JPRS ID: 9312 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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25 September 1980
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NARCOTICS AND DANG~ROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 40/80)
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_ WORLDWIDE ?,EPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 40/80)
CONTENTS
A3IA
BURMA
Commonwealth Meeting Propoeea Meaeurea Against Drug Menace
(THE WORRING PEOPZE'S DAILY, 7 Sep 80) 1
Study Group Set Up
Drastic Measurea Ca11~d For
Briefs
Heroin, Syringe Seized From Three Men 4
HONG KONG
Auatralians Probe Failed Bank's Drug World Ties
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 28 Aug 80) 5
MALAYSIA
Continuing Nar^^tic Drug Trafficking Reported ~
(Various sourcea, 25 Jul 80) 6
Addicte Convicted of Murder
Sentenced to Prieon
Drug Peddler Arreated
Two Malays Ar~eated
Police Arrest Threa More
NEW ZEALAND -
Briefa
Cannabis Shipment Unlocated 10
Customa Agent Sentenced 10
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PAKISTAN
Briefs
Contraband Opium Seized 11
CANADA
Briefs
Thai Convicted on Heroin Charge 12
LATIN AMERICA
BOLIVZA .
Further Reportage on Military Drug Connection
(Various eourcea~ various dates) 13
- Cocaine Threat to United Statea,
by Gregorio Selser ~
Bolivian Connection
Poesible U.S. Meseurea,
by Gregorio Selser
Cocaine and Bolivian Regime, Editorial
CRILE
- Briefs
Arrest of Drug Traffickere 24 ~
COLOMBIA
Justice Minister: Guerrillas, Traffickere Cooperate
(EL ESPECTADOR, 4 Aug 80) 25
Police Unita Claeh, Traffickera Captured
(EL TIEMPO, 12 Aug SO) 28
Binci Peraonnel, Civilian 3eiaed With�Cocaine
(EL ESPECTADOR, 9 Aug 80) 30 _
Governor Refutes Police Charges
(EL ESPECTADOR, 24 Jul 80) 32
Army Arresta 15 in Variou~ Aaids
(EL TIE1~0, 27 Jul 80) 35
Clandestine Airfield To Be Dqnamited
(Pedro Lara Castibl8nco; EL ESPECTADOR, 7 Aug 80) 36
Briefe
Navy Employee Seized With Cocaine 3g
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MEXICO
Trafficking Among Prisonere Increases '
(EL SOL DE MEXICO, 15 .iul 80) 39
Sicilia Falcon Triea Another Eacape
(EXCELSIOR, 27 Jul 80) 41
Four Traffickers Captured~ Heroin Seized
(EL SOL DE SINALOA, 23 Aug 80) 42
Long Jail Sentence Sought for Large-Scale Trafficker
(EL MANANA, 16 Aug 80) 44
Bri~fs
Police Collusion Charged 46
Heroin Laboratory Found 46
Entertainer Arrested With Cocaine 46
Mexican Antidrug Effort Lauded 47
Marihuana Destroyed in Morelos 47
PERU
Briefs
Police Identify Cocaine Area 48
Drug Traffickers Fort 48
VENEZUELA
Gen.eral on Drug Cfiarge Confueion
~AFP, 10 Sep 80) 49
NEAR E~AST AND NORTH AFRICA
SUDAN
Feature Article on Bango Drug Trade
(SUDANOW, Aug 80) 5Q
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
KENYA
Police Action Against Bhang Growers, Poase~sora Noted
(DAI~.Y NATION, 2, 5, 10 Sep 80) 54
Fine for Growir.g Bhang
Four Charged With Posaession
Bhang Seized, Smokera Arrea~ed
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WEST EUROPE
FRANCE
- Asian Drug Traffickers Active in France
(Irinia de Chikoff, Lucien-James Meteye;
LE FIGARO, 21 Aug 80) 56
Drug Trafficking Increasing Qn Riviera
(Marie-7.'hereae Guichard; LE POINT, 25 Aug 80) 59
Majority of Drug 'Paesers' Found To Be Turka
(Roger Colombani; LE MATIN, 13 Aug 80) 61
ICELAND
Briefs
Hashish Smuggled From Denmark 65
NORWAY
Cuatoms Service Reports Increase in Heroin Seizures
(CaCo Guhnfeldt; AFTENPOSTEN, 5 Aug 80) 66
PORTUGAL
Yaeht Carrying Hashish Diacovered by Police
(Luis Godinho; A TARDE, 30 Jul 80) 68
SPAIN
Six Tons of Hashish Confiecated During Firet Half of 1980
~YA, 24 Jun SO) 70
Malaga Police Capture Hashiah Traffickers
(LA VANGUARDIA, 18 Jun 80) 7i
- Briefs
Persona Arrested, Haehish Confiacated 72
TURKEY
'MILLIYET' Examin.es Narcotics~ Arms, Terror Triangle
(Editorial, Orean Oyman; MILLIYET~ 31 Aug 80) 73
Briefs
Hashiah, Heroin Seizurea Reported 76
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UNITED KINGDOri
Britain Reported To Be Key Market for Drug Smugglers
(THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 31 Jul, 13 Aug 80) 77
'Major Heroin Market'
Heroin Smuggling Riees, by T. A. Sandrock
Record Hard Druga Seizurea, by T. A. Sandrock ~
Editorial Calls for Action,
Briefs
Record Opium Find 81
Cocaine Seized by Yard 81
Car Chase Yields Druge 81
Heroin Sentence 81
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BURMA
COP4IONWEALTH MEETING PROPOSES MEASURES AGAINST DRUG MENACE _
Study Group Set Up
~ Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 7 Sep 80 p 3
L T ex t ~ ~Dj!IBARTA. 6 Sept-~iembers of Parlisment
cf ffie five As~oci~tdon of So~tb-$sst Asisa Ns-
tioas ~(ASEArT) ma~tbers decid~d on s pro.
y~ame li~; c~aqp~oa 3a oombatin~
den~~ sbuso ia ffie sej~ost-~ooe ~of tbe ceatres of
the woeld's lltepl mrooNcs ts~da -
- '1'~'se g~eneral asaembly tica ' aad theu ....a'buse, ASEAN, reaffimxd their
of the :,'ASEAN I~ter- smd al~o have bilata
- Parliameatary Orgn~izr~- ral prog with other commitment to atc+tagthea
tioa (AIpO) ag3rcd tQ ~et non-ASF~ couatria economic links betweea _
up ~~dY S~P, eo ~to the ' trafficlcing the two communities
a~aidec commott leg~la fron? tha regian of mati- aad w increase iheir
tion on narootica? ~8 .luant aad opiuan-b~aed dialogue.
sbuse aiid relsab~ita- dru~ w~c~ at herain, At the same time, t}iey
_ tion of add~, and to I~uion vuies ~ in ur8ad ASEAN's econonuc
formulate ~ractical guide- the Sv~e eauairies~ tninuteis to adopt a col-
1'mes- for ~mpleanentaaon witb wja~ ewmtriea ~ve approach w foreiga
of future cantroT mea- like 8ingtpoe+e aad Thai- t~trade p wzt
~h a~~
sutts: . lmd u~po~~ tlae dath
This a~a~ one of a eeries ty {or -ieriow hxffic- ~'~Y heavily balai~eed
in $avair of the japanese.
of cooperative endea- 'ng aad~ othera leeser esUed for a
wurs agrad upon b'9 P~~~� ~tePp~, up of ASEAN
delegateu from Malay- The delegates aLo .
s~, '~i
hailaad. In dvneaia, agrad. that action mwt on in ~ vprio~s
3in~apore snd U~donesia be taken to apad up fi~~e~. Particularly the
at thar third we~ek-long impkmsniadon of the ~abliahmeat af' agricul-
3 anmial ineeting~ which eoo~o~nic cooperatioa tural-based industries witb
eaded here Wday. agreetneat botaroea the private uctor puticipa- _
Al~ ~ve have bas~ wor- Europeaa~ F.coaomi~ tion to provide more _
employmcnt and incoma
]cimg on oontrol of nuco- Community (EEC~ aad N~
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Drastic Maasures Called For
Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 7 Sep 80 p 3
~ T ex t] N~W DELHI The Cbmmoawealth
t~e~d's af governzne
t~ gioaal meeting . todey
considered s seport cat~ing for drastic ~neasuree
to combat the grou*iu~� menace o~'ck~ kaHio~iqg
~a thc Aaia~:?~ci~rc regloa. ~
The heads of govern- Property and assets that legislatiunprovidesfor
ment asked the Drafting ~uired by offenders ~ p~~ of perwos
Committee to giv~e the ~n other countriea ~~a
report a final ehape so b ~o~~
~h~; Lo be a,piraciee ta cotnmit of-
that countries in the ra- g- fencea a ainat dru laws.
gion could legialate pn of thie legie'satioa so that ~e ge ca !s far
Me ba~is of the recon~l- these could be cpnfiecated. P�rt
- The expert group kS~~~on goveming tha
At the same time, the agreed that there was esaminatian of inembee~
docided to dis- ~~perative necd for ~~ntries' tYwils that do
a basic common attitude not have such legielation
b~nd the expert group and ~ roach in le ~slative w'ere urg~d to take appro-
l~eaded by Malaysia, set pp g riate ~easures to enaet it.
up at the firat CHdGRM and judicial action for a P~~re ehould also be
meeti in S dne in concerted drive and for
- ~ y y effective preventive and necessary legislation ena-
~97g' suppressive action against bling tranamiasion of
A few countries, parti- arug ~.~~ing in the do~umen!s and a1y other
cularly Australia and evi3ence for the euc~:ea-
New Zealand, were Asia-Pacific region.
understood to have ex- It recommended that ful inveatigatiocs and trial
member-countri~ should of drug trafli;.kers in their
pressed some reservations enaure that effective trea- hom� country,
- about the drastic m;asures ties exiat for the extr~- The repurt atressed the
recommended by the need of a comm~n atti- '
rou which the sus ct dition of otk~dere from
g p ' y ot6er member-ngtione. tude con:ernin~ ths abuie
might be chattenged in They sbould aleo press a~j traffickiag of canna-
�OU~' for the eatablishment of b~g�
The highlight of the re- treaties with' any country Apparently coneerned
port is a recommendation q,~re auch treatiea do not over the move in som :
for the confiacation oE countries to liheralize
assets add properties ac- lawa verni the
uired b ereone throu h In the interim there S� ~B
q y~ g ehould be an exchaage of us; of cannabes, it re-
drug trafficking. comm~n~ed that m:m-
- The re ort said such offendere by mutual agrce-
P ~,~n ber-countries should op-
legislation ehould ia- deten'enk po;e any move towarda _
- cludc , proviaions for for- the "decriminaGzation of .
feiture even without the P~~ ba Appli-
~ ~ ~ t~~m cultivation or poasession
mandatory nquirement of ~ ettied b the of cannabis or legisla~ion -
a com~ictiori relating to ~ Y ~ of its non-medical uae".
the cha e for which the system of the reapective
~ countria, NCember-coun- Member-countries sho-
forfeitvre is sought by ~p ehould also etteure uid improve their com~-
the authorities.
