Editing Drug Enforcement Administration (section)

===International events===
David Coleman Headley (born Daood Sayed Gilani, June 30, 1960) who was working as an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) simultaneously made periodic trips to Pakistan for LeT training and was one of the main conspirators in the [[2008 Mumbai attacks]].
On January 24, 2013, Headley, then 52 years old, was sentenced by U.S. district judge Harry Leinenweber of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago to 35 years in prison for his part in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, in which at least 164 victims (civilians and security personnel) and nine attackers were killed. Among the dead were 28 foreign nationals from 10 countries.<ref name="Casualties">{{Cite press release |url=http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=45446 |publisher=Press Information Bureau ([[Government of India]]) |date=11 December 2008 |title=HM announces measures to enhance security |access-date=14 December 2008 |archive-date=December 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225050738/http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=45446 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="CNN">{{Cite news |last1=Stevens |first1=Andrew |first2=Mallika |last2=Kapur |first3=Harmeet |last3=Shah Singh |first4=Saeed |last4=Ahmed |first5=Sara |last5=Sidner |first6=Alessio |last6=Vinci |first7=Reza |last7=Sayah |first8=Paula |last8=Newton |title=Indian official: Terrorists wanted to kill 5,000 |publisher=CNN |date=29 November 2008 |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/29/india.attacks/index.html |access-date=30 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202083137/http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/29/india.attacks/index.html |archive-date=2 December 2008  |url-status=live|author2-link=Mallika Kapur |author8-link=Paula Newton }}</ref><ref name="bbc1">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7751707.stm |title=Indian forces storm Jewish centre |work=BBC News |date=27 November 2008 |access-date=27 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081128024751/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7751707.stm |archive-date=28 November 2008  |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/392538/1/.html |title=One Japanese killed, another wounded in Mumbai shootings |publisher=[[Channel NewsAsia]] |access-date=26 November 2008 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="for">{{Cite news |author=P.S. Suryanarayana |title=Caught in the crossfire, 9 foreign nationals killed |date=27 November 2008 |url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/28/stories/2008112854911900.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813153720/http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/28/stories/2008112854911900.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 August 2011 |access-date=27 November 2008 |work=[[The Hindu]] |location=Chennai, India}}</ref> One attacker was captured.<ref name="CNN"/> The bodies of many of the dead hostages showed signs of torture or disfigurement.<ref name="torture">{{Cite news |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/nov/30mumterror-doctors-shocked-at-hostagess-torture.htm |title=Rediff: Doctors shocked at hostages's torture |work=[[Rediff.com]] |author1=Krishnakumar P  |author2=Vicky Nanjappa |date=30 November 2008 |access-date=21 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305213427/http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/nov/30mumterror-doctors-shocked-at-hostagess-torture.htm |archive-date=5 March 2009  |url-status=live}}</ref> A number of those killed were notable figures in business, media, and security services.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Philippe |last=Naughton |title=British yachting tycoon Andreas Liveras killed in Bombay terror attacks |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5246974.ece |work=The Times |location=UK |date=27 November 2008 |access-date=27 November 2008 |archive-date=July 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220713040729/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="topcopcasualties">{{Cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Mumbai_3_top_cops_die_on_duty/articleshow/3762023.cms |title=Three top cops die on duty |work=The Times of India |location=India |date=27 November 2008 |access-date=27 November 2008 |archive-date=July 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725175046/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Mumbai_3_top_cops_die_on_duty/articleshow/3762023.cms |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="nsgkia">{{Cite news |title=Indian victims include financier, journalist, actor's sister, police |publisher=CNN |date=30 November 2008 |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/29/india.victims/index.html?iref=topnews |access-date=30 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202083222/http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/29/india.victims/index.html?iref=topnews |archive-date=2 December 2008  |url-status=live}}</ref>

