Word: briceno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another major drug-connected case last week, U.S. agents in Miami arrested Elijio Briceno, 47, onetime Minister of Energy and Communications in Belize, the former British colony on Mexico's southern border. Briceno was charged with conspiring to smuggle more than 1,000 pounds of "controlled substances," including marijuana, into the U.S. Drug agency officials said that Briceno was a major marijuana supplier in his country and was visiting Miami to collect a down payment on a consignment...
Despite its small size (pop. 200,000), Belize ranks fourth among marijuana exporters to the U.S., behind Colombia, Mexico and Jamaica, according to U.S. officials. Briceno was charged in the same courtroom in which, four weeks ago, Norman Saunders, Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and two other government officials of the British territory were charged with drug smuggling...