Venezuela Increasingly A Conduit For Cocaine
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Colombian drug kingpins in league with corrupt Venezuelan military officers are increasingly using this country as a way station for smuggling cocaine to the United States and Europe, according to Colombian and U.S. officials. The Bush administration's dismal relations with ...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has displayed canny brinkmanship in his nationalization drive toward Cuba-inspired socialism despite his image as an impulsive Latin American revolutionary.
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President Hugo ChÃ¡vezâs economic policies have been generating a boom for those most capitalist of institutions â Venezuelaâs banks.
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Venezuela may be making decisions that are confounding oil companies, but the government there says it is merely seeking more income.
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By Robin Emmott LIMA, Peru  - Colombia's U.S.-backed eradicationof coca, the raw material for cocaine, is driving drugtraffickers into neighboring Peru and pushing up drugproduction there despite a campaign to cut coca-growing areas,Peru's anti-drugs agency said on Friday.
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Afghanistan used to be content merely to supply most of the world's heroin. Now a growing number of Afghans are using the drug as well
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The Venezuelan population in the U.S. has grown more than 94 percent since President Hugo ChÃ¡vez took office.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- JesÃÂºs Vivas drives a 26-year-old clunker with rusted fenders, ripped upholstery and a tattered carpet. With a wheeze, a plume of smoke and a walrus-like roar, the wreck he calls a taxi accelerates down congested streets. About the only thing that works well is a new radio,...
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- The line forms every day after dawn at the Spanish Consulate, hundreds of people seeking papers permitting them to abandon Venezuela for new lives in Spain. They say they are filled with despair at President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's growing power, and they appear not to be alone. At other...
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The Colombian government is pursuing a relentless campaign to seize drug traffickers' assets.
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Venezuela has sent 1,200 troops to its border with Colombia to crack down on smuggling amid a bitter feud between the two countries' governments.
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During some of the bloodiest years of the drug wars of the 1980s, crack was seen as far more dangerous than powdered cocaine, and that perception was written into the sentencing laws. But now that notion is under attack like never before.
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Venezuela's president tried to shore up his standing by aiding the release of hostages in Colombia. But his words don't carry as much weight with radicals next door
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An effort by Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃ¡vez to build $20 billion pipeline has generated political and environmental controversy at home and abroad.
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Seven helicopter gunships skirted the steep mountainsides, then quickly descended on a cocaine lab, marked by a smoke grenade thrown by one of the raiders. As the heavily armed anti-narcotics police jumped from the hovering craft, accompanied by an informant wearing a ski mask, peasants who worked the coca fields and in the complex scampered away.
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Political motives suspected in the matter of a Venezuelan/U.S. citizen's visit with a cash-stuffed case.
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The US cites record coca-crop destruction, and major arrests in Colombia. But cocaine flows north unabated.