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Dantheman62 · 04-06-2009, 03:54 AM

Here's some info on drugs coming into Mexico from Columbia........

BOGOTA – It's a game played out regularly on the high seas off Colombia's Pacific coast: A U.S. Navy helicopter spots a vessel the size of a humpback whale gliding just beneath the water's surface.

A Coast Guard ship dispatches an armed team to board the small, submarine-like craft in search of cocaine. Crew members wave and jump into the sea to be rescued, but not before they open flood valves and send the fiberglass hulk and its cargo into the deep.

Colombia has yet to make a single arrest in such scuttlings because the evidence sinks with the so-called semi-submersible.

A new U.S. law and proposed legislation in Colombia aim to thwart what has become South American traffickers' newest preferred means of getting multi-ton loads to Mexico and Central America.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090405/...bia_narco_subs

Sun Apr 5, 1:02 PM ET

A sailor walks past homemade semi-submersible vessels, seized on land by Colombian authorities from drug traffickers, at the Bahia Malaga Navy base, on Colombia's Pacific coast, Thursday, March 26, 2009. Though 11 semi-subs loaded with cocaine were interdicted last year in international waters, the US Coast Guard believes that dozens more have delivered their cargo.(AP Photo/Christian Escobar Mora)

04-06-2009, 03:54 AM	#28
Dantheman62 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: So. Cal. U.S. Posts: 4,205	Re: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S. Here's some info on drugs coming into Mexico from Columbia........ BOGOTA – It's a game played out regularly on the high seas off Colombia's Pacific coast: A U.S. Navy helicopter spots a vessel the size of a humpback whale gliding just beneath the water's surface. A Coast Guard ship dispatches an armed team to board the small, submarine-like craft in search of cocaine. Crew members wave and jump into the sea to be rescued, but not before they open flood valves and send the fiberglass hulk and its cargo into the deep. Colombia has yet to make a single arrest in such scuttlings because the evidence sinks with the so-called semi-submersible. A new U.S. law and proposed legislation in Colombia aim to thwart what has become South American traffickers' newest preferred means of getting multi-ton loads to Mexico and Central America. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090405/...bia_narco_subs Sun Apr 5, 1:02 PM ET A sailor walks past homemade semi-submersible vessels, seized on land by Colombian authorities from drug traffickers, at the Bahia Malaga Navy base, on Colombia's Pacific coast, Thursday, March 26, 2009. Though 11 semi-subs loaded with cocaine were interdicted last year in international waters, the US Coast Guard believes that dozens more have delivered their cargo.(AP Photo/Christian Escobar Mora)