Tires stuffed with cash spotlight Latin drug trail
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PENAS BLANCAS, Nicaragua  - Counting more than $1.6 million in cash, much of it in $20 bills, is tedious and time-consuming work.
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Colombia's state oil company goes searching for investors -- in supermarkets, gyms and big-box stores
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As America's appetite for coke fades, Guinea Bissau has become a key transit point for Colombia's narco-traffickers with an eye on the growing European market
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In order to ship as much as 10 tons of ephedrine from Canada to California for two years, a drug ring found a dependable way to get its supplies across the border: horse trailers owned by Buffalo-area harness racers.
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By MICHELLE MILLHOLLON  The Blanco administration is creating an Internet money trail for the billions of dollars flowing into the state for hurricane recovery.
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The road to riches can go through the eye of a needle.
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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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TAMPICO, Mexico  - The Mexican army convoy rolled off a Hercules plane in the middle of the night, purred through this sweltering port city's dingy back streets and swooped on traffickers unloading cocaine in a warehouse.
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Wholesale prices of cocaine have risen in more than a dozen major U.S. cities as supplies of the powerful drug have shrunk, including in high-volume markets such as Los Angeles and New York, White House drug czar John Walters said.
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A crew controlled by the Crips street gang made $1 million a year dealing drugs that were sometimes delivered in toy cars and trucks, authorities said.
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Cash'n'Carrion Lots of torch for not much cash
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By Michael Christie MIAMI  - The most powerful drug lord everextradited by Colombia appeared before a U.S. judge on Monday,and his lawyer said he would fight U.S. charges that he ran hismultibillion-dollar business from a Colombian jail cell.
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Now that America's most-wanted cocaine trafficker is about to be extradited to the U.S., his rivals and lieutenants are struggling for command of Colombia's dominant cartel, authorities say. But whoever wins will inherit a criminal organization tottering on the edge of extinction.
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Imagine that, with $100 worth of  supplies bought from neighborhood stores, dealers could easily  cook up $1,000 worth of a drug so addictive that users quickly  descend into a hell of violence, crime and neglect.
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Dope "pedaling" took on a whole new meaning in recent days after U.S. border police nabbed two Mexicans smuggling bundles of marijuana into the United States loaded onto bicycles.
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It's a tourist paradise, and a drug runner's haven. More than 800 miles of stunning turquoise coastline, used for snorkeling -- and smuggling. What's smuggled mostly is cocaine from South America and bound for the United States.
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Amid the bleak, run-down brick buildings, drug dealers drive around in shiny SUVs, Cadillacs and convertibles, the sun glinting off their chrome-plated spinning hubs.