taliban and the US-led coalition in Afghanistan is evolving into a "criminal/narco insurgency," in the words of the coalition's top commander.
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I had a lot of fun in Colombia when we were looking into Narco tourism, because the people there were just so up for it and wonderful to deal with.
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The heroes of "Narcos" are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
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British-born journalist Ioan Gillo has covered the conflict for Time magazine and The New York Times, and in two critically acclaimed books, "El Narco" (2011) and "Gangster Warlords" (2016).
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Zambada-Imperial is a member of the so-called "Narco Juniors," a generation of offspring of cartel kingpins who are following in the footsteps of their rich and powerful fathers.
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Narco-submarines leave little room for comfort, dedicating most of their space to cargo, with fuel tanks stashed at the front and often doubling up as sleeping areas, reported Vice.
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Chapo, famously, has a thing for tunnels: he invented the narco tunnel, decades ago, and his cartel has dug hundreds of these passages under the U.S.-Mexico border to transport drugs.
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It was inevitable that these groups—the FARC dissidents, the ELN guerrillas, and narco-related criminal gangs—would move into some of the areas abandoned by the FARC when it demobilised.
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His penchant for expensive polo jerseys created a fashion trend known as the "Narco Polo," and a Hollywood film about his life, dubbed "American Drug Lord," is already in the works.
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Garcia does have the decency to admit he's having a crisis himself because the narco in him should just kill Andrew, but the man in him has trouble killing a priest.
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On June 18, a Coast Guard surveillance aircraft tracked the drug-filled narco-sub hundreds of miles off the Colombian and Ecuadoran coastline watched by the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro.
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For authority figures in Colombia and the United States, looking the other way while one narco-terrorist organization tries to stamp out another has dire portents for the rule of law.
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In a clever twist of gender roles, Jonah, the innocent, dreams of settling down with their baby, while Luz discovers her inner narco, strapping a drug lord's knife to her calf.
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While two former governors, Tomás Yarrington and Eugenio Hernández, are currently fugitives from drug money laundering charges in US courts, serious investigations into narco-corruption are almost unheard of in Mexico.
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VICE spoke to Grillo via Skype from his base in Mexico City to talk about his new book and gain insight about what's going on in the narco arenas down south.
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While Bolivia's existence as a narco-state is a work of fiction, the environment is as close to real life as you can get without hopping on a plane (or three).
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Today, that illicit narco-utopia is long gone, its once-secret server in an evidence storage room and its creator Ross Ulbricht fighting a last ditch appeal to escape life in prison.
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Duterte, who took office in the middle of last year, has overseen a ruthless campaign to eradicate illegal drugs that he says are threatening to turn the Philippines into a narco-state.
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In both interviews, however, the legendary narco figures — who were both born and raised in the same mountain municipality of Badiraguato — explained their incursion into the business as a response to poverty.
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Dick in hand, I do consider it among my body parts vulnerable to the knives of irrational narco types, and take a fond last look, before tucking it back into my pants.
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Enconsed in a web of official protection, the Castaños' United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) would absorb much of the country's narco-infrastructure and penetrate the highest echelons of formal power.
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"Tse Chi Lop is in the league of El Chapo or maybe Pablo Escobar," said Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia and Pacific representative for UNODC, referring to Latin America's most legendary narco-traffickers.
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Government officials around the world view cryptocurrency as a threat to the global monetary system and a mechanism to funnel ill-gotten gains, such as mobster cash, narco-dollars, and terror funds.
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In the decade after CAFTA, external pressures, notably from Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, provided a corrupting influence in the region, as the two larger countries turned their militaries against narco trafficking.
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The narco action film first made its way into the more popular and better-produced telenovelas in Colombia in the mid-2000s, before expanding to Mexico at the end of the decade.
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The Paris prosecutor opened an inquiry into the practices of Octris late 2015, following information from a man who said he had infiltrated a narco ring and worked on behalf of Thierry.
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These people will accelerate the spread of organized crime and narco-terror and will consolidate the anchoring of extremist terror-linked groups, as well as Russian and Chinese influence in the Americas.
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The couple admitted that they ran a kickback scheme with the Medicaid-funded treatment providers Narco Freedom, the NRI Group and Canarsie Aware, which paid the Baumblits every month for providing clients.
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Last week, the US picked its moment to hit Nicolas Maduro, whom it does not recognize as Venezuela's legitimate President, with narco-trafficking charges and a $15 million reward for his arrest.
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"I am thrilled that this high-level narco-tunnel has been discovered and will be rendered unusable for cross-border smuggling," Aaron Heitke, a deputy chief patrol agent, said in the statement.
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That's where you can wait for the arrival of the dangerously departed narco-terrorist Pablo Escobar, the title character of Alexis Scheer's "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord," in a cozy Miami treehouse.
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"The terrorist label has been used to discredit left and especially the 'narco terrorist' cocaleros [coca leaf growers] for years," Gabriel Hetland, a political sociologist at the University of Albany, told me.
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For two years, I've been writing for The Hill about the deterioration of democracy, runaway inflation, political prisoners, the inexcusable economic mismanagement and rampant corruption, and the narco-terrorists running the country.
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The presence of narco subs around Spain has long been rumored, but the discovery of one off Spain&aposs northern coast in late November appears to be the first of its kind.
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"You know, since 9/11, there's half a million people have died from narco-terrorism, as we call it, in, down where I live," General Kelly told members of Congress in 2015.
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"It's no secret that Maduro has been using petroleum profits to prop up his narco-authoritarian regime, and these types of sanctions have been necessary for a long time now," said Rep.
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The history in question, divided into five chapters, involves the Colombian drug trade from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, but the film defies narco-drama clichés and superficial period atmosphere.
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As I approached, I was greeted warmly and shown the function of one of the pieces, a graphite bust of Jesús Malverde, a Mexican Robin Hood-like "narco-saint," by Dmitri Obergfell.
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He investigated narco-trafficking gangs during his 22015-year career as a detective with London's Metropolitan Police, then witnessed the impact of draconian anti-drug policies as an HIV/AIDS expert in Russia.
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But amidst all this, the crosses are the most visible symbol of the influence of the narco in Culiacan, a type of street cenotaph that marks the spots where thousands have been slain.
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But as we talk about what comes next, he caresses a metal effigy of the Santa Muerte—the narco saint—hanging around his neck, and said that she might bring him good luck.
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Our first segment is with Narco rapper Dro Fe who will be bringing two new tracks, followed up by the #LIVINGROOMTODAY collective who will be dropping the sounds of New York's new underground.
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The SSA-S emerged under Yawd Serk's command in 1996 as a breakaway faction of a narco-army led by heroin kingpin Khun Sa, who signed a ceasefire with the then-ruling junta.
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The Coast Guard captures only 11% of narco-subs passing through the East Pacific because the region is so big — about the size of the continental U.S., according to Lt. Commander Stephen Brickey.
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Not surprisingly, others are also interested in the treasure — including a shady American expat collector, a ruthless narco boss and a handsome artist who believes that Mexican treasures belong to, and in, Mexico.
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Mexico's narco-films took off with the straight-to-video technology of the 1980s, often shot in a couple of weeks and starring real-life strippers, real guns and real criminals firing them.
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"So many Colombians carry a deep shame born of extreme violence which is linked to familial histories in narco-trafficking or other collective acts of alternate systems such as magic," says del Sol.
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"In the Gothic there are many problems associated with the eviction of people and touristification ... El Raval has other kinds of problems like narco pisos (drug flats)," said the 61-year-old photographer.
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Some others are received on the Atlantic coast, where small narco-docks and stash houses line the banks of waterways in the wilds of the northern coastline or around the city of Limón.
