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Money Laundering For Dummies
How The Drug Money Flows Into The financial SystemTwo boats pull into the docks. The first boat is full of awhite agricultural product grown in Latin America called sugar. The owner of the cargo, lets...
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Belize A Cautionary Tale For Africa
There are many similarities between a small sovereign nation like Belize and Guinea Bissau in West Africa. A growing number of organized crime which operates largely with impunity, is breeding...
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LatAm Drug Cartels Set Up in Africa
A recent study has shed light on the links between Latin Am organized crime and West Africa,showing how drug trafficking has corrupted the stateof Guinea-Bissau and spreading through the region.The...
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DEA Boosts Fight Against West African Narco-Cartels
U.S. authorities are stepping up counter-narcotics operations in West Africa, a key route for Latin American cocaine bound for Europe and allegedly a major source of funds for al-Qaida groups spreading...
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The Jihadists and Latin American Drug Cartels Pact
The radical Islamist groups who operate in the Sahara, the Sahel and in the West Africa regions finance their military activities with money from drug trafficking. They have negotiated agreements with...
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Pharmageddon - Legal Drugs Prescibed By Doctors Cause Over 100,000 deaths A Year
Illegal drugs, including cocaine and heroin, are responsible for an estimated 10,000-20,000 American deaths per year. Prescription drugs taken as prescribed in hospitals are the fourth leading cause of...
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Africa Could Be The Next South America
"Drugs from South Africa are moving via Mozambique and Kenya to the Far East," South Africa's representative on the UN International Narcotics Control Board, Dr Lochan Naidoo, said yesterday."For...
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Haiti’s Cocaine Coup and the CIA Connection
It was a day before the scheduled return of Haiti’s exiled president Jean Betrand Aristide, and it was clear that the October 30, 1993 deadline for a return to democratic rule in the western...
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Narco-Corruption In Africa
In the last decade, West Africa emerged as a major transit hub for Latin American Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) transporting cocaine to Western Europe. Since that time, there has been cause for...
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Narco Technology In West Africa
International global drug cartels have ploughed millions of dollars into a secret system letting key players keep in touch.Last night one insider with knowledge of the network claimed underworld bosses...
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West African Cocaine Routes To Europe
The lucrative cocaine trade from Latin America to Europe has furthered the globalization organized crime, causing an increase in violence and a deterioration of the rule of law in countries throughout...
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Cocaine Routes Are Wreaking Havoc In West Africa
Adeolu Ogunrombi At the end of June, the United Nations held its yearly International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Yury Fedotov, head of the UN's drugs crime office, marked the...
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European Drug Use is Fueling Addiction in West Africa
There’s a disparity between the way we choose what we buy in stores, and what we buy on the streets. As a result, one of the world’s most deprived areas is being plunged further into violence crime and...
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Mexico's Drug War
Mexico's Drug War: Balkanization Leads to Regional ChallengesThis Security Weekly assesses the most significant cartel-related developments of the first quarter of 2013 and provides updated profiles of...
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Europe's Appetite for Cocaine
A Boeing aircraft from Venezuela landed on an improvised landing strip in Mali’s Gao region, with ten tones of cocaine on board. News reports about aircraft in West Africa loaded with cocaine are...
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Africa's Narco State 6
Organized crime and cement often go together, but in Guinea Bissau this happens in an untraditional way. The cement importing and sales company, SOMEC, was salvaged by Colombian Juan Pablo Camacho, a...
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Africa's Narco State 5
A gangster's paradiseIn Bissau I met a former journalist who had been a correspondent for a Portuguese magazine, I ask him to show me where the local drug lords live. We meet at night, in front of my...
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Africa's Narco State 4
The Latin American connectionAl Qaeda and Hezbollah’s long arms extend from West Africa to Latin America. The tri-border area where the frontiers of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet is considered a...
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Africa's Narco State 3
Hezbollah, al Qaida and the Lebanese ConnectionThe night-life in Bissau is usually so boring that sleeping is probably more exciting. After spending too many nights in my room I headed out one evening...
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Africa's Narco State 2
A confidential source close to the Interpol, who spoke in condition of anonymity, tells me that a private jet arrived in Bissau on Thursday, February 26, three days before the assassination of army...
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