DRUG SMUGGLING WITH AIRCRAFT
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Friday, 9/3/10

Diario de Yucatan (Merida, Yucatan) 9/2/10

Ultra-light aircraft being used to smuggle drugs

Mexico’s federal Public Security Agency reported that criminal cartels have adopted the use of ultra-light aircraft to smuggle drugs into the United States. These aircraft have a 100 kilo payload and can land in unpopulated or vacant areas where they are awaited by other persons. They can also fly at heights that preclude both visual and radar detection.

The cost of the aircraft is relatively small in comparison with the price of drugs, so they are sometimes abandoned within the U.S. A kilo of drugs increases in value from 8,000 dollars in Mexico to 30,000 after it crosses the border, thus resulting in a profit of more than 2 million dollars per 100 kilo load.

http://www.yucatan.com.mx/noticia.asp?c ... f=20100902

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El Tiempo (Bogota, Colombia) 9/2/10

Large amounts of cocaine have been seized

Admiral Alvaro Echandia, commander of the Colombian Navy, said that “we have seized almost 800 tons of cocaineâ€