Reply #16: You're right. There couldn't be a better example of Bush stupidity [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

than his having Ashcroft announce he had raised the bounty on a Colombian drug dealer, and Cuba caught the guy. _Bush has shoved away Cuba's offers to cooperate in drug investigations, etc. and now Cuba has their guy. Cuba holding Colombian drug kingpin
U.S. has $5 million reward for his arrest, but no extradition pact
Sunday, July 11, 2004 Posted: 0000 GMT (0800 HKT)


HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuba's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that it was holding one of Colombia's top drug kingpins, Luis Hernando Gomez Bustamante.

Bustamante, alias Rasguno, was captured when he entered the country July 2 on a false passport.

The top figure in the Northern Valle drug cartel was being held at an Interior Ministry center for crimes against state security, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

U.S. authorities describe Northern Valle cartel as Colombia's largest and most-feared narcotics organization. The heir to the now-defunct Medellin and Cali cartels is accused of smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States during the past decade.
(snip/...)http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/07/10/colombia.druglord/