Seven policemen and a 17-year-old boy were killed during an armed ambush in downtown Ciudad Juarez on Friday, April 23. And though the event is tragic, it is merely just the latest installment of a rampant drug war that is now flooding Mexico with open-air violence, which now blatantly appears as an American-endorsed strategy for military-centric [...]

As Americans scramble to erect an effective border between the US and Mexico, Caribbean leaders are pleading for the War on Drugs to reconsider a lackluster handle on the rampant drug traffic that presently seeps through many Caribbean island nations. Recently, a regional security conference was held in Barbados, where the hosting island-nation’s Prime Minister , [...]