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When most people think of cocaine smuggling, they revert to images of the Colombian jungle, or perhaps the ongoing drug war in Mexico. What many people may not know is that Venezuela has been eyeball-deep in the drug trafficking business for a long time,.
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The senior citizens posed as tourists taking cruise holidays around South America to pick up packages of the drug to bring back to Spain, police said.
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