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![<p>People watch the USS Gravely, a U.S. Navy warship, departing the Port of Spain on October 30, 2025. </p>]()
By Will Merrow![<p>As fentanyl flows in from the south, the U.S. government has stepped up measures both at the border and beyond to curb the influx.</p>]()
By Mariel Ferragamo- Backgrounder
Fentanyl and the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
![<p>Photos of fentanyl victims shown at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters. </p>]()
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By Diana Roy![<p>Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks at the opening of a new session of Colombia’s Congress on July 20, 2025.</p>]()
By Will Freeman and Steven Holmes![<p>A Colombian police officer stands near the site of a car explosion in Jamundi.</p>]()
By Steven Holmes![<p>Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is seen on a screen in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, on March 14, 2025.</p>]()
By Joshua Kurlantzick![<p>Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa gives a speech during a ceremony to deliver equipment to the national police on January 22, 2024.</p>]()
By Will Freeman- By Mariel Ferragamo and Diana Roy
![<p>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends the opening of the U.S.-Mexico High-Level Security Dialogue on October 13, 2022.</p>]()
By Shannon K. O'Neil and Will Freeman![<p>The presidents of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay pose for a photo with representatives from Mercosur associate members, Guyana and Bolivia, at the Mercosur summit in Puerto Iguazu, Argentina on July 4, 2023.</p>]()
By Shannon K. O'Neil and Will Freeman![Latin America’s Crime Surge, With Will Freeman pic]()
Latin America’s Crime Surge, With Will Freeman
Podcast Type![<p>Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and Spain’s current Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez attend an opening speech at the EU-LAC 2023 Business Round Table in Brussels, Belgium, July 17, 2023.</p>]()
By Shannon K. O'Neil and Will Freeman![The Fentanyl Epidemic, With Vanda Felbab-Brown pic]()
The Fentanyl Epidemic, With Vanda Felbab-Brown
Podcast Type![<p>President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa arrives to the 35th ordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 5, 2022.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin
