The recent kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro was not a “counter-narcotics” initiative: it was the culmination of a long-running hybrid warfare strategy aimed at regime change in ...

The United States recently stepped up its military presence in the Caribbean, claiming the mission is part of its War on Drugs to stop cocaine from reaching American streets. However, recent events ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bags with coca paste, a crude extract of the coca leaf, are pictured at a laboratory in a municipality in Nariño department, ...

The United States government first launched a War on Drugs on June 17, 1971, when President Richard Nixon declared: "America's public enemy number one…is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this ...

Tony Perkins is president of the Family Research Council. “There was no ‘kill them all’ order.” That is what Navy Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley told lawmakers last week in a classified briefing on the ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The Trump administration’s undeclared war on what it calls “narco-terrorists” in ...