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The Mexican army announced that it had killed powerful drug lord Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera in an operation that sparked a wave of violence in various parts of the country on February 22, 2026. (Photo by Ulises RUIZ / AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. intel helped take down "El Mencho"

Garrett Owen
(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / DON EMMERT / Spencer Platt / Michael Siluk / UCG / IkonStudio)

We can't bomb our way to fewer overdoses

Kassandra Frederique, James Saenz

Trump doesn’t grasp his own drug war

Troy Farah
SAN YSIDRO, CA - MARCH 21, 2025 - - Members of the U.S. military stand in front of the border wall along the U.S. and Mexico border near San Ysidro on March 21, 2025. The U.S. Border Patrol and members of the U.S. military held a press conference to address the strengthening of the U.S./Mexico border with new barriers and concertina wire to stop the flow of migrants from entering the U.S. (Photo by Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Trump’s border war won’t stop overdoses

Melody Glenn
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Members of the DEA in White Plains, New York on April 24, 2021. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

DEA abandoning body cam program

Mario Ariza - ProPublica
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte takes an oath as he attends a senate probe on the drug war during his administration, in Manila on October 28, 2024. (Photo by JAM STA ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

Duterte’s drug war wasn’t about drugs

Niko Vorobyov
A Mexican soldier stands guard next to marijuana packages outside a tunnel discovered at a warehouse in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, near the border with the US on November 26, 2010. (FRANCISCO VEGA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s war with cartels will backfire

Niko Vorobyov
Abstract blue pills flying from smartphone. (Alena Butusava / Getty Images)

Inside Russia's dark web drug markets

Niko Vorobyov
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US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Agents simulate a raid in their Tactical Training Facility, part of the new National Clandestine Laboratory Training and Research Facility December 5, 2008 at the DEA Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia. (TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)

It’s time to admit the drug war is over

Troy Farah
CAPITOL BUILDING, ALBANY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2023/01/31: Participants seen holding signs at the event. VOCAL-NY gathered at The War Room in the New York State Capitol with allies, including members of Drug Policy Alliance, OnPoint NYC, P.A.I.N Sackler, Housing Works and staff from the nations first Overdose Prevention Centers, for a press conference to push back against Governor Hochuls proposed plans to increase criminalization to address the overdose crisis, and demand lawmakers implement harm reduction strategies that -in their opinion- will actually save lives. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) (Getty Images )

Criminalization makes the drug war worse

Jennifer Carroll
Members of the Drug Enforcement Administration raided two homes side-by-side, in an assumed illegal marijuana operation, on January 31, 2019 in Commerce City, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Thanks for 50 years of nothing, DEA

Troy Farah
Rapper Kanye West speaks during his meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2018. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Cops killed George Floyd — not fentanyl

Troy Farah
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Fairgoers are pictured in front of the Smith & Wesson display stand (Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images)

Gun manufacturers target drug cartels

Jon Skolnik
This Feb. 22, 2014 file photo shows Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, being escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo)

Kingpin El Chapo is jailed for life

Luis Gómez Romero - The Conversation
In this Friday, April 22, 2016 photo, a jar containing a strain of marijuana nicknamed "Killer D" is seen at a medical marijuana facility in Unity, Maine. A growing number of health experts and law enforcement officials are making the case that marijuana could help reduce the numbers of overdoses and redirect money into fighting heroin and other opiates. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

Decriminalizing the drug war?

Alfred McCoy
Miguel Angel Corea Diaz, the alleged East Coast leader of MS-13, is lead by Drug Enforcement Administration officers. (AP/Drug Enforcement Administration)

How the US drug war fuels migration

Eunisses Hernandez, Norma Palacios
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Trump's new drug war: Same as the old?

Conor Lynch
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Trump's most terrifying temper tantrum

Jeffrey A. Singer
Jeff Sessions: Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Trump, Sessions and the drug war

Phillip Smith - Alternet
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Donald Trump's America is not my America

D. Watkins
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Rodrigo Duterte; Donald Trump (Getty/Noel Celis)

Trump's appalling Asian vacation

Heather Digby Parton
Rodrigo Duterte; Donald Trump (Getty/Noel Celis/Alex Wong)

Duterte to Trump: "Lay off" human rights

Charlie May
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6 questions about civil asset forfeiture

Nora V. Demleitner - The Conversation
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Trump's bad '80s nostalgia

Heather Digby Parton
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