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The rising insecurity poses a problem for President-elect Donald J. Trump, who has offered few insights into how he intends to approach the battle against narco-trafficking and crime in the hemisphere.
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It has successfully ridden on a road to progress and peace over the last two decades by acknowledging hard truths and making hard decisions in the wake of a narco-fueled civil war.
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While there have been at least three narco-submarines captured by the US this year, InSight Crime has counted at least 19 more such vessels seized in Colombia, all along its Pacific Coast.
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The report notes that some of those trafficking efforts are becoming increasing sophisticated, including by the use of submersibles to elude capture and ferry the drugs — "narco-subs," as the report refers to them.
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The first three signings to Slow Release have been dd elle, who makes minimalist new age electronic pop; LA timpa, who does dark, narco dream-pop; and me, Babe Rainbow, which is experimental electronic.
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For most of its existence, the 'Ndrangheta had been considered little more than a group of country bandits, but during the mattanza it saw an opportunity to take over the Cosa Nostra's narco-business.
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But if they consent to separate agreements on the issues that are of greatest interest to the United States—narco-trafficking, money laundering, counterterrorism, and immigration—they may have no leverage left for trade.
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Colombians heeded Uribe because during his eight years as president, between 2628 and 28500, he transformed Colombia from a narco-terrorist failed state into a thriving Western democracy—a rare phenomenal global success story.
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For the last several weeks, the epic legal drama has been drawing crowds of curious narco-tourists who show up, often before dawn, hoping for a glimpse of the world's most famous drug dealer.
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Among his narco-spoils: a $10 million beach house in Acapulco, a fleet of private jets and a rural ranch with a zoo where guests could ride a train past lions, crocodiles and bears.
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The Trump administration is basing policy on facts for once; they've come to understand that when a semi-failed narco state is left unchecked, as isolationists would want, citizens and neighbors pay the price.
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As Communist ideologues with links to the narco-economy, many of its members were recruited from poor, rural families as children, and have been guerrilla fighters for so long they know no other life.
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Strict narco-policy has not only failed to stem the flow of these drugs in Eastern Europe and Taiwan, it is the reason new and dangerous cathinones are being introduced on the black market.
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"The narco trade fuels a lot of the valley's militancy because it brings in money," a senior intelligence officer, who requested anonymity to speak freely, tells me at an Indian army camp near Kupwara.
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Much of the cocaine flowing into the U.S. from South America transits through Honduras, and the effect is a narco-state fully backed by the Trump administration (and the Obama White House before them).
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Here in Washington, D.C., we must continue to encourage the U.S. administration to support the people of Venezuela, while punishing the narco-terrorists of the Maduro regime, who are responsible for the current bloodshed.
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The never-ending narco wars have turned sadistic violence into a key component of border stories: mutilated bodies hung for public display; assassinated journalists; multitudes of disappeared (or desaparecido); massacre on a massive scale.
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Related: Colombia Says Narco-Guerrilla Group ELN Has Kidnapped Three Journalists Colombian rebels have released three journalists after they were kidnapped six days ago in a remote and conflict-ridden part of the country.
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The US Coast Guard released a video on Thursday that showed exactly how one might intercept a fast-moving narco-sub on the high seas -- netting more than 17,000 pounds of cocaine in the process.
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Zambada-Niebla, himself a key player in the Sinaloa organization, was arrested in Mexico City in March 2009 and in February 2010 extradited to the United States to stand trial on narco-trafficking-related charges.
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"It is one thing to hear the stories, but it is another to see firsthand the suffering of those fleeing from the cruelty of Maduro's narco-terrorist tyranny," Rubio told The Hill in an email.
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Given Santa Muerte's association with the cartels, it makes sense that the songs written in her honor would come from the narco-corrido genre, which itself grew from the folk music of Mexico's northern states.
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Judging from this story's impressive Facebook reach, I thought maybe Narco Pelosi was an obvious fiction people just wanted to believe in, like dirtbag Joe Biden from The Onion, or Batboy from Weekly World News.
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But wait: To what extent are the Brits getting a little bit fucked colluding in the narco war in Mexico, the Mafia killings in Naples, and toxic pollution caused by Amazonian jungle labs in Colombia?
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While officials publicly portray the gangs as international criminal syndicates and narco-gangs, law enforcement records and data tell a different story — as do some authorities when speaking privately or in one-on-one interviews.
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What is the purpose of sending Mexican soldiers to burn fields, search trucks and look for narco-tunnels if, once our marijuana makes it into California, it can be sold at the local 7-Eleven?
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No one wants the tacky beach-and-booze crowd or the debauchery of the 29.50s-216s when narco traffickers and drug cartels controlled the flow of money, cocaine and hash along the Costa del Sol.
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Consider Venezuela, where the conflict between the government and opposition already has hollowed out health services, and where the United States this week charged Nicolás Maduro with narco-trafficking crimes – making any relief more difficult.
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Photograph by Aaron Vincent Elkaim for The New Yorker The caucheros , as the rubber barons were called, were daring, ruthless men— the equivalent, in a sense, of modern-day narco-traffickers like El Chapo Guzmán.
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"We need to prepare for a very sensitive situation where the only guarantee that we don't become a narco-state is a proactive citizenry that stands up against corruption and for human rights," Alban said.
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Vega noted that so-called "narco juniors" like Los Chapitos and Mini Lic have escalated the violence in Mexico, which was worse last year than ever before, with a record 28,816 homicides across the country.
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This is not to say that he glorifies the narco world — far from it — but he writes what a former classmate of mine called "the-people-must-know" novels with the otherworldly beauty of myth.
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My thought bubble: Maduro's ouster could be an inflection point in the country's history, but it will take a lot of work to turn what's effectively become a failing narco/petro-state into a functioning economy.
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"US support of multilateral pressure, diplomatic recognition of Juan Guaidó as president, and the use of targeted sanctions against senior Venezuelan officials complicit in narco-trafficking or repression were all appropriate moves," Polga-Hecimovich told me.
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"Today the tortilla industry is kidnapped by them [criminal groups], just like what happened with public transport when they forced taxi drivers and bus drivers to become the hands and eyes of the narco," said Alarcón.
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But her comments will deepen suspicions among Argentines that narco gangs and corrupt officials played a hand in the jail break and ensuing game of cat-and-mouse with hundreds of security agents hunting them down.
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"It's a shame for an independent project to be confused with the scourge of super-productions created to make money and promote narco-trafficking, just because it also uses the word 'electronic,'" he wrote on Facebook.
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"The secretary of state has recognized Peru's efforts to combat narco-trafficking ... We have agreed that we must continue to join forces in this fight," Peru's Cayetana Aljovin said in a joint news conference with Tillerson.
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But the United States cannot lead from behind when it comes to confronting the Venezuelan cabal that is managed by Cuba, bankrolled by China, armed by Russia, and exploited by Iran, Hezbollah and Colombian narco-terrorists.
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Alejandra Sánchez Inzunza y José Luis Pardo Veiras proponen abandonar la inefectiva guerra contra el narco y más bien formular políticas para recuperar el territorio del país que vive bajo la enorme sombra de la violencia.
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And so an administration that talks about machete-waving narco killers is also busily trying to deport people like Maribel Trujillo-Diaz, of Fairfield, Ohio, the mother of four citizen children, who has no criminal record.
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We in the slums of Manila who have been living in constant fear for the past ten-plus years because of the denial of the previous administration that we are becoming a narco state feel safer.
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I can tell you that thanks to some pretty well thought out rules about intelligence sharing, establishing mechanisms for exchanging mere narco data that overlapped with privacy, counter-terrorism, and counterinsurgency concerns was a sticky proposition.
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While there is a so-called narco bar of lawyers, mainly in Florida and Texas, who regularly handle cartel cases, many of them are already representing people who may appear as witnesses at Mr. Guzmán's trial.
