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Cocaine Wars
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10707 |
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CURRENT ISSUES
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1 / 1986 |
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Virginia Prewett
In her many years of news reporting, Virginia Prewett has
broken stories on key events in Latin American and United
States history: The Cuban Missile Crisis, the Marxist takeover
of Grenada, and the 1969 war between Honduras and El Salvador.
Her stories have appeared in more than 160 U.S. newspapers,
and have garnered her numerous professional awards, including
two Pulitzer Prize nominations. |
Much as we need SDI, America also desperately needs a continental shield against a devastating barrage more insidious than nuclear missiles. Being fired at us by our same ruthless ideological enemies, in this case in league with mercenary criminals, is the multi-billion-dollar fallout of drugs godfathered by Fidel Castro's upper-echelon officials. This international narco-terrorism's publicly avowed purpose is to destabilize existing Latin American governments while wasting the minds and bodies of young Americans--who pay for their own destruction.
Hard evidence in U.S. official hands, including photos, clearly confirms the links between Marxist Latin American terrorists and criminal drug overloads, with Cuba, Colombia and Nicaragua as centers for refining and illicit shipping of today's deadly narcotic of choice, cocaine. A mounting record shows that the partnerships between traffickers and terrorists are growing tougher, bolder, richer and more devastating to Latin American stability each year.
In the late 1970s, and early 1980s, as cocaine displaced Mexican brown heroin as the drug most pushed for Yankee dollars. The narcotics production that had been spread through half a dozen countries from Mexico to Bolivia and in the Caribbean began concentrating increasingly in Cuba, Colombia and Nicaragua. The Marxist-Leninism that rules the capitals of Cuba and Nicaragua also rules the roost in Colombia's eastern llanos, the country's spottily forested plains.
Colombia is the world's principal grower of hardy, tropical coca leaves, the raw material of cocaine, which traffickers have long refined there, along with tons more smuggled in
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