March 20, 2008

Coca Plantation, Cocaine Lab Discovered in Amazon

The Brazilian Army has discovered the first known coca plantation in Brazil’s Amazon, along with a fully equipped laboratory to manufacture cocaine.
The discovery was made using helicopters and small boats to reach plantations and the lab near the the northwestern city of Tabatinga, close to the border with cocaine producing nations Peru and Colombia, army [...]

March 20, 2008

Millions Starve As Tons Of Food Rots In Haitian’s Ports

Bureaucratic red tape  have led to a back log of containers full of food stacking up in Haiti’s ports which is being felt as far away as 600 miles in Miami.
Governments attempts to clean up the  corrupt port system that has help make Haiti a major conduit for Columbian cocaine has added new layers of bureaucracy - [...]

March 20, 2008

Mexico’s Coke Zero Drops Deadly Sweetner

CocaCola has reformulated the Mexico version of CocaCola Zero removing an artifical sweetner that is banned in the US and which caused an outcry from consumer advocates.
The sweetner - sodium cyclamate - banned in the States 39 years ago by the Food and Drug Administration, was found to be link to cancer based on lab findings.
Coco Cola [...]