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munication system for disrupt the dem3nd
the rapid exchaage of side while there must
operarional. information, be a ooncerted effort _
Particulnr attention should in the treata~ent and
be paid to compatibility rehabilitation of dru~~
of equipment m thia dependenta.
field. A planned prograr~me
They snould also de- for preventive education
velop their o~vn intelli- yras' also suggested. _
gence organization with '~j committee will be
a clearly designated cen- set up to monitor the
tral autiority in ord~r proercas of the imple-
that op~rational intelli- ~e~tirion of the decieio~t.
gence could b~ exchang- Drag lawa vary coqsi-
e3 e~:peditiousiy~ bilate- derably from cuuntry to
rally and multilaterally. country in the region.
Due to the wicte d~s, In Singaporo, where
parities in the ~degrce o~f the lawa are tha
dwg problems in. each toughest, death sentence
country it is considered ia maadatory for tra~ck-
necessary that eachshauld ing in tg grammea of
develope ite owa training heroin or niore. Matayei$
facilities. considers possession of
The repoi~t.streasea t6~at g~~~es of heroin
effective atr,aek oa . the as tra~cking an~ a
drug problem makes it conviction could mean
imperative that a tv~o-fold life sentence.
objective be~ adopte3 to NAB'~jFP
CSO: 5300
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BUxMA
BRIEFS
HEROIN, SYRINGE SEIZED FROM THREE MEN--Rangoon, 6 Sept--Police seized a
packet of heroin, a hypodermic syringe and an ampoule of distilled water
from a ma,n in a car on Wayzayanda. Road, Thutwainggyi Ward, Thingangyun
Township, at about 3 am today. Po13.ce and Ward People's Council members
seized the heroin, hypodermic syringe and the distilled water �rom Maung
Maung Myint (25) of Ka.ba Aye who was in the car, No Nga/3249. Police
arrested Maung Ma.ung Myint, Ma.ung Hla Tun of East Wireless Road, Kaba Aye,
who was at the wY,eel and another man, Ma.ung Tin Ohn, and booked them under
Sections 6(b) (possession) and 14(d) (failure to register fo: treatment)
of the Narcotic Dru~s La.w. (052) ~Text~ ~Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S
ilAILY in English 8 Sep 80 p 8]
CSO: 5300
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HONG KONG
AUSTRALIANS PROBE FAILED BANK'S DRUG WORLD TIES
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORIVING POST in English 28 Aug 80 p 13
/TeXt7 Four Awtrali~n invad~a The four men have ban
ton ue in Honjkon~ bokin~ buuy ~ince they 4rrived last.
into the tan~ed at[aus of the week.
0�~'P~� �f N~� They have sporen to
~n8 ~?PT0 1�0' detectivai fmm the Commer-
�~iOA cisi Crime ~raup and polia
Tho team hat beea here ~uarters st well u W the
f~ a weelc: y NMch it 'Rnd~'mv
n~a number
T6a men are onl t6e lat-
au in a stream ad' Auuralian of A1upn Haad oompanies,
ime~ti~ws who bne � bean aad W people in the buainess
an~a
~ collap~ee bank world. .
in Aprii. Their prerenx here ooia-
The praent team com- jK~~~
M~~
priia an aorouaw~t from tba Fra~r tor a joint Fedenl and
C'ammi~ttiaa~aNew ~ Wta pabe iato tbe NuQan
' W~la, Mr Johu WWi~, a Haad dny link.
(}~~py Tbe SCM Pat di~laeed
mo:e thaa thrce months
tbat Avitraliin a ad N
e~w
Fraad ~uad, Mr 3tare Den- i T.aLa~d dru~ oouriers an~i .
nett and r Roa 51~w. ~ naraotia ruanen bad been
"washin~ their money"
thrauQ6 b~nb in Hon~kong.
CSO: 5320
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MALAYS IA
CONTINUIP~G NARCOTIC DRUG TRAFFICKINs REPORTED '
Addicts Convicted of Murder
Selangor SIN CHEW JIT POH MALAYSIA in Chinese 25 Jul 80 p 13
[24 July News report from Ipoh]
[Text] Three narcotic drug addicts have been sentenced to 6 years each in
prison by the Ipoh District Co~.zrt a.fter pleading to guilty of killing a
_ drug peddler, who died of head ~n~uries caused by a flying brick thrown by
one of the defendants in a dispute over drug prices.
The three defendants are 2~+ year-old youth Huang Tsung-hung L78o6 135~ 7703] -
of Ipoh City and 2~+-year-old Li Yang-hua j2621 7~+02 5~+78] and 23 year-old
Lo Ping-hua ~5012 3.521 5~+78~, natives of Kampar Lumut. They were found
guilty of killing a 21-year-old Malay youth in Ipoh City at approximately
3 PM on 12 August 1979.
The victim was a nascotic drug pedcll.er a.nd the three defendants were drug
addicts.
At about 2 PM on 12 August 1979, another drug addict of Chinese origin named
Chiu Ming [6726 249~+] arrived to meet the victim on a street where he usual~y
plied his trade. The former left the scene of crime immediate],y after a
brief ineeting with the victim, promising to return as soon as he got enough
cash to purchase the stuff he wanted. Forty-five minutes later the three
defendants, plus another suspect who is still at large, arrived at the place
w3iere the victim peddled his "white powder."
The first defendant, Huang Tsung-hung, wanted to b~r two doses of heroin,
which cost him M$13 each. After ha.nding them over to him, the victim
received only M$10 from the purchaser, and �so he wanted to return the money
and get back the two doses of heroin, for which he h~,d to be paid M$26.
_ Meariwhile, the second defenda,nt also wanted to b~ two doses of white powder,
for which the seller asked M$20. After turning them over to him, the victim
. got anl,y M$16=-M$~+ short of the asking price.
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This dispute soon led to a scuffle and violence. One of the defendants
~ picked up a broken brick from the ground and threw it at the victim, while
others hit him with tree limbs. The victim eventu~,lly yelled for help when
he saw G`hiu Ming return. The four fled the scene immediately after seeing
Chiu Ming try to intervene on behal.f of the victim, Chiu Ming called a
taxicab and accompaniea the victim, who was bleeding profusely, to a hospital ~
for treatment. After receiving meclical ~;reatment at an ~utpatient clinic,
the victim was sent home. Upon arri.ving home, he told his father what
happened to him, on Old Tpoh Street. As soon as [the son] finished, the
old ma.n s aw blood vomit from his son's mouth and the son passed out. The
- father called an ambulance to carry his son to a hospital, who was pro-
nounced dead sometime befr~re midnigh~t because of serious head in~uries.
On 22 August, the three defendants were arrested and brought to justice by
the Ipoh police.
Sentenced to Prison
Selangor KIN IiZ~OK DAILY NEWS in Chinese 25 Jul 80 p 8
[ 2~+ July news report from Ipoh]
[Text] A Mal~ay youth was beaten to death by four youths of Chinese origin
in a dispute over narcotic ~.rug transactions. 'I'hree of the four defendants
were sentenced by the Ipoh District Court to 6 years in prison after they
were found guilty of manslaughter.
The three defendants are 2~+-yet~r-old youth Huang Tsung-hung of Ipoh, and 2~+-
yeax-old Li Yang-hua and 23-year-old Lo Ping-hua, natives of Ka.mpar Lumut.
They were accused of manslaughter in violation of the penalty law, provision
30~+, for a crime which took place at 3 PM on 12 August 1979.
The three defendants pleaded guilty as charged by the pr.osecution at the
court. Police inspector Kao Hsiu-yu [7559 ~~+23 3768] said on behalf of the
prosecution that the victim was a drug addict who usual],y peddled white
powder. Knowing that he did not have enough cash on hand to btipr what he
needed, he asked the Malay youth to wait for his return with more money.
No sooner had he left than four other youths--one of whom is now still at
large--arrived to buy white powder irom the victim. The first defendant -
wanted to buy two doses of heroin a� a price of M$26. As soon as he
received what he wanted, he gave the victim only M$10. The victim refused
to take it, insisting that he should be paid no less than M$26. _
At this time, the second defendant also wanted to bt~}r two doses of heroin
at the asking price of M$20. But he paid the seller only M$16--M$4 short
of the price.
This dispute over prices immediatel,y touched off a fight between the four
youths of Chinese origin and the drug peddlero The iour youths beat and
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hit the victim with bricks and tree limbs which they picked up off the
ground~
At approximately 15:15, Chiu Ming returned and saw four youths take turns
beating the vict~im until his head was heavil,y in,jured, with blood soaking
' his hair and staining his hands which he ~.ised to protect his head. As soon
as the victim saw Chiu Ming, he yelled for help. The four hooligaii: iled
when C'hiu Ming was about to intervene on behalf of the victim.
Chiu biing then hu~�riecl],y called a taxicab and sent the victim to the Central
Tiospital for emergency treatment.
The doctor� advised the victim ~o go home for recuperation, after giving him
- treatment to stop his bleeding. When he arrived in his home at 16:15, he
told. his father wh~~.t had happened to hi.m. A few minutes later, he passed
out and fell to the ground with blood vomiting from his mouth. His father
immediate],y summoned an ambulance to carry his son to a hospital for ~
emergency treatmer.t. Noticing this, a police guard then on duty at the
hospital reported the case to his hea~iqua.rters,
At 00:~+5 AM on 13 August, the victim was pronounced dead at the hospital
because of heavy head in,juries .
At 20:15 on 22 August 1979, the three defendants were arrested and brought
to ~ustice by police. In depositions taken at the police headquarters they
a11 confessed their guilt of ine.nslaughter. Their defense lawyer said: "N~y
clients were drug addir_ts without ~obs. Their low education and poor
~udgment of the effect of narcotic drugs and the influence of bad friends
were ma~or factors th at drove th em to become drug addicts. One of the
addicts must take care of his mother, wife, and a child who depend on him
for survival. For this reason, I plead that Your Iionor h and down a lenient
sentence for each of ~}r clients.'~
,
But the prusecution replied that the three accused absolutely had no reason -
wfiatever to take the law into their own hands. The three defendants were
sentenced to 6-year prison terms each by the court.
