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 motaman
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 Mexico finds cocaine haul hidden in frozen sharks 
#10522960 - 06/17/09 09:36 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Mexico finds cocaine haul hidden in frozen sharks
Wed Jun 17, 4:25 am ET
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico's navy has seized more than a ton of cocaine stuffed inside frozen sharks, as drug gangs under military pressure go to greater lengths to conceal narcotics bound for the United States.
Armed and masked navy officers cut open more than 20 shark carcasses filled with slabs of cocaine after checking a container ship in a container port in the southern Mexico state of Yucatan, the navy and Mexican media said on Tuesday.
"We are talking about more than a ton of cocaine that was inside the ship," Navy Commander Eduardo Villa told reporters after X-ray machines and sniffer dogs helped uncover the drugs. "Those in charge of the shipment said it was a conserving agent but after checks we confirmed it was cocaine," he said.
Drug gangs are coming up with increasingly creative ways of getting drugs into the United States -- in sealed beer cans, religious statues and furniture -- as Mexico's military cracks down on the cartels moving South American narcotics north.
President Felipe Calderon has sent 45,000 troops and federal police across Mexico to try to crush powerful smuggling cartels. But traffickers armed with a huge arsenal of grenades and automatic weapons are far from defeated, worrying Washington as violence spills over into U.S. states like Arizona.
Some 2,750 people have died in drug violence in Mexico this year, a pace similar to that of 2008, when 6,300 were killed.
Led by Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, smugglers from the Pacific state of Sinaloa are fighting a turf war with rivals. Guzman seeks to control Mexican and Central American smuggling routes into the United States.
(Reporting by Robin Emmott; editing by Patricia Zengerle)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090617/ts_nm/us_mexico_drugs_2
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kman980
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Re: Mexico finds cocaine haul hidden in frozen sharks [Re: motaman]
#10524098 - 06/17/09 01:39 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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I wish the cartels would work together to overthrow the government.
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Subconscious
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Re: Mexico finds cocaine haul hidden in frozen sharks [Re: kman980]
#10524404 - 06/17/09 02:24 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
kman980 said:
I wish the cartels would work together to overthrow the government.
Yeah, a bunch of greedy, violent gangsters in power sounds like a great idea. 
Not that the current system is too great... but think about what you just said man.
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IdeLOLogies
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Re: Mexico finds cocaine haul hidden in frozen sharks [Re: Subconscious]
#10524487 - 06/17/09 02:41 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Subconscious said:
Quote:
kman980 said:
I wish the cartels would work together to overthrow the government.
Yeah, a bunch of greedy, violent gangsters in power sounds like a great idea.
Replace gangsters with idiots and it would describe the current political power.
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Spode
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Re: Mexico finds cocaine haul hidden in frozen sharks [Re: IdeLOLogies]
#10525871 - 06/17/09 06:07 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Replace gangsters with idiots and it would describe the current political power.
from what i hear these gangsters arent idiots either. they seem to find new ways to smuggle shit into the us all the time. perhaps it WOULD be better with them in power...;)
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