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Fentanyl may enter the US from Mexico, but the drug of choice there is different

Use of crystal meth is soaring among workers, partiers and the young and threatening a public health crisis

The Guardian - US · Dec 8, 2024

Mexico appears to abandon its ‘hugs, not bullets’ strategy as bloodshed plagues the country

For the last six years, Mexico bragged about its oft-questioned policy of “hugs, not bullets,” in which the country’s leaders avoided confrontations with drug cartels that were gradually taking control of large parts of the country

The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2024

What is the fallout from the US arrest of the drug lord ‘El Mayo’ Zambada?

Experts warn that attacking the Sinaloa cartel’s leaders could lead to violence, not to mention tense foreign relations.

Al Jazeera · Aug 8, 2024

Tourist killings expose fragmentation of organised crime at the heart of Mexico’s extraordinary violence

The murders of two Australians and an American in Baja California show the shifting and uncertain fault lines of risks in a country where crime and the state often overlap

The Guardian - AU · May 10, 2024

'All we want is to be safe': Migrants push north after end of Title 42

Confusion has rippled from the U.S.-Mexico border to migrant routes across the Americas, as migrants scramble to understand complex and ever-changing laws

The Independent UK · May 13, 2023

As Mexico’s epidemic of violence rages on, authorities seem powerless to stop it

With more than 26,000 murders this year, it is clear the president’s strategy of using the military to control the crime gangs has failed

The Guardian - US · Dec 8, 2022

White House pushes strategy to slow overdoses as street drugs grow more deadly

The Biden administration says it has a plan to curb fatal overdoses by 13% by 2025. But as more synthetic opioids reach the U.S., there's skepticism interdiction can slow the flow of deadly drugs.

WEKU · Jun 15, 2022