Drug Trade, Resurgent Taliban Fuel Intensified Attacks in Afghanistan
The Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board, a body of Afghan and international officials that monitors developments in the country, recently reported that a resurgent Taliban has launch on average...
View ArticleMexican President Orders Crackdown on Crime
This video is not currently available. | Listen to the AudioSAUL GONZALEZ, NewsHour Correspondent: Residents of the Mexican border city of Tijuana haven’t seen anything like it: military checkpoints on...
View ArticleNew Drug Sentencing Rules Raise Questions for 19,000 Inmates
This video is not currently available. | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Finally tonight, reducing sentences for crack cocaine offenders, and to Jeffrey Brown. JEFFREY BROWN: Twenty years ago, an...
View ArticleMexico’s Violent Drug War Wreaks Havoc on Innocent Lives
This video is not currently available. | Listen to the AudioRICHARD RODRIGUEZ, NewsHour Essayist: Who will explain Americans to Mexico? Every day in Mexico’s newspapers, there are tallies of the latest...
View ArticleAuthor Examines Drug Trade, Afghan Insurgency
This video is not currently available. | Listen to the AudioJIM LEHRER: And finally tonight, the Afghan insurgency and the drug war. Margaret Warner has our story. MARGARET WARNER: Ninety percent of...
View ArticleNews Wrap: Afghanistan Tops Iraq in Total U.S. Troop Presence
This video is not currently available. | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Wall Street shuddered again today amid uncertainty over Europe’s economy and financial reform in the U.S. The Dow Jones...
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Mexicans express hope and skepticism about significance of ‘El Chapo’ arrest
We're sorry, the rights for this video have expired. | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: The arrest over the weekend of the head of one of the world’s most sophisticated narcotics networks proved a major...
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Arrest of cartel leader Guzman, ‘face of Mexican impunity,’ sends message
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: So, what does this mean for the drug trade? RELATED LINKSPoco progress in Mexico drug war Drug smugglers have a new cargo: cheap prescription meds from...
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U.S. offers full support to Mexico to capture drug lord ‘El Chapo’
Mexico’s Attorney General Arely Gomez Gonzalez, second from right, looks into the entrance of a tunnel connected to the Altiplano Federal Penitentiary and used by drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to...
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Sean Penn met secretly with drug lord ‘El Chapo’ Guzman
Actor Sean Penn shakes hands with Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in Mexico, in this undated Rolling Stone handout photo taken for authentication purposes. Photo credit: Rolling...
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What peace in Colombia would mean for the drug trade and those who depend on it
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: But, first, the government of Colombia is in negotiations with Marxist rebels, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to end 50 years of war....
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