Colombia nabs major cocaine smuggler wanted by U.S.

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BOGOTA - Colombian police struck a blow against the country's top drug cartel by capturing a trafficker accused of smuggling about 100 tons of cocaine to the United States, officials said on Sunday. Juan Rivera was arrested in the city of Cali after a six-month manhunt. He is wanted for extradition by U.S. courts in Florida and was second in command of the Norte del Valle cartel, Colombia's biggest cocaine smuggling gang.

[Our best ally in the region - not that you'd know it by Congress' stone walling of the free trade agreement it desperately needs at the behest of our labor unions.]

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