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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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela said on Friday it   had arrested a top Colombian cocaine baron in a luxury villa in   Caracas, but did not name him.
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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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President Hugo Chavez's ambitious project to bring "21st Century socialism" to Venezuela is running into obstacles -- easy cash, corruption and an expanding class of citizens who are growing rich by exploiting economic distortions.
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Authorities suspect a new threat is lurking in the mountains and jungles of Colombia: Not a new rebel cadre, but altered coca plants that are bigger, faster-growing and produce more of the compound that gives cocaine its kick.
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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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Flush with cash from high oil prices, Venezuela's president is pushing his leftist vision across the region.
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CIENFUEGOS, Cuba  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez proposed on Friday extending a barter scheme used by Cuba to other Caribbean and Central American nations to help them pay for oil supplies with products and services.
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Italy is becoming a nation of cocaine users, according to a senior government minister.
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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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EL MIRADOR, Colombia -- The latest shift in Colombia's war on drugs is evident on a green hilltop in this town, as weather-beaten men in gray jumpsuits -- government-paid eradicators -- use hoes and muscle to rip out bushes of coca. Policemen carrying M-16 assault rifles and land-mine detectors...
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As America's appetite for coke fades, Guinea Bissau has become a key transit point for Colombia's narcotraffickers with an eye on the growing European market
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Energy company Harvest Natural Resources encounters problems in Venezuela.
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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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A quadrupling of incoming suspected drug flights in the past two years has forced Haiti and the Dominican Republic to face up to the fact that the island they share is a major transshipment point for cocaine bound to U.S. and European consumers.
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LISBON, Feb 1  (IPS) - Guinea-Bissau is an ideal African springboard for  Latin American mafias to smuggle large quantities of cocaine into  the wealthy European Union market.
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Venezuela expects trade with Colombia to reach $2.5 billion this year, a 73 percent increase over 2003, Venezuela's ambassador to Colombia said Monday.