Drug Peddler Arrested
Selangor KIN K~K DAILY NEWS in Chinese 25 Jul 80 p 8
[l~+ July news report from Sembilan Island]
[Text] Today, an adult of Chinese origin was sentenced to 3 years and 6
months by the court on the charges of three cotints of narcotic drug
trafficking.
The accused, na.med Chen Chen-fu (transliterated name), is a 36-year-old
resident of Sembilan Island.
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He was accused of illegally possessing 57 grams of heroin and 38 grams of
processed opium that police found at his home at 12:50 on 26 March 1980.
_ He was also charged with illegally possessing 0.06 gram of heroin when walk-
ing across the Liming Street Bridge, Sembilan Island, at noon on 25 June
1980. He pleaded guilt,y to the aforementioned three counts of crime.
After hearing presentations by the p-:~aecution, the court sentenced him to -
3 years and 6 months in prison--1 year a.nd M$600 in fine in lieu of 6 months
for the first count, and 1 yeax each for the second and third counts.
As a result of a search of his hame at noon on 26 March 1980, police turned
= up 7~+ doses of heroin and a bag of opium. After he was released on proba-
_ ~ion, a search ~~f his boc~y by police turned up some "heroin" at noon on
, 25 June 1980.
- The accused was imprisoned in Kuala Lumpur 10 years ago on charges of
extortion and narcotic drug trafficking.
Two Ma,lays Arrested
Selangor KIN KWOK DAILY :TEWS MALAYSIA in G'hinese 25 Jul 80 p 8
[2~+ JuJ,y news report from Sembilan Island]
[Text] On the afternoon of 2~+ July, the Sembilan Police Narcotic Drug
Annihilation Group arrested two Malay youths living in a shantytown in an .
industria.l zone on Sembilan Island, and chaxged them with illegally possess-
ing 28 doses of heroin. Police made this axrest at 1~+:30 on 24 July after
being tipped off by an informer. The two Malay youths under arrest are 25
and 27 yeaxs old, respectively.
A further investigation of this case is stiJ_1 underway.
Police Arrest Three More
Selangor KIN KWOK DAILY NEWS in Chinese 25 Jul 80 p 8
[21+ Ju~y news report from Kuala Lumpu-r]
[Text] On 23 July, police in Petaling Java arrested three persons suspected
of selling naxcotic drugs,
Police arrested a couple after a search of their Petaling home turned up 7
sma,ll bags and 11 doses of clrugs believed to be heroin, along with M$512 in -
cash.
At 12:15 on the same day,the police took a man into custoc~y after a search
of his hame turned up 17 dcses of drugs also believed to be heroin.
, 957~
CSO : 5300
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NEw zEALAND
BRIEFS
CANNABIS SHIPMENT UNLOCATED--None of a reputed $1 million consignment of
Thai cannabis sticks has surfaced in Auckland. Police now feel there may
be a less sinister reason f or the disappearance of three large wooden
- crates from the Auckland waterfront last month. When the crates vanished
from a shed on Captain Cook Wharf, customs officers and police said it was
likely that they contained drugs shipped from Thailand. They had been
consigned from Bangicok to an Auckland company which had been out of busi-
ness for about a year. The crates weighed a total of 260 kilograms and
were labelled as containing copperware. Polic~ and customs officers esti-
mated that the crates could have contained between 100,0U0 and 200,000
cannabis sticks, worth $1 million or more. The head of the Auckland po-
lice drug squad, Detective Inspector B. J. Rowe, says that if such a quan-
tity had got into New Zealand much of it would have been on sale on the
streets before now. "The fact that nothing has turned up makes me very
doubtful the crates did contain cannabis," he said. /TextT ~Auckland ~
THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD in English 25 Aug 80 p 4/
CUSTOMS AGENT SENTENCED--Boyd Napier Roberts, 26, a customs agent, was
sentenced in the High Court yesterday to 6 months' nonresidential peri-
odic detention and fined $1,000 on two charges of supplying heroin, a
class A drug, to Wayne Roger Eggers on April 29 and May 1. Roberts was
also placed on probation f or a year. LChristchurch THE PRESS in English
26 Aug 80 p 4/
CSOs 5320 =
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PAKI STAN
BRIEFS
CONTRABAND OPIUM SEIZED--Contraband opium worth several lakhs of rupees
in foreign currency was seized by the CIA followir.g arrest of two drug
traffickers in the city, it wa.s reported. According to the police
reports, one Shahid, who used to run the racket of opium in the Preedy
Police Station area was picked up by the CIA a few days ago and four
kilos of opium was recovered from his possession. After he was closely
interrogated, Shahid led to the arrest of Su1Can, who used to operate
in the Graden area and 24 kilos of opium was seized from him. The police
also recovered a revolver from the possession of the accused which he had
obtained illegally. ~Text~ ~Ka.rachi MORNING NEWS in English 3 Sep 80
p 4l
CSO: 5300
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CANADA
- BRIEFS
THAI CONVICTED ON HEROIN CHARGE--Vancouver (CP)--A 32-year-old Thai has
been convicted of importing more than 2.2 kilograms (4.8 pounds) of almost
pure heroin, which police said would have been worth $19-million on the
street. A County Court jury also found Charan Rumruem Ning guilty of
possessing a narcotic for purposes of trafficking. He will be sentenced
on Sept. 4. The ~ury rejected the man's defence that he was an innocent
dupe set up by wealthy drug dealers in Thailand. [Text] [Toronto THE
GLOBE AND MAIL, WEEKEND EDITION in English 16 Aug 80 p 12]
CSO: 5320
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BOLIVIA �
FURTHER REPORTAGE ON MILITARY DRUG CdNNECTION
Cocaine Threat to United States
Mexico City EL DIA in Spanish 5 Aug 80 p 11
[Article by Gregorio Selser: "Drug-Junta Threatens to Flood United States ~
With Cocaine"]
[Text] In an interview granted to the Bolivian daily newspaper ULTIMA HORA,
which that journal published on 30 ~uly, Minister of Interior Luis Arce Gomez -
warned, speaking in Spanish:
"The full responsibility for the problem involved in drug trafficking and
the increase in the export of drugs will fall to President Carter, since
currently, having eliminated aid, he will be solely responsible for the
increase in cocaine consumption in the United States. This suggests that
the moti~~es are purely~ political. This aid (to combat drug traffic) is
regarded as more important than military aid, which means nothing. The `
military junta will have to reorganize the Narcotics Office, since there
aXe no resouxces to sustain it in iCs former position."
$2 Million Less
Colonel Arce Gomez is, in the full sense of the term and with well-earned
fame as such in Bolivia, a two-legged beast. A torturer and murderer since
the days of Gen Alfredo Ovando Candia, he is best kaown as a psychopa*_h.
In recent months it has been his duty to head section 2(military
intelligence) and in that capacity, duly advised by the Argentine experts
whose names were provided when the occasion arose by
Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, he prepared the mechanism for extreme re-
pression which he put to use in April, with the murder of the priest
Luis Espinal, whose weekly AQUI had become the most critical means of _
:
reporting on the smuggling and drug trafficking processes in which civilians -
and the military were involved. It also denounced the escalating violence
~ and the preparations of the armed forces to attack the regime.
Arce Gomez is moreover the inspirer and implementar of the plan, already
put into practice, to establish pseudo-independent bodies of
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ps~udo-civilians in the pseudo-military fashion, the purpose of which is
- to caixse the "disappearance" through arrest justified by police or military
credentials of political or crade union opponents. This "disappearance"
is followed by torture and dea~:h. Only in exceptional cases does it
develop that the victim is being detained in a public prison.
The mechanism for this development is based on the fundamental concept
that the armed forces as such are innocent of such practices. In no way
would the gentlemen in the armies, navies and air forces besmirch their
hands or consciences with such crtmes or the theft of the belongings of
the victims which customlrily goes with them. War booty, these thefts are
termed. Thus the specialized bodies in which the military personnel of
the three armed branches or the pol~ce abandon their uniforms for the time
it takes to carry out the chore of kidnaping, torture and murder, for which
- they wear civilian clothing, can be ambiguously termed "para-military" or
"para-police." A variation already traditional in Guatemala and E1 Salvador
(and now in use in Bolivia) involves calling these bodies "ultra-rightist
groups,"
Arce's "Gestapo"
The fact that these bodies are made up of mil.itary and police officers
does not prevent the dregs of the pr3son population from participating in
them, thus enjoying a guarantee of impunity as valid as that who give the
orders. '!'h,~ sho~k Croops o~ the Bolivian Socialist Falange (FSB) were
always basically lower-class, and ~.t is their amorality which gives a
, 3ecent appearance to zhe presumablq political outrages. The most typical
example is found in a famous FSB gunman, Fernando "Mosca" Monroy, a
relative of the cocaine-rich colonel who headed a rebellion in Trinidad
on 17 July. "Mosca" has now reappeared as the head of execution squads
carrying out the ~.nstxuctiozs of gestapo head Arce, who like his comrades,
Cols Alberto Natubch Busch and t;arlos Estrada Estrada and
Gen Juan Pereda Asbun, alternate between their drug addiction and their _
dipsomania.
What Arce told the United States bea.ts a11 records ~or impudence and
cynicism. The thr~at of flooding that nation with cocaine paste in `
reprisal for the suspension of economic and military aid provides a just
measure of the tru~e aspect of the seizers of power in Bolivia, Arce, as
is known on the high plateau, takes greater pride in his personal
efficiency as a torturer than i~ his limi~ed appetite for. power as such.
He is a psychopath--as we have already said--with a ne~rophiliac perversion
which is revived daily thanks to the omnipotent power he has been enjoying
in recent years. This does not prevent him from simultaneously seeing to
_ his pilot training business, which, as is the case with his comrade
Col Norberto Salomon, who owns an air taxi company, provides him with a
front for the transport of drugs.
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The Bolivian Connection
The magnitude of this traffic cannot be understood without having an idea
at the same time that it is only possible to pursue it thanks to the
hundreds of secret landing strips in E1 Beni and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, _
the centers for the production and processing of the coca leaves into
cocaine paste. A~ong the first steps Ge~ Luis Garcia Meza took was the
removal of his peer, Gen Hugo Echeverria, commander of the VI Division,
headquartered in Santa Cruz, when it appeared that he had a mefia affilia-
tion other than the "Bolivian connection."
It is really laughable that gestapo chief Arce should come forth to announce
a resurgence of drug trafficking--which will be possible precisely because
the military involved in the business have been assigned to key posts in
the state security apparatus, justifying it on the pretext that if the
United States eliminates its $2-or-$3-million-a-year subsidy for the
battle against this crime, the Bolivian Narcotics Office will not have the _
economic resources to function. It is laughable, we say, because the
volume of the coraine traffic in Bolivia, in comparison to this ridiculous
sum, annually exceeds $1 billion, and as a recent cable report by the
France Presse agency said, has now surpassed $1.5 billion.