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As if the drug war needed ramping up a notch: the over-hyped narco-terrorism construct looks set to become yet another foot-shooting move in the fight against those most elusive enemies, drugs and terror.
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Related: Colombia Says Narco-Guerrilla Group ELN Has Kidnapped Three Journalists Diego D'Pablos, a reporter, and his cameraman Carlos Melo, from Colombian TV station RCN, went missing on Monday while covering the disappearance of Hernández-Mora.
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In this extra scene, VICE News met up with Adolfo Valenzuela, one of the brothers behind "narco-corrido" music label Twiins Enterprises, to discuss the appeal of El Chapo, and what makes him different from Pablo Escobar.
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He had plied the fraught waters of the VIP cocktail circuit, schmoozed with up-and-comers in La Condesa, and slowly but surely mapped out the intricate web of narco influence and corruption within the federal government.
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The chaotic events on Saturday will likely raise further suspicions among Argentines that narco gangs played a hand in the jail break and ensuing game of cat-and-mouse with hundreds of security agents hunting them down.
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In communities dominated by pop culture images of larger-than-life, narco-famous men, nails can become a subversive canvas that pays homage to beauty and femininity, co-opting and transforming male-dominated aesthetics and cultural narratives.
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Related: Backed By China, a Massive Narco-Army Angles for More Power in Myanmar The United Nations failed to protect the human rights of the persecuted Rohingya minority in Myanmar, according to documents leaked to VICE News.
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"When the vessel doesn't stop, one of the Coasties decides to literally leap from his moving vessel onto the moving narco sub and starts banging on the hatch, as if to say:"Knock knock, mother f---ers!
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You pay now or pay later: a failed narco state without working institutions, bordering Venezuela, could've also been a lawless safe harbor for extremists who could've walked right in, a Taliban-era Afghanistan of the Western Hemisphere.
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Increasingly, it's also remembered for illegal wiretapping and intimidation; extensive collusion with right-wing narco-paramilitaries; and the systematic murder of civilians to inflate the number of guerrilla deaths the military could claim for its success metrics.
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As Grillo explores in Gangster Warlords and his previous book, El Narco, these battles between cartels, militias, and government forces often resemble actions we only associate with war—or the over-the-top narratives of FPS games.
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But "Zerozerozero" also has stretches, especially in the Mexican story line, that serve mostly to fill our expectations of this kind of show, sequences in which the narco-thriller conventions are just there for their own sake.
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"As the people of Venezuela stand in support of their country's Provisional President Juan Guaidó and their right to self-determination, I applaud their courage in rising-up against Nicolás Maduro's narco-terrorist tyranny," Rubio told me.
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Testifying for the second day at Mr. Guzmán's epic drug conspiracy trial, the former employee, Miguel Angel Martínez, turned from telling stories of his boss's scrappy early years to describing the details of a lavish narco lifestyle.
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"Following the discovery of these narco-laboratories and the different fields with the coca plants, Guatemala now becomes a cocaine producer and that puts Guatemala in a totally different situation with respect to regional security," Degenhart said.
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Over 12½ months, they sat through testimony about unspeakable torture and ghastly murders, epic corruption at nearly every level of Mexico's government, narco-mistresses and naked subterranean escapes, gold-plated AK-47s and monogrammed, diamond-encrusted pistols.
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" Antero Lopes, head of Rule of Law and Security Institutions at the UN mission in Bissau, told Bloomberg in late 2018 that "Guinea-Bissau is a victim of narco-trafficking because of the vulnerability of its institutions.
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A few days later, at El Chino's wake, another narco leader, Adela, who was close to El Chino, confronted Ronal, telling him she knew he had seen Chino's murder and that he knew who had done it.
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The discovery of a narco-submarine in Spain has raised questions about where and how these vessels are being used, since all previous seizures by Colombia and US authorities in 2019 have been in the Pacific Ocean.
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The most spectacular capture came in July when a Coast Guard vessel pulled up alongside a narco-sub out at sea, with a crew member jumping onto its roof and pounding on the hatch until it opened.
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And while guerrilla armies live on in Colombia, even there they long ago shifted from saviors of the masses to narco-capitalists and kidnapping entrepreneurs, now hated even by the peasants on whose behalf they claimed to struggle.
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Dayan, Georgescu's defense attorney, also said the sting-op tactic is too effective for the DEA to give up entirely; narco-terrorism allegations are one of the easiest ways for prosecutors to sway a skeptical jury, he said.
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We do this because we see narco-trafficking as an engine of violence so that's why we will keep on doing our best and we will keep on achieving results that are visible for the whole international community.
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Narco tunnels are hard to detect, extremely lucrative, and cartels have become adept at constructing them — all of which means that tunnel task forces on both sides of the border won't have a shortage of work anytime soon.
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In July, the Coast Guard&aposs newest cutter, Midgett, caught a "narco sub" carrying 2,100 pounds of cocaine and three crew in the Eastern Pacific Ocean as the cutter made its first trip to its homeport in Hawaii.
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Riveting accounts of Guzman's paranoia and obsession with the electronic monitoring of his wife, mistresses and associates captivated courtroom regulars this week, including so-called narco-tourists drawn to the Latin American soap-opera atmosphere of the proceedings.
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At the local chapel dedicated to the narco saint Jesus Malverde in downtown Culiacan, the state capital, owner Jesús Gonzales has started selling miniature figurines of Guzmán to those who come through to ask for blessings and miracles.
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But the drug enforcement authorities focused primarily on the narco-guerillas at first; the paramilitaries, while opponents in the war on drugs, were technically on the same side as the Colombian and American governments in the civil war.
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"Zerozerozero" is three shows in one: an Italian mafia saga with rocky Calabrian hillsides and generational omertà; a Mexican narco thriller with lavish cartel violence; and, more improbably, an indie-movie-style American family drama and character study.
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Last year, the brothers' wives, Olivia and Mia Flores, published a jointly written memoir, "Cartel Wives," describing their own journey from being wealthy narco-spouses who dressed in Chanel and Cartier to living in hiding under government protection.
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"There are compliance restrictions for negotiations, because the head of negotiations on the presidential committee is a designated narco-trafficker," said Siobhan Morden, a Nomura managing director who is head of the bank's Latin America fixed-income strategy.
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Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a gorgeous setting transformed into a burlesque of narco-conflict, where practically every mountain has a drug lord's lieutenant living at the top of it, and the valleys are jammed with drug runners' convoys.
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Pero, aunque la lucha por el control de las drogas ilegales sigue dejando víctimas, la palabra narco hace tiempo se quedó corta para explicar la situación de la violencia en México, un país extenso y con enormes recursos.
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Like many high-profile borderland stories in American pop culture — the "Sicario" movies and the Netflix series "Narcos," for example — the new film wrings thrills from the epidemic of narco-violence that claims lives on a daily basis.
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In the past decade, the narco-terrorism narrative has shifted to the emergence of a cocaine route into Europe's back door, from Colombia to West Africa and overland through the Sahara desert up to the north African coast.
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Recognizing that negotiating with or tolerating a narco-state is not a realistic option, the Trump administration must crack down on the Venezuelan regime by persuading other countries – particularly in Europe – to join in sanctioning Maduro and his backers.
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Related: The cocaine industry has a lot riding on Colombia's peace deal The FARC stings have drawn criticism from lawyers and activists who accuse federal agents of entrapment in the name of a largely invented war on narco-terrorism.
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The emphasis on narco-terrorism has allowed the agency to bolster its argument that it is on the front line of the struggle to contain terrorist threats — and that Congress needs to increase its funding to keep Americans safe.
