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Newsbrief:
Report
Says
Post
September
11
Security
Not
Stopping
Drugs
7/5/02
Drug traffickers have proven
impervious to US efforts to make the nation's borders more impermeable,
according to a new report from the World Customs Organization (WCO), an
international body seeking to rationalize and harmonize customs requirements.
In its annual report, "Customs and Drugs," the WCO found that security
measures implemented in the wake of last September's attacks on New York
and Washington had a "negligible" effect on global drug trafficking.
According to the WCO report,
new security measures led to a decrease in illicit drugs delivered by air
to the US last September and October, but that effect has vanished as traffickers
adapt to the new environment. By November, the WCO said, business
was back to normal.
The report also found that
South American cocaine trafficking through Mexico continues to increase
despite the billions spent in recent years by the US to suppress Colombian
and Bolivian coca growers and cocaine traffickers.
But hey, at least we busted
Dionne Warwick and her lipstick case full of joints at the Miami airport.
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Issue #244, 7/5/02
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