1.   Also to the Medellin drug cartel of Colombia and to Central American politics in general.

2.   - Members of highly efficient and deadly Mexican drug cartels showing up in Missouri.

3.   The opium poppies were reportedly introduced to Peru relatively recently, with Colombian drug cartels giving peasants seeds and credit.

4.   Edgar de Jesus Fernandez was seized in an apartment in Medellin, once the rival city of the Cali drug cartel, police said.