Originally Posted by RandyRandy

I'm sure local dealers will use any excuse to raise their prices, but the guys who owned this coke lost MAYBE $5 million, not almost a billion. 13,000 lbs. = 5909 kilos. I personally could buy a key in Bogota for 4 million pesos. Exchange rate is 1,890 to the $US. That's roughly $12 million for a Gringo in Bogota. For a drug lord in the jungle, it would be . . . Well, you do the math. Nice headline though. War on drugs, carry on.