List of Drugs & Crime articles
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Taliban soldiers stand guard as men imprisoned for using drugs sit in a courtyard prior to being released from Kandahar Central Jail. Despite ‘Ban’ on Opium, Afghanistan’s Poppy Crop Is Growing
More drugs and higher prices a year after the Taliban takeover.
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A worker carries a bag of coca leaves. Colombia’s Radical New Approach to Cocaine
The Petro administration plans to pour money into rural communities to stop the drug trade at its source.
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U.S. President Joe Biden hosts Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the White House in Washington on July 12. Hegemony in the Americas Has Been Turned on Its Head
Once-dominant Washington is now beholden to the whims of its smaller neighbors.
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A woman looks down at her phone on a sidewalk near a banner showing Assad's and Putin's faces with the caption “Justice Prevails" on it in Arabic. The Folly of Reengaging Assad
Jordan tried to reestablish ties with the Syrian dictator’s regime. It was a disaster.
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An Italian Guardia di Finanza patrol boat is seen in front of the multimillion-dollar megayacht Scheherazade, docked at the Tuscan port of Marina di Carrara, on May 6. Italy Is Leading the World in Seizing Oligarchs’ Assets
The Guardia di Finanza acted quickly to confiscate Russian-owned property on Italian territory. Other nations should learn from the force.
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Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout Beware of a Freed Viktor Bout
In August, the man who oversaw the effort to capture the Russian arms dealer warned the White House to think hard about trading him away.
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Police and soldiers stand outside a bar in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, minutes after an execution occurred inside on April 18, 2009. In the Americas, Homicide Is the Other Killer Epidemic
The good news: Lockdowns reduced crime almost everywhere else, and we know how to stop lethal violence.
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Men gather around bags containing heroin and hashish as they negotiate and check quality at a drug market on the outskirts of Kandahar on September 24, 2021. The New Geopolitics of the Taliban’s Opium Economy
Afghanistan’s narcotics trade is booming under fresh leadership.
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The Godfather 50th anniversary screening event in Los Angeles Michael Corleone and the Economics of ‘The Godfather’
The Mafia family heir had a college education. Did it pay off?
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Members of the Honduran police special forces stand outside the home of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández in Tegucigalpa on Feb. 15. Hernández’s Arrest Won’t Stop the Drug War
Washington continues to empower repressive and corrupt Latin American governments through flawed security initiatives.
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A large white mansion is shown behind a security gate. Can London Cleanse Itself of Dirty Russian Money?
Bill Browder on why the U.K.’s new Economic Crime Bill isn’t enough to kick out Russian oligarchs.
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Honduran President Xiomara Castro holds up her fist as she wears a blue and white sash at her inauguration. She is standing beside a person in a military uniform. How Honduras’s Congress Split in Two
A country euphoric about its first woman president is plunged back into political turmoil.
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A billboard depicting late Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar and late Afghan leader of the Haqqani network Jalaluddin Haqqani is seen along a road in Kabul. Taliban Pressing for Prisoner Swap With U.S.
The group wants to trade an American engineer abducted two years ago for an Afghan drug lord imprisoned in the U.S.
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A Hezbollah flag flutters as tankers carrying Iranian fuel arrive at al-Ain in Hermel, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, on Sept. 16. Cutting Off Lebanon Won’t Stem the Captagon Trade
Instead of pushing Beirut to the economic brink, Saudi Arabia should address its own amphetamine addiction.
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KKK protesters in Charlottesville America Drops the Ball on White Supremacist Terrorist Groups
Other countries are taking the lead in cracking down on U.S.-based groups.
