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 US Politics & Gov't  - 101 days ago - rawstory.com <p>Americans are the world's top consumers of cannabis and cocaine despite punitive US drug laws, according to an international study published in the online scientific magazine PLoS Medicine. (Hey -- we're number one! ROFL)</p>
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 US Politics & Gov't - 109 days ago - news.yahoo.com output of coca leaf has risen each year since 2003 despite crop spraying paid for with billions of dollars in U.S. military aid. Colombia, the world's leading cocaine producer, and Peru, the No. 2 producer, are among Washington's main partners in Latin Am
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 US Politics & Gov't - 176 days ago - science-community.sciam.com If you use cocaine and need a reason to quit--or one to avoid starting in the first place--think conservation. The national parks of Guatemala and other countries have become the preferred haven of drug traffickers who usurp protected areas and burn the f
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 US Politics & Gov't - 179 days ago - narcosphere.narconews.com At least one source has indicated that in March 2004...a deal was reached between Mexican President Fox and U.S. President Bush...Bush provided Fox with some presidential favors...in exchange for Fox's continued silence about the House of Death.
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 US Politics & Gov't - 181 days ago - narcosphere.narconews.com via FAA and other documents obtained by Narco News, both Smith and O'Connor have been connected to yet another jet that has been used by U.S. government agencies (including the DEA, FBI and CIA) to advance covert operations targeting Latin America.
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 US Politics & Gov't - 184 days ago - ipsnews.net Although the Democratic Party has made it clear that it will oppose the free trade agreement with Colombia, President George W. Bush sent the trade deal Tuesday to the U.S. Congress, which now has 90 working days to vote on it.
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 US Politics & Gov't - 192 days ago - newsweek.com approximately half the new brides had been given in marriage to repay opium debts. The new brides included children as young as 5 years old; until they're old enough to consummate their marriages, they mostly work as household servants for their in-laws.
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 US Politics & Gov't - 192 days ago - kintera.org Please sign the petition. I'll post a copy of their email as a comment below.
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 US Politics & Gov't - 200 days ago - miamiherald.com ''They've always tried to shut me up,'' Cordoba told The Miami Herald...``I'm against the Establishment. Many...don't want to rock the Establishment and not be invited to cocktail parties. Nobody invites me. The only list I'm on is of those to be killed.'
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 US Politics & Gov't - 209 days ago - globalresearch.ca Such aggressive action by the Bush administration would "make the economy scream," the infamous order given by Richard M. Nixon to the CIA in the run-up to the violent putsch that overthrew Chile's democratically-elected socialist president, Salvador Alle
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 US Politics & Gov't - 210 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk The Colombian government will pay $2.5m to a Farc rebel who killed his boss last week...But critics say the policy amounts to government approval for murder. (Is that USAID money or cocaine money? He wouldn't kill for less?)
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 US Politics & Gov't - 211 days ago - zcommunications.org President Chavez's diplomatic tone and calm demeanor brokered peace between Andean nations on the brink of war at the Rio Group Summit in Santo Domingo late last week, yet the media portrays him as a "dictator" and "threat to the region".
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 US Politics & Gov't - 212 days ago - alternet.org A now-declassified 1991 report from the Defense Intelligence Agency listed Uribe among "important Colombian narco-traffickers," noting that he was "a close personal friend of Pablo Escobar" and "dedicated to collaborating with the Medellin [drug] cartel a
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 US Politics & Gov't - 213 days ago - narconews.com The covert program, law enforcement sources contend, likely involves the CIA and components of Defense Department intelligence agencies, and is focused, in part, on penetrating, or even propping up, narco-trafficking groups in Venezuela.
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US Politics & Gov't - 213 days ago - video.google.com A ton of cocaine was smuggled into the United States of America.
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