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The Changing Drug War

A man scatters flower petals on a grave at a cemetery in Tzintzuntzan, Mexico November 1, 2009. Mexicans pay homage to their dead relatives by preparing meals and decorating the graves on the first two days of November. The Day of the Dead festival has its origins in a pre-Hispanic Aztec belief that the dead return to the earth one day each year to visit their loved ones. REUTERS/Claudia Daut

Mexicans mourn drug war victims on Day of the Dead

Mexicans laid flowers at the graves of drug war victims in Ciudad Juarez, one of the world's most violent cities, on the Day of the Dead.  Full Article 

Commentary: Ciudad Juarez's criminal anarchy
City workers make phone calls outside the London Stock Exchange in Paternoster Square in the City of London at lunchtime October 1, 2008. REUTERS/Toby Melville
London City's drug problems

Drug problems among workers in London's financial district have rocketed because of stresses caused by the recession.  Full Article 

Research technician Gerard Dussault works on test samples following the opening of the anti-doping lab for the upcoming 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Richmond, British Columbia October 21, 2009. The lab is one of world's most state-of-the-art anti-doping labs and will be used to process over 2,000 urine and blood samples during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. REUTERS/Andy Clark
Anti-doping passports

Soccer's governing body FIFA aims to step up the pressure on drug cheats in the sport, possibly with biological passports.  Full Article 

 
Helicopters are seen on the USS Kearsarge in Colombia's Santa Marta city, September 5, 2008. REUTERS/Fredy Builes
Colombia, US sign military deal

Washington is relocating its regional anti-narcotics hub to Colombia after Ecuador refused to extend the U.S. mission in his country.  Full Article 

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez speaks to journalists at the ALBA summit in Cochabamba, October 17, 2009. REUTERS/David Mercado
Venezuela's spy accusations

Venezuela's Chavez is angry at Colombia's plan to allow U.S. troops access to its military bases for counter-narcotics operations.  Full Article 

 
Members of the U.S. Coast Guard walk on a captured makeshift submarine (Below) loaded with an estimated 10 tonnes of cocaine found in the Pacific Ocean off Guatemala in Puerto San Jose October 23, 2009. REUTERS/Daniel LeClair
Guatemala's cocaine sub

U.S. and Guatemalan authorities captured a makeshift submarine loaded with 10 tonnes of cocaine in the Pacific Ocean.  Full Article 

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Mexican 'Family' drug traffickers

The United States rounds up 300 members of Mexico's La Familia cartel in a major drug sweep.  Video 

 
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Colombia drug lord gets 45 yrs

Cocaine kingpin, Diego Montoya, the former head of Colombia's Norte del Valle cartel is sentenced in a Miami court to 45 years in prison.  Video 

A journalist looks at weapons confiscated from Sunni rebel group Jundollah (God's soldiers) in Zahedan, 1,076 km (668 miles) southeast of Tehran August 25, 2009. Iranian authorities presented a condemned Sunni rebel to reporters on Tuesday who said his group had received support from both the United States and al Qaeda to attack targets inside Iran. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl
Drug trafficking helped militants

The rise of the Jundollah militant group, blamed for a suicide attack in Iran, coincided with an explosion in drug smuggling.  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 

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THIS WEEK'S FEATURED REPORTER: CATHERINE BREMER

A woman shows her nails decorated with marijuana leaves and images of narco patron saint Jesus Malverde in the northwestern city of Culiacan in this May 14, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Mica Rosenberg
High-risk riches for Mexico's "narco wives"

Teenage girls in northwest Mexico are dazzled by the glamorous "narco wives" who laze in beauty salons, draped in designer gear, getting Swarovski crystals glued onto their fingernails.  Full Article 

 
Soldiers escort five gunmen of the Sinaloa cartel as they are presented to the media at the 20th Cavalry Regiment in the border city of Ciudad Juarez September 25, 2009. The Mexican army captured five gunmen of the Sinaloa cartel who confessed to perpetrating 45 killings, including those of 28 people in two rehabilitation centers on September 3, 2009, local media reported. REUTERS/Alejandro Bringas
Mexico's drug war no match for corruption

Drug trade experts say Mexico's army-led cartel crackdown will fail unless it also targets the corruption that has put police forces and the courts in the service of the cartels.  Full Article 

 
A woman gathers around the grave of a relative during the Day of the Dead celebrations at Xoxocotlan cemetery in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, November 1, 2008. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez
Mexico' mourns drug war victims on Day of Dead

Musicians in black sombreros serenaded a tomb where women in designer sunglasses wiped their eyes as relatives mourned victims of Mexico's drug war on the Day of the Dead.  Full Article 

Video: Mexico preps for Day of the Dead
 
Mexican Federal Police present to the media Jose Mar Flores Pereira from Bolivia accused of hijacking an AeroMexico plane in Mexico City, September 9, 2009. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez
Mexico hijacker is gunslinging evangelical

A man who hijacked a Mexican plane is a singing evangelical minister, marksman and martial arts whiz who friends nicknamed "Crazy" as he turned to religion to escape drug addiction.  Full Article