Drug Cartels

Deployed soldiers stand guard in a vehicle around Congress in Guatemala City, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, after President Bernardo Arévalo declared a state of emergency. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Defense

Guatemala wants US ‘assistance’ with ‘active military operations’ to combat cartels

Mike Brest -

May 28, 2026 5:58 pm

Operation Southern Spear May 27 (Photo: U.S. Southern Command)

News

Three ‘narco-terrorists’ killed in two separate ‘lethal kinetic strikes’ on drug boats

Washington Examiner Staff -

May 28, 2026 1:32 am

Crime

Mexico arrests nephew of cartel kingpin ‘El Chapo’

David Zimmermann -

May 26, 2026 5:36 pm

A declassified image of a U.S. strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat.

Defense

US military’s Operation Southern Spear has cost more than $640 million

Mike Brest -

May 21, 2026 5:36 pm

A woman waves a Puerto Rico flag on Capitol Hill.

Op-Eds

America already has a narco-state inside its borders — it’s called Puerto Rico

Jose Lev Alvarez -

May 21, 2026 6:00 am

FILE - Jonathan Dumke, a senior forensic chemist with the Drug Enforcement Administration, holds vials of fentanyl pills at a DEA research laboratory on April 29, 2025, in Northern Virginia. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Crime

DEA warns fentanyl in US has become ‘more unpredictable and lethal’

Anna Giaritelli -

May 17, 2026 7:00 am

World

CIA denies reports of secret cartel war in Mexico

Brady Knox -

May 13, 2026 10:49 am

Beltway Confidential

Albania is the world’s newest narcostate threat

Michael Rubin -

May 12, 2026 6:00 am

Justice

DOJ charges over 25 people in nationwide crackdown on Tren de Aragua

Claire Carter -

May 11, 2026 5:13 pm

Operation Southern Spear posted by Southern Command May 5, 2026

News

Two killed in ‘lethal kinetic strike’ on suspected drug vessel in Caribbean

Washington Examiner Staff -

May 5, 2026 1:47 am

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