Even more important for U.S. national security interests is that El Salvador is host to the U.S. Navy's primary Forward Operating Location (FOL) in Central America which is used to monitor and intercept drug traffic.

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And it's apparently because policing especially in Guinea-Bissau, which is the weakest link, is so poor that these Latin American, South American drug cartels are using this region as a major transit hub to especially traffic cocaine as the drug of choice, and that's on to Europe.

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Yet now technology's being developed that wirelessly, we can monitor in real time whether the patient has actually opened the cap, taken the drug and light up the United States like air traffic control, to know that these patients have taken or not taken the drug.

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Clearly, they have found their niche as they place their Redbox kiosks in high traffic consumer spots like grocery and drug stores.

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Most recently the US Ambassador to Caracas, William Brownfield, asserted that the amount of cocaine traffic through Venezuela has increased particularly since the cooperation between the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and Venezuela was suspended five years ago.

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By the late 1980's, drug cartels were estimated to control between 75 to 80 percent of the cocaine traffic, employ nearly 100, 000 Colombians and secure annual incomes of between two to four billion dollars.

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She had been investigating leading drug gangs in the Irish Republic when she was shot in her car as she waited at a traffic light.

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