A New Front On The War On Drugs

Photo: A U.S. Coast Guard cutter, guided by aircraft from Customs and Border Patrol, captured this so-called "narco sub" - packed with cocaine - off the coast of Colombia last month. Coast Guard

Sinking To New Lows: Drug Cartels Take Trafficking To The Sea In Custom-Built, Cocaine-Laden 'Narco Subs' -- Houston Chronicle

Drug traffickers are spending $1 million a pop to build boats that look like submarines and can carry 4 tons of cocaine for 2,000 miles without refueling.

Nicknamed "narco subs," they're made to sneak loads up from South America to Mexico, where the drugs are offloaded and taken overland into the United States.

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My Comment: I have posted stories about the use of subs by drug traffickers before .... this is just an update on what has been happening on our coastlines for the past few months.

Interestingly, the sentence that best captures the mindset of these trackers is the last line in this Houston Chronicle Post ....

...."They are courageous," he said. "A little bit of courage; little bit of stupidity; little bit of desperation; a lot of criminality - interesting mix."