Pablo Escobar’s control-everything model is dead. Cocaine traffickers today are highly decentralised, using scuba divers, narco subs and sophisticated chemistry to evade policing. Our Latin America correspondent, Kinley Salmon, explains why cocaine trafficking has become harder than ever to stop https://econ.st/4n8AGW8 | The Economist

ON TARGET: U.S. strike kills three suspected narco-terrorists on a Colombian drug-smuggling boat in international waters. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the successful strike, writing: “The United States military will treat these organizations like the terrorists they are—they will be hunted, and killed, just like Al Qaeda.” | Fox News