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Tobacco Crackdown Aims to Douse Smuggling Efforts

Making supply chain more transparent among goals of international talks

Portfolio Portfolio Oct 29, 08 3:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Negotiators from over 150 countries are working with the World Health Organization to shape a proposal intended to combat the global trade in illegal cigarettes, Portfolio reports. Anti-tobacco advocates say current measures are insufficient to stem the illicit production or smuggling that accounts for 11% of worldwide tobacco sales, and robs countries of an estimated $50 billion in tax revenue. More »

More about:  cigarettes • tobacco • World Health Organization • cigarette • smuggling • counterfeit • counterfeiters • bar codes

Mexico Will Deport Cuban Migrants Headed for US

Crackdown aimed at drug, human trafficking

Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Oct 21, 08 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mexico agreed yesterday to deport Cubans passing through the country to reach the US, the Los Angeles Times reports. Increased US patrols in the waters between Cuba and Florida have smugglers using land routes through Mexico to transport would-be immigrants. Mexican authorities have arrested 2,000 undocumented Cubans this year, three times more than last year and 10 times more than 4 years ago. More »

More about:  United States • Mexico • Cuba • illegal immigration • drug cartel • human trafficking • smuggling

Drug Smugglers' Subs Could
Open US to Terrorists

Semi-submersibles are difficult to detect

Boston Globe Boston Globe Aug 17, 08 11:21 CDT
(Newser) - Semi-submersible boats used to smuggle drugs into the US could provide a path into the country for terrorists or their weapons, the Boston Globe reports. “If drug cartels can ship up to 10 tons of cocaine in a semi-submersible, they can clearly ship or rent space to a terrorist organization,” wrote a Navy official in a military journal. More »

More about:  terrorist • drug trafficking • smuggling • submarine • weapons of mass destruction • drug trade • boat • submersibles

Mexican Drug Lords' Guns Traced to US

Smuggling's a cinch
as officials look to immigration, drugs

Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Aug 10, 08 7:00 CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of powerful automatic weapons used by drug cartels in Mexico have been traced back to US shops, and little is being done to curb the guns’ flow southward, the Los Angeles Times reports. More than 90% of guns taken at the border and picked up after clashes come from the US; last year, 2,455 traced weapons originated here. More »

More about:  Mexico • drug cartel • weapon • border control • smuggling

OPINION

Prison of Cuban Baseball Ensnares US Agent, Too 

Case of Gus Dominguez, now in Calif. prison, sends author on island odyssey

Vanity Fair Vanity Fair Jun 13, 08 3:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Politics is keeping "at least half a billion dollars of baseball players in Cuba right now," one agent tells Michael Lewis as he investigates, for Vanity Fair , the case of an American sports agent now in jail for smuggling athletes. Gus Dominguez appears to be a victim of politics on the US side—though that web isn't half as tangled as the one facing athletes on Castro's island. More »

More about:  MLB • baseball • immigration • Cuba • smuggling

Wills Lands Splashy Training in Caribbean

Commanders decide against deploying prince to Persian Gulf

Associated Press Associated Press Jun 1, 08 1:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Instead of heading to duty in the Persian Gulf, one Sub Lieutenant Wales is set to embark on several weeks of training in the Caribbean with Britain's Royal Marines and Royal Navy. Prince William "commendably wanted to be as close to the front line as possible," says a rear admiral, but deployment to the Persian Gulf was considered too risky, the AP reports. More »

More about:  Great Britain • Prince William • Caribbean • smuggling • Royal Air Force • Royal Navy

 Cocaine Moves by Submarine 

New method confounds drug enforcement efforts

Economist Economist May 4, 08 10:36 CDT
(Newser) - Cocaine traffickers have embraced a startling new method to transport their product into America, the Economist reports: homemade submersibles. The cartels themselves seem to be producing the small craft, which descend to just below the waterline. They sport large cargo space and fuel tanks that allow them to sail far out to sea before dropping their payloads. More »

More about:  Mexico • drugs • Colombia • cocaine • drug cartel • smuggling • submarine

iPhone Runners Beat Apple
to Beijing

Official release is
TBA; smugglers get $600 for imports

New York Times New York Times Feb 18, 08 3:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Even as Apple toils to build exclusive deals with local phone companies and gradually release iPhones abroad, smugglers aren’t holding their breath, and the device is already taking China by storm. As many as one in three iPhones sold last year was unlocked and reprogrammed, the New York Times reports—a blow that could cost Apple $1 billion over the next 3 years. More »

More about:  China • Apple • iPhone • AT&T • smuggling

Chavez Linked to Columbian Drug Trade

FARC guerrillas run cocaine through Venezuela

Guardian (UK) Guardian (UK) Feb 3, 08 2:19 PM CST
(Newser) - Hugo Chavez recently grabbed headlines by brokering the release of two women held hostage by FARC, Colombia's guerrilla rebels. But Chavez was no neutral mediator: FARC operates openly in Venezuela, and even hand-in-hand with government agencies, both to wage war in Colombia and smuggle Colombian cocaine into Europe, the Guardian reports. More »

More about:  Colombia • Venezuela • Hugo Chávez • FARC • cocaine • drug cartel • smuggling

Sex Slaves Win Cash Damages

Ruling could open floodgates of compensation for thousands of others

Guardian (UK) Guardian (UK) Dec 16, 07 12:46 PM CST
(Newser) - In a groundbreaking decision, Britain has awarded four women smuggled from eastern Europe to the UK and subjected by their captors to "forced prostitution, multiple rapes and beatings" more than £140,000. The decision, the first to consider false imprisonment and forced prostitution as categories for awarding damages, will serve as a legal precedent, the Guardian reports. More »

More about:  China • Great Britain • Africa • prostitution • illegal immigrant • organized crime • human trafficking • smuggling • sex slave

UK Teens Guilty of Cocaine Smuggling in Ghana

16-year-olds may spend three years in detention

Times (UK) Times (UK) Nov 21, 07 5:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Two 16-year-olds were found guilty today of attempting to sneak $600,000 of cocaine from Ghana to Britain, the Times reports. The conviction could mean up to three years in a Ghanaian juvenile detention center for the British girls, who claimed they had been set up when they were arrested with the drugs hidden in computer bags at an airport in Accra. More »

More about:  Great Britain • United Kingdom • teenagers • cocaine • smuggling • Ghana

Boom Times
for Gaza Smugglers

Israel allows weapons, food, medicine, people to enter from Egypt

Economist Economist Nov 17, 07 5:59 CST
(Newser) - Gazan smugglers are doing land-office business since Israel blocked trade to the tiny strip, the Economist reports. Munitions, food, cigarettes—even a top seller, Viagra—are all being shuttled in full view of Israeli authorities. Why the free pass from Egypt to Gaza? The “reason for Israel’s forbearance” is unclear, reports the UK mag. More »

More about:  Israel • Gaza Strip • smuggling

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