Inside Mexico's Drug Tunnels

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Enforcement
Though the authorities have many sophisticated tools at their disposal — by 2014, it is projected that most of the border aboveground will be monitored by sensor-equipped towers — most tunnels are uncovered through human intelligence. There is, as yet, no easy way to detect the tunnels below ground.

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