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For decades, Colombia's ruling elite has gotten away with attributing all manner of institutional shortcomings and malfeasance to the scourges of communist insurrection and narco-trafficking—which, to let the government tell it, are pretty much the same thing.
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Last year, 263,000 soccer fields worth of opium poppies were cultivated by a narco-state that produces 90 percent of the planet's illegal heroin, despite successive attempts by foreign invading armies and the Taliban to cripple its lifeblood crop.
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"Narcos" does a better job than most narco-dramas in getting across the brutal seediness of the drugs business, and the bravery of the Colombian public servants who faced it down, many at the cost of their own lives.
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There is a golden opportunity for the U.S., it's government and its companies to right many historical wrongs and stand with the like-minded democratic states of Latin America to put an end to this narco-terrorist, socialist dictatorship.
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Amilcar Alexander Ardon, a former mayor and confessed killer and narco trafficker, testified before jurors in the US Southern District Court of New York in the second week of the trial of Juan Antonio "Tony" Hernandez, the president's brother.
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We are a nation that took on the narco idea that anything goes if it will get you out of poverty: some tits, a weapon, corruption, trafficking coca, being a guerrilla or a paramilitary fighter, or being in government.
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Despite being named Africa's first "narco-state" for over a decade now, Guinea-Bissau has failed to contain its role in the international drugs trade, and shipments of cocaine from Latin America are continuing to come across the Atlantic.
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With his reputation badly tarnished by the narco-pardons scandal, in which other aides were found to have taken bribes to free hundreds of convicted drug traffickers, García has been languishing in the polls with around 5 percent support.
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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan and Miami said Nicolás Maduro was involved in a narco-terrorism and cocaine trafficking conspiracy, accusing him of leading a violent drug cartel in the years he was amassing power, before his election in 2013.
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and several high-ranking members of the Venezuelan government were hit with drug trafficking, weapons, and narco-terrorism charges in the United States on Thursday, according to an indictment unsealed by the Department of Justice.
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US troops and their commander-in-chief continued to make headlines throughout the year from a daring raid that killed ISIS&aposs leader to a narco-sub seizure to an Army officer who testified in the Trump impeachment hearings.
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The Mexican actor Joaquín Cosío, best known in these parts for playing a wisecracking narco in the cult hit "El Infierno," sat dressed in a gray sport coat over a plain black shirt as the plates were passed around.
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Amilcar Alexander Ardon, a former mayor and confessed killer and narco trafficker, testified before jurors in the U.S. Southern District Court of New York in the second week of the trial of Juan Antonio "Tony" Hernandez, the president's brother.
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In August of last year, Panama sought to shed its image as a magnet for shady deals and narco traffickers by paying at least $2 million to host the world's largest anticorruption conference, now taking place in Panama City.
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PANGSAN, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar's most powerful ethnic armed group, accused by the United States of running a narco-empire that has flooded Asia with illegal drugs, has rejected the allegation, saying Washington has blacklisted its leaders for political reasons.
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The U.S. government on Thursday indicted Maduro, Alcala and 13 other current and former Venezuelan officials on charges of "narco-terrorism", the latest escalation of a pressure campaign by U.S. President Donald Trump administration to oust the socialist leader.
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Many of the narco tombs are far less modest, including a Taj Mahal copy complete with air conditioning units and windows in the shape of the cross on the side of this replica of Islam's most famous piece of architecture.
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Wherever you go in the Chapare — one of Bolivia's two coca-growing regions — you hear similar stories of life in the 240s and early 296s: narco-slayings, police violence and rapes, and coca-grower protests ending in violence and death.
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These numbers reflect what the many thousands of children Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) has worked with have told us—that persistent violence from gangs and narco-traffickers in Central America that pushes children out of their countries remains unaddressed.
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The drug kingpin was famously caught in January 2016 after an intense manhunt by Mexican authorities and US intelligence officials — the day before Rolling Stone magazine ran a story by actor Sean Penn about the fugitive and his narco empire.
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The 2628-year successful partnership between Washington and Bogota, which brought Colombia back from the brink of becoming a failed narco-state and helped transform it into a thriving hemispheric leader, is an implicit rebuke to "America First" foreign policy.
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Narco subsThe Coast Guard has led efforts to intercept narcotics coming to the US by sea from South and Central America, working with partners in the region through Operation Martillo, which involves ships and aircraft scouring the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.
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New York (CNN)In the epic narco drama playing out in a federal courtroom in Brooklyn, the defendant, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, delivered the usual wave and smile to his former beauty queen wife near the end of a devastating week.
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It sets some of them in cities like Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles — not just places in Latin America — and plumbs the worlds of drug cartels (they call these shows narco novelas), border crossers, immigrant families and truck-driving empires.
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At 41, Duque represents a new generation, one mostly foreign to the ideological struggles brought about by the narco-terrorist guerrillas that waged war on the state for half a century and the paramilitary groups that were part of that scene.
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Related: The Hunt for Narco Subs Four suspects who were driving the boat were arrested, but CBP said the craft became "unstable" during the operation and sank — along with around 242,241 pounds of cocaine that was stuffed inside its hull.
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Related: The Hunt for Narco Subs Four suspects who were driving the boat were arrested, but CBP said the craft became "unstable" during the operation and sank — along with around 12,800 pounds of cocaine that was stuffed inside its hull.
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The artist will also show the video "Lo Quiero Todo," filmed in 2003 during his expedition, which depicts a young Sarabia kneeling before a shrine to the so-called narco-saint Jesús Malverde in a chapel in the city of Culiacán.
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Related: Narco Ties, Embezzlement, and Topless Models: It's Election Season in Mexico The PAN also notched up victories in the central states of Aguascalientes and Puebla, as well as in Durango in the north, and Quintana Roo in the far south.
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On cross-examination Tuesday morning, Mr. Guzmán's lawyers questioned her credibility, suggesting that it was not believable that the world-famous leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel had turned to a "20-something, non-narco trafficker" to buy his marijuana.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Thursday indicted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and more than a dozen other top Venezuelan officials on charges of "narco-terrorism," the latest escalation of the Trump administration's pressure campaign aimed at ousting the socialist leader.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Thursday indicted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and more than a dozen other top Venezuelan officials on charges of "narco-terrorism," the latest escalation of the Trump administration's pressure campaign aimed at ousting the socialist leader.
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The U.S. government on Thursday indicted Carvajal, Alcala, Maduro, and a dozen other current and former Venezuelan officials on charges of "narco-terrorism", the latest escalation of a pressure campaign by U.S. President Donald Trump administration to oust the socialist leader.
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"The scope and magnitude of the drug trafficking alleged was made possible only because Maduro and others corrupted the institutions of Venezuela and provided political and military protection for the rampant narco-terrorism crimes described in our charges," he added.
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Suddenly, that number becomes fraught with meaning: for the narco gangs that rule over Rio's favelas; for the police and the military, which either fight or take bribes from them; and for the population that is caught in the middle.
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The visit to Mexico's Golden Triangle of narco-states coincided with Trump's unveiling of a task force to tackle the U.S. heroin epidemic in which use of the drug has risen five-fold in the past decade, according to researchers.
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The interim government of conservative Jeanine Áñez has made it clear that the coca community, or "narco terrorists," as Áñez and other members of her government refer to them, would not fare well under a permanent government controlled by her.
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While much of the narco world remains in the shadows, Treviño and his cronies were brought to trial in Austin, in 2013, in one of the most extensive lawsuits against a Mexican cartel to be heard in an American courtroom.
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"Narco-deforestation now affects large tropical forests in Guatemala, Honduras (and) Nicaragua, and is beginning to affect Costa Rica as well," Jennifer A. Devine, assistant geography professor at Texas State University and co-author of the studies, said in a statement.
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Trump has dismissed criticism, including from Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE, over his tweets.
