America's drugs plan in tatters as cocaine and ...
15-May-2005, United States, The Independent
Washington's "war on drugs" in Colombia is collapsing in chaos and corruption, and the drug producers are winning. The so-called Plan Colombia, which has cost the US more than $3bn (£1.6bn) in the past five years, is being abandoned, Secretary of ...
Baggage handlers 'paid $300,000' in drug plot
11-May-2005, Australia, Sidney Morning Herald
Qantas baggage handlers were paid $300,000 to smuggle a briefcase of cocaine through Sydney airport, a court was told today.
The allegation was set out in court documents tendered during a bail hearing for Ian Robert Chalmers, 40, charged over an ...
Sex, lies, drugs and staties: Narc squad blasted ...
05-May-2005, United States, Boston Herald
A state police sergeant allegedly was able to steal ``pounds and pounds'' of cocaine because the department's oversight of confiscated narcotics was ``sloppy and lax,'' a prosecutor said yesterday.
The system was so flawed, prosecutor ...
No rest here in war on drugs
04-May-2005, United States, Wiscnews.com
By Mark Boxley
The use and sale of drugs in Portage is on the rise and the dog leading the pack is crack cocaine.
"We've seen a large increase in the usage and sales," Detective Dan Pionke of the Portage Police Department said.
The ...
Some Young Women Use Cocaine As Weight-Loss Aid
29-April-2005, United States, WPBFNews.com
Young women are under a lot of pressure to look good, and that means being thin. But at what cost?
There is a new troubling and dangerous trend of college women using cocaine to control their weight, reported WBAL-TV in Baltimore.
"Kathy" is ...
Anti-Drug Gains in Colombia Don't Reduce Flow to ...
28-April-2005, United States, The New York Times
By JOEL BRINKLEY
Published: April 28, 2005
OGOTĮ, Colombia, April 27 - Five years and $3 billion into the most aggressive counternarcotics operation ever here, American and Colombian officials say they have eradicated a record-breaking ...
Report: Colombia drug war failing
01-April-2005, Colombia, CNN
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A new White House report showed that a massive aerial spraying offensive last year failed to dent the area of coca under cultivation in Colombia.
But President Alvaro Uribe vowed on Friday to press ahead with ...
GOP adviser died of drug overdose in Carrie ...
24-March-2005, United States, The Mercury News
Republican media adviser R. Gregory Stevens, recent co-chairman of the Bush/Cheney Entertainment Task Force who died at actress Carrie Fisher's home, died from an overdose of cocaine and a painkiller, a coroner's autopsy showed.
"The cause of ...
Cocaine price steady despite drug war gain
15-March-2005, United States, newkerala
Less Colombian cocaine is coming into the United States, but the price of the drug hasn't gone up, the U.S. Southern Command chief said Tuesday.Gen. Bantz Craddock said last year 222 million metric tons of cocaine was interdicted coming from ...
Rainforest new front in Colombian drug war
11-March-2005, Colombia, seattlepi.com
A helicopter machine gunner looks over the Garrapatas Canyon, in Colombia's western Choco state, Thursday, March 10, 2005. In the newest front in Colombia's drug war, cocaine producers are penetrating one of the largest tracts of virgin rainforest ...
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