To give some idea, if only approximate, of the magnitude of this fabulous
business, let us quote the following text carried in the weekly APERTURA
("The Cocaine Magnates," La Paz, Year 1, No 7, 11 July 1980, p 11): -
"Bolivia, already known throughout the world as one of the leading world
centers of supply of the rak materials for the production of cocaine, is
linked with the increasingly powerful drug smuggling network made up of
Bolivians of seeming respectability and others, less reputable, making up
the 'new family' functioning in the United States and Europe.
"Recently a cable report datelined Miami told of the arres t of Bolivians
Jose Roberto Gasser Terrazas and Alfred Gutierrez, mainly responsible for
the largest lot of cocaine to be smuggled into the United States. The two
were trying to bring in no less than 530 kilograms of cocaine, the sale of
which on the black market in the United States would have brought income
far in excess of the entire legal Bolivian national trade, in other words
more than $1 hillion. After being charged by the prosecutor of the state
of Florida, Gasser Terrazas was released on bail after paying $1 million,
without blinking an eye, while bail for Gutierrez was set at $3 million."
The Military Connection
The existence of this traffic, the volume it has reached and even
Colonel Arce's threat to the United States itself, which, if he is in a
position to carry it out, can only be explained by the links between the
Bolivian drug mafia and the military, who since the Banzer era have been
willing to enmesh themselves in it. The provisional list which we will
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subsequently provide, obtain.ed from various reliable sources, is in itseif
_ illustrative. Equally so is the fact that this Gasser Terrazas, who paid
$1 million without blinking, is a member of one of the richest families
in Santa Cruz.
! Bolivian Connection
Mexico City EL DIA in Spanish 17 Aug 80 p 11
[Text) 1. Generai Hugo Banzer Suarez, former dictator. Operates through
his son-in-law, Fernando "Chito" Valle Urena and his nephew,
Guillermo "Willy" Banzer Abastoflor, who has a recozd as a drug trafficker
in the United States.
2. Gen Juan Pereda Asbun, former dictator, drug addict. Operates through
his relative Jorge Nemer Chavez, among others.
3. Gen Luis Garcia Meza, present dictator, chosen to guarantee greater
operational efficiency for the drug traffic in E1 Beni and Santa Cruz de
la Sierra. His contac~ with the cocaine-paste underworld is
Jose Abraham Baptista, a former chief of polir_e.
4. Col Luis Arce Gomez, former head of Section 2(iKilitary Intelligence)
and currently minister of interior. Responsible for the murders of the two
main figures who denounced the thefts, smuggling and drug traffic involving
a sector of the military hierarchy--the priest Luis Espinal and
Marcelo Qui.roga Santa Cruz, leader of Socialist Party-1. The light air-
craft of his "civil aviation" schoo2, one of his private businesses,
engage in drug trafficking and smuggling indiscriminately. ~
5. Air Force Gen Waldo Bernal Pereira, air force commander. His appoint-
ment will make the operations of the hundreds of aircraft and light planes
smuggling contraband from Paraguay and cocaine paste to the department of
Caqueta, Colombia, much more efficisnt.
6. Cul Ariel Coca, the man with the "predestined name." Curren.tly minister
of education, no less. He was involved i~ the smuggling of 100 kilograms
of cocaine paste into Panama in 1979.
7. Col Norberto "Bubi" Salomon, military attache at the Bolivian embassy
in Venezuela, a post which enables him to take action in the event of
"accidents" to the planes and pilots coming into this country with cocaine
paste. As owner of an air taxi company, he was involved in drug trafficking
and smuggling charges.
8. Col Mario Oxa Bustos, former prefect of La Paz, charged with dealings
seriously threatening the sta~e, smuggling vnd drug trafficking, and with
defrauding the sports club The Strongest.
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9. Col Oscar Angulo Torne, coffinander of the Colorado Division in La Paz.
10. Col Carlos Mena Burgos, former chief of intelligence under Banzer,
currently co~anding one of the military groups functioning as "para-
military" civilians active in political repression, while at the same time
serving as a middleman in the drug traffic.
11~ Col Saul Becerra, publicly accused of drug trafficking and smsggling
weapons by police informer Ricardo Dip Garcia in Santa Cruz de la 5ierra.
12. Gen Hugo Echeverria Tardio, coummander of the VII Division, headquarterei
in Santa Cruz. On 11 June he facilitated the takeover of the city by
members of the Bolivian Socialist Falange and local drug trafficking
elements, who seized the records concerning drugs at the prefecture and the
mayor's office and b+irned them. As the representative of one of the drug-
trafficking mafias, he rejected the orders of Garcia Meza replacing him
at the time of the cocair.e-dollar uprising.
13. Police Col Hugo Benavidez, man in the confidence of Colonel Arce Gomez,
presumably personally responsible for the murders of the priest Espinal and
trade union leader Quiroga Santa Cruz.
14. Col Arturo Do ria Me~ina, commaLder of the Tarapaca Regiment, an
alcoholic and a psychopath, mainly responsible for the machine-gunning of
_ civilians in La Paz during the Alberto Natusch Busch uprieing at the
_ beginning of November 1979. As a participant in another "wing" of the
drug trafficking mafia, he was about to be relieved by Garcia Meza. -
15. Col Francisco Monroy, commander of the E1 Beni garrison, a key
position in the drug traffic.
16. Col Rafael Loayza, a member of the intimate circle of Arce Gomez
through his involvement in drug trafficking.
17. Cpt (or Maj) Rudy Landivar, who headed the 17 June operation in Santa
Cruz de la Sierra, authorized and supported by Gen Hugo Echeverria Tardio,
whose main goal was to get rid of the police records on drug trafficking
and smuggling in the department, the location of the paste "factaries" and
the secret landing fields. He is one of those most embroiled in drug
~ trafficking in the eastern part of Bolivia.
18. Gen Edmundo Sanabria, former commander of the VI Division.
19. Cpt Carlos Fernandez, former minister of agriculture and campesino
affairs.
20. Col Walter Seleme and~fa3 Moises Chirique, of the VI Division, head-
quartered in Trinid ad, the capital of the department of E1 Beni. They
headed the first "c ocaine-dollars" uprising on the night of
10-11 October 1979.
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. 21. C~?. Rolando Canido.
22. Ma~ Rolando Landivar.
_ 23. Maj Daniel Clavijo.
24. Col Otto Lopez, of the Tarija garrison.
25. Col Pablo Caballero, former police commander, affiliated with the team
of Col Alberto Natusch Busch, who, as far as can be learned, is now but a
hopeles~ alcoholic. ~ _
Possible U.S. Measures
Mexico City EL DIA in Sp anish 17 Aug 80 p 11
[Article by Gregorio Selser: "Can the United States Prevent the Bolivian
Junta'~ Cocaine Flood?"]
[Text] This reporter b as been warning since the end of 1979 that smuggling
and drug trafficking were an important part, although not the only or the
priority one, of all the efforts at institutional destabilization which
have followed otte upon the other in Bolivia since the 1979 elections, in
which the candidate Hernan Siles Zuazo won by a narrow margin (despite the
fraud perpetrated by the military ~.n favor of Victor Paz Estenssoro).
These rebellions--that of 10-11 October, that on 1 November, and others of
lesser importance, which were frustrated during the first half of 1980--
finally culminated in what we have taken the liberty of giving the name
which fits it best--the cocaine-dollar mutiny, in which the smuggling and
drug trafficking mafia placed three dubious individuals in whom it has
confidence in key positions. For the moment. I'or now the inevitable
period of "adjusting" commands and positions wil]. come. These individuals
are Gens Luis Garcia Meza and Waldo Bernal Pereira and Col Luis Arce Gomez.
Bravado on the Part of Arce Gomez
The latter, consistent with h3s well-earned notoreity as a very macho
fellow, made an improb able threat to the United States which was reported
_ in the world press: if the Carter govemment suspends economic aid to the
drug junta, it wi11 flood its chastiser in massive reprisal with cocaine
" paste. In statements published by the newspaper ULTIMA HORA on 30 July,
Arce Gomez emphasized: "The full responsibility for the problem involved
in drug traffic and the increase in the export of drugs will fall to
President Carter, since currently, having eliminated aid, he will be solely
iesponsible for the increase in cocaine consumption in the United States."
If there remained any doubt about the awareness of the Bolivian military of
the role drug traffic p lays in the damestic and international life of the
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country, these irresponsible words dispel them. In the case of Arce Gomez,
he had already been indicated as one of the key figures in this traffic
~ before the series of rebellions in 1979, since the days when he created a
pilot training school, which provided him with a suitable front for the
trips his fleet of planes made in smuggling operations from Paraguay and
drug trafficking to Colombia, which is one of the stops en route to the
final destination in the state of Florida, in the United States.
In the same fashion, a fleet of air taxis has been facilitating similar
_ missions for Col Norberto Salomon, who was strategically assigned as
milit~ry attache in Venezuela, while the more profitable activities of
his light plane rental business were publicized. In one of them, which
crashed "accidentally" on 2 June, presidential candidate
Hernan Siles Zuazo was a scheduled passenger, and the crash caused the
death of crew members and passengers and seriously wounded the vice-
presidential candidate, Jaime Paz Zamora.
The DEnunciations by Father Espinal
During the electoral campaign, and months before Che July 1979 elections,
a supposedly "para-military" organization, one of the many invented by the
FSB, a pseudo-political shock grouF inade up of gunmen involved in smuggling
and drug trafficking, threatened to kill candidate Hernan Siles Zuazo if
he announced his candidacy in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. This city is one
of the focal points for both illegal activities, and at its head was the
commander of the II army corps, Gen Iiugo Echeverria Tardio, who was for the
eastern part of Bolivia what Arce Gomez is for the high plateau.
"No cocaine-smuggling mafia will frighten this candidate," a spokesman for
the People`s Democratic Union (UDP) said. However, on learning that the
mafia had offered $50,000 for "whoever kills" Siles, the then-minister of
- interior, Col Raul Lopez, persuaded the candidate not to travel there be-
~ cause adequate safeguards could not be provided for him.l Only the
smuggling and drug-trafficking mafia could afford such a sizable reward.
Siles Zuazo won, as is known, although the post-election machinations, in
which the regime of Gen David Padilla Arancibia and candidate
Paz Estenssoro were implicated, falsified the results and compelled the
parliament to appoint Walter Guevara Arze as provisional president. Then
came the attempted coups of October and Nove~nber and the later appointment
- of Lidia Gueiler to replace Guevara Arze. Under this government the
preparations for rebellion intensified and the crimes ordered from the office
of Arce Gomez, then head of S-2, against those who denounced the military,
began. The priest Luis Espinal was the most notable victim during these
months, but not the only one.
