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The World - News from July 12, 1988

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Colombian drug traffickers have turned to Haiti as a new haven and transit point for cocaine shipments to the United States, in part because leaders of Haiti’s military government are allegedly involved in the narcotics trade, Senate investigators were told. A leader of Miami’s Haitian community and a federal drug enforcement official testified before a Senate subcommittee that Colombians are establishing businesses in Haiti as fronts for drug trafficking.

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