The Arrest of a Guatemalan Kingpin and America’s Successes and Shortfalls in International Narcotics Enforcement

               In late April 2026, American authorities arrested infamous Guatemalan drug lord and member of the Los Huistas gang, Eugenio Dario Molina-Lopez.  In 2019,a grand jury indicted Molina-Lopez for Los Huistas’ role in a transnational cocaine trafficking scheme, where Molina-Lopez and his Guatemalan counterparts smuggled large quantities of cocaine into Mexico and then worked with Mexican criminal organizations to sneak that contraband into the USA.