> They even use a fleet of submarines, mini-subs, and semisubmersibles to ferry drugs -- sometimes, ingeniously, to larger ships hauling cargoes of hazardous waste, in which the insulated bales of cocaine are stashed. "Those ships never get a close inspection, no matter what country you're in,"
That's interesting...I wonder if these ships are actually getting inspected now (since the article is from 2002) since they are a known transportation vessel.
> The mainframe was loaded with custom-written data-mining software.
> Most of the cartels' technology is American-made; many of the experts who run it are American-trained.
American-trained or Americans? I wonder if 'hackers' actually go to these countries to earn some big bucks while developing some "cutting-edge" technologies.
I remember reading an article (That I cannot seem to find at the moment) about US border agents stopping a Cartel submarine dead in its tracks. What they found is a minimalistic submarine, capable of transporting a small load of product to a destination. They've found other submarines that have sunk due to their bad quality.
I think we're confusing actual military submarines with a makeshift version.
