Word: contraband
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...himself. About an hour's drive from his elegant residence above Port-au-Prince, he stepped out of his armored car and trained his binoculars on a flotilla of wooden boats laden with large blue drums of petroleum. "It looks like a staging area for some of the contraband coming across," said the ambassador, an observation that has long been obvious to Haitians...
Together with small tankers operating out of Venezuela and Panama, which do not observe the embargo, the armada of smugglers have managed to deliver so much contraband fuel that hucksters have set up a bustling business along "gasoline alley" in Port-au-Prince. Out-of-work vendors vie frantically for customers among the wealthy in Land Rovers. Businessmen can even get gas delivered to their door...
...once magnificent animals are skinned, their prized parts dried and packaged, and their bones cleaned and bleached. The skins travel west, often ending up in the homes of wealthy Arabs, while the bones make their way to the east, frequently on the backs of Tibetans who ferry the contraband across mountainous, sparsely populated terrain to the Chinese border...
DRUGS: The Government's Contraband...
...Caracas. McFarlin, who was assigned to coordinate counternarcotics operations with Guillen's National Guard antidrug unit, wanted Grimm's assistance. He asked her to allow hundreds of pounds of cocaine to be shipped to the U.S. through Venezuela. And he asked that the DEA make sure the contraband would not be interdicted -- in other words, "let the dope walk...