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Narco Noir

By Vanda Felbab-Brown

2025

September 26, 2022, Mexico City, Mexico: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during the daily morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City. on September 26, 2022 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/Sipa USA).No Use Germany.

Why is Mexico’s security strategy failing?

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Nathaniel Parish Flannery

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

A customs officer presents part of what has become the largest single seizure of cocaine in Bavaria to date. Representatives of the Joint Narcotics Investigation Group (JIT) Northern Bavaria, the Customs Investigation Office in Munich, the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office and the Public Prosecutor's Office in Aschaffenburg were involved in the operation.

The foreign policies of the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG – Part V: Europe’s supercoke and on-the-horizon issues and the Middle East

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, September 16, 2022

Taliban fighters stand guard while people wait to receive sacks of rice, as part of humanitarian aid sent by China to Afghanistan, at a distribution centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 7, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara

China’s and India’s realpolitik relations with the Taliban regime

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

America and Afghanistan: One year after the withdrawal

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EDT

Buenos Aires, Argentina.- In the photos taken on April 20, 2022, authorities give information to the press about the operation where a shipment of cocaine was intercepted. An organization that tried to traffic 71 kilos of cocaine hidden among export merchandise from Argentina to the Spanish city of Barcelona was disrupted during the last hours in a joint operation between the Federal Police (PFA) and the Spanish Civil Guard, according to police sources.

The foreign policies of the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG — Part IV: Europe’s cocaine and meth markets

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, September 2, 2022

Members of the Mexican army stand guard at the crime scene where unknown assailants left the bodies of dead people on the outskirts of the city, according to local media, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico August 13, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

The power of Mexican cartels: In Mexico and abroad

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, August 25, 2022

A Spanish policeman watches a vessel arrive in the port of Santa Cruzde Tenerife in the Canary Islands August 30, 2001 during aninternational police operation involving Spain, the U.S. and Canada.Fourteen people were arrested and two boats seized off the coast ofFrench Guiana carrying about five tonnes of cocaine. Spain is a majorEuropean entry point for drugs and contraband coming from North Africaand Latin America. REUTERS/Alex RosaDB

The foreign policies of the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG – Part III: Africa

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Sunday, August 21, 2022

A customs officer stands beside a total of 649 kg (1,430 pounds) of cocaine during a news conference held by the Customs and Excise Department in Hong Kong July 6, 2012. Customs officers seized a record amount of cocaine with a street value of HK$760 million ($98 million), a government radio reported on Friday. The drugs were found in a container coming from Ecuador at the Kwai Chung Container Terminals and three men have been arrested so far. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (CHINA - Tags: CRIME LAW DRUGS SOCIETY)

The foreign policies of the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG – Part II: The Asia-Pacific

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, August 5, 2022

Taliban fighters drive a car on a street following the killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a U.S. strike over the weekend, in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 2, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara

What Ayman al-Zawahri’s death says about terrorism in Taliban-run Afghanistan

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, August 2, 2022