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...using the money. The report points out that 4 percent of Haiti's population still owns 66 percent of the country's resources, and annual income averages $250 per person, compared with $3,320 for the rest of the Caribbean and Latin America. Drug traffickers have also targeted Haiti. DEA officials believe as much as 15 percent of the cocaine in the U.S. may be coming through it capital, Port-au-Prince. There is growing speculation that former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide could profit from the chaos: A total collapse may encourage his supporters to bring him back to power...
MUSEUM THE DEA MUSEUM Arlington...
...Enforcement Agency after the heiress received an odd parcel, called the two numbers on its address, found they were pay phones and immediately called the cops. Had she opened it, she would have found $20,000 to $40,000 worth of drugs. She was informed of this by the DEA officials who showed up on her doorstep moments after her call to police. The agents were actually going to arrest her, but were stymied because she had already reported the package. Hearst believes the incident has something to do with the presidential pardon she's seeking...
...scheme. Although stings are illegal in Mexico, U.S. undercover narcotics agents ran much of the operation there. But oddly, nobody told the State Department, even though it has been working hard to get diplomatic immunity for drug agents. As a result of Casablanca, Mexico is considering trying to extradite DEA agents for violating Mexican law. At the U.N. drug conference in New York City last week, Mexico's Foreign Secretary, ROSARIO GREEN, angrily told reporters that the Secretary of State claimed not to have been informed about the operation. The speculation at the drug conference was that Albright had been...
...Mexicans are complaining that their sovereignty is being violated," says Stogel. "They want the agents involved in the sting arrested and extradited." Stogel reports that Clinton yesterday may have expressed some regret over the handling of the operation, but also stressed that there would be no prosecution of DEA agents. Despite yesterday's talks, a Washington meeting later this week between Mexican legislators and their U.S. counterparts will likely see sparks flying...