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Cocaine and the Para-Military
In the weekly publication AQUI, headed by Fr Luis Espinal, an item entitled
"Cocaine and the Para�-Military" was published on page 7 of the
23 February 1980 issue. It read:
"Curiously, in the zone in which Genera]. B ang Bang (a reference to
Hugo Banzer Suarez) has his hacienda in San Javier, in the province of
Nuflo Chavez de Santa Cruz, i~Yinistry of Interior agents seized 89 kilograms
of cocaine ba.se and two light planes w3th Colombtan registration, and
arrested the occupants.
"The operation, the result apparently of an anonymous call, has to do not -
only with the internal mafia struggles but also is linked with the para-
military gangs of the ADN (Nationalist Democratic Action] (Banzer's party)
and the international cosa noatra.
"Minister Jorge Selum e:Yp lained, al~hough few details about the operation
_ are known as yet, that the drug is being excl~anged for military uniforms -
and automatic weapons. This information should surprise no one in the
eastern part of the couz~try. It is common to see individua.ls .~.n downtown
Santa Cruz. or Trinidad whom everyone knows to be drug traffickers.
"Not only are they left in peace, but they are respected because 'they
have he~vy money.' Thinking iy a crime for which Banzer made us pay very
dear, but being a high-fl.y3ng criminal earx?s a reward, and if this can be
said of Edwin Tap ia Fror.tanilla or the young men who ended up in the United
- States and are now parading alon~ E1 Prado, it is even truer of a relative
of the dictator.2
"Under repression, the media--apart from the fact that many of them are
linked with this profitable business--can do mothing but print a five-line
report in a newspaper, which is then thrown away,
"Where is Hugo Estenssoro, who carried two suitcases full of dum-dum bullets?
Where is Mosca Monroy? Where are the Alarcon brothers? Where are those
responsible f or the attack on AQUI? You, Mr Minister, know who they are or
how they operate. You must answer the people."3
Minister Jorge Selum res3gned shortly afterwazci under pressure from the
army. And as for Father Espinal, as is now known, he was the victim of an
- atrocious murder the month after this article was written.
Permanent Assembly on Human Rights
In June o~ 1980, many weeks before the cocaine-dollars mutiny, the Permanent
Assembly on Human Rights (APDH) of Bolivia published a statement in
PRESENCIA, in La Paz, listing the names of military and police- officers and
civilians involved equally in smuggling, drug trafficking and the terrorist
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- attacks ordered by Arce Gomez ~or the purpose of creating the atmosphere
needed for the cocaine-dollars mutiny. The list included a number of
milirary and police officials named on the list we are providing separately,
but also Abraham Baptista (who has now been named by Republican
Senator De~is de Concini of the United States as a middleman between the
drug traffickers and Garcia Meza), "Coco" Bsllvian (a forn3~r member of the
ELN [Army of Natiunal Liberation] guerrilla force and later tortured under
the Barrientos and Banzer regimes), Melquiades Pamo, a certain "Jemio," -
Victor Barrenechea, "Dany" Cuentas, Raul Fuentes, Alberto Camacho,
Teofilo Mendez, Luis Peredo, Carlos Valverde Barbery, Alfonso Dalence,
Widen Razuc, "E1 Mosca" Monroy, Mario Jordan, Guido Alarcon, Gary Alarcon
and many others .
The diffi cult local political circumstances made it more than unlikely that
Lidia Gueiler's government could taka steps against all those mentioned,
two of whom, Valverde and Dalence, were FSB candidates. In any case,
Arce Gomez is already taking his revenge against the regime. The elderly
priest Julio Tumiri, president of the Permanent Assembly on Human Rights,
was arrested in the premises of the COB [Bolivian Labor Federation], in
the same incident in which Juan Lechin was seized and
Marcel Quiroga Santa Cruz was treacherously wounded, to be tortured and :
murdered later in the premises of the Miraflores barracks.
What Will the United States Do? -
The Carter administration is concerned about the threat by Colonel Arce Gomez,
and the Congress has already asked for an urgent investigation of the drug
traf fic originating in Bolivia.
- In Decemb er 1975, the Banzer government asked for United Nations aid for a
multi-disciplinary program to control the improper use of drugs, with the
cle ar purp ose oi supervising the production and sale of coca, combating
111 e gal traffic in cocaine and other drugs and treating and rehabilitating
drug addicts. In February of 1977 a new agreement in this regard was
signed.4 The United States for its part agree.d to assign sums annually to
contribute to the prevention and punishment of traffj.cking in drugs, but
in p ractice these allocations pr.oved laughable ($2 to 3 million) in compari-
soii to the volume of cocaine dollars changing hands in Bolivia in just
ly ear, which the AFP [Association of Port OfficialsJ estimated at almost
$2 billion.
Can the United States really face up to the announced cocaine flood? Has
it b een possible to do anything in the similar Colombian case?
It s uffices to mention two other facts to indicatP our skepticism. There
are 24 nations on the American continent and in the Caribbean involved in
the Single 1961 Convention on Narcotics (signatories and ratifying parties),
while ZO nations are involved in the 1971 Agreement on Psychotropic
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Substances for the same region. Bolivi~ is not a signatory of either of
these two international regulations.5
What m~re can be said?
FOOTNOTES
1. "Siles Zuazo Defies the Death Threat Received From Rightist Forces in
Bolivia," UNO i4AS UNO, Mexico, 20 May 1979, p 9.
2. Tapia Frontanilla (then nicknamed "Cocainilla") was arrested in Toronto,
Canada, with one of Banzer's private secretaries, named Canedo, for _
trafficking in drugs. Other relatives of Banzer referred i:o are his
son-in-law Fernando "Chito" Valle Urena and his nephew
Guillermo "Willy" Banzer Abastoflor, who were also arrested in the
United States with various kilograms of cocaine in their suitcases.
3. All of those mentione~ in these paragraphs are known common criminals
used by the Bolivian military dictatorship to torture and/or murder
political prisoners.
4. "The United Natians and Control of the Improper Use of Drugs," the
Jnited Nata.ons, Narcotics Division, Geneva, 1977, p 57.
5. "Status of and Trends in the Improper lise of and Illicit Traffic in
Narcotics Throughout the World," in C.ARTA DE INFORMACION, Narcotics -
Division., United Nations, No 4-6, April-June 1980, table on page 4
pertaining to the American continente
CocaiZt2~ ~nd Boliv:Lan Regime
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in 5panish 16 Aug 80 p 2-A
[EditorialJ
[Text] The American nations and the whole world must open their eyes to
what is happening in Bolivia, where the evidence that the surprise attack
by General Garcia Meza had as its main goal the bold conversion of the
government into the most prosperous and efficient agency on earfih for
promoting, processing and developing coca prodTSction is increasing day by
day. The corruption in the regime is no :.ew pheriomenon, and has been noted
repeatedly, but the singular scandal in the Boli~vian case demands that
preventive and housecleaning measures be take�, such as those being adopted
by the State Department itself, despite the stubbonl short-sightedness of
many of its of�icials and its "experts." The United States, according to
reports, will suspend all kinds of aid to the strong-arm regime and will
maintain only extremely cool relations with it. Indeed, the government of
- Garcia Meza certainly does not merit any cordiality or respect from those
who--without being perfect--have some decent origins and intentions.
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The attack on the regime by Garcia Meza and his vandals was so coarse that
it can only serve as a categorical indication of the presence of cocaine
dealings interlining the events. The case was not and could not be merely
political, because had it been thus, there would have been no lack of
arguments to maintain the military supremacy. But a gamble was taken on
the elections. And simply because the results were honest and would lead.
to the installation of a clean government under the guidance of the most
illustrious of the Bolivians of this era, Dr Hernan Siles Zuazo, the cocaine
dealers and their agents in uniform--who are bringing dishonor to the noble
military career--abandoned their last inhibitions and the "cocaine-dollar
coup" occurred. President Lidia Gueiler was forced out of the Quemado
Palace in La Paz in infamous fashion, and the additional precaution of
killing the man who was the socialist candidate, Marcelo Quiroga, was taken,
because he relied on the broad coverage of democratic guarantees in making
devastating accusations about the financial-military axis of the coca
business.
With heavy documentation, the Argentine writer Gregorio Selser has
synthesized the drama of immorality in Bolivia in the following terms:
"Officers in the three branches of the armed forces are involved in the
business of smuggling and drsgs. The smuggling developed in the era of
Gen Rene Barrientos. The drug business gained impetus as soon as
Gen Hugo Banzer seized pawer with the help of the mafia in Santa Cruz."
And today the determination of the imposter Garcia Meza to serve as a
screen for the drug traffic in which an organization headed by
Gen Hugo Echeverria, co~ander of the garrison in Santa Cruz, is engaging,
is obvious.
In addition to the displeasure of the United States with this kind of
- "partner" with such an evil aspect, the governments in the "Andean group"
are showing their unease at the strong-arm attack on the Bolivian regime,
which only pleases Argentina, and to a lesser extent Brazil, so long as
they have a docile neighror wrapped up in its own plundering and incapable
of a gesture of national independence and therefore easy for them to -
manage. But within the framework of the OAS itself there is a rising wave
against Garcia Meza and his gang, against the institutionalization of
_ cocaine as the central objective of a government. Intervention? It is
prohibited, it is not advisable, and it is usually counterproductive. But
a regime with such repugnant characteristics must give rise to general re-
vulsion, and the maintenance of any legal or diplomatic relations with it
must be reduced to a minimum. This mixture of cocaine with the regime
surpasses anything previously knawn in the realm of governmental i~orality
throughout the world--which is saying a good deal, and therefore the moral
sanctions by the peoples and governments preclude any hesitation, ambiguity
or extenuating circumstances.
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CHILE
BRIEFS
ARREST OF DRUG TRAFFICKERS--Police have reported the arrest of a gang
headed by a physician who sells a drug called (debutal 15). The gang is
made up of (Jorge and Guillermo Espinoza Ibarra), (Raul Cardenas Alvarez)
and (Emilio Enrique Villa Blanca Sanhueza). [PY031216 Santiago Chile
Domestic Service in Spanish 0000 GMT 3 Sep 80]
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COLOMBIA
JUSTICE MINISTER: GUERRILLAS, TRAFFICKERS COOPERATE
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 4 Aug 80 p 11-A
[Text] Minister of Justice Felio Andrade Manrique denounced the existence
in the country, especially in Cauca department, of a coalitic+n of inembers
- of guerrilla movements and of persons involved in the trafficking of drugs
and said that the government must do everything in its power to prevent
subversive forces from coming to an agreement with cocaine traffickers,
since this would constitute a serious and delicate situation for Colomb:ia.
