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Why are Mexican cartels using Irish ports to smuggle drugs?
The Sinaloa cartel is one of Mexico’s most feared groups and there has been increasing evidence that it is expanding its networks in Europe and funnelling drugs through less obvious, more unsuspecting ports.
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A journey through hell: the Darién gap
Treacherous paths, rivers that wash you away, vast swamps, steep mountains and deadly animals.
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27m
Fentanyl: why it’s the deadliest drug ever
Guillermo Galdos and Ben Westhoff explain a crisis that looks set to get worse before it gets better.
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9m
Inside the fentanyl cartel: Mexico crime lords feeding US addiction
We gain rare access inside the world’s most dangerous crime cartels, making one of the world’s most deadly opioid drugs.
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2m
The ‘narco of narcos’ – infamous drug lord arrested ten years after freed from jail
One of Mexico’s most infamous drug lords, Rafael Caro Quintero, has been captured.
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Mexico’s deadly Coca-Cola addiction
Mexicans are the biggest consumers of surgery drinks in the world. But the country’s sugar obsession is causing what health officials are calling a diabetes emergency.
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8m
Femicide in South America: the missing daughters of Mexico
Ten girls or women are killed every single day in Mexico. Almost no one is ever punished. The mothers left behind are fighting back and refuse to be silenced.
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2m
At least 66 killed after Mexico pipeline blast
At least 66 people have been killed and more than 85 are missing following a pipeline explosion in central Mexico. It’s thought the blast occurred after the fuel line was ruptured by thieves. Dozens of people were scrambling to fill containers with the leaking oil when they were engulfed by a massive fireball. A warning…
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Riding ‘The Death Train’ to America’s border
We have following two people who, with tens of thousands of others, are so desperate to flee the danger and destruction in their homelands, they risk everything in the attempt to make it to the United States on the ‘El tren de la muerte’ – the Death Train. When President Trump introduced tough new policies to stop migrants…
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Polls open in Mexico’s election
Millions of Mexicans are voting today in local and presidential elections – with the left wing front runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador hoping his third attempt to win power will succeed. He’s held a commanding lead in the polls – with voters angry over widespread crime and corruption, as well as the state of the…
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Countdown to Mexico’s election
Mexicans are going to the polls tomorrow to vote for a new President: and the favourite to win is a left-wing populist who critics fear could plunge the country into economic chaos. But it is the shocking levels of violence – including the deaths of more than a hundred candidates – which has overshadowed every…
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A Week in Ciudad Juarez: Meeting assassins, victims of the cartel, journalists
Our Latin America Correspondent Guillermo Galdos spent a week in the city of Ciudad Juarez, one of the key routes for drugs and people into the United States and where the war’s frontlines are becoming even more blurred.
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8m
Donald Trump, the Wall and the lives around it
Donald Trump insists he WILL build his wall – but both Congress and Mexico are refusing to pay for it, and even his supporters are sceptical it’ll keep illegal immigrants out – tonight we have a special report.
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8m
Trump’s wall: what’s happening at the border?
What’s happening right now along that 1,900 mile border, to those who hoped to follow their American dream and escape to a new life? Guillermo Galdos has been out with the US border patrol and finding that the situation along the frontier may already be changing.
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Race against Trump’s wall
It was one of Donald Trump’s key campaign promises: a wall along the US southern border with Mexico. But the policy also led to a surge in people trying to make it to the US before the election.