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Think you're a smuggler With that box of Cuban cigars or those unclaimed duty-free souvenirs from last summer's trip to Paris Untaxed and untraced commerce-call it contraband-is a trillion-dollar-per-year global business. New technologies to discover and curb smuggling are met by equally well-equipped perpetrators, determined to stay below the radar. brWith its long coastline, hundreds of remote landing strips and airports clogged with sun-seeking tourists, Florida is a superhighway of smuggling. It is easy to move illegal goods like weapons, drugs, slaves, exotic birds and flowers all while avoiding the best efforts of U.S. and international customs authorities. brWho does this smuggling Well one Florida governor and the wife of another, for starters. Hardscrabble commercial fishermen, Spanish explorers, Mafia mobsters, crew chiefs for fruit pickers, respected attorneys, just about everybody in Florida is a smuggler. brSmuggling touches every major episode in Florida's history it's di

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