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There was a time, the story goes, when if a local collided with a drug trafficker's car on the streets of Culiacán — a bastion of the infamous Sinaloa cartel — the narco was likely to hop out to check that everything was ok.
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"Right now, my focus is going to be to try to put pressure on the administration here in the United States to sanction Russia and to try to put pressure on Russia to stop propping up this narco-regime," added Mucarsel-Powell. Sen.
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Oscillating between shots of Porras's mansion, a reproduction of the fictional Carrington family's mansion in the hit American 1980s drama Dynasty, and clips of the actual show, Millán points to the romanticization of the American excess that drove Porras's narco-capitalist ambition.
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Although Cartel de Santa has stayed away from making additional narco rap tracks, the genre was quickly taken up by hip-hop duo Cano and Blunt in Reynosa, and Mexican Boy in Matamoros, who all began the proliferation of dedications around 2600.
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And in a swipe at first lady Cilia Flores, Ortega also mentioned the "narco-nephews" in her speech, an allusion to two relatives of Maduro's wife found guilty in the United States of trying to carry out a multimillion-dollar drug deal.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez denied on Thursday that the Central American nation protects drug traffickers or is a narco state, following allegations in the U.S. trial of his brother that the two men accepted bribes from cocaine smugglers.
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Related: A Narco-Saint, a Death Cult, and a Lost-Cause Apostle Await the Pope in Mexico Perhaps the hardest-hitting speech so far, however, was the Pope's ticking off of church leaders gathered to hear him in the Cathedral, also on Saturday.
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Narco tunnels have proliferated along the US-Mexico border, but it was the Sinaloa cartel that pioneered this method of subterranean smuggling, first in its area of influence along the Arizona border, expanding all along the frontier as the cartel grew in power.
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Both sides of the equation are fascinating, with Gallardo seeking to forge an uneasy peace among the various drug kingpins -- in what only can be likened to the mob families parceling off Cuba in "The Godfather Part II" -- establishing Mexico's first narco-union.
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We need to support one of Latin America's most successful efforts to strengthen the rule of law, fight narco-trafficking, encourage foreign direct investment, and reduce migration to the U.S. Corruption is one of the main causes of migration to the United States.
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"We have a wide number of organized crime groups, ranging from cartels, prison gangs, street gangs, transnational gangs, and the like, in Mexico and Central America, all the way through to paramilitary narco-militia mafia [and] gambling rackets," among others, Muggah said.
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Plan Colombia would be but a footnote in history – and Colombia itself very likely a failed "narco" state – were it not for the staunch and unwavering support the Plan has received from both sides of the U.S. political aisle from the outset.
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But though the narco-turned-vigilante complains that he cannot count on the Federal Police and the Military to support his battle to keep the Templarios and the Viagras at bay, he does credit them with knowing 'who's good and who's bad.
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Maduro and his top lieutenants ran a "narco-terrorism partnership with the FARC for the past 20 years," said Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, referring to a dissident faction of the leftist Colombian guerrilla group.
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Las espectaculares fugas de prisión de Joaquín Guzmán Loera son conocidas, pero un detalle recién revelado durante el juicio es que, según un testigo, Emma Coronel, la esposa del narco, tuvo un papel protagónico en la planeación de cada uno de los escapes.
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It's more or less based on an earlier film of the same title directed by Gerardo Naranjo and starring Stephanie Sigman, which used action-thriller techniques and moods to explore the corrosive effects of narco trafficking on the lives of ordinary Mexicans.
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Some new arrivals have no idea what's going on at the border, but all are primed at the academy for narco warfare, with lurid PowerPoints of people killed by Mexican cartels: heads in an ice chest, bodies stacked in a cattle truck.
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According to the International Monetary Fund's definition of a narco-state, as a state 'where all legitimate institutions become penetrated by the power and wealth of the illegal drug trade', like Venezuela, Guinea-Bissau and Afghanistan, Albania is knee-deep in drugs money.
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The purpose of my trip was to get an update on the fight for freedom and liberty in Venezuela, to highlight the important economic relationships between Latin America and my state of Florida and to continue building on the progress made to stop narco-trafficking.
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And that the people in these "narco" stories we love to consume (and create) are real, and the consequences are real, and it's not beyond our control to keep them from dying, like some in this book did, or getting locked away, like others did.
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"I reaffirm that it is false that I have received or accepted money from these criminals ... I reiterate my total rejection on behalf of the Honduran people of the suggestion that our country is a narco state," he said in a speech on Thursday.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Veteran drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero denied carrying out one of the most notorious murders in Mexico's narco wars — the killing of U.S. anti-drugs agent Enrique "Kike" Camarena in 1985 — and said he was no longer involved in drug trafficking.
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A recently published Defense Department video captures crew members from the Coast Guard Cutter Munro as they chase a "self-propelled semi-submersible suspected drug smuggling vessel" (or a narco sub, for short) through international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on June 18.
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Folks in Washington are always concerned with what is going on overseas in places thousands of miles away from our country, but when it comes to the narco state run by criminal organizations just across our southern border, they willingly look the other direction.
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Early that June morning, Estramonte received intelligence on the narco-sub from a Navy P-3 surveillance aircraft, acting as an airborne early warning system for the cutter, which was then patrolling in the Pacific Ocean roughly 200 miles west of the Colombia-Ecuador border.
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Just last week, at Uribe's urging, Colombians rejected a peace deal negotiated by his former protégé and successor, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, to end a five-decade long civil war with the Marxist, narco-trafficking guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
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Among other charges, Boyaco pleaded guilty to one count of narco-terrorism, becoming the first person to be convicted under a new federal statute, enacted in 2006, to combat what the U.S. government views as a growing nexus between drug crimes and terrorist activity.
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Similarly, Mr. Cotto, the police director, said the term "narco-gang" was "sensationalism" and could be misinterpreted as suggesting that Salvadoran street gangs were working directly with the Gulf Cartel or the Zetas in the transshipment of drugs from South America to the United States.
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In his second day as a government witness at Mr. Guzmán's drug conspiracy trial in Federal District Courtin Brooklyn, Mr. Ramírez detailed his 17-year bond with the defendant, describing it as the central partnership in one of modern history's most profitable narco-operations.
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The steady stream of revelations about Caracol's sudden release, and the scale of his operations, have focused attention on the cocaine industry's deep penetration of the country's institutions, fuelling the sense that the country is slipping quietly but surely towards becoming a narco state.
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In the mid-2000s, Guatemala was on the verge of becoming a narco state — and Cicig's international prosecutors and investigators, and their Guatemalan counterparts, were tasked with fighting organized crime and ending the institutional impunity that gave free rein to powerful criminals and corrupt officials.
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Related: Peru's Booming Cocaine Business Is Turning It Into Latin America's Newest Narco State It said he was first traced to a luxury apartment it appeared he had rented in order to be closer to his Venezuelan girlfriend who moved to Medellin several months before.
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And if you have even more time on your hands, check out our features: one on 72 hours spent at the Hasidic Burning Man, and another about an American in Guatemala who's fighting to save an endangered jungle from ranchers, corrupt officials, and narco traffickers.
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At a press briefing in Florida on January 23, Faller pointed to Venezuela as a "safe haven" and "base of opportunity" for dissident members of the demobilized FARC rebel group, as well as guerrillas from the ELN rebel group and "terrorists groups" involved in narco-trafficking.
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Related: US Agents Watch as 'Narco Sub' Carrying $194 Million Worth of Cocaine Sinks After Bust "[With] crystal meth, the leader appears to be China, but they also produce significant amounts in the Philippines and in Indonesia, and also to some extent in Myanmar," Douglas said.
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But evidence at Guzman's trial suggested his decision to stay quiet at the defense table was against his nature: Cooperating witnesses told jurors he was a fan of his own rags-to-riches narco story, always eager to find an author or screenwriter to tell it.
