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Article: CUBA: INCREASE IN COCAINE SHIPMENTS VIA CUBA RENEWS DEBATE ABOUT POSSIBLE CUBAN-GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT.
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- NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
- Article date:
- February 18, 1999
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US authorities are worried that the amount of Colombian cocaine passing through Cuba is on the increase. The recent seizure of a large drug shipment from Colombia bound for Cuba has renewed charges that the Cuban government is directly involved in drug trafficking and money laundering. In France, a judge is reviewing allegations that President Fidel Castro is an international drug trafficker. On Dec. 5, 1998, Colombian police confiscated seven tons of cocaine at three Colombian ports. Police said the drugs, found in containers for shipping industrial resins, were to be transhipped through Cuba to Europe. In a speech to police officers in Havana, Castro said he believed ...