National Militia
Speaking for the "Technicians and Politicians" program of Toledar, the
minister said that since narcotics trafficking is one of the most serious
problems that confronts the country, in spite of the efforts made by
the preaent and previous governments to eradicate it, the creation of a
specialized military-type unit has been considered, not only to fight
against that criminal activity, but also to fight in two other very
important areas--customs and prisons--a unit that could be part of the
national militia and whose formation is envisioned through the constitution.
Corruption In Prisons
Andrade Manrique also said that it is a good idea to require graduates with
a degree to do their military service in the prison branch, because a
review of the life histories of the 4,700 prison guards in the country
(there are 188 prisons, containing 36,000 inmates) has indicated that some
undesirable personr, are working in that branch--and that some of them have
warrants out for their arrest.
He added that in the prisons additional pay is asked for everything, with
the argument that salaries are low, but that in any case there is no plan
for that.
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Investigation Is Necessary
Upon being questioned concerning the charge recently made by an official
with re~pect to a presumed infiltration of congress by members connected
with narcotics, the minister said that nothing has been ascertained in
this regard, but that everyone shoul.d be investigated. "Here everyone must
be investigated. A public official must set aside his resentments. We
cannot continue in this sea of national c:orruption; we must face Che
problem," he said.
The Judicial Emergency
Andrade Manrique also said that thexe are emergency situations in the country.
"For egample, it seems serious to me that we currently have 3,058,849 cases
~ in the courts; that the penal courts have 1,000,753 indictments; that the
civil have 1.2 million cases; and that the labor courts have 90,000 cases.
It is a complex situation. Therefore when the government offers the
judicial emergency law, it is trying to expedite proceedings, since its
aim is to clear out the majority of these cases and to implement more
- prompt and complete justice. The law was fortunately approved by the
House and it will be sanctioned within a week. Then the government has
90 days to creatA positions fur assistant magistrates and assistant ~udges.
~ In addition, the law urill make it possible to handle the accumulation of
~udicial and prison clearances. Tt is estimated that at least 30 percent
of the present arrested persons would be dischargede"
The minister defended the security statute and said ~hat he has examined it
carefully, and that he realizes that it is a question of a compilation of
measures previously suggested to this government. "The steps that have
been taken in the matter of security," he added, "are moxe effective
~rhen harsher sentences are part of the handling of delinquency. I
believe that a decrease in kidnapping and a harsher penalty for extorsion--
crimes which, along with other heinous crimes, are excluded from the ammesty
plan that we have presented to the congress--jmake it possible to indicate
that even if abuses have been committed in indivi3ual cases during the
exercise of these powers, the balance is favorable. I have always said
that the penal standaids have no connection with people who do not violate
the law. One who does not violate the law has no reason to worry about
the increased severity of sentences."
Amnesty
In ano~her part of the br.oadcast interview, the official said that the crit-
icisms that have been made of the amnesty plan that has been offered by
the government for the considerati~n of congress, even though very worthy
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of consideration, do not seem at all convincing to him. "I believe that
the plan is good because it includes the handling of the most touchy pro-
blems of the country, inasmuch as those who have revolted are the most
delicate part of the situation. It is not a law that grants pardon, but
~tmnesty. The can8titution says that the congress can grant general
amnesties when there is a two-thirds favorable vote of i~s members."
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COLOMBIA
POLICE UNITS CLASH, TRAFFICKERS CAPTURED
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 12 Aug 80 p 8-A
[Text] A clash between units of the ant~narcotics squad of the National
Prosecutor`s Office and of the F-2 of the Judicial Police, during which a
machinegun was fired, very nearly caused the failure of an operation in
which 11 persons were captured and 8 tons of marihuana were seized.
The encounter occurred in Bogota, near the location of the meeting place
of the members of th~ gang that was headed by lawyer Leonel Montanez, sar-
castically known as "Doctor Xylophone."
Access by the police of the Office of the Prosecutor to the site where the
gang was captured (No 53-35,7th Street) was obstructed by F-2 police, with~
the consequence that one of the former was obliged to use the crew's -
machinegun. ~
The incident did not develop i.nto anything more and all of the members of
~~he gang were arrested and handed over to the appropriate authorities.
Contraband
_ The operation against the gang of narcotics traffickers began this past
Saturday on a farm located within the 3urisdiction of Vistahermosa, Meta,
. where a tank truck was prepared for the transportion of the grass.
The upper part of the body of the truck was removed from the vehicle in
order to make room for the marihuana. -
The tank truck left Vistahermosa wi.th two drivers, who took turns driving,
with an escort of four persons in a camper.
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_ The secret servicemen of the Prosecutor t s Off ice followed the vehicles as
far as Bogota, on a trip that took 20 hours.
The cargo was taken to apartment 11-03 of the building located at No 53-35
on 7th Street.
It was when the police who were following the cargo tried to enter the
building that the incident with the F-2 occurred.
In the above-mentioned apartment, the antinarcotics squad captured the fol-
lowing persons in addition to lawyer Montanez: Orlando Silva, Medardo
Valencia, Carlos Freddy Gomez, Victor Murillo, Roberto Pinto, Marco
Landinez, Miguel A. Rangel, Juan Carlos Garavito, and Jose Montanez.
Most of the narcot3cs traffickers are natives of Cesar department.
A large sum of money, apparently for the purpose of bribing the police
of the jurisdiction, was confiscated from the four persons asQigned to
convoy the cargo.
According to sources in the Prosecutor's Office, the gang had been carrying
out its illicit operations for several months, and it was not until now
that it was possible to prove its drug trafficking connection.
On the other hand, some well informed sources indicated yesterday that the
shooting encounter was a consequence of an old rivalry--not at all
positive, of course--between the two units.
The source indicated that apparently the radio cammunications of the
antinarcotics squad are intercepted by the Judicial Police for the purpose
of furthering their own operations.
As a matter of fact, yesterday, when the men of the Prosecutor's Office
arrived at the above�mentioned building, they were hindered by the F-2.
As a consequence of the above, a machinegun Was fired, but the incident
did not develop into anything more.
The police of the Prosecutor's Office then entered the building and
captured the gang. _
The grass and the arrested persons were placed at the disposition of the _
criminal examining magistrate.
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COLOMBIA
BINCI PERSONNEL, CIVILIAN SEIZED WITH COCAINE
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 9 Aug 80 p 13-A
[Article: "Another Strike at Narcotics Trafficking"]
jText] A club employee of the Southern Operational Command with headquar-
ters in the port of Leticia, was arrested this past Thursday in the
Eldorado airport. He had in his possession approximately 1 kilo of
unadulterated cocaine. -
The narcotics trafficker was identified as Abdenago Andrade. He fell into
the hands of inembers of the Antina_rcotics Squad of the Prosecutor's Office,
who operate in the airport, at 1700 hours on the above-mentioned day, a
little after arriving on Satena flight KH-851, having proceeded from the
above-mentioned port near the Amazon.
The cocaine was found in a manila envelope that Andrade was carrying in his
travelling bag and, as previously mentioned, weighed about 2 pounds and was
unadulterated.
Andrade was taken to a section of the Security Administrative Department,
where he will be placed at the disposition of a criminal examining magis-
trate for the purpose of investigation.
F-2 in 8 Days
This strike is the second that the officers of the Prosecutor's Office
dealt in 1 week against narcutics traffickers. As will be remambered,
Carlos A. Martinez Perez was captured when he arrived from the capital of
Bolivia with a suitcase in which he was carrying 25 kilos of cocaine.
As was announced previously by EL ESPECTADOR, in connection with this most
recent case, a lieutenant and three army se~gearits who were assigned to the
Military Intelligence and Counterintelligence Battalion were also arrested.
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These persons had gone to the sirport to meet Martinez Perez on the pre-
text that they had orders to seize him. -
The action of the four officials was ascribed to a strategy to seize the
Eldorado narcotics trafficker , together with the travelling bag in w:~ich
he was carrying the alkaloid, before members of the Prosecutor's Office
could examine the baggage.
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COLOMBIA
' GOVERNOR REFUTES POLICE CHARGES
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 24 Jul 80 p 12-A
[Text] Barranquilla--The departmental governor, Pedro
Martin Leyes Hernandez, today asserted that the charges
made against him by the fiead of the antinarcotics section
of the regional attorney general's office in this city were
based on ill-~founded i:nformation; fie said that he had at all
times complied witfi tFie provisions of decrees 402, 2,144 and
1,188 on fines=, ~riolati:ons, and confiscated property.
The governor said tfiat after tlie arrest of two Cuban citizens
who were held at tfie orders- of tfie ministry of government, in
accordance with Co lombian law, the appropriate proceedings
were initiated and fines were levied as provided by decree
- 2,144. Upon payment of tfie fine, the appropriate authorities
were notified so that the obligatory proceedings could take
place; in this case, this would have meant a transfer to the
DAS [Administrative Department of Security], with a later re-
lease of thA prisoners .
_ Release
The governor said that the Cubans, Rafael Lineros and Pedro
Diaz, were released upon gayment of their fine, after the
judicial and intelligence authorities were notified that the
case was being closed 3nsofar as tfie ministry of government ,
was concerned. From that point forward, tfiat is, upon rece~ept
of this notification, it was tfie responsibility of these
authorities to investigate any charges against the two
Cubans, but the ministry of government was not authorized to
hold them under arrest.
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- Mr Leyes Hernandez said tfiat tlie head of the antinarcotics
group is confused about tfie amount of the fines, as each of -
the two men a.rrested was fined 2.5 million pesos, totalling
~ 5 million; this is tfie~~largest fine that has been levied for
violati:ons of decree ~2,144.
He maintained that he did not know if drugs or arms were
confiscated. According to the official report, some mari-
huana seeds were found in their possession. "If there were
another charge against tfie Cubans that would have given cause
for holding them under arrest, the governor should have been
_ informed when the fine was paid and the case was closed by
the ministry of government, so that the two could have been
transferred to the appropriate authorities."
The attorney Jesus Quiroz, in statements made to reporter
Caracol de la Costa on Tuesday evening, said that he would ~
be filing suit with the office of tbe attorney general of
Colombia against Governor Leyes Hernandez, ac:cusing him of
havinq released the two Cubans who had been charged with
drug traf f icking . -
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Current Contact with the Attorney General's Office
The governor of the Atlantico departsnent claimcd to be
unaware of any charges being filed against him by the -
prosecutor for ac~ministrative vigilance; such charges were
filed on 14 November 1979 by attorney Adolfo Maria Manotas
in a similar case .
"I have been in current contact with the attorney general' s _
of f ice, " said the governor, and he said he had received no
information about tfiis~ ~matter.