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Over the past 10 years, CICIG has brought charges against 680 people, jailing two presidents, military officers, corrupt business leaders, narco chiefs and so on; the most notorious, including Pérez Molina, are being held in the military's Mariscal Zavala prison, from which they still exert influence.
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The jurors at the trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, were treated last week to a cinematic narrative about the early years of the kingpin's career, detailing his rise from a young upstart in the drug trade to a wealthy and successful narco-entrepreneur.
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Prosecutors used all of this to trace Mr. Guzmán's 30-year rise from a young, ambitious trafficker with a knack for speedy smuggling to a billionaire narco lord with an entourage of maids and secretaries, a portfolio of vacation homes — even a ranch with a personal zoo.
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Pelosi also railed against Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE, who agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in March.
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"He talks in particular about Central America and the lack of citizen security and violence and narco-trafficking and cartels, and he's connected it to why people are coming to the United States," Doris Meissner, director of the Migration Policy Institute's US Immigration Policy Program, told me.
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As pressure grows for a political settlement to end 230 years of war in Afghanistan, the drug trade remains a major threat, leaving the country at the risk of becoming a "narco-state", the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a U.S. Congressional watchdog, said in recent report.
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What Chapo's attorneys did allegedly discover from scouring publicly available court records is that the original extradition request relied on testimony from witnesses who were known to be unreliable, including "an admitted and convicted corrupt former Mexican law enforcement official and narco-trafficker" who contradicted himself several times.
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Related: An Exclusive Look Inside Chile's First State-Approved Medical Marijuana Harvest Small scale farmers in cannabis growing areas also say that — along with low agricultural commodity prices — the crackdown on weed keeps them trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty, narco-violence, and abuse from venal cops.
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"Zeus and Narco [his Siberian huskies] had the cute wee verminous Schnuffle shuffle Pig of the Hedge in their gobs [mouths] and I wrapped my hand in a t-shirt and freed the wee bugger and got a tiny cut — that was Wednesday night/Thursday morning," he said.
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Indeed, despite its early '90s setting, this fact-based drama about the battle against narco-trafficker Escobar is a virtual primer on U.S. political adventures abroad, in which neutralizing the bad guy has often involved terrible collateral damage and getting into bed with people who might be even worse.
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He served as mayor of Medellín at a time when the drug kingpin Pablo Escobar owned the city, and the governor of Antioquia department at a time when the Castaño brothers were consolidating the narco-paramilitary model that would form the basis for Uribe's counterinsurgency strategy as president.
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Benjamin Weiser relates in his Aug 2628, 28500 New York Times article, "Trial by Jury, a hollowed American Right, is Vanishing," the case of an accused narco – terrorist who, faced with a 6900 year minimum sentence, plead guilty to a lesser charge and received 2628 months in prison.
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Read more: Colombia's cocaine production is at an all-time high, and the country's navy keeps catching 'narco subs'The crew members transferred more than 1,100 pounds of cocaine from the sub to the Valiant but were unable to get the rest because of concerns about the sub's stability.
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Julia L. Gatto, a federal public defender, recalled the case of Oumar Issa, a Malian arrested in Africa in a 24 sting operation on charges of narco-terrorism conspiracy, which carried a mandatory minimum 2000-year sentence, and conspiring to support a terrorist organization, which had no minimum.
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The Justice Department announced narco-terrorism and other criminal charges against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and senior leaders of his government, and the State Department designated Maduro and top current and former officials of Venezuela's military, parliament and judiciary under its Narcotics Rewards Program, offering multimillion-dollar bounties.
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Beyond the presidential race, he warns that at least half of Peru's 26 regions have narco-candidates running for either local government or the national congress, and a good proportion of the rest wouldn't turn down a bit of extra cash for their campaigns if it were offered.
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But as someone who's covered the Amazon during its latest boom and bust, I've seen that the carnage within the prison walls is a consequence of a more insidious crisis in the world's largest forest: narco-corruption that blurs the line between cops and hitmen, governors and kingpins.
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"This criminal was dedicated to drug trafficking, kidnapping, the intimidation of social leaders and he was expected to be part of this threatening new group which yesterday presented itself to the country as a new rebel group - which it isn't because it's a narco-terrorist gang," Duque said.
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The reversal is the latest effort from Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE to insert himself in the cases brought by Mueller's team.
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For now, though, let's table that and focus on what is actually at issue in the matter of Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE's sentencing.
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The commentary prompted a rare rebuke from Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE, one of his most prominent and trusted Cabinet members.
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They told jurors how he rose from being a poor campesino in the village of La Tuna in the Sierra Madre mountains to become a billionaire narco lord with a $10 million beach house, a fleet of private jets, a yacht he named for himself and a personal zoo.
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The profiles of the female inmates of El Cereso go beyond the "beautiful narco-girlfriend, or the glamorous yet dangerous 'Queenpin'" role that has become prevalent in pop culture depictions of the drug war, according to Katie Orlisnky, a photographer who has documented the impact of the drug trade on women.
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For a moment, the trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, seemed like it might turn into a kind of truth-and-reconciliation commission that would reveal, not only the details about the defendant's life of crime, but also secrets about narco-corruption in Mexico.
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En México, cuando la crisis del narco fue convertida en un asunto de seguridad nacional, los militares fueron enviados primero a combatir el crimen organizado hace trece años y luego se convirtieron en una fuerza parapolicial con poder de mando propio con la Guardia Nacional de Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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The Castro regime supports narco-traffickers, practices apartheid in the form of an elite unelected white politburo ruling over a black majority and enslaves its own people while siphoning off profits from foreign investment and tourism to ensure these flow directly to the Castro family, regime loyalists and the secret police.
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In recent years, collaboration between the United States and Mexico succeeded in killing or jailing many of Mexico's best-known narco lords, including Mr. Guzmán's cousin, Alfredo Beltrán-Leyva, and the heir apparent to his empire, Vicente Zambada Niebla, along with dozens of their lieutenants — all with little measurable effect.
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Thirty-nine elected prosecutors issued a statement Thursday hitting back at attacks by Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE on reformist policies they have pursued.
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But here in one of the few corners of Helmand Province that is peaceful and in firm government control, the green stalks and swollen bulbs of opium were growing thick and high within eyeshot of official buildings during the past poppy season — signs of a local narco-state administered directly by government officials.
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"From the Day of the Dead to narco-politics, death is strongly felt there," he says of the country, but it was its people's day-to-day understanding of life's fragility that inspired his new photography series, "La Cucaracha," which will go on display at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York this month.
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A closer look at munitions intelligence from Armament Research Services (ARES), which analyzed the weapons used by cartel soldiers in Culiacán, points to some of that iron river's myriad tributaries springing from sources thousands of miles away, far from the massacres, mass graves, and disappearances that punctuate years of narco conflict in Mexico.
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More grave is the ODNI's potential to be politically weaponized, as some argue Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE has done with the Department of Justice.
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Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE earlier this month called on the U.S. and its allies to throw their support behind those companies to undercut Huawei's dominance.
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Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE is right that presidential tweets on Department of Justice (DOJ) cases make his job difficult in today's super-charged political environment.
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To many fans, Del Castillo is still the tough-as-nails fictional lead Teresa Mendoza, the wife of a narco boss who fights her way through tragedy and conflict to become a drug lord in her own right, in La Reina del Sur, the hit soap produced by US media network Telemundo.
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You think about West Africa, or the Middle East, or the Balkans, or the Caucuses—there, you quite literally have a kind of revolving door between organized crime, where the major narco traffickers, the major racketeers, the major extortionists take on public office, and then, once they leave public office, go back to organized crime.
