News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Mexican Cartel Behind Cocaine Seizure

The Associated Press

By KATHIA MARTINEZ

March 22, 2007

Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel was behind the record 20-ton cocaine shipment that was seized by the U.S. Coast Guard off Panama's Pacific Coast last weekend, officials said Thursday.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has called the seizure, worth nearly $300 million, the largest ever by the Coast Guard. The drugs were found in containers on a ship that left Guyana and passed through the Panama Canal on March 15 on the way to the Mexican state of Sinaloa, said Panama's top drug prosecutor, Jose Almengor.

Coast Guard officials detained 11 Mexicans and three Panamanians during the seizure Sunday about 20 miles southeast of the island of Coiba off Panama's coast. The Mexicans will be taken to the U.S. to face trial, while the Panamanians will be jailed in Panama.

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