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MEXICO CITY -- When a police officer is killed in Mexico, as seven of them were Friday on the streets of Ciudad Juarez, the sad question that immediately arises is, [...]

NUNCIDO, Colombia -- Up and down the rivers of western Colombia, a new breed of criminal armies is pressing deeper into this isolated jungle, fighting with guerrillas for control of […]

The Bush administration signaled its alarm about Mexico's vicious drug war by sending the American secretary of state on Wednesday to a two-day meeting on improving cross-border cooperation in the […]

Leftist rebels, in a struggle for control of a jungle river used for cocaine trafficking, fired rockets into a Colombian marine post, killing at least 14 soldiers and wounding 25, […]

The Defense Ministry said troops would patrol Rio de Janeiro in response to pleas by local politicians for help in fighting heavily armed drug gangs operating from shantytowns. Last month, […]

Carlos E. Torres was stumped when the Navy wanted to reserve his farm in a bucolic valley in the southwestern part of the island for a radar antenna to snag […]

LEAD: Vice President Dan Quayle said today that the United States does not intend to send American soldiers to Peru to fight drug traffickers. Vice President Dan Quayle said today […]

The Governors of five Gulf Coast states met here today and called for the Defense Department to try to halt the growing drug traffic in their region. In a resolution […]

The House of Representatives voted last week to deploy the military against civilian drug smugglers, notwithstanding the strong opposition of civil libertarians and Defense Department officials who don't like the […]

Narco-terrorists, as the White House called them last week, have been winning big in Bolivia, a world-class producer of coca leaf. With hundreds of millions of dollars in cash flow, […]