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In the last nine years, Honduras has morphed into something that defies neat categorization: a narco-kleptocracy of sorts, operating under the guise of privatization and deregulation, where politicians, business elites, and organized crime oversee a system of governance predicated on corruption, violence, and impunity in order to enrich themselves and terrorize their opponents.
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A US District Court jury in Washington, D.C., convicted him in 2012 of "one count of conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, knowing and intending that it would be unlawfully imported into the United States; one count of distribution of one kilogram or more of heroin" and one count of narco-terrorism.
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Nearly every day one can find stories of drones being used for nefarious activities: from contraband delivery into our prisons, to the narco-terrorist using drones as the platform of choice for drug and human trafficking, to nuisance drones flying around our nation's airports and even drones flying over the fence at the White House.
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While the witnesses stressed the threat to our nation to include the threat to our youth from international drug trafficking and international narco-terrorism, some of the member of the committee continued to ignore the information about the threat to their constituents and instead chose to demonstrate rabid devotion to their political party talking points.
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Those worries intensified after the agency recommended a sentence shorter than the one it had first proposed for Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE, a longtime GOP operative and Trump associate.
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Those remarks came a day after Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE said in an ABC News interview that the president's tweets were making his job more difficult.
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Top House and Senate Republicans issued a rare joint statement on Tuesday supporting Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE amid criticism over recent Justice Department decisions involving Trump associates.
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That was the perfect place for a 15-year-old kid who grew up in a city with nota roja all over—a popular form of printed press showing explicit photographs of violence, crime, vendettas, tragic accidents, cops mocking transvestites, narco-Satanism, and then on the very next pages, gossip columns about movie stars and a horoscopes section.
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"The only thing we can hope for is that imprisonment under narcotics laws will decrease, since the army of narco-police who feed themselves exclusively by catching ordinary, drug-dependent people has been shrunken significantly," said Anya Sarang, head of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation, the only group doing harm reduction outreach to drug users in Moscow.
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" Former Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderTrump's DOJ makes a case for civil rights for the unborn Trump defends rhetoric: 'When they hit us we have to hit back' If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE drew criticism when he recommended last year that when Republicans "go low, we kick them.
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En la misma red social, Miguel Pardo dice que el juicio no muestra "nada nuevo bajo el sol" y cita el libro de Ioan Grillo titulado El narco, como un trabajo de investigación en el que se muestra "la connivencia de las autoridades y fuerzas del orden con los diferentes cárteles de la droga" en México.
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Her identity would have remained publicly unknown except for a public statement she made after the Department of Justice (DOJ) rescinded its initial sentencing recommendation for Trump confidant Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE.
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All four of the prosecutors handling the case of Trump confidant Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE resigned after the DOJ opted for a lighter sentencing of Stone after their initial recommendation.
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The report comes after the DOJ earlier this week reversed a decision to recommend a seven- to nine-year prison sentence for Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE, a longtime adviser to Trump.
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The going is slow though, the pavement cracked and shadowed, sometimes covered by swollen rivers as it winds through the abundant and bursting green of the Central American jungle to isolated shack-clusters of villages or narco runways where planes carrying shipments of cocaine touch down and take back off in a quick, insect-like buzz.
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After the department asked the judge to impose a sentence that was "far less," Trump on Wednesday publicly congratulated Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE for "taking charge" of the case.
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A federal judge on Tuesday refused to delay Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE's sentencing amid the fallout over the Trump administration's decision to intervene in the case against the president's longtime ally.
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A U.S. District Court Judge in Washington, D.C., issued a statement Thursday obtained by The Hill rejecting the notion that outside pressure will influence the court's ruling on Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE's case.
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Senate Democrats unloaded on Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE on Friday, accusing him and other top Justice Department officials of trying to "undermine the administration of justice" and urging him to resign.
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Legal experts said the president may be working up to using his constitutionally unalterable pardon power to keep friend Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE and former national security adviser Michael Flynn out of prison.
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More than 85033,100 former Department of Justice (DOJ) officials are calling for Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE to resign in the wake of the DOJ's decision to ask for a shorter prison sentence for Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE, a longtime ally and friend of President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE.
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As narco rap began in the region, so did the violence — the Mexican government claims that between 2010 and 2016, more than 4,900 people were murdered in Tamaulipas and the state led the nation in the number of people disappeared as the Gulf Cartel fractured into various warring cliques, as well as fought off its hyper-violent offspring nemesis, the Zetas.
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In her speech, Rodriguez accused Brazil of operating as a "dictatorship," in reference to the ouster of former president Dilma Rousseff, along with mention of Colombia's "internal displaced who have sought refuge in Venezuela due to the violence," Mexico for its ongoing violence related to narco-trafficking, and Argentina, for what she described as serving an invasive agenda in Venezuela.
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"What people like Tony Hernandez are doing instead of trying to help their country is creating a very volatile situation where his own countrymen are having to flee Honduras for Mexico and the United States because of his involvement in the drug trade," said Mike Vigil, a former chief of international operations at the DEA and author of the recent novel Narco Queen.
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Perhaps because they couldn't fall back as easily on mafia or narco clichés, Sollima and his collaborators came up with a framework for the American family — domineering father, children struggling to prove themselves in the business, sister fiercely protective of brother with degenerative disease — that's usefully melodramatic and gives Riseborough and DeHaan room to portray a real and subtly moving relationship.
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Related: A Narco-Saint, a Death Cult, and a Lost-Cause Apostle Await the Pope in Mexico Esper said it's also a comfort to remember that dengue fever and chikungunya, which are similar mosquito-borne diseases that are found in Central and South America, have not really gained a foothold in the United States, despite occasional outbreaks in places like Florida.
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A lawyer in Laredo, Texas, I recently spoke to astounded me by disclosing that more than half of the migrants she has interviewed have had someone in their family kidnapped, extorted or assaulted by narco cartels while waiting just across the border in Nuevo Laredo, a place so dangerous the U.S. State Department compares it to Syria, North Korea or Yemen.
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Now, making my way home to the United States,I took the migrant route all the way north, except instead of riding on top of a rattling boxcar of the train known as the Beast, or in a clanking bus or a narco van, I was speeding in my own car, leaving San Cristóbal de las Casas, in the southern state of Chiapas.
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" Add to this appearances by real-life figures like El Chapo; the business magnate Carlos Slim; and the pseudonymous "Paco," a plastic-surgery-seeking gangster reminiscent of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, and "Mexico" comes to occupy a surreal space, described bluntly by Paco's surgeon: "One minute you're in your practice with Botox patients, the next a narco is threatening to kill you.
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The judge overseeing longtime Trump adviser Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE's trial ordered both the defense and prosecution to appear at a phone hearing Tuesday after all four Justice Department prosecutors withdrew from the case.
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U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the hearing Sunday following the prosecutors' withdrawal, which came after Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE overrode their recommendation of a seven- to nine-year sentence, Politico reported.
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Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE is threatening the legal shield that prevents internet companies such as Facebook and Google from facing lawsuits over the extreme, exploitative and sometimes violent posts that circulate on their powerful platforms.
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Last week, the department made the decision to override federal prosecutors and ask for a sentence of "far less" than the original seven to nine years recommended for Trump associate Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE.
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The reexamination of Flynn's case is sure to spark criticism from Democrats, who just days earlier had accused Barr of political interference after the DOJ recommended a lesser sentence against longtime Trump associate Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE.
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This week he waded into the fight over a sentencing recommendation for longtime associate Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE, criticizing the career Justice Department prosecutors who worked on the case and the judge assigned to the trial.
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When President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE's longtime ally, Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE, was convicted of witness tampering and lying to Congress, Trump's enemies were gleeful; when prosecutors announced their recommended sentence, Trump reacted angrily, and Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE signaled to the president to pipe down so he could do his job.
