(Global Pulse: April 30, 2010) The "War on Drugs" has created a drug war in Mexico. Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigration is an attempt to address the results, but fails...

While a distinct part of Peru's culture, used for religious and medicinal purposes, the coca leaf is also the origin of cocaine and, consequently, organized crime and violence throughout the...

This episode of The United Nations - 21st Century looks at one man's fight against the cocaine market of Brazil; an epidemic wiping out India's baby girls; and the dangers...

This Al Jazeera English news update looks at the ongoing violence in Nigeria, unrest in Tehran around the grave of Neda, sex slavery in the Arab World, Peruvian cocaine production,...

(Global Pulse: March 5, 2009) Beheadings, assassinations, gun battles on the street - Mexico is ground zero in the global war on drugs. U.S. media focuses on the spread of...

(Global Pulse: August 7, 2008) While the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan dominate most war news coverage, there is another war raging much closer to the United States. The Mexican...