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Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 00:00
The OPEC nation says it loses 27,000 barrels per day and $1 billion per year to traffickers ranging from small-time peddlers like Rueda to large-scale smuggling involving corrupt border officials
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused the United States on Wednesday of using anti-drug flights for spying — and said that fighter jets are ready to defend Venezuela's sovereignty
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 00:00
Chavez said the U.S. was testing Venezuela's ability to detect intruders and that the Venezuelan air force was prepared to intercept the plane
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 00:00
Independent verification of the files won't be easy, at least not to a courtroom standard of proof. But Colombia's case may benefit from recent defections that have reached higher and higher up the FARC's ranks
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 00:00
The British and Colombian governments have launched a joint drive to highlight the environmental damage caused by cocaine use
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 00:00
Shared Responsibility, a collection of photographs with captions showing the wholesale destruction of the rainforest for plantations of coca plants, aims to raise the guilt factor among cocaine users
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 00:00
It is not coca growing per se that fuels the conflict in Colombia, but the fact that cocaine is illegal - a point lost on most policymakers
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia is not submitting the documents to the OAS because it fears Venezuela's oil subsidies to the region will keep a majority of OAS members from backing an OAS investigation
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 00:00
A deal with the United States, approved by the U.S. Congress last year, can't take effect until Peru tightens intellectual property laws
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 00:00
President Bush announced Wednesday that people living in the United States soon will be allowed to send cell phones to Cubans on the island nation