Saw this article over at Trinidad Express. It read like a movie script. Had me riveted in my seat that the only thing missing was the actual events play out in front of me on wide screen TV.
Further reading - http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161301565
Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela have avoided war, but now two other Andean nations are gearing up for battle. This time the foe is the United Nations, and the cause is the right to chew coca, the raw material of cocaine.
It may not sound as important as the diplomatic row that shook the region earlier this [...]
In its 127 page annual report, the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board {INCB} reported that governments across the world are failing to target cartels. Instead they are concentrating on small time users, which has led to the ‘rampant flow’ of drugs into fresh markets through new international trade routes.
For instance around 40% of the cocaine [...]
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 [...]
Enought marijuana to roll more than 200 joints. Was it worth it?
Constable John Parsons was arrested by Sgt Zamsheed Mohammed, the Court Prosecutor after Mohammed led a special exercise where every police officer who entered the prisoner lock-up was searched.
Parsons, 38, was charged with the possession of 134 grammes of marijuana compressed into three blocks [...]
