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Miguel Angel Caro Quintero, Mexican Drug Lord, Pleads Guilty To Smuggling Tons Of Drugs To Colorado

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 10.23.2009 | Denver

Read More: Sonora Cartel, But Could Serve as Little as 10 Years. He Is Expected to Be Sentenced Feb. 4. Caro Quintero, Balloon Fallout: Friend: Balloon Mom Will 'Go Down With the Ship' Mexican Drug Kingpin Pleads Guilty to US Charges AP * Buzz Up!0 Votes * Send O Email O IM * Share O Delicious O Digg O F, Drug Smuggling, Dea, 46, War on Drugs, Former Cartel Leader Rafael Caro Quintero, Mexican Drug Lord, Led the Sonora Cartel, Miguel Angel Caro Quintero, Which U.S. Authorities Say Smuggled Thousands of Tons of Marijuana and Cocaine to the United States in the 1980s. His Brother, Associated Press Writer , Was Convicted in the 1985 Torture-Slaying of Undercover Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena Salazar. Rafael Caro Quintero, Associated Press Writer Ivan Moreno, Drug Lord Colorado, Denver News

DENVER — A Mexican drug kingpin who led a fearsome cartel for more than a decade pleaded guilty Friday to U.S. drug and racketeering charges. M...

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Don Mario: Colombia's Most Wanted Drug Lord Captured

AP | CESAR GARCIA | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Don Mario, Columbia, Drugs, War on Drugs, Drug War, Drug Smuggling, Drug Smugglers, Drug Lord Arrested, Drug Lord, Drug Lord Don Mario, Daniel Rendon Herrera, Daniel Rendon Herrera "Don Mario", Colombia, Don Mario Colombia, Daniel Rendon Herrera Alias Don Mario, Drug Lord Captured, Don Mario Arrested, Don Mario - Columbia, Bogota Captures Drug Lord, World News

BOGOTA — Colombia's most wanted drug lord was cowering like a dog under a palm tree when he was captured Wednesday in a jungle raid involving hu...

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Traffickers Smuggle Drugs Underwater With Semi-Submersibles

Global Post | John Otis | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Submersible Drug Smuggling, Drug Smugglers, Latin America, Foreign Affairs, Columbia, Drugs, War on Drugs, Advocacy, Drug Smuggling, World News

Only a few years ago tales of traffickers plying the underseas world aboard cocaine-laden submarines struck anti-drug agents as a Jules Verne fantasy....

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British Cocaine Smugglers Sentenced To Feared Venezuelan Prison

Times Online | Hannah Strange | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: Venezuela Cocaine War, San Antonio Military Penitentiary, Venezuela, Venezuela Drug War, Venezuela Cocaine, Latin America, Cocaine Smuggling, British Cocaine, Drug War, Cocaine War, Cocaine, Drug Smuggling, World News

A British couple arrested in Venezuela over an alleged cocaine smuggling attempt were tonight remanded into the feared San Antonio military penitentia...

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Cocaine Smuggling To Europe Increasing From West Africa

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: Africa, West Africa, Cocaine, Drug Smuggling, Cocaine Smuggling, Europe, Europe Cocaine, Africa Cocaine, West Africa Cocaine, West Africa Drug Money, West Africa Drugs, World News

VIENNA — Cocaine smuggling to Europe is dramatically increasing through West Africa, posing a substantial threat to the stability of a region al...

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Presidential Pardon Time

Diane Dimond | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pardon Petition With 413 Thouand Names, Diane Dimond Column, Jose Compean, Sentenced to 11 and 12 Years for Wounding an Illegal Alien Drug Smuggler, Presidential Pardons, U.S. Border Patrol Agents, Ignacio Ramos, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Executive Pardon, Ramos/Compean Trial, George Bush Clemency, Border Patrol, Drug Smuggling, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, Illegal Immigrants, FALN Pardon, Politics News
Diane Dimond

So far George W. Bush has granted just about 160 executive pardons. If I may, I'd like to put in my two cents worth for at least two more.

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Norway Arrests Woman For Carrying Cocaine In Wig

AP | Posted 06.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Cocaine, Drug Smuggling, Cocaine Hidden in Wig, Living News

OSLO, Norway — A British woman's bulging wig did not fool customs agents in Norway who realized she wasn't just having a bad hair day. The wig w...

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A Pollster Takes Me to the Cyber-Woodshed on Colombia and the Drug War: I Respond

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton Colombia, Pollsters, Bill Clinton Colombia, Polling, Drug War, Colombia Free Trade, Colombia, Mark Mellman, War on Drugs, Mike Isikoff, Opinion Polling, Drug Smuggling, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Writing in The Hill, pollster Mark Mellman took me to the cyber-woodshed yesterday. Mellman claims that Lockheed hired him to produce "a serious study on the underexplored subject of drug policy." Very noble of Lockheed.

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