Agents Uncover 'Most Sophisticated' Drug Tunnel in Years

Agen in California have found the "most sophisticated" drug tunnel in the year, the latest discovery in what one official called it "a huge phenomenon" in the war against drugs.

A U.S. spokesman Immigration and Customs Enforcement declined to provide details of the tunnel to run from Tijuana to San Diego, but said: "When we speak of a sophisticated tunnel, we are talking about a tunnel Several types of reinforcement and hard work she put in it to help them smuggle drugs in a more easy.

"In the past we have found a tunnel with a train and lighting and ventilation and all kinds of situations and is one of the largest we have discovered possibly ever, but not least the last five years," ICE spokesman said Lauren Mack.

The tunnel was discovered by the Task Force San Diego tunnel, in collaboration with the Mexican authorities, Mack said. The working group, whose sole job is to discover the drug-smuggling tunnels, consisting Protection agents from ICE, Customs and Border Control and Drug Administration.

More than 70 tunnels have been discovered by the federal government since October 2008, according to a report by The Associated Press, which first reported the new finding.

Earlier this month, U.S. authorities arrested 14 tons of marijuana in a reservoir connected by a tunnel of drugs from Mexico to southern San Diego. The tunnels are built with structural support and have electricity and ventilation. Only a few days ago a couple of similar tunnels discovered in Nogales Arizona border.

Mack said the tunnel has been "growing phenomenon in the last decade or more" for the cartel in Mexico trying to get their products into the hands of U.S. customers.

Marijuana is also found in the new tunnel and Mack said federal agents until the weight on Monday night. Amount, together with other details about the tunnel, is expected to be revealed at a press conference in San Diego at 17:00 ET.

Jamaica PM pins blame on lax counter-drug unit

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KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Bruce Golding said Thursday his government shook up an anti-drug police unit after Cuba complained that the force had been uncooperative in preventing Jamaican drug smugglers using speedboats and small planes to move narcotics.

Golding's announcement followed the publication of a leaked U.S. diplomatic memo that portrayed Jamaican anti-drug officers as being so unresponsive that more than a dozen Cuban officials privately vented their frustrations to a U.S. drug enforcer in 2009.

The August 2009 communique released by WikiLeaks said Cuban officials described officials in the neighboring Caribbean country as ignoring efforts to stop traffickers who use Cuban waters and airspace to transport narcotics destined for the U.S. It was apparently written by America's chief diplomat to Cuba.

Golding said Thursday that Cuban Interior Ministry officials had voiced the same concerns directly to his government last year, and as a result, the head of a counter-drug police unit was replaced and the law enforcement agency was reshuffled. The identity of the unit commander was withheld.

Since then, the prime minister said, there has been "full and active cooperation between Jamaica and Cuba on counter-narcotics surveillance and interdiction, and no concern has been expressed by officials of the Cuban government."

Officers from the new counter-drug unit and other personnel have made several visits to Cuba, the most recent about a month ago, to brainstorm strategies in combating drug traffickers, Golding said.

Still, the image of Cuban Interior Ministry officials so frustrated that they would complain to an American envoy is stark, especially since crime has long slowed economic growth in Jamaica.

Jamaica slipped into a cycle of violence in the 1970s, when rival political factions armed gangs to rustle up votes and intimidate opponents. The situation worsened in the 1980s as Jamaica emerged as a transshipment point for South American cocaine.

The placid tourist resorts that dot Jamaica's coastlines remain virtually crime-free, but the government is in the midst of the toughest anti-gang crackdown in the island's history elsewhere.

The main opposition party, the People's National Party, said Jamaica has a sullied image in the international community "arising from the perception (if not the reality) that the current government is at best soft on drugs."



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30,000 killed in Mexico's drug violence since 2006

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MEXICO CITY – Mexico said Thursday that more than 30,000 people have been killed in drug violence since President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown against cartels in late 2006.

The government said the violent La Familia cartel in western Mexico has been "systematically weakened" by recent arrests and deaths of leading members of the gang.

Attorney General Arturo Chavez Chavez told reporters that about 12,500 people were killed between January and November, compared to 9,600 for all of 2009. That was an increase from the last official report of deaths in the drug war, in August, when the country's intelligence agency director said 28,000 had died.

In a joint statement later Thursday, Chavez Chavez's office, the army, federal police and navy said the La Familia cartel was reeling from the recent deaths or arrests of some of it leaders. It said the cartel had begun to pursue false propaganda campaigns depicting itself as a protector of inhabitants of the western state of Michoacan.

"The systematic weakening of this criminal group due to the actions of the federal government has forced some of its members to adopt false rhetoric about helping the people of Michoacan, when in fact their operational methods are to terrorize and rob them," according to the statement.

That was an apparent reference to a Dec. 9 recording by La Familia leader Servando Gomez, who urged cartel supporters over a radio frequency to continue fighting, hours after the death of the group's leader, Nazario Moreno, nicknamed "The Craziest One" or "The Doctor."

"God is with us, onward to victory!" Gomez is heard saying in the tape, in which he urged cartel supporters to join recent demonstrations calling for the withdrawal of federal police and the army. Gomez is also heard complaining that the government had not accepted the cartel's offer to declare a temporary truce.

In its statement, the federal government stressed it would not negotiate with cartels. "The only option that remains for these criminals to hand themselves over to the authorities," it said.

The statement also stressed that federal forces are in Michoacan largely because local and state police are unable to handle the fight against the cartel. It noted that only 15 percent of state police officers and only 9 percent of municipal officers in Michoacan had been vetted or subject to background checks.

Many local police forces have been accused of collaborating with drug gangs.

Also Thursday, the navy reported it has seized 240 200-liter (53 gallon) drums of a precursor chemical used to make methamphetamines. It said the shipment was seized Thursday at the Gulf coast port of Altamira.



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