While the Uruguayan president has endorsed a bill which would create a legal, state-run marijuana industry, congressmen in Chile are pushing a bill to legalize the cultivation of marijuana for…
Chilean authorities have broken up a cocaine trafficking gang said to have been inspired by the 1972 film The Godfather.…
French officials found cocaine packed in seafood containers on a ship traveling from Chile, pointing to a lesser-known drug trafficking route from South America to Europe.
Synthetic drugs like the one that reportedly sparked a vicious attack by the infamous Miami cannibal are becoming increasingly popular in Latin America, as production of drugs like cocaine falls.
A study has found that some 70 percent of the 2,600 foreign nationals arrested in Chile last year were accused of drug trafficking, drawing attention to the country's use as…
A key source of drug precursor chemicals, and with domestic cocaine consumption that's among the highest in Latin America, Chile is quietly increasing its counter-narcotics efforts.
The Chilean government suspects that a radical indigenous group could be behind a deadly wildfire tearing through the rural Biobio, Maule and Araucania regions of central Chile.
Chilean authorities revealed a plan to combat drug and contraband trafficking by strengthening defenses along the countrys coastline and along the borders with Bolivia, Peru and Argentina.
In the one of the first acts of cooperation since Chile and Bolivia had a spat over the arrest of Bolivia's former top drug czar, the two countries collaborated in…
Chile's police seized 137 kilos of Bolivian-produced base, a product refined to make cocaine, from a gang in the city of Rancagua, close to Santiago.
Four Mapuche activists have ended an 86-day hunger strike against the Chilean government's use of an anti-terrorism law against them.
A Chilean judge found eighteen members of a drug trafficking group known as "Los Gaete" guilty of various crimes, La Tercera in Chile reports. The 18 members were…
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