Here is an interesting article from TIME magazine about the lucrative cocaine-smuggling trade up the Caribbean coast. This one seems much more up-to-speed than some of the other articles floating around on the internet about cocaine and the coast. Ever since the “white lobsters” started washing up on Nicaragua’s Caribbean shore a decade ago, life [...]
…continued from part 2 Looking for rides is a real test of patience and attitude. You have to be willing to wait days, ever at the ready, for a boat that may leave with 5-mintues notice. I was nearly ready to give up heading south when I found a guy going to Walpa Siksa with [...]
Jeff had been working half of his life in the oil industry in the states and spoke as clearly as a news anchor on TV. ”Hell no I don’t trust the police down here,” he said. “Once I found two packets of drugs on the beach in Port (Puerta Cabezas). Each one about as big [...]
Cocaine sells for $5,000 per kilo on the southern Nicaraguan coast. That’s what Delry told me. But back when he found 36 kilos in Spanish creek it went for $2,500 per kilo. “I done carry it ta Bluefields an sell it all. Den I gone ta my mamma’s house an I throw all deh money [...]
Casey, that's who. I have been living on the Caribbean coast since 2008. I love introducing people to this little part of the world!
