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To: wideawake

Here's another story revealing the filthy underside of the WOD.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4443700.stm

From the article:

Guatemala's top anti-drug investigator, Adan Castillo, has been charged in the US with drug-trafficking.
Mr Castillo, who is accused of conspiring to import and distribute cocaine in the US, was detained after arriving in the country .....


... Mr Castillo was in the US state of Virginia for a training course on how to fight drug trafficking through ports when he was arrested, Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Vielman said.

The arrests were "a strong blow to the infiltration of organised crime in the structures of the Guatemalan government," Mr Vielman said at a news conference in Guatemala City.

US officials confirmed the arrest.

In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Mr Castillo said he was frustrated in his job because corruption in the Guatemalan government made fighting drug smugglers impossible, and that he was ready to quit after just six months in his post.

Guatemala is a major staging post for cocaine that is trafficked from Colombia to the US.

US officials believe 75% of the cocaine that arrives in the US travels through Guatemala.




Illegal Drugs is an industry with the usual raft of politicians in its pocket.


94 posted on 11/16/2005 8:26:59 PM PST by headsonpikes (The Liberal Party of Canada are not b*stards - b*stards have mothers!)
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To: headsonpikes

I'm not debating the existence of corruption in drug enforcement. It's well-attested.


97 posted on 11/17/2005 6:24:57 AM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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