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Report rips Venezuela, Bolivia WASHINGTON -- Drug traffickers are adjusting to law enforcement pressures in Mexico by shifting their operations to smuggling corridors in Central America and the Caribbean, the State Department said Monday. In a 2009 survey of global counter-narcotics efforts, the department singled out Bolivia and Venezuela for not doing enough to stop drug trafficking. It cited Bolivia for creating conditions favorable to expanded drug production. And it said Venezuela is doing too little to stop shipments of illegal drugs from clandestine airstrips on its territory, though it credited Venezuela with increased seizures of illicit drugs in 2009.
SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. - Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggled immigrants to cultivate them.See the full content of this document
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Drug Gangs Taking Over U.S. Public Lands?
Pot has been grown on public lands for decades, but Mexican traffickers have taken it ...
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