Four men arrested with 500kg of cocaine off the Mexican coast
The Mexican navy has presented to the media four men who have been arrested on alleged charges of cocaine trafficking. The suspects were aboard the yacht “Fiona” when they were spotted by a US navy ship near to a group of volcanic islands off the Pacific coast of Mexico. When the suspects realised they had been spotted by the US navy they supposedly began to throw packets into the sea, set fire to the yacht and jumped into the sea. The US navy were able to rescue the suspects and packets of cocaine thrown from the ship that added up to the sum of 500kg
The Pacific coast of Mexico is an important point of entry for cocaine from South America which is later trafficked by land up to the US border. In 2006 about 52% of cocaine entered Mexico by sea.
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If the two will be convicted they will spend the rest of their lives on prison. That is a very long time. I hope they will get to thinking if what they did deserve losing the rest of their living lives. That is one of the consequences of using weeds. The government must work out to diminish the drug traffickers and drug users in the country. Many has destroyed lives because of this. Young ladies, please learn the value of hard work – so you can at least fulfill stupid materialistic desires by your own labor, i.e. working, and not have to end up like Yovanna Guzman. For 8 years, Yovanna Guzman dated Wilber Varela, one of the most psychopathic drug lords and drug trafficking kingpins in Columbia. She got jewelry, cars – and shot! Her "sugar daddy" shot her in the leg for insolence. (Glamorous, isn't it? Those are technically blood diamonds – and the blood was hers!) Valera was later assassinated by one of his own men. So let Yovanna Guzman serve as a warning – she luckily escaped with her life, but your better off getting personal loans for some stupid jewelry than shot.