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The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels
12/12/2011

In the past five years, more than 100 drug tunnels between Mexico and the U.S. have been discovered. This is double the number found over the before 15 years. Not only are they growing in number, but the tunnels are attractive much more sophisticated, including llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
share this: rail systems, hydraulic elevators, and secret entrances (one opened via a fake water tap). From the article: "When draftsman Felipe de Jesus Corona built Mexico's most mighty drug lord a 200-foot-long tunnel under the U.S.-Mexican border with a hydraulic lift ingress opened by a fake water tap, the kingpin was impressed. The maker 'made me one f---ing cool tunnel' Joaquin 'Shorty' Guzman said, according to rule to court demonstration that helped sentence Corona to 18 years in prison in 2006. Built below a pool table in his lawyer's home, the tunnel was among the first of an increasingly worldly-wise




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part of speech:adjective
definition:mixed with other substances.
adulterated drug transport system used by Guzman's Sinaloa cartel. U.S. customs agents seized more than 2,000 pounds of cocaine which had allegedly been smuggled along the subterranean route."



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