[TexasCajun]

U.S. prosecutors were prepared to indict Raul Castro, Cuba's current leader, as head of a cocaine smuggling ring in 1993, but the Clinton administration overruled them, ABC News has learned..

[Enterprise]

" but the Clinton administration overruled them"

That's what friends are for.

[Ticonderoga34]

I'm not surprised. I have long thought that the Cuban government was involved in smuggling drugs to the U.S.

[texas_mrs]

Maybe they were doing business with brother Roger.

[TexasCajun]

Hillary, "Why did your co-administration pull the rug out from under the prosecutors of Raul Castro?"

[Veto!]

Cuba smuggling drugs is news? Forbes Magazine listed Fidel as the "wealthiest Latin American Dictator" with a billion stashed in accounts in Switzerland and other safe cash havens. He didn't make the money on sugar.

Also during the Clintonista era, Hillary and Chelsea made at least one trip to the Dominican Republic, another country with fuzzy banking rules. Some of us believed that Hillary and Chelsea's trunks were always stuffed with cash, unsearchable and untouchable. First, a visit to business moguls in India, for instance, then a quick stop on an island with notoriously loose banking rules on the way home -- Easy as one-two-three: The Clintonista Cha Cha Cha.

[cloud8]

From Colombia to Haiti (Aristide is another of slick's pals) to Cuba to clinton.

[bmwcyle]

ping

[ReleaseTheHounds]

I'm sure some Freepers (and Prodigy Whitewater BB lurkers) will be reminded of Mena Airport doings with this report... Any connection? Just wondering.

[okie01]

U.S. prosecutors were prepared to indict Raul Castro, Cuba's current leader, as head of a cocaine smuggling ring in 1993, but the Clinton administration overruled them, ABC News has learned..

And, in a related story, it should be recalled that, in its very first budget, the free-spending Clinton administration actually proposed some spending cuts!

Accordingly, the U.S. spent less money on the Border Patrol and the Customs Department in FYE 1994 than in FYE 1993.

What a coincidence, huh...???

[JohnBovenmyer]

Those with long memories will recall the backstory of this being put to music by Paul Silhan in "Copacabana 97" on his Spinball Wizard album. I haven't found the music online, but have often enjoyed my copy.

[Sonny M]

This isn't exactly new news, rumors going back years and years have suggested that Raul Castro was involved in the drug trade.

Ironically, he was the one Fidel used since he was "scarier" then Fidel himself when talking to the cartels.