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The Growing Latin America - Africa Drug Pipeline  Douglas Farah:
"One of the disturbing and little noticed events of recent weeks
was the crash (or destruction) of a Boeing 727 in the desert of
Mali.  The crash is disturbing for many reasons, among them
these three: 1) the aircraft was carrying between 2 to 3 tons of
cocaine, far more than other, smaller aircraft and boats that
have been detected in recent months, indicating an escalation of
the trade through the Trans-Sahel region; 2) The region where
the aircraft was found, most likely torched by its crew to
destroy evidence, in a area of heavy operation of Al Qaeda in
the Islamic Magreb (AQIM); and 3) the aircraft departed from
Venezuela, now Latin America's primary transshipment hub from
Latin America to West Africa, and source of all the major air
shipments of cocaine that have been interdicted in West Africa."
Unsurprising. Given the number of Cuban DGI agents in Venezuela,
this is that sta