Tag: anti-drug fight

23 Chinese swimmers competed and won medals in Tokyo after testing positive

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed this Saturday that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine before the Tokyo Games, held in the summer of 2021, and despite the evidence it did not act to prevent them from competing or publish the facts. The WADA, chaired by Polish politician Witold Banka, accepted China's allegations. The…

April 20, 2024
The Navy in the fight against drug trafficking: the risk of confusing the waters of the Strait with those of Somalia

“It is normal and in many anti-drug operations coordinated by the National Court the Spanish Navy has been acting for a long time,” declared the Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, this Thursday in Brussels. The murder of two civil guards, run over by a drug boat last Friday in the port of Barbate (Cádiz)…

February 16, 2024
The drug traffickers take over the port of Barbate with impunity due to the lack of resources of the Civil Guard

Friday of political fanfare in Algeciras. The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, announces another rain of millions for the fourth expansion of the special plan to fight against drug trafficking in the Strait. “It's a police success story,” he declares exultantly. It rains and winds with rage in the province with the driest in…

February 11, 2024
The CSD calls for the resignation of José Luis Terreros

The president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, requested the resignation of the director of the Spanish Commission for the Fight Against Doping in Sports (CELAD), José Luis Terreros. The CSD announced it this Friday through an official statement, within the framework of the scandal that shakes the public institutions that…

January 5, 2024
Two Republican senators say Petro’s stance towards the US is alarming.

US Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Chuck Grassley consider “frightening” the “stance towards USA” of the Colombian president, Gustavo Petroand warn that changes in the drug policy Colombian can harm the regional strategy. (Read here: Gustavo Petro denies that he was going to meet with Joe Biden: ‘There was no appointment’) In a letter released…

September 23, 2022
Two Republican senators say Petro’s stance towards the US is alarming.

US Republican senators Marco Rubio and Chuck Grassley consider Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s “stance towards the United States” “alarming” and warn that changes in Colombian anti-drug policy could harm the regional strategy. In a letter released Friday, Rubio and Grassley outline their concerns about Petro to Rahul Gupta, director of the White House Office of…

September 23, 2022