Word: deas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ghettos with cocaine to get money to fund the 1980s war against the Sandinista government [DIVIDING LINE, Sept. 30]. These accusations are more than a problem affecting just black America and the CIA. Senator John Kerry's committee reported in the 1980s that the CIA, the FBI and the DEA knew of the contras' drug dealings, yet drug traffickers continued to be paid by the U.S. State Department, "in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law-enforcement agencies on drug charges, in others while traffickers were under active investigation by these same agencies." Tragically...
...which Garcia Abrego managed to exploit a corrupt Mexican government to build a $2 billion a year drug business. Despite rumored links between Garcia Abrego and Raul Salinas, brother of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas, the trial testimony highlighted only corruption among certain low-level police officials. The DEA believes that Garcia Abrego is behind the transformation of Mexico from a smalltime marijuana supplier to a clearinghouse for huge cocaine shipments. But prosecutors referred to Garcia Abrego throughout the trial as "the big cheese," it is unlikely that his internment will do much to diminish the flow of drugs across...
...could talk about his decision to play David to Big Tobacco's Goliath." Shannon, a Washington bureau correspondent who has covered "nearly every Washington scandal since Watergate," won Wigand over with the persistence and honesty that have marked her 27 years as a reporter. "You're very direct," a DEA agent once told her. "That's a good technique." Good journalism...
...Eustatius and Cuba. St. Lucia has a growing population of cocaine addicts and the second highest murder rate in the world. Drug gangs terrorize Trinidad. St. Martin is the new meeting place for the Colombian and Italian drug Mafias--a real Star Wars bar of drug riffraff, claim DEA agents. Antigua has become the newest offshore banking center for shady American and Russian businessmen...
...center of the Caribbean drug trade--the "new Miami"--is Puerto Rico. "Since 1990 Puerto Rico has been the focal point for the exportation of cocaine to the mainland from the Caribbean," says Felix Jimenez, who heads the DEA's office there. The island's status as a U.S. commonwealth offers traffickers an extraordinary advantage, since passengers and cargo undergo only perfunctory customs checks to enter the U.S. mainland. Once a shipment of cocaine is smuggled onto the island, it can easily be relayed to American cities...