CALI, Colombia (AP) -- Police dismantled what they called Colombia's leading heroin-trafficking ring Wednesday, making 49 arrests in pre-dawn raids in four cities backed by U.S. drug agents.
Dubbed "Operation Millennium II," the sweep coincided with a Washington visit by President Andres Pastrana to lobby U.S. lawmakers for approval of a $1.7 billion aid package for fighting narcotics in this turbulent Andean nation.Some 1,500 police officers took part in Wednesday's operation, which national police director Gen. Rosso Jose Serrano said demonstrates Colombia's "unbreakable will to keep fighting drug traffickers."
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