The same Guatemalan military intelligence chiefs who were responsible for “engineering” what a U.N. Truth Commission later concluded were “acts of genocide,” were later accused by U.S. officials of trafficking cocaine.
Two U.S. soldiers were arrested in Bogotá over arms and ammunition bound for an illegal paramilitary group identified by the State Department of being both a drug-trafficking and terrorist organization.
“LEAA is one of a new breed of shadowy front groups that is willing to serve as a corporate money conduit and attack dog to benefit GOP candidates.” It’s been quietly funded by National Rifle Association grants.
Both the PBS series and the NPR panel also present a number of former American drug war veterans who have since changed their own views who said that U.S. efforts in the “war on drugs” are falling short.
No country so small has ever moved so much cocaine north. Earlier in this decade, about 50 to 75 metric tons of cocaine passed through Guatemala each year, according to the State Department.
Something new and promising happened in Guatemala last month when Judge Marco Tulio Molina Lara sentenced ex-Army Lt. Col. Carlos Ochoa Ruiz to 14 years in prison for trafficking in cocaine.
SOUTH OF HAVANA, CUBA –The white 57 Dodge convertible has perfect banana yellow underpanels with tall matching fins, even though its passenger…
