Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins
The opioid’s potency has transformed the global trafficking—and policing—of narcotics.
Drug Trafficking
The Believers: Cult Murders in Mexico
The American students hopped across the border for a night of partying in Matamoros. One didn’t return and was found later in a shack with 14 other corpses.
The Narco-Terror Trap
The DEA warns that drugs are funding terror. But is the agency stopping threats or staging them?
The Sinaloa Cartel’s 90-Year-Old Drug Mule
How Leo Sharp got busted.
Rio: The Fight for the Favelas
On the experimental favela police force UPP (aka “The Big Skull”) and their efforts to clean Rio’s largest slum in advance of the World Cup and Olympics.
A Drug Family in the Winner’s Circle
On the Mexican drug cartel accused of laundering money with race horses.
