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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (167573)	7/1/2009 4:26:25 AM
From: Gib Bogle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 312825

I read online a piece about this. wired.com The authorities have known about this method for some time, as you say. It is extremely frustrating for them, because when detected the baddies scuttle their vessel in deep water, effectively destroying the evidence and, adding insult to injury, turning the police mission from capture into rescue. Tangentially, a few days ago I spent an evening with a Colombian guy I met at a hotel in Costa Rica. He is now a Canadian, having been forced out of Colombia (he said) by the people who stole his land and threatened to kill him if he stayed to try to get it back. According to him, the "drug war" has really been a war for control of the drug business, and it has been won by the CIA. As evidence he pointed to the fact that the flow of cocaine into the US continues unabated, while the cartel king-pins are either dead or in jail. I was interested but sceptical. In any case, it is clear that Colombia has been run by murderous thugs for the past 50 years. Definitely a good place to leave.