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...Nigerian despot of the moment, General Ibrahim Babangida, as "one of the great leader-servants of the modern world in our time." This was the same Babangida who had ruthlessly suppressed political opponents, closed down independent newspapers and allowed his country to become a major transshipment point for heroin and other illegal drugs to which millions of U.S. citizens are addicted. Could Jackson's effusion have had anything to do with the help Babangida had given him over the years--for example, by providing a Nigerian Airways jet for a tour of southern Africa or by encouraging his cronies...
...mention prosperity. DEA officials estimate that the Rodriguez brothers oversee 80% of the cocaine trafficking in the world, with profits of about $7 billion last year, and say that they have also begun to make deep inroads into the heroin market, previously dominated by Southeast Asian drug lords. Although Miguel remains at large, the Colombian government crowed over Gilberto's arrest. "This is the beginning of the end of the Cali cartel," announced President Ernesto Samper Pizano. A press conference at police headquarters in Bogota, where Rodriguez was paraded about like war booty, had the air of a New Year...
Hagar says, "The few college students I saw [this must define youth] must have been there to get an autograph from Will Self, who apparently following a self-styled recovery plan, has stopped shooting heroin and started getting drunk at seven o'clock." I should say that Hagar admits to "digressing" in that sentence. Hagar must have the same skewed opinion on the definition of "drunk" as he or she does on "age". Will Self approached the podium with a beer in his hand, and without even reading from a text he recited a lengthy short story which...
Software forging is safer than drug running. Narcotics money, often bearing residues of cocaine or heroin, can be detected by drug-sniffing dogs. Software pirates, on the other hand, often ship their profits back to Asia via U.S. Priority Mail. Besides, the penalties for getting caught are less severe, although that is changing. Law-enforcement agencies, including the fbi and the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, have made investigating this kind of crime a priority...
...which in recent years has come to dominate the cocaine trade worldwide. Following a U.S. clampdown in the 1980s on their shipping routes through Panama and the Caribbean, the Cali bosses began contracting their transportation to Mexican contrabandista families, bootleggers who for generations have specialized in running goods -- whiskey, heroin, blue jeans -- into the U.S. In the system that eventually evolved, the Colombians flew planeloads of cocaine from Colombia into Mexico, then paid the Mexicans to move the goods across the border...