The DEA was accused in 2005 by the [[Venezuela]]n [[Government of Venezuela|government]] of collaborating with drug traffickers, after which President [[Hugo Chávez]] decided to end any collaboration with the agency. In 2007, after the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]] criticized Venezuela in its annual report on drug trafficking, the Venezuelan Minister of Justice reiterated the accusations: "A large quantity of drug shipments left the country through that organization. We were in the presence of a new [[drug cartel]]."<ref>{{cite web
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|work=New County Times
|title=Venezuela rejects U.S. drug report, accuses DEA of collaborating with traffickers
|author=Christopher Toothaker
|access-date=March 2, 2007
|archive-date=September 29, 2007
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In his [[Dark Alliance series|1996 series of articles]] and subsequent [[Dark Alliance (book)|1999 book]], both titled Dark Alliance, journalist Gary Webb asserts that the DEA helped harbor Nicaraguan drug traffickers. Notably, they allowed [[Oscar Danilo Blandón]] political asylum in the USA despite knowledge of his cocaine-trafficking organization.<ref>{{cite book|last=Webb|first=Gary|year=1999|pages=177|title=Dark Alliance|publisher=Seven Stories Press|isbn=978-1-888363-93-7|title-link=Dark Alliance (book)}}</ref>

The government of [[Bolivia]] has also taken similar steps to ban the DEA from operating in the country. In September 2008, Bolivia drastically reduced diplomatic ties with the United States, withdrawing its ambassador from the US and expelling the US ambassador from Bolivia. This occurred soon after Bolivian president [[Evo Morales]] expelled all DEA agents from the country due to a revolt in the traditional coca-growing [[Chapare Province]]. The Bolivian government claimed that it could not protect the agents, and Morales further accused the agency of helping incite the violence, which claimed 30 lives. National agencies were to take over control of drug management.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.cnn.com/2008-11-01/world/bolivia.dea_1_bolivian-government-autonomy-movement-chapare?_s=PM:WORLD|title=Morales: Government will take over for DEA in Bolivia|date=November 1, 2008|publisher=CNN|access-date=November 2, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005171533/http://articles.cnn.com/2008-11-01/world/bolivia.dea_1_bolivian-government-autonomy-movement-chapare?_s=PM%3AWORLD|archive-date=October 5, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Three years later, Bolivia and the US began to restore full diplomatic ties. However, Morales maintained that the DEA would remain unwelcome in the country, characterising it as an affront to Bolivia's "dignity and sovereignty".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15649399|title=Bolivia's Morales insists no return for US drug agency|date=November 8, 2011|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=November 2, 2012|archive-date=November 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112041153/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15649399|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the Netherlands, both the Dutch government and the DEA have been criticized for violations of Dutch sovereignty in drug investigations. According to [[Peter R. de Vries]], a Dutch journalist present at the 2005 trial of Henk Orlando Rommy, the DEA has admitted to activities on Dutch soil. Earlier, then Minister of Justice [[Piet Hein Donner]], had denied to the [[States General of the Netherlands|Dutch parliament]] that he had given permission to the DEA for any such activities, which would have been a requirement by Dutch law in order to allow foreign agents to act within the territory.<ref>{{cite web
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|title=Dossier: De zwarte Cobra
|last=de Vries
|first=Peter R.
|work=Programma
|language=nl
|date=October 2, 2005
|access-date=May 12, 2007
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The DEA conducted a covert operation over several years in which undercover operatives were sent to Venezuela to build drug-trafficking cases against Venezuela's leadership, including [[Nicholas Maduro]]. The plan was part of "Operation Money Badger", which the DEA and prosecutors in Miami created in 2013. It potentially breached Venezuelan and international law and therefore required the approval of the Sensitive Activity Review Committee, a secretive panel of senior State and Justice Department officials that oversees the most sensitive DEA cases involving tricky ethical, legal or foreign policy considerations.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Goodman |first1=Joshua |last2=Mustian |first2=Jim |title=Secret US spying program targeted top Venezuelan officials, flouting international law |url=https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-dea-drugs-cocaine-maduro-spying-law-fbf37f94207d05fb45dca1b75bf04d41 |website=AP News |access-date=4 February 2024 |language=en |date=1 February 2024}}</ref>

Following the [[Colombian peace process]], which brought an end to the [[Colombian conflict]] between the [[Government of Colombia|Colombian government]]  and the [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia]] (FARC–EP), the [[Special Jurisdiction for Peace]] found that the DEA had plotted with Colombian Attorney General Néstor Humberto Martínez to fabricate drug trafficking charges against [[Jesús Santrich]], in a bid to jeopardize the peace agreement by inciting the FARC to take up arms again.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cambiocolombia.com/articulo/poder/la-dea-la-fiscalia-y-un-coronel-entramparon-el-proceso-de-paz |title=La DEA, la Fiscalía y un coronel entramparon el proceso de paz &#124; Cambio Colombia}}</ref>