HSBC Admits Massive Fraud and Moneylaundering for Narcoterrorists and Rogue Politicians--Pays Record $1.9 Billion Penalty to the U.S. but Executives Avoid Jail.

Narcoterrorists show a remarkable ability to adapt. Taking on Al Qaeda terrorists as passengers is a possibility for these operatives.

Some 50,000 people have died in Mexico's War on Drugs, often because of weapons sold by death merchants in the U.S.

As China and India ramp up their deep-water strategic reach, the US Navy appears stymied with mechanical problems on a new class of ships.

El Paso, Texas, will have vigils this week to recall more than 10,000 victims of drug-related violence in Juarez - which lies just across the international border - and the rest of Mexico.

Nicaragua is getting cozy with Russia, while it also has had some success in the war on narcotics.

Fanny Sanchez of Coahuila is just one of hundreds of victims, mostly women.

Daniel Salinas, mayor pro-tem of Sunland Park, New Mexico, can't take offices because of criminal charges he is facing in a local court. State takeover of the town is imminent. The scandal has fingers in Texas, and into Old Mexico.

While it may have allayed the Marxist insurgency, Colombia's narcoterrorist groups show signs of persistence.

In Juarez, the murder rate is down and restaurant business is up.

Discontent grows in Mexico over unrelenting ultra-violence.

Ecuador promises to bow out of the April meeting of the heads of states belonging to the Organization of American States is Cuba is not included.

Prison officials in northern Mexico have been fired and are now under investigation for a daring prison break. More than 40 members of the Gulf cartel narcotics organization were killed by Zetas - a rival group that managed to spring 30 members from jail.

Sundered by drug abuse and a slumping career, the talented and once beautiful Whitney Houston has passed away.

A wave of narcotics-inspired violence, accompanied by corruption, is assailing the poverty-stricken country.

The narco-war in Mexico is claiming 1,400 lives per month, overshadowing U.S. war deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, with no end in sight.

Corruption, impunity, stagnated politics, and ultra-violence still plague Colombia and Mexico.

Why don't more American drug lords get arrested?