News of drugs

CRIME & SECURITY

Killings by police divide Rio, with Brazil's famed city weary of crime

22-08-2019 09:32 Brazilian human rights and victims' groups are raising alarms about the record levels of deaths at police hands in the state of 17.2 million people, with 1,075 slain in the first seven months of the year, according to official figures. And far-right Rio state Governor Wilson Witzel and President Jair Bolsonaro are pushing to give police a still-freer hand.

DRUG SEIZURE

Germany seizes 4.5 tons of cocaine shipped from Uruguay, worth US$1.1 billion

02-08-2019 09:36 Germany's biggest single seizure of cocaine to date, taken from container that was en route from Montevideo to Antwerp, Belgium.

G20

Bolsonaro military escort arrested in Spain on possession of 39kg of cocaine

26-06-2019 15:34 President Jair Bolsonaro was en route to Osaka, Japan on Wednesday morning for the G20 summit, following the arrest Tuesday of a military escort in his entourage.

STATE CONTROL

54% of marijuana users in Uruguay use legal system to get drug

05-05-2018 12:29 Almost 24,000 people are registered to buy the drug in Uruguay, but the report concluded that far more people than those registered consume marijuana.

US$62m worth of cocaine

Russian 'mastermind' in Argentina cocaine plot arrested in Germany

02-03-2018 10:19 Prosecutors in Berlin said the 49-year-old Russian national was detained as part of an international investigation launched by Moscow.