Drug War
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As a journalist who has covered both the drug trade and immigration for most of my career, I’ve been struck by the parallels in how the [Trump] administration has handled these two issues. Read this article in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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In a week with a lot of big organized crime news, I found my attention drawn to something that almost passed under the radar: an interview by the Spanish newspaper El País with Albert Ramdin, the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS). Read this article in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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Following the deadly anti-gang raid in Rio de Janeiro last week that left a triple-digit body count, I’ve been thinking about the influence of the US shift toward treating Latin America’s organized crime groups as “terrorists.” Read this article in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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As the United States gears up for the drug trafficking trial of Honduran ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández, prosecutors face the diplomatic paradox of presenting evidence showing their government stayed friendly with a leader that it knew was corrupt… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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Ohio’s attorney general on Friday urged the Sixth Circuit to halt an upcoming bellwether trial that’s part of multidistrict litigation against drugmakers blamed for the opioid crisis, calling the claims made by two Buckeye State counties in the bellwether case an “intrusion onto sovereign territory”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 