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Mexico: 1 Ton of Cocaine Seized, Port of Origin Venezuela
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| 02/07/2007
| Aleksander Boyd
Posted on 02/07/2007 10:46:37 PM PST by Dallas59
Mexico: 1 ton of cocaine seized, port of origin Venezuela By Aleksander Boyd
London 07.02.07 | It seems that the ever so efficient Venezuela Connection keeps sending thousands of kilograms of cocaine to airports and ports all around the world. Nearly a year ago, on April 11 2006, Mexican authorities seized 5.5 tonnes of high purity cocaine in Ciudad del Carmen's airport. Today Mexican daily El Universal reports that nearly a ton of cocaine was seized aboard a plane arriving from Venezuela in Mexico City's International Airport: 25 pieces of luggage -from flight 374 of Mexicana de Aviacion- were detected containing the drugs.
But this is not the first instance where drugs coming from Venezuela -in that very flight- have been seized in Mexico City's airport. The daily reports that in the last three years 7 seizures of considerable importance have been made, the largest being that of 16 September 2003 when 407 kilograms of cocaine and heroine were seized and a Venezuelan citizen -José Luis Santiago Rivero- was arrested.
Curiously enough Foreign Secretary Nicolas Maduro said today that Venezuela does not need US aid to combat drug trafficking activities "Venezuela refuses to be blackmailed with these funds that they (USA) try to use to penetrate and subjugate our nations to their decisions" stated Maduro.
Maduro ensured that Venezuela is a sovereign nation and anti-drug trafficking activities will continue, however he emphasized that the drug produce has one final destination "the millions of drug addicts in the USA, product of a depredating capitalism" (sic).
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chavez; cocaine; drugs; mexico; socialism; venezuela
Chavez is an around guy...Oil to the poor...and "blow" to the rich...
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posted on
02/07/2007 10:46:40 PM PST
by
Dallas59
To: Dallas59
Another industry that Chavez has nationalized ????
To: Dallas59
Who is doing all this cocaine?
Must be a global practice.
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posted on
02/08/2007 1:12:20 AM PST
by
Global2010
( I am just ole Lab dog with my head stickin' out the window and my ears a flappin' in the wind.htp)
To: Global2010
Who is doing all this cocaine? This week, probably Chicago Bears fans! :-)
To: StJacques
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posted on
02/08/2007 4:06:15 AM PST
by
Alia
To: Dallas59; 3AngelaD; A Balrog of Morgoth; A CA Guy; Alia; apillar; Army Air Corps; bboop; Becki; ...
Great post Dallas59! Alia; thanks for the ping.
A combined Mexican Left Watch and Latin American Left Watch ping going out here. You can read the article as it is posted above and get the full story. I've examined the
El Universal (Mexico City) story Alek Boyd uses and there are really no other pertinent details to provide about the story, since there is no mention of who may be behind the shipment, which is what we are really interested in seeing.
What is particularly interesting about this piece of news however is that this regular Caracas - Mexico City flight has been used to ship large amounts of cocaine in the past, including shipments in which Mexico's leftist PRD Party was implicated,
a matter we have discussed before (see "Comments," paragraph 4). VCrisis.com has also tracked those connections in the past as well, which I am sure is behind Alek Boyd's decision to post the news.
I will try to keep an eye on
El Universal to see if they follow up on this further. They've done a very good job of reporting the Venezuelan-Mexican Left drug connections in the past.
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posted on
02/08/2007 10:14:20 AM PST
by
StJacques
(Liberty is always unfinished business)
To: Dallas59
Mexico seizes a ton of Venezuelan coke? It will be on the streets of America in less than a week.
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posted on
02/08/2007 10:56:31 AM PST
by
Bob J
(RIGHTALK.com...a conservative alternative to NPR!)
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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posted on
02/08/2007 1:34:32 PM PST
by
cgk
(Republicanism didn't make Conservatives a majority. Conservatism made Republicans a majority. [NEWT])
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