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Andean Group - September 2013 (ISSN 1741-4466)

SECURITY: “Maiquetía is to narcos what Memphis is for Federal Express: the hub"

The above quote dates from March 2007, and was given by a “foreign counter narcotics official” to the US daily The LA Times after a plane arriving in Mexico City from Venezuela’s main international airport was found to have onboard one tonne of Colombian cocaine stuffed into 25 suitcases. It was one of the biggest drug busts ever at Mexico City’s Benito Juárez international airport.

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