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Villagers cash in on endless cocaine on beach (War on Drugs is a blessing from God)
Herald Sun ^
| 10/10/07
Posted on 10/11/2007 10:33:24 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Villagers cash in on endless cocaine on beach
By staff writers
October 10, 2007 10:49am
VILLAGERS living on Nicaragua's remote Mosquito Coast are living like the rich thanks to tonnes of free cocaine washing up on their shores.
The bags of cocaine, worth millions of dollars, are coming from Colombian speedboats on "narco-routes" which drop the booty overboard if intercepted by US and Nicaraguan patrols, guardian.co.uk reported.
Currents carry the bags towards shore. People living in villages such as Karpwala and Tasbapauni who find it are then offered up to $4000 a kilo for the cocaine - seven times less than US street value - by Colombian traffickers.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: balesofcocaine; cocaine; fisherman; nicaragua; revhortonheat; tlr
To: TigerLikesRooster
LOL! Figures.............
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posted on
10/11/2007 10:41:03 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Now that’s a region that can’t keep the tourists away...the Mosquito Coast!! :)
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posted on
10/11/2007 11:41:25 PM PDT
by
CheyennePress
(Non Abbiamo Bisogno)
To: TigerLikesRooster
...seven times less than US street value ...What the heck is "seven times less"? Does this idiot writer actually mean "one seventh"?
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posted on
10/12/2007 7:06:02 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
He does, but at a high rate of speed.
;)
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posted on
10/12/2007 7:10:46 AM PDT
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: DuncanWaring
What the heck is "seven times less"? Does this idiot writer actually mean "one seventh"?Just be thankful he didn't write "700% less", an even more infamously egregious locution!
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posted on
10/12/2007 8:00:21 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
"Mr. Hayman has also converted his shack into a three-storey mansion with iron gates and a satellite dish."The good news is that he now has a three-storey mansion with iron gates and a satellite dish. The bad news is that he's still in Nicaragua.
To: CheyennePress
Actually, its quite charming. There are no roads to the center of the country, so the people have developed a hybrid AfroCarribbean (from escaped slaves and workers brought by the Brits to work the lumber and banana industry)/Amerindian culture. Most folks speak pidgin English. The Nica government has always had difficulty establishing control due to its isolation.
Stay away from most of the beaches, however. If the rip tides won't kill you, the sharks will.
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posted on
10/12/2007 8:37:52 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
To: Clemenza
Oh, I really have no doubts it’s a beautiful region. Much of Central America is. It’s the name that I was poking fun at. ;)
Mosquito Coast is not exactly the title I’d choose if I was looking to market a resort. heh.
We have more than our fair share of them in the US, as well. Boca Raton (=Rat’s Mouth) and Cockroach Bay in Florida.... haha!
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posted on
10/13/2007 3:23:17 AM PDT
by
CheyennePress
(Non Abbiamo Bisogno)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I'll be moving to Nicaragua soon..
Gonna be a floating bales of cocaine tycoon..
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posted on
10/13/2007 3:28:49 AM PDT
by
csvset
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