The 18 Mexicans said they were journalists from their
country’s main television broadcaster, Televisa. They wore the company T-shirt,
and the six vans they drove into Nicaragua bore the orange Televisa logo.
The vans contained equipment including computers and
cameras. Oh, and also $9.2 million in cash hidden in secret compartments and traces
of cocaine.
The exposure of the 18 has proved one of the most vivid
illustrations to date of the well-known but often unseen spread of Mexican drug
operations deep into Central America, long a conduit and increasingly a base of
storage, production and marketing for Mexican cartels.
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