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On NAFTA’s 20th anniversary, many are lauding its accomplishments in boosting commerce, but almost half of Mexico’s population still lives in poverty. -
Attempts to smuggle $1.3 million worth of heroin and 369 pounds of marijuana into the United States via San Diego ports of entry were thwarted on Monday, border officials announced. -
Two Border Patrol agents will serve jail time for violating the civil rights of smugglers by forcing them to eat marijuana leaves and flee shoeless into the Tucson desert. -
The Navy will decommission the USS Thach at Naval Base San Diego on Friday. Home Post will live stream the decommissioning ceremony. -
Drug cartels are doing big business up and down the West Coast. When you travel by freeway, you’re driving a Silk Road of sorts for heroin, meth and cocaine. -
If you drive the freeways that run from California and Arizona to Canada, chances are you have passed a car or truck secretly holding a cargo of heroin, meth or cocaine. -
For drug smugglers, getting a truckload of illegal narcotics past border authorities means potentially huge profits. But they're often up against two levels of security: that of U.S. law enforcement, and that of private export and shipping companies. -
Users of the SENTRI trusted traveler program, which allows for expedited screening at the U.S.-Mexico border, will no longer have windshield decals identifying their cars. Some SENTRI members have been used by drug traffickers as unwitting couriers. -
Eduardo Arellano-Félix, former adviser to the Arellano-Félix drug trafficking organization, was sentenced Monday to 15 years in federal prison. -
KPBS Midday EditionAuthor and professor Ricardo Ainslie, prepares to talk at UC San Diego about "Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War."
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