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...northern port of Cap-Haitien, where Marnet, 29, watched this fall as his one honest meal ticket, the U.S. Army, shipped home the last of its intervention forces. "I may have to join my friends and be a welder," he said--not just any welder but a narco welder, who refits ships to hide drugs. Marnet walked to a cargo vessel, where two large generators powered the torches he said his pals were using to solder double hulls and other secret compartments. On a matchbox, he drew the designs they were following. He then pointed to their nearby bosses...
...shipped out of Haiti gets through to the U.S.--about 80%, according to U.S. agents. Over the past year, customs cops on the Miami River seized a record 7,200 lbs. of cocaine, most from Haitian ships, four times as much as in the previous year. Haiti's imaginative narco welders have forced an inspection revolution. Customs teams often spend days dismantling keels, engine rooms and even onboard septic tanks and voodoo shrines that have yielded as much as 1,100 lbs. of coke at a time. "We've never seen the Colombians use a vessel's structure this...
...times they are staunchly antigovernment--particularly when Colombia's leaders try to pursue peace instead of war. Castano also has ties to the region's drug dealers. But though he profits from their work, he is quick to say he hopes for a Colombia free of a narco economy...
...know it's strange for me to say as an anti-subversive, but narcotics is a worse problem than the guerrilla. When guerrillas fought for social ideals we all liked them, but when they got involved with narco- traffickers, they lost their bearings, their popularity. They hit the middle class, the small farmer, the truckers, and that's when we rose up. The middle class needs us to defend them...
...never seen Colombia in such bad shape, even during the narco days. The international community has to take an interest in Colombia. This is no longer an internal matter. It's crossing the borders...