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I
COLOMBIA
ARMY ARRESTS 15 IN VARIOU5 RAIDS
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 27 Jul 80 p 9-A
[Text] The army has arrested 15 persons in raids designed
to block the activities of drug traffickers. During these
raids weapons, vehicles, and marihuana were confiscated.
A bulletin from tfie Ministry c.f Degense reported that the
follc~ring persons~ we~e ar~es~ted ~f~ La Guaj ira : Abdaul Ovalle
Campuzano, Hermes Gamez Barr3os, Jorge Chole Rivadeneira,
Florenfiino Antonio Sierra Fuernnayor, and Maria Rincon Celis.
Confiscated dnring tfi2~t raid were: one dou3ile-barreled
shotgun, two revolvers, one 30-caliber carbine, one van,
three containers of ~marihuana, nine radios, a Toyota four-
wheel drive ve~iicle, 133 cartridges of variaus calibers, and
- two anmtunition clips. I~n another raid in the same department
a B-80 aircraft was seized. _
_ The following persons were arrested in Magdalena: Dario
Henao Restrepo, Ciro Jose Cubillos Diaz, Antonio Garcia ~
Hernandez, Hernando Vidal Ocampo, and Jorge Rodriguez
Esguerra. in that raid two 9-mm pistols and two revolvers
were seized. Also taken were a van, 176 cartridges of a
variety of calibers, and four ammunition clips.
Jaime Maria Mendoza and Tomas Fragozo were arrested in the
Atlantico department. A van and a pound of marihuana seed
were confiscated from them.
Finally, in Bogota the following persons were arrested: Jorge
Enrique Rojas Hernandez, Francisco Roberto Arroyave Vasquez,
- and Guillermo Salazar Paipilla, with 43 kilos of cocaine and
a drug processing laboratory.
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COI~OML~I~
CLANDESTINE AIRFIELD TO BE DYNAMITED
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 7 Aug 80 pp 1-A, 14-A
[Article by Pedro Lara Castiblanco] -
[Text] Barranquilla, 6 August-- The second brigade command
tociay reported tfiat the landing field for the "Cari Cari"
farm, in the jurisdiction of La Guajira department, will be
dynamited this week; tfie same thing will be done to any other
airfields whicfi are found to be used for the takeoff or land-
ing of aircraft involved in the drug traffic.
The commander of tfie unit, Srig ~en Carlos Guillermo Narvaez
Casallas, reported this to EL ESPECTADOR, adding that this
step was adopted in coordination with the departmental gov-
ernment of La Guajira, whose head, Eduardo AbuGhaibe Ochoa,
has issued a resolution authorizing the destruction of the
a~.rf ield.
Immediately afterwards he said that investigations in the
area are now proceeding, in accordance with the governor's
_ orders; the governors generally have sufficient powers to
authorize the destruction of any airfield that is used for
drug traffic. _
The destruction of the "Cari Cari" airfield will take place
this weekend by means of dynamite. It is expected to be
totally unusable. It was also reported that upon the dis-
covery of clandestine airfields by the civil aviation agency,
airfields which will then be destroyed, permits will be
suspended by the aviation agency and strict vigilance will
be employed to prevent their reconstruction.
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This replaces an earlier regulation which had called for
the mining of marihuana fields and roads leading to them.
This regulation was suspended because it was felt that it
would endanger the lives of innocent peasants.
- This is the first airfield to be destroyed in the campaign
against the dr~sg traffic. Next week twa or three more fields
are expected to be dynamited; investigations are now proceed-
ing in those cases.
For the dynamiting of the field, the military unit has sent
special agents to the area in order to avoid mishaps with the
residents of that area.
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COLOMB,[A
BRIEFS
NAVY EMPLOYEE SEIZED WITH COCAINE--An employee of the navy department was
captured this past Thursday at the Eldorado Airport while transporting a
kilo of cocaine. T'he individual, identified as Abdenago Andrade, was pro-
ceeding from Leticia in "Aeronorte" Company airplane HK-851 and was carry-
ing the alkaloid concealed in a manila envelope in a small executive-type
travelling bag. Andrade, who works in Leticia as an employee at the
officers' club of the navy department, said that he did not know what was
in the envelope. He added that the package was to be claimed at the airport
by a man who was to take it to the Southern Unified'Command of the
navy, located in the CAN Administrative Center. The employee
will be placed at the disposition~of the criminal examining magistrate
within a few hours. [Bogota EL TTEMPO in Spanish 9 Aug 80 p 3-A] 8255
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MEXICO
TRAFFICKING AMONG PRISONERS INCREASES
Maxico City EL SOL DE MEXICO in Spanish 15 Jul 80 p 3-F
[Text] Guadalajara--Instead of decreasing, trafficking in drugs among inmates
at the Guadalajara preventive prison (the former Oblatos penitentiary) and
at the state prison facilities in Zapotlanejo is constantly on the increase
due to lack of vigilance by the guards--50 of them have been relieved of their
duties within the paat 90 days. In addition, two prisoners escaped under
the eyes of the policemen.
This series of irregularities, detected by the technical staff of the Co-
. ordinated Prevention and Rehabilitation Services Department of the State,
is being studied to find a quick solution and to achieve the goals of the
administrative branch of the state government, namely, to improve prison
conditions to a maximum and to seek a complete rehabilitation of inmates to
make them useful persons when they are returned to society.
Tt has been proved that drug consumption has been on the increase lately at
the former Oblatos penitenciary that houses more than 1,400 inmates, especially
the consumption of psychotropic pills that are easi.ly obtained,
This shows that there is a failure in maintaining vi.gilance, since there has
to be someone "helping" to bring in the drugs. There must be a stop to this
situation or else there will be a return to the difficult times that led to
a series of murders.
The increase in the consumption of pills and marihuana cigarettes can be ob-
served without much effort, according to persons who visited the facilities
- yesterday; they found in the middle of the day many drugged inmates sleeping
in the streets.
The inmates told their relatives who were there on a visit that it was very
easy to obtain a pill or a joint and that all it takes is some money.
Other drugs are so expensive that only inmates who have a great deal of money
can obtain them; among such people are notorious traffickers who are still in
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In the middle o f last month the inmates Jaime Ramirez Martinez, alias "E1
Capetillo," and Arnulfo Preciado escaped from the former Oblatos penitentiary
and reached th e streets using a rope made of sheets and bed covers.
They came out very close to one of the sentry boxes where guards who were
on duty failed to notice them and the escape was not discovered until the
following day when the prisoners did not answer the 0700 hours roll call.
Everything was kept secret until the fourth criminal court judge ordered the
- release of "El Capetillo" and then it was found out that he and his accomplice
had escaped a long time before.
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MEXICO
SICILIA FALCON TRIES ANOTHER ESCAPE
Mexico City EXCELSIOR in Spanish 27 Jul 80 p 32-A
[Text] After it was learned that narcotics trafficker Alberto Sicilia Falcon
was planning to excape "by murder and fire" from the Oriente ~rison in Mexico
City "if ~udge Vicente Munguia Diaz hands down an unfavorable sentence," prison
authorities ordered his transfer to the ~ail in Santa Marta Acatitla.
The transfer of the Cuban narcotics trafficker was made last Thursday in total
secrecy and under heavy security and he is at present in Santa~Marta under
constant vigilance.
The authorities at the Oriente prison discovered Sicilia Falcon's plans while
listening to a telephone conversation bett~een him and an acquaintance; in it
; he stated that "before I leave I'll take care of Maj Florentino Ventura
Gutierrez and federal government attorney Ramon Herrera Esponda."
Sicilia Falcon, impatient with the "slow judicial process in Mexico," again
became involved in a purchase and sale transaction of cocaine in Aspen,
Colorado, where Yolanda Verduzco, his fiancee--as she called herself when
she visited him in prison--was arrested for possession of 1 kg of the drug.
He had told her where to sell it and to whom.
Furthermore, Mexican and U.S. authorities were able co determine that from in-
side the prison the drug trafficker has controlled drug purchase and sale
operations abroad, principally in the United States.
Regarding the threat again~t Florentino Ventura and Ramon Herrera Esponda,
the authorities explained that it was made gossibly because Major Ventura
arrested him after he had escaped from Palacio Negro in Lecumberri and it was
Herrera who ~ailed him.
Sicilia Falcon, on the other hand, denied any knowledge of the charges made
against him. He is being held incommunicado in Santa Marta Acatitla.
,
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MEXICO
FOUR TRAFFICKERS CAPTURED, HEROIN SEIZED
Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 23 Aug 80 p 8
[Text] The Federal Judicial Police won another victory against the drug
traffic upon seizing 1 kilogram and 820 grams o~ heroin, and capturing
four individuals who had processed the drug and were ready to sell it to
the highest bidder.
This morning, ~he agency of the Federal Public Ministry announced the cap-
ture of Vicente Quiroz.Parra, aged 54, married, a miner and farmer by occu-
pation and a resident of Otatillos, Badiraguato; and Ignacio Perez Valen-
zuela, aged 50, married, a mechanic by trade, a native of the village of
E1 Saldo, Durango, and a resident of Quila, Sinaloa. -
Also apprehended was Manuel Morales Bustamante, aged 25, single, a day
laborer, and both a native and resident of the La Huerta ranch, in Cosala; -
and, finally, Marco Antonio Davila Trejo, aged 42, married, a native of
Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, residing at Estacion Fonseca, Guasave.
In April, the aforementioned individuals went to a farm called Agua Caliente,
located in the vicinity of Cosala, and from there to the foothills known as
E1 Vichi, where there was a poppy planta~.ion, the product from which was
processed by Quiroz Parra.
They packed the product from that crop in four plastic bags, containing 816,
29b, 406 and 302 grams, respectively, and gave them to Perez Valenzuela for
safekeeping. Using a PVC pipe measuring approximately 50 centimeters by
5 inches, he buried the drugs in the yard of his house, from which they were
retrieved when these individuals were captured.
In his statements, Quiroz Parra said that, about 7 years ago, he had learned -
from someone named Ignacio Lopez ($ince deceased) how the ogium gum was
processed to be converted into heroin and hence the chemical process was
carried out in 2 days, on the aforementioned foothills.
As corpus delicti, the Federal Judicial Police turned over to the Public
Ministry a 22-caliber Mendoza brand rifle, a PVC pipe containing four plastic
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bags holding a dark substance with a pervasive odor, presumed to be heroin,
and a 1977 Dodge pickup truck, with Guana3uato State license plates GK-4543.
Upon remanding the four individuals presumed to be responsible to the first
district judge, located in Culiacan, the office of the Federal Public Minis-
try also sen4 the items which had been confiscated as evidence of the crime
committed, accompanied by the charge that the laws pertaining to crimes
against health had been violated.
