The Nation - News from Nov. 18, 1986
Capt. Etienne Boerenveen, called the No. 2 man in Suriname’s military government, was sentenced in Miami to 12 years in U.S. prison for offering his South American nation as a stopover for Colombian cocaine dealers for a fee of $1 million a load. He was convicted last September of conspiring to import cocaine and of travel in furtherance of the conspiracy. Boerenveen, 28, and two others, who were given lighter sentences, were arrested last March aboard a yacht in Biscayne Bay, Fla.
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