41. The brownstone was owned by her uncle, Norman Little, the head of a major drug operation who enlisted her to sell the drugs that day. 42. The drug interdiction operation involved an American surveillance plane, operated by the CIA with a contract crew, and a Peruvian Air Force fighter. 43. The Guatemalan military has the power to stop U.S. drug operations any time it wishes. 44. The shooting was the fourth incident in the last four months in which a police officer was hit by gunfire after an undercover drug operation had gone awry. 45. The U.S.-orchestrated crackdown on the cartels inside Colombia in recent years has pushed the center of drug trafficking operations northward, closer to the U.S. border. 46. The U.S. Coast Guard has played a more active role in drug intervention operations, but it is funded through the U.S. Department of Transportation. 47. The vision is a central post from which U.S. spy planes and radar could monitor Latin American drug operations and coordinate interdiction efforts with regional governments. 48. United States and Colombian officials say the drug operations have paid the rebel group hundreds of millions of dollars in protection money. 49. Pickering said drug operations have poured into Colombia because highly effective counterdrug operations in Peru and Bolivia forced traffickers to relocate there. 50. Pastrana has refrained from calling the guerrillas drug traffickers, despite ample evidence that they tax drug operations to finance their fight. |