Sources: BBC
Five cartel members are killed in a shootout with government forces in Rayones, Nuevo León, Mexico. 2026-03-4
The Honduran attorney general issues an international arrest warrant for former president Juan Orlando Hernández, whom U.S. president Donald Trump recently pardoned after serving part of a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking. 2025-12-8
Forty-five Colombian soldiers are kidnapped by a mob in Cauca Department, Colombia, while conducting anti-drug cartel operations. The military says the soldiers are being held hostage by local villagers who are demanding the return of a killed insurgent's body which was transferred to a morgue in Popayán in return for their release. 2025-09-7
The United States designates Ecuadorian drug cartels Los Choneros and Los Lobos as terrorist organizations. U.S. secretary of state Marco Rubio also says that the U.S. will support the Ecuadorian Navy by providing $6 million in drones and $13 million for general security in the fight against these gangs. 2025-09-4
Seventeen people are killed and 14 others are injured after gunmen open fire on a bar in El Empalme, Ecuador. The shooting is believed to be linked to a conflict between local drug cartels for control of drug trafficking routes. 2025-07-27
A man is shot dead at the Clemenceau metro station in Brussels, Belgium. The shooting is connected to the ongoing drug war in the city since the start of the year, which has already killed another person and wounded three more. 2025-02-15
At least 17 people are killed after two buses collide in San Juan de Opoa, Copán Department, Honduras. 2024-02-28
Honduras begins administering a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine for all adults aged above 18 years using the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. 2021-12-23
The main airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, is shutdown due to smoke from a forest fire. 2013-04-13
A clash in the north of Honduras kills two policemen and four criminals. 2010-10-10