Miami, controlled by the Cuban American National Foundation.

Not exactly the biggest pals Castro and/or Cuba ever had.

Known, is CANF, to have the largest concessions on G.I. Joe action figures and sharp pins in southern Florida.

go figure something else Clinton stepped around, and stead of taking care of the problem.

Doesn't surprise me about our goverment. I know a man who works for the DEA and he told me, 15 years ago, that all the cocaine "Comes thru" Washington, DC. We are a country of "Do as I say and not as I do"

HELLOO???DOES ANY1 REMEMBER MENA ARKANSAS?? THAT WAS WARE THE COKE WAS FLOWN TO UNDER GOVERNOR BILL CLINTON'S GOVERNOR REIGN OF TERROR ON THE PEOPLE OF AR.!!BARRY SEAL TOLD THE FEDS THAT OCHOA,LEAHDER WERE KNWN TO THE MENA AIRPORT WARE TONS OF THE DEVIL DUST WAS STORED!!CLINTON WAS A MAJOR PLAYER IN THE NON-WAR ON DRUGS!!!

It is my understanding Clinton colloborated with the CIA's George H W Bush to allow the CIA to import drugs into this country through Mena AR when he was governor. The continued importation of drugs while he was prez is no surprise. This country has had successive drug dealers in chief who would assassinate whomever to attain or maintain their positions of power.

I'm not surprised the Castro brothers are involved in the drug business as I've heard they are also involved in providing medical services to the FARC leader in Colombia and then smuggling him back in the country. I doubt if Chavez in Venezuela has clean hands either.

Hey he was using the money to pay for all that free healthcare and education. Because we all know that Cuba is like Disneyland all the time right?

Maybe its time to normalize relations with Cuba. Open communication tends to solve problems.

It does not suprise me that the justice department under the clinton administration didn't try to stop this. Again we find out more things that the clinton admin didn't do for this country because he was to "busy" in his office. It is likely that Fidel is going to die in the next few years and that idiot brother of his could take over and make things worse for our country when it comes to stopping the smuggling and traffiking of drugs into our country

Mr. Ross,

This was a well-known secret among the fly-for-hire community of pilots in the Caribbean. I know because I flew all over the Caribbean.

Thankls again President Clinton! It seems your administration was a gift that just keeps on giving! I see that the public school system is in trouble, because there are still a bunch of idiots that want to put Hillary.

Oh that wonderful Clinton administration that did so much for the USA!!!

WHATEVER!!!!!!!!!!

"There were numerous national security and intelligence issues that would have made the case difficult"

there is the interesting part of your article. oh if we could actually know the juicy stuff

No Bush-Bashing story??? What's wrong with Ross?

Legalize it!

OH!!! It's a cocaine story, that's how Bush's name will come up... At least Ross is not giving away surveillance secrets this week...

Cocaine Import Agency

"The officials say Castro, as Cuban Defense Minister, permitted Colombian drug lords to pay for the use of Cuban waters and airstrips as staging grounds for smuggling runs into the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s."

Hmm...let's see here...your god Reagan was president in the 1980's, with Poppy Bush as his VP for 8 years. Then Poppy Bush was president into the early 1990's. It would appear that Raul Castro stopped his bad habits WHILE Clinton was in office. But like so many other schemes (Iran-Contra), it was Republicans and the Bush machine that illegally smuggled tons of cocaine into this country, not Clinton, unleashed it in the inner cities and made it fashionable among the elite (including George Bush). There is ALWAYS an element of social engineering in politics, and those Republicans certainly know how to do it in underhanded ways.

Oh, and how much did gasoline cost per gallon under Clinton? Oh, and fewer people lived in poverty? Oh, that's right, weren't we working with a 3 trillion dollar excess because the economy did so extremely well under Clinton? and under Bush we have record deficits again? Yes Clinton-haters, YOU benefitted from his administration. You see, he governed for everyone, not just the wealthy. A rising tide then did indeed raise all boats, but somehow the Bush's (in Florida, in Texas, and in DC) are great at sinking good things straight to the bottom of the sea for all but the most expensive yachts.

Cocaine in Mena? That's up there with the little green men in Roswell. If anyone should have been indicted it was Colonel Ollie's cartel from which he skimmed millions as the Contras moved powder to the U.S.

If Clinton then Bush. All the conspiracy stories have both Bush Sr. and Clinton.

So, you can't believe those stories without painting Bush with the same brush. So what's your dang point anyway?

Agree that this is the point that needs investigation.
"There were numerous national security and intelligence issues that would have made the case difficult"
So, Brian and Vic, get back to us when you news people actually have something to say about that.