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Those steps — public pushback from Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE and the decision by eight GOP senators to join Democrats to try to limit Trump's power to spark a war with Iran — may ultimately fail to have the desired effects.
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On the initiative of African countries a significant first meeting in the Security Council on the issue was held: the gathering had the approval of the five permanent members of the Security Council and was agreed upon due to accelerated growth of the drug business in West Africa, the increasing danger from narco-violence in several countries, and the proliferation of failed states across the continent.
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But the move also raised questions about Trump's intervention in criminal cases, especially when handling individuals with powerful connections, and over how he might deal with two associates, Michael Flynn and Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE, who are facing imprisonment.
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Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE is set to be sentenced Thursday in the midst of a growing political controversy after the Trump administration intervened in his case to push for a lighter prison sentence than originally sought by prosecutors.
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Barr made the comment after the Justice Department rescinded a recommendation that GOP political operative and longtime Trump adviser Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE be sentenced to seven to nine years in prison for lying to investigators and witness tampering.
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Attorneys for Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE on Friday requested a new trial, a day after saying they were looking into potential bias by a juror who voted to convict the longtime Trump associate of lying to Congress and witness tampering.
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The Louisiana Republican told CBS's "Face The Nation" that the president has a right to tweet about the case but that he hopes Trump will "accept" the advice from Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE and refrain from doing so.
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After a trip to Pyongyang to expand ties with North Korea, one of Venezuela's most powerful men, Diosdado Cabello, sanctioned by the U.S. government for narco-trafficking, recently said: "What is happening in Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Argentina [and] Honduras is a gentle Bolivarian breeze, and a hurricane is coming," when referring to the role of the Bolivarian revolution in the recent conflicts and its ability to undermine the region's stability.
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READ: So here's a Coast Guard dude surfing a 40-foot narco-sub packed with cocaine Over the span of five days, a brand new Coast Guard ship headed to Honolulu made two seizures in the east Pacific — finding 2,100 pounds of cocaine on July 25, and a whopping 4,133 pounds of cocaine on July 31, according to the U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday in a news release.
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According to El País, the vessel departed from Colombia, the world&aposs largest producer of cocaine and a frequent embarkation point for narco subs, which typically travel through the Pacific to Central America or Mexico with multiton loads of cocaine bound for the US.Portuguese police confirmed the submarine passed by Portugal and that detectives and the Portuguese navy were involved in a joint operation with Spanish authorities to track it.
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Throughout the 1980s, concerned parents were led to fear that demonic influence lay hidden in much that their kids found entertaining: music, games, TV. The hysteria, dubbed the "Satanic Panic," has passed into history, but now, in the nightmare world of Mexico's narco wars, both the church and the state are mounting a perhaps similar campaign against Santa Muerte—the skeleton saint whom they hold responsible for the atrocities of the sicarios.
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Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE, FBI Director Christopher Wray and multiple other senior administration officials urged the public to be vigilant for threats to elections on Wednesday, while noting there was so far no evidence of foreign election interference ahead of Election Day in November.
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It is unclear if the decision to drop the case against McCabe, who Trump has long considered a political enemy, was timed to tamp down the controversy that erupted this week when top DOJ officials overruled career prosecutors to seek a lighter sentence for longtime Trump aide Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE.
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Eric SwalwellEric Michael SwalwellChris Wallace: 'Just insane' Swalwell is talking impeaching Trump again McCarthy says Trump did not interfere in Roger Stone case House intelligence briefing on worldwide threat assessment delayed MORE (D-Calif.) saying Congress should not rule out the possibility of impeaching Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE.
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Trump's persistent tweets about the criminal case against his longtime associate Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE have the president wading into a DOJ matter despite a rare and public warning from Barr last week that the president's public comments about ongoing cases were making it "impossible" for the attorney general to perform his job.
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Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE has considered resigning over President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE's continued tweets regarding Justice Department investigations, according to multiple reports Tuesday night.
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Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.), the first member of Congress born in South America, called the sanctions overdue, while urging the administration to ditch its unilateral efforts in favor of a "more comprehensive" approach to the Venezuelan crisis and grant temporary protected status to to Venezuelans in the U.S. "It's no secret that Maduro has been using petroleum profits to prop up his narco-authoritarian regime, and these types of sanctions have been necessary for a long time now," she said in a statement.
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Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE is back under the microscope as he moves in new directions with cases involving President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE's close allies and political foes.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE said Tuesday that he had "total confidence" in Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE and acknowledged that he makes his top law enforcement officer's job "harder" with his tweets.
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Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE has ordered an outside prosecutor to review the criminal case against Michael Flynn, President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE's former national security adviser, sources tell The New York Times.
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The independent Federal Judges Association is planning an emergency meeting to address issues stemming from the Justice Department's decision to intervene in the case involving Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE, a longtime ally of President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenBiden leads Sanders by single digits in South Carolina: poll 2020 Democratic candidates support Las Vegas casino workers on debate day Sanders takes lead in new Hill/HarrisX poll MORE (D-Mass.), comes after the Department of Justice (DOJ) sparked a political firestorm when it recommended a lesser sentence for Trump associate Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE, contradicting the federal prosecutors working on the case.
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Sen. Amy KlobucharAmy Jean Klobuchar2020 Democratic candidates support Las Vegas casino workers on debate day Democratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe What to watch in the debate tonight MORE (D-Minn.) called on Attorney General Bill Barr to testify in front of the Senate after the Justice Department rejected frontline prosecutors' recommended sentence for Trump ally Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE's tweets are posing a test for Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE as he seeks to maintain credibility at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and present the agency as independent.
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Sen. John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE (R-La.) on Sunday cautioned President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE against tweeting about criminal cases such as the one involving the president's longtime associate Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE.
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But President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE is also right that the case of his associate, Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE, is nothing but a political prosecution that, until the president tweeted about it, got little attention or examination.
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Democrats are issuing dire warnings that the rule of law is under attack by President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE after the Department of Justice (DOJ) overruled career prosecutors to seek a lighter sentence for longtime Trump aide Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE on Friday asserted he has "the legal right" to insert himself into the Justice Department's handling of criminal cases one day after Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE said the president's tweets were making his job more difficult.
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Rep. Maxine WatersMaxine Moore WatersMaxine Waters blasts Trump as 'mafia boss' over Stone case Democrats highlight lack of diversity at major banks in new report Fed chief issues stark warning to Congress on deficits MORE (D-Calif.) on Tuesday called President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE a "mafia boss" after the Justice Department lowered the sentencing recommendation for his associate Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE said Thursday that his "life would've been a lot easier" if he chose William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE as his attorney general originally, instead of former Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump looms as flashpoint in Alabama Senate battle Trump tweets test Attorney General Barr The Hill's Morning Report - Sanders on the rise as Nevada debate looms MORE.
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Liu had previously headed the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., inheriting many cases stemming from former special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 85033:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE's Russia investigation, including those against Trump associate Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneIf Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear Free Roger Stone The Hill's Morning Report - In Nevada, bets on Sanders, eyes on Bloomberg MORE and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabeAndrew George McCabeFree Roger Stone Trump tweets test Attorney General Barr Top Republicans back Barr amid criticism over controversial DOJ decisions MORE, a frequent Trump foil.
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A flood of more senior witnesses — Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe The Hill's review of John Solomon's columns on Ukraine Trump flexes pardon power with high-profile clemencies MORE, Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoPompeo condemns China's expulsion of WSJ journalists Wall Street Journal 'deeply disappointed' by China's expulsion of journalists China expels three Wall Street Journal reporters MORE, Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrDemocratic senators ask DOJ watchdog to expand Giuliani probe Barr threatens tech's prized legal shield If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear MORE and others — should have come forward to validate the evidence in the investigation, but they preferred, instead, to tie their legacies to this flawed and insecure president.
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