Tag: smuggling
Cat caught smuggling drugs into Costa Rica prison
Officers at Pococi Penitentiary in Costa Rica have caught a cat carrying two packages of drugs attached to its body.According to a statement...
Haiti Doesn’t Make Guns. So How Are Gangs Awash in Them?
A video that circulated widely on the internet recently showed a Haitian gang leader, Joseph Wilson, shirtless, happily showing off belts of .50...
C.I.A. Expands Secret Drone Flights Over Mexico
The United States has stepped up secret drone flights over Mexico to hunt for fentanyl labs, part of the Trump administration’s more aggressive...
What Border Crisis? Mexican Migrant Shelters Are Quiet Ahead of Trump
Migrants used to gather by the hundreds in encampments in Ciudad Juárez, on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, waiting for a...
Sophisticated smuggling tunnel found between US and Mexico
A smuggling tunnel linking Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua in Mexico and El Paso, Texas was discovered by US authorities. The underground passage featured lighting,...
Burkina Faso use it as hide-out and smuggling route
Michael Mvondo / BBC A man from Ghana has told the BBC how he was seized at gunpoint by jihadists in neighbouring Burkina...
