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War on drugs. The war on drugs is the policy of a global campaign, [ 6] led by the United States federal government, of drug prohibition, military aid, and military intervention, with the aim of reducing the illegal drug trade in the United States. [ 7][ 8][ 9] The initiative includes a set of drug policies that are intended to discourage the ...
The Mexican drug war (also known as the Mexican war on drugs; Spanish: Guerra contra el narcotráfico en México, shortened to and commonly known inside Mexico as the war against the narco; Spanish: Guerra contra el narco) [30] is an ongoing asymmetric [31] [32] armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates.
January 2 – Operation Baja California is launched. January 20 – Drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén is extradited to the USA. [ 5][ 6] March 17 – Zhenli Ye Gon is relieved of US$213 million in Mexico City. [ 7] May 14 – Jorge Altriste, head of operations for Mexico's elite police force in Tijuana, is murdered.
1591 — Thomas Cavendish, a British corsair, occupied Santos. 1821 — 1825 Brazilian War of Independence. 1835 — Malê Revolt. 1835 — 1845 Republican revolt against the Empire of Brazil is put down in the Ragamuffin War. 1896 — 1897 War of Canudos. 1912 — 1916 Contestado War, a rebellion in Brazil, fails.
DEBORAH BONELLO. November 14, 2023 at 6:00 AM. An unidentified woman in the northern Mexican city of Culiacán, Sinaloa learns to shoot. (Deborah Bonello) Standing alone at the front of a Chicago ...
The illegal drug trade in Latin America concerns primarily the production and sale of cocaine and cannabis, including the export of these banned substances to the United States and Europe. The coca cultivation is concentrated in the Andes of South America, particularly in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia; this is the world's only source region for ...
2011: 2011 military intervention in Libya: Operation Odyssey Dawn, United States and coalition enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 with bombings of Libyan forces. 2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed by U.S. military forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear. 2011: Drone strikes on al-Shabaab militants begin in ...
The Colombian conflict ( Spanish: Conflicto armado interno de Colombia, lit. 'Colombian internal armed conflict') began on May 27, 1964, and is a low-intensity asymmetric war between the government of Colombia, far-right paramilitary groups and crime syndicates, and far-left guerrilla groups, fighting each other to increase their influence in ...