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MEXICO
LONG JAIL SENTENCE SOUGHT FOR LARGE-SCALE TRAFFICKER
Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 16 Aug 80 Sec B p 6
[Text] Taking into account the dangerous nature of the drug trafficker Luis
Guillermo Gonzalez Velarde, alias "E1 Memo," the agent of the Federal Public
_ Ministry brought charges against him, req.uesting therein that the second
district ~udge sentence him to the maximum term of 15 years in jail, and
impose a fins of 1 million pesos for his full liability in committing a
crime against health categorized in Articles 193.and 197-1 of the Federal
Penal Code.
In short, the second district judge will hand down a final decision in the
case of Gonzalez Velarde, who is subject to proceedings No 93-979, in which
charges were brought against him for presumed guilt of committing a crime
against health in the degrees of possession, transportation and trafficking
of cocaine, heroin, morphine and novocaine.
The federal prosecutor, Nicolas Martinez Cerda, told EL MANANA that, when
the charges were brought ag~inst the accused, there was included a request
for application of the maximum penalty, in view of his "maximum" dangerous
nature, which has been fully borne out in many records of both native and
foreign origin.
Gonzalez Velarde has a record for cocaine trafficking because, on one occa-
sion, while using the alias of Gustavo Garza Velazquez, he was arrested in
Hidalgo, Texas, as he.was driving a 1969 Ford car in which he had concealed
- a shipment of that type of drug.
He was subsequently associated with the seizure.of 40,500 toxic pills.
In other proceedings (150-974) held in the first district court of M~onterrey,
Nuevo Leon, a warrant was issued for his arrest, as a person presumed guilty
of committing a crime against health.
A federal court in Mazatlan arraigned him, in proceedings No 52-978, for
crimes of the same type.
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On 23 January 1976, the Federal Judicial Police arrested him in Monterrey
with half a kilogram of cocaine and 68,000 toxic pills of the type known
as "Qualude" in his possession. On that occasion, he was also using the
names Gustavo Garza Velazquez and Gabriel Garcia Vega.
In the conclusions, Martinez Cerda submitted a detailed report on the con-
duct of the majority of Gonzalez Velarde's relatives, because they have been
tried for drug trafficking on countless occasions.
The capture of the dangerous drug trafficker, who is considered to be a
"fat fish" in this type of business, took place on 23 April 1979.
First, agents of the Federal Judicial Police under orders from Comdr Marga-
' rito Mendez Rico arrested Jose Alberto Vazquez Castillo, alias "E1 Marciano,"
and Ernesto Diaz Reyes, both of whom were intercepted in Villa Aldama, Nuevo
Leon, while traveling in a 1977 Ford.pickup truek. Upon being questioned,
the former stated that he was engaged in cocaine trafficking, and that the
one supplying him was Luis Guillermo Gonzalez Velarde,a resident of No 35
Santo Domingo, in the "Satelite" development in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
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MEXICO
BRIEFS
POLICE COLLUSION CHARGED--A severe blow was dealt to the organized drug traf-
fic when several well-known persons from this town were arrested, and a
large quantity of marihuana was seized from them. This information was
learned unofficially from an unauthorized spokesman for the Federal Judicial
Police, who claimed that the investigations being conducted resulted in the
identification of several individuals from this town. They were immediately
cap tured and the grass was confiscated.from them. They are now being ques-
tioned, since they have ties with persons who have good connections in this
business. It was learned earli~r that g,roup chief Narciso Estudillo Cerezo _
has instructions from the Office of the Attorney General c~f the Republic to ~
exterminate the smugglers of illegal immigrants and traffickers currently
operating with the consent of Federal Judicial Pol.ice Comdr Manuel Espindola
Martinez. The criminals were over.ly brazen, boasting that they could do
whatever they wanted because they en~oyed the protection of this unworthy
individual, paying large amounts in order to "work." The Office of the _
~ Attorney General of the Republic should call Commander Espindola to account
benause no good�work has been noted since his arrival at this border, much ;
, less a battle against the traffickers and smugglers. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo
EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 19 Aug 80 Sec B~p 9] 2909
HEROIN LABORATORY FOUND--Mexlco City--Federal agents in Culiacan, Sinaloa,
discovered a clandestine laboratory in which hard drugs such as cocaine, _
heroin and others were being mant~factured. The owners of the premises,
. Roque Hernandez `Jalenzuela and Antonio Pina Garcia were arrested, and the
police confiscated from them 1 kilogram of pure heroin, and some vats, wash-
stands, bottles, test tubes and other implements, on the site located at
Rancho Viejo, There, the federal agents obtained the clue to the where-
abouts of a drug traffickers' eneampment located.in the village of E1 Triste,
in the municipal~ty of Otaeza,. Durango; but, upon their. arrival at that site,
the drug distributors had already fled. [Text] [Nogales DIARIO DE NOGALES
in Spanish 23 Jul 80 p 1] 2909
ENTERTAINER ARRESTED WITH COCAINE--The singer, Nino Nahmad, who has been
performing in Nogales for several days, was arrested by Federal Police
officers in this town when he was discovered making a purchase and sale
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- transaction involving cocaine at the E1 Recreo nightclub, in the middle of
Elias Street. The aforementioned federal officers, under orders from Comdr
Victor Manuel Martinez Guerra, first arrested Victor Manuel Nahmad Garcia,
better known as Nino Nahmad, who was found to have a paper envelope in his
possession containing a considerable amount of cocaine. Upon being question-
ed, the singer told the Federal Police that he had purehased the drug for
$lOQ from Ernesto Acuna Gutierrez, alias "El Pitos," who is the brotY~er of
the notorious car thiEVes, Roberto and Armando Acuna Gutierrez, alias "E1
Charol," and "E1 Charolito," who are serving sentences at the Rer,abilitation
Center. Shortly thereafter, "E1 Pitos" was arrested, and confessed to having
sold the drug to Nino Nahmad, who declared himself an addict to the Federal
Police. Also seized from "E1 Pitos " was another enveloped containing cocaine,
and a 1973 Chevrolet car. Both of the individuals under arrest, the addict -
and the drug seller, are a;. the disposal of Federal Public Ministry Agent
Manuel Francisco Delgado Duran. [Text] [Nogales DIARIO DE NOGALES in Spanish
13 Aug 80 pp 1, 2] 2909
MEXICAN ANTIDRUG EFFORT LAUDED--Today, in this town, the district assistant
of the United States customs patrol, Jerry L. Paladino, declared that the
- intensive campaigns against the drug traffic carried o.ut with great effi- _
ciency by the Mexican Government have reduced the.distribution of these
products in the United States to a large extent. He stated categorically
that, since 1976, the drug traffic in the latter country has declined con-
siderably, as a result of the effective campaigns being eonducted in a
coordinated fashion by the governments of both countries. He said that it _
may almost be claimed that most of the drugs coming .to that nation from the
leading producing countries in Central America are confiscated on the Mexi-
can borders, and only on very rare occasions are they successfully brought ~
into the United States. [Text] [Nogales DIARIO DE.NOGALES in Spanish 12 Aug
80 pp 1, 2] 2909
- MARIHUANA DESTROYED IN MORELOS--Acapulco, Guerrero--In unprecedented action
taken by the government attorney general's office and the Mexican army, 17
plantations of marihuana have been destroyed in Morelos, as reported yester-
day by attorney Cesar Augusto Monteverde, an agent of the federal government
attorney's office in this city. Interviewed at the Cuernavaca center,
Monteverde pointed out that the attorney general's office has been conducting
similar operations for the past 4 months in the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca,
Puebla and Morelos. At the same time that efforts are being made to discon-
tinue plant growing, measures are being taken to eliminate drug traffickers
who, it seems, come from the northern part of the country, even by small air-
planes, to obtain supplies of the pernicious "weed." [Text] [Mexico City
EL SOL DE MEXICO in Spanish 2 Aug 80 p 7-F] 9674
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PERU ~
BRIEFS
~
POLICE IDENTIFY COCAINE AREA--Lima, 5 Sep (LATIN)--The local police hzv~
reported that Cachicupar, a remote town in the Andes Mountains in south-
eastern Peru on the border with Bolivia, has become a stronghold of drug
traffickers who are guarding the town with small arms and iarge-caliber
weapons. Hugo Tello, chief of the Peruvi~n Investigations Police (PIR),
has reported that the area is the main supplier of cocaine base (PBC)
for "export." He disclosed that Cachicupar produces the largest part
of the 2-ton weekty average of cocaine base "exported" to the United
, States from Peru through Colombia. Luis Hers, chief of the International
Airport Customs Police, said yesterday at a press conference that so far
this year they have confiscated 1,200 kg oi drugs, including cocaine
hydrochloride, cocaine base and other halucino genic drugs. Hers explained
that on the international consumers market these drugs would be valued
at $10 million. [Excerpts] [PY061846 Buenos Aires LATIN in Spanish
0243 GMT o Sep 80]
DRUG TRAFFICKERS FORT--Lima, 5 Sep (AFP)--The Peruvian investigations
police has announced that with the help of the Peruvian navy and air force,
the police will destroy a fort belonging to some drug traffickers in the
Puno Department, near the Bolivian border. The police reported that drug
traffickers set up a stronghold in the peasant community of Cachipur near
the Titicaca Lake. [PY102208 Paris AFP in Spanish 1824 GMT 5 Sep 80]
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~.ZUELA
GENERAL ON DRUG CHARGE CONFUSION
PA110215 Paris AFP in Spanish 1943 GMT 10 Sep 80
[Text] Bogota, 10 Sep (AFP)�--Because his diplomatic d;;cuments were
stolen, Gen Evelio Carreno Florez, a former air attache at the Venezuelan
Embassy here, was confused with a cocaine trafficker, it was leariied
today.
In Caracas, Carreno has made a statement for a Bogota newspaper, explaining
' that 5 years ago he traveled to Bogota with the rank of colonel to serve
as his country's air attache.
After concluding his missior., he returned to the Venezuelan capital to
- continue his activities as a general. Some time later, he went on
vacation to the Colombian port of Cartegena. His documents were stolen
there in a local hotel, an incident that he duly reported to the authori-
ties at the time.
As a result of the confusion, several Colombian papers announced late
last week that an intense search for General Carreno was on in connection
with a case of cocaine traffic in Ca~ica, near Bogota.
Venezuelan Embassy spokesmen have described the reports in connection
with General Carreno as a"deplorable mistake."
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SUDAN -
FEATURE ARTICLE ON BANGO DRUG TRADE
Khartoum SUDANOW in English Aug 80 pp 28-29
[Text] Bango is said to alter one's perceptions. grass pushing