Dispatch From Kingston: Diplomacy and the Tivoli Don

There is a thunderstorm raging over Jamaica that threatens to capsize the island’s already hobbled economy and put its government in a diplomatic quandary with the United States. Last August, the U.S. Department of Justice issued an extradition warrant for the arrest of Christopher “Dudus” Coke, reputed don of West Kingston’s infamous Tivoli Gardens garrison. Coke, counted among the “world’s most dangerous narcotics kingpins” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), has been charged with conspiracy to traffic firearms and to distribute marijuana and cocaine.

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