End of preview - This article contains approximately 277 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 16 August 2005
CUBA: Cartel insider confirms Castro's cocaine venture
Fidel Castro's involvement in the US-bound traffic of Colombian drugs has been confirmed by a jailed lieutenant of the late Medellín cartel boss Pablo Escobar. He has also confirmed Escobar's role as the financier of the bloody November 1985 raid on Colombia's supreme court by M-19 guerrillas.
- Toledo precipitates a crisis, loses his sole ally and calls in a saviour
- VENEZUELA-US: Chávez 'severs all contact' with DEA
- VENEZUELA: Pro-government camp sweeps elections
- VENEZUELA: Winning friends and influencing people
- BRAZIL: Black Friday leaves Lula facing possible impeachment
- PARAGUAY: Duarte wants relief on binational dam debts
- Tracking Trends
- MEXICO: Congress makes violence a political issue
- MEXICO-US: Once again, tourists are mistaken for terrorists
- Tracking Trends
- HAITI: Lavalas finally decides to register
- NICARAGUA: Caputo claims breakthrough in resumption of 'dialogue'
- SURINAME: Venetiaan begins third term relying on new ally
- Tracking Trends
- The latest data
- CUBA: Cartel insider confirms Castro's cocaine venture
- Quotes of the week