Bush Imposes U.S. Sanctions on 'Drug Kingpins'- (Peru Airline Owner)

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Mexican drug gangs and eight people the United States considers drug kingpins were placed on a U.S. sanctions list on Tuesday in an attempt to cut down on the illicit drug trade.

President Bush acted under the 1999 Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Determination Act that targets foreign narcotics traffickers, their organizations and operatives in order to deny them access to the U.S. financial system and all trade and transactions involving U.S. companies and individuals.

Cited by Bush were the Arellano Felix Organization of Mexico; Eduardo Ramon Arellano Felix of Mexico; Francisco Javier Arellano Felix of Mexico; Carrillo Fuentes Organization of Mexico; Armando Valencia Cornelio of Mexico; Norris Nembhard of Jamaica; Leebert Ramcharan of Jamaica; Fernando Melciades Zevallos Gonzales of Peru;/b] Iqbal Mirchi of India; and Haji Bashir Noorzai of Afghanistan.



http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5314618
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British Journalist Must Stay in Peru

Saturday May 22, 2004 5:46 AM


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LIMA, Peru (AP) - A British journalist was ordered to remain in Peru ahead of a libel trial over a book she wrote saying a Peruvian airline mogul was believed to be a major cocaine trafficker.

Sally Bowen, a former correspondent for the Financial Times and author of two books about Peruvian politics, told The Associated Press that Judge Nelson Guillermo Yampufe signed the order May 12.

Bowen, a 15-year Lima resident, co-authored ``The Imperfect Spy: The Many Lives of Vladimiro Montesinos,'' about Peru's now-imprisoned former intelligence chief.

The book, published last year,- a former informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration - as saying that Fernando Zevallos, founder of Aero Continente airlines, was a leading Peruvian drug trafficker.

In March, Zevallos slapped Bowen and co-author Jane Holligan with a civil lawsuit seeking $10 million from the authors and their publisher. Bowen said the judge's letter also directs the authors to make preliminary declarations on May 28 in a new criminal investigation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4118930,00.html

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Judge Lifts Travel Restrictions Against Journalist
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2976664

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