How Many Drug War Prisoners Were Convicted on Faulty Evidence?
Testing errors at one crime lab led to 3,000 drug convictions in need of review and point to chronic failures in the criminal justice system.
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Two More Drug War Deaths
An Atlanta-area man was killed in a drug raid over the weekend, and a coroner's report shows that a pregnant Georgia teenager died after trying to hide drugs during a traffic stop earlier this year.
Mexican Interior Minister Dies in Helicopter Crash
A top official in Mexico’s drug war and its second-highest leader after President Felipe Calderon was killed along with seven other people after their helicopter crashed south of the capital.
While We Remember, Let’s End Another War, the War on Drugs
Today [November 11] we remember those who have been lost in war, and give thanks to those who served our country to protect our way of life. We do this to honour their sacrifice and bravery and not to glorify war. The loudest cries denouncing the horror, the waste and the stupidity of war have always come from the veterans themselves.
The 2011 International Drug Policy Reform Conference Meets in Los Angeles
For three days last weekend, the towering Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles was awash with drug reform activists running from presentation to presentation and chatting in hallway confabs while discussing myriad topics on the streets outside.
Mexico City Mayor Calls Drug Policy ‘Schizophrenic’
Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard says that if elected president he would remove his nation's military forces from the fight against violent drug cartels and seek a dialogue with policymakers in the United States over narcotics laws in both countries, which he called "schizophrenic."
Mexico Drug War: Human Rights Abuses On All Levels of Authority, Report Says
Israel Arzate Melendez said soldiers snatched him off the street, gave him electric shocks, asphyxiated him and threatened that his wife would be raped and killed unless he admitted to a role in one of Mexico's most infamous cases of drug violence.
American DEA Sends Commando Squads To Wage Drug War Abroad
The US Drug Enforcement Agency has five commando-style squads it has been quietly deploying for the past several years to various countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean, the New York Times reported Monday.
Anonymous Resurfaces to Take on Mexican Drug Cartel
Since Occupy Wall Street heated up Anonymous has been quiet, like a superhero in retirement. The group reemerged this weekend with a new Operation, however, with its sights trained on Mexico.
Popular Mexico Drug War Blog Facing ‘Security’ Threats
Blog del Narco, a site with explicit reporting on Mexico's drug violence, has allegedly been forced to change domain names following intervention by the Mexican government
