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latimes.com - 12/14/2008

In Colombia, they call him Captain Nemo - Los Angeles Times

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Reporting from Tumaco, Colombia -- Squat, bull-necked and sullen-looking, Enrique Portocarrero hardly seems a dashing character out of a Jules Verne science fiction novel. But law enforcement officers here have dubbed him "Captain Nemo," after the dark genius of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." ...

strategypage.com - 12/15/2008

Mexico: Iraq Is Safer

— strategypage.com — December 15, 2008: This month, about 26 people a day are dying from criminal and terrorist violence a day in Iraq. That's a bit lower than the death toll in northern Mexico, which on a bad day (like last November 3rd) saw 58 people killed. The police ... (more) Mexico: Iraq Is Safer

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— neptunuslex.com — A number of years ago I noted this strange conundrum: Go to the local 7-11 and you’d see a family of first generation immigrants - people from God-knows-where - working 12 on, 12 off shifts. Flying from the stultification of the old ... (more) Immigrants

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In Colombia, they call him Captain Nemo
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... that involved U.S. and British counter-narcotics agents, Colombia's FBI equivalent, the Department of Administrative Security, arrested Portocarrero last month in the violent port city of Buenaventura, where he allegedly led a double life as a shrimp fisherman. A day later, they descended on Portocarrero's hidden "shipyard" in a mangrove swamp 20 miles south of here and destroyed two of the vessels, which police say were each capable of carrying 8 tons of cargo. Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cap... There is a great photo of the "submarine" this ...