Al Jazeera looks at how years of punitive measures cost billions, filled prisons, and did little to curb violence — instead spreading it to Latin America, too. More than 50 years ago, in the summer of 1971, US President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse “public enemy number one” and announced what »»»

The US has killed five people in attacks on two alleged drug smuggling boats in the Pacific Ocean, according to Secretary of War Pete Hegset. Previous US operations, which Washington says target illicit narcotics trafficking, have focused on the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela. The strikes, carried out»»»