Cuba admits shipping illegal weapons through Panama Canal

Originally published on July 17, 2013

Reuters reports that "Cuba said a North Korean cargo ship seized in Panama on Monday was loaded at one of its ports with 10,000 tons of sugar and 240 tons of 'obsolete defensive weaponry,' according to a statement released on Tuesday (July 16) by the Cuban Foreign Ministry. Cuba said the weapons were being sent back to North Korea for repair and included two anti-aircraft batteries, nine disassembled rockets, and two MiG-21 aircraft, all Soviet-era military weaponry built in the middle of the last century.

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