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ZippoZ
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5 1/2 tons of Cocaine found on airplane from columbia
#5505932 - 04/11/06 10:09 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/11/D8GU6CN00.html
5 1/2 Tons of Cocaine Found on Venezuela Plane Apr 11 10:30 PM US/Eastern Email this story
MEXICO CITY
Mexican soldiers seized 5 1/2 tons of cocaine from a commercial plane arriving from Venezuela, Mexico's Defense Department announced Tuesday.
The army was waiting for the plane on Monday at the airport of Cuidad de Carmen, 550 miles east of Mexico City, after receiving information from Venezuelan and U.S. authorities, Gen. Carlos Gaytan told a news conference.
Soldiers arrested Colombian Miguel Vazquez, 47, who was the plane's co-pilot, but the pilot escaped, Gaytan said. There were no passengers.
U.S. and Mexican officials say that cocaine and heroin is increasingly passing from Colombia through Venezuela to Mexico where it is smuggled into the United States. While drug traffickers used planes to smuggle large quantities of drugs in the 1990s, most Mexican traffickers now use land and sea routes.
A U.S. State Department report released in March said that Venezuela has become a key transit point for drugs because of "rampant corruption at the highest levels of law enforcement and a weak judicial system."
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez suspended cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in August, accusing its agents of spying.
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Re: 5 1/2 tons of Cocaine found on airplane from columbia [Re: ZippoZ]
#5507507 - 04/12/06 10:41 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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So it's very important that a route to transport tonnes of cocaine by air is being established. It's very, very important."
Massive cocaine haul in Mexico 4.43PM, Wed Apr 12 2006
Cocaine worth an estimated ?60 million has been seized on board a US commercial plane in Mexico.
Authorities discovered the 5.5 tonne load carried by the DC-9 as it landed in the southern Mexican city of Ciudad de Carmen. It was en route from Venezuela.
Soldiers found 128 black suitcases holding the drugs which were all divided into kilogram packages.
The plane's Venezuelan co-pilot was arrested, along with two other men who arrived in the city on Sunday - believed to be waiting for the cargo. The US pilot escaped.
At a press conference Army General Carlos Gaytan said the destination of the shipment wasn't as yet known but that a seizure of such magnitude was very important.
He said: "If you could look at the statistics, the seizures of tonnes of illegal drugs are usually made by sea because ships can a lot of cargo and because they're ideal to hold so much cargo. So it's very important that a route to transport tonnes of cocaine by air is being established. It's very, very important."
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