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The Changing Drug War

Argentine filmmaker Nicolas Entel (L) chats with Sebastian Marroquin, son of deceased Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria, in Buenos Aires, November 6, 2009. Marroquin, who changed his name from Juan Pablo Escobar after his father was killed by police in 1993, is the central character in the Nicolas Entel's Los Pecados de mi Padre (The Sins of my Father), a documentary about a childhood of growing up with Colombia's most famous drug lord. Picture taken November 6. REUTERS/Enrique Marcaria

Escobar's son sorry for father's crimes

The son of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar is asking his late father's victims for forgiveness in the documentary "Sins of My Father" at Argentina's Mar del Plata film festival.   Full Article 

Rebel attack kills 9 Colombian soldiers
U.S. sanctions people tied to Cali cartel
An armed man patrols a road in San Francisco, a town in the region of Ayacucho that is on the frontline of the coca and cocaine trade, November 9, 2009. The Apurimac and Ene River Valleys (VRAE) in Peru have become the world's most intensive coca growing areas with remnant bands of the left-wing Shining Path rebels protecting drug trafficking routes throughout the rugged jungle landscape, according to United Nations analysts. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo
Peru's drug killings at mine

An attack on a controversial copper project in northern Peru that left three dead may have been the work of drug traffickers.  Full Article 

A soldier stands guard in front of crowds gathered in the streets of Bissau during the official funeral of Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, March 10, 2009. Vieira was shot dead in his own home last week after his longstanding rival, armed forces chief General Batista Tagme Na Wai, was killed in an explosion at the military headquarters. REUTERS/Luc Gnago
West Africa's drug production

West Africa could soon change from a transit point for trafficking illegal drugs into a center for manufacturing them.  Full Article 

 
A drug user lies on his bed in a rehabilitation centre. REUTERS/Konstantin Salomatin
U.S. methadone overdoses

A new study of overdose deaths due to prescription opiate drugs shows that most of these deaths involved methadone.  Full Article 

A man puts flower petals on the grave of a baby at the cemetery in Tzintzuntzan, Mexico October 31, 2009. REUTERS/Claudia Daut
Mexico's drug war victims

Widows laid flowers at the graves of drug war victims as Mexicans in one of the world's most violent cities celebrated the Day of the Dead.  Full Article 

 
Federal forces stand guard outside a strip club where gunmen killed six people in the border city of Ciudad Juarez November 4, 2009. Gunmen with automatic weapons burst into a Mexican strip club on the U.S. border, opened fire on patrons and killed six people including an American soldier, the army said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Stringer
U.S. soldier dies in drug attack

Gunmen burst into a Mexican strip club on the U.S. border and killed six people including an American soldier.  Full Article 

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Debating the Afghan war

Afghanistan is a top heroin producer but the U.S. is divided over sending more troops to fight the Taliban, who profit from the opium trade.  Video 

 
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez attends his weekly broadcast "Alo Presidente" in Portuguesa, about 350 km (217 miles) west of Caracas November 8, 2009. REUTERS/Miraflores Palace/Handout
Chavez's war talk at U.N.

Colombia brought threats of war from Venezuela to the U.N. after Chavez told his army to get ready to fight.  Full Article 

Thirty-eight-year-old Japanese pop singer and actress Noriko Sakai makes an appearance before media in Tokyo September 17, 2009. Sakai, who is indicted for indicted for drug possession and use, was released on bail on Thursday after her arrest on drug charges on August 8, 2009. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Drug sentence for actress

A Japanese singer-actress famous in Asia was sentenced for drug use in the latest celebrity drugs case in Japan.  Full Article 

 
 

Mexico's Drug war correspondent

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Meet the editor

Based in Monterrey, Mexico, Robin Emmott covers the Mexican drug war and illegal immigration. He is also the editor of the drug trafficking page on Reuters.com.   Blog 

Blog: Latest blog posts by Robin Emmott

THIS WEEK'S FEATURED REPORTER: EDUARDO GARCIA

A member of the Bolivian special forces against narcotic drugs incinerates part of the 500kg (1102lbs) of confiscated cocaine in Santa Cruz, some 900 km (560 miles) east of La Paz, July 12, 2007. REUTERS/Carlos Hugo Vaca
Bolivia to buy Chinese jets to battle drugs

Bolivia plans to buy six Chinese light military aircraft worth nearly $58 million to fight drug traffickers in the world's No. 3 cocaine producer.  Full Article 

 
Journalists look at cocaine packages at the headquarters of the FELCN (Special Force to fight against Narcotics) in La Paz December 13, 2007. REUTERS/David Mercado
Bolivia facing savvier drug smugglers

Bolivian cocaine producers are using sophisticated labs to make the drug faster and turf battles have broken out over smuggling routes.  Full Article 

 
Supporters throw confetti at Bolivian President Evo Morales after the start of the registration for the new biometric census in Villa 14 de Septiembre, a coca growers region, some 600km (373 miles) southeast of La Paz, August 1, 2009. Reuters/Gaston Brito
Bolivia to fund drug war after dispute with U.S.

President Evo Morales, who has banned U.S. anti-drug agents from working in Bolivia, says his country can fight cocaine trafficking on its own.  Full Article 

 
Coca growers shout slogans while holding flags printed with an image of a coca leaf during a protest against the U.N. coca report in Lima March 12, 2009. In its annual report, the U.N.'s International Narcotics Control Board said the two Andean governments of Peru and Bolivia should "abolish or prohibit activities ... such as coca leaf chewing and the manufacture of coca tea." Coca, the raw ingredient of cocaine, is used by millions of people in Peru and Bolivia to stave off hunger and fight altitude sickness. In its natural form, the leaf is also used in teas, in cooking and for religious ceremonies. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo
Indians, coca farmers clash over land in Bolivia

Indigenous groups and coca leaf farmers have clashed over control of land in a national park in northern Bolivia, killing one person.  Full Article 

Video: Bolivia debates future of coca leaf