Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Drug Traffic Beneath the Waves / Washington Post, 6 February 2008
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Juan Forero
"Sophisticated Submersibles Are Raising New Challenges for Colombian Navy
In the annals of the drug trade, traffickers have swallowed cocaine pellets, dissolved the powder into ceramics and flown the drug as far as Africa on flimsy planes - anything to elude detection and get a lucrative product to market. Now, the cartels seem to be increasingly going beneath the waves, relying on submarines built in clandestine jungle shipyards to move tons of cocaine."