Key Cocaine Routes Closed, Feds Say | YaleGlobal Online
Key Cocaine Routes Closed, Feds Say US officials with the Drug Enforcement Administration have arrested another 50 cocaine smugglers, cutting the total supply of cocaine entering the US by 10 percent over five years. Colombia has long been the main source of cocaine for the American market, but smugglers have had to take a circuitous route through the Caribbean island nations to get to their drop off points in southern Florida. With the help of authorities in the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Colombia, Jamaica, and others, undercover American law enforcement agents have been able...