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Wiretaps caught Colombian cocaine group discussing Venezuelan military’s ‘Cartel of the Suns’
CBC News obtained more than a dozen wiretap recordings from a two-year Colombian federal police investigation into a multinational drug-smuggling organization based out of Colombia. The organization moved cocaine to the U.S., Europe, Asia and northern Africa by air using human drug mules and by sea through shipping containers.
U.S. attack in Venezuela creates risk, opportunity for guerrilla groups
The U.S. attack on Venezuela has shifted the ground for the various guerrilla groups operating across the borderlands with Colombia, raising fears of possible betrayal by Venezuelan regime officials, while opening the door to a wider conflict should U.S. boots ever hit the ground, local security experts say.
Trump prioritizing Venezuelan oil over lives of political prisoners, says mother of 2 jailed sons
The U.S. administration of Donald Trump is putting the lives of hundreds of political prisoners in Venezuela at risk by failing to prioritize their release in its transition plans for the country, says the mother of two brothers who've been imprisoned and tortured.
'We are waiting for something better to come': Venezuelans face the future of their country
Venezuelans travelling over the Colombian-Venezuelan border say people in the country are trying to live normal lives in the face of an uncertain future.
Fear, death and hope in a city under the shadows of a Mexican cartel war
Fear and violence permeate Culiacán, Sinaloa, and its surrounding area in northwestern Mexico. The sun-seared state capital, with a population of a little more than one million, is also known as the cradle of the Sinaloa cartel, one of the most powerful organized crime groups in the world, which has fallen into a vicious civil war.
Ryan Wedding’s image as alleged drug kingpin inflated by U.S., says Sinaloa cartel operative
In an interview with CBC News, an operative with the Sinaloa cartel says he only recently heard the name of Ryan Wedding from news reports and social media posts about the alleged Canadian drug kingpin U.S. authorities say is likely living under the cartel's protection in Mexico.
Next year's Mexico trade mission may be biggest ever launched by Canada
The Canadian federal government is currently laying the groundwork for a Team Canada Trade Mission to Mexico next year that may become one of the largest it has ever deployed to a foreign country, says Cameron MacKay, the Canadian ambassador to Mexico.
In the shadow of a famed Mexico City stadium, a battle for water targets the World Cup
Across from Mexico City’s famed Azteca Stadium sits a well that’s at the centre of an ongoing conflict over water rights now threatening to engulf the World Cup’s third visit to the country.
Update to Canada’s travel advisory for Mexico spurs criticism of Sheinbaum
A lawmaker with Mexico’s governing political party says local reporting around a tweaked Canadian travel advisory on Mexico was used to politically attack Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Mexico City plans exhumation of 6,600 bodies in search for disappeared
Mexico City began a project this week to exhume and identify thousands of bodies from an area of common graves in a municipal cemetery as part of a multi-agency strategy to deal with its growing list of people registered as disappeared.