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...European governments are faced with the challenge of outwitting traffickers thousands of kilometers away. "They are looking for safer routes and methods," says María Marcos, director of Spain's Intelligence Center Against Organized Crime in Madrid. The routes and methods vary. Some cocaine is shipped on large vessels directly across the Atlantic, often having been processed at sea. Marcos says this cocaine is sometimes dropped overboard attached to floating buoys, then collected by Africa-based traffickers. The rest is flown from Latin America on twin-prop planes to West Africa, where it is offloaded and shuttled to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine Country | 6/27/2007 | See Source »

...same thing, he'd probably get another HBO special. Isn't it time we all stand up and say that race, gender, sexual orientation and nationality are off limits for cracking jokes? Humor is great, but let's not tolerate it at another's expense. Russ Bannon, Palmas Del Mar, Puerto Rico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...same thing, he'd probably get another HBO special. Isn't it time we all stand up and say that race, gender, sexual orientation and nationality are off limits for cracking jokes? Humor is great, but let's not tolerate it at another's expense. Russ Bannon, PALMAS DEL MAR, PUERTO RICO It is unfortunate that many people who heard Imus' coarse comment don't know about the many good works he has championed and the valuable political discourse heard daily on his show. The Rev. Al Sharpton has stated that the firing of the radio icon was not about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Misery of Zimbabwe | 5/1/2007 | See Source »

According to a Mar/ 31 Newsweek poll, while 6 percent of respondents said they don’t believe in God at all, 3 percent officially declared themselves as atheist. This subtle yet meaningful disparity suggests that there is still a stigma associated with atheism...

Author: By Jimmy Y. Li | Title: Coming Out Of The (Atheist) Closet | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...audience. Off-screen Infante was a dedicated ladies' man, with countless mistresses and one very patient spouse. Let Chavéz do the enumerating: "There was his first girlfriend, Lupita Marqués, who bore him a little girl. And then there was his long-suffering wife, María Luisa. Then came Lupe Torrentera, the young dancer he met when she was 14 and who bore him a daughter, Graciela Margarita, at age fifteen. Lupe was the mother of two of his other children. And, of course, there was Irma Dorantes, the young actress who starred in many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning Pedro Infante | 4/15/2007 | See Source »

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