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...Manta base will be one of the most high-profile casualties of the Andean fracas. U.S. officials argue the Manta FOL has played a key role improving drug interdiction as the southern tip of a triangle that includes U.S. FOLs in El Salvador and the Caribbean island of Curacao. They estimate those three FOLs intercepted, in street-value terms, $4.2 billion worth of cocaine and other drugs in 2007. But many anti-drug experts in the U.S. nonetheless argue the bases are expendible in the larger interdiction picture. In the town of Manta itself the base, which has an annual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecuador Targets a U.S. Air Base | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...emailed an associate of Bout in November to arrange for an arms shipment FARC. Using the code words "farming equipment" in the emails, Bout's intermediary allegedly planned for 100 Russian-made Ingla surface-to-air missiles to be air-dropped into FARC territory inside Colombia. After meetings in Curacao, Copenhagen and Bucharest, the DEA, through confidential sources, arranged for Bout to travel to Bangkok, Thailand to finalize the deal on March 6. That's when the Royal Thai police, working with the DEA, arrested him on charges of providing material support of a foreign terrorist organization, a designation slapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Lord of War Was Nabbed | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

With all the high school kids running around the Square and the administration trying to shut the campus down this weekend, you’re gonna need a stiff drink to get through the Head of the Charles. 1 part Vodka 1/2 part Curacao Orange, Pineapple, and Grapefruit juice to fill

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drinky Drink | 10/19/2005 | See Source »

...accomplishments, between ends and means. You do not find that balance in the Bush Administration's planning. The result is not a bad strategy but no strategy at all. War is the continuation of politics by other means. Didn't the U.S. learn anything from Vietnam? CLAUDIO LEMA POSE Curacao, Netherlands Antilles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 24, 2004 | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

Their favorite drinks include the Blue Hawaii (vodka, pineapple juice and Blue Curacao) and Gin and Tonics for black light parties because of the fluorescent quinine. They also praise their house specialty—the Magnum 313 with Rum, Vodka, Cranberry Juice, OJ and a secret ingredient (it’s Sprite...

Author: By C.l. Griggs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get the Party Started | 9/25/2003 | See Source »

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