Fentanyl

Investigations Synthetic Drugs

Making Synthetic Drugs: A Primer*

by Sara Garcia 8 May 202329 Jan 2024

Investigations Synthetic Drugs

Precursors and Mexico’s Synthetic Drug Trade: Summary and Major Findings

by Steven Dudley 8 May 202329 Jan 2024

DEA Administrator Anne Milgram speaks after the US Justice Department indicts Mexico's Chapitos.

5 Takeaways From US Indictments of Chapitos, Associates

by Steven Dudley 17 Apr 202313 Oct 2023

Some of the millions of pills of fentanyl trafficked across the US-Mexico border in Nogales.

Are Fentanyl Trafficking Routes Shifting on the US-Mexico Border?

by Isaac Norris 6 Apr 202313 Oct 2023

Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator Mike Lee propose their anti-cartel bill.

News Security Policy

Will Designating Mexican Crime Groups as Terrorists Help Fight Them?

by Christopher Newton 5 Apr 202313 Oct 2023

Guns seized after confrontation between Caborca Cartel and the Chapitos

Caborca Cartel Resists Chapitos in Battle for Sonora, Mexico

by Juliana Manjarrés 28 Mar 202313 Oct 2023

What Mexico’s Posture on Fentanyl Says About US Relations

by Steven Dudley 21 Mar 202313 Oct 2023

Honduran troops destroy coca crops before it can be used to make cocaine.

5 Takeaways From US State Department Narcotics Report

by Scott Mistler-Ferguson, Sean Doherty and Gavin Voss 7 Mar 202313 Oct 2023

After US Hearing on Fentanyl, Is It Time to Retire the Word ‘Cartel’?

by Steven Dudley 22 Feb 202313 Oct 2023

Customers wait outside a pharmacy in Mexico.

Prescription Pills Laced With Meth, Fentanyl Sold in Northern Mexico Pharmacies: Report

by Isaac Norris 15 Feb 202313 Oct 2023

How Will Ovidio’s Arrest in Mexico Affect Sinaloa Cartel and the Fentanyl Trade?

by Chris Dalby 9 Jan 202313 Oct 2023

A group of 40 Familia Michoacana members address the camera in a vido filmed in Milpa Alta, Mexico City

News La Familia Michoacana

3 Takeaways From the Return of the Familia Michoacana

by Peter Appleby 6 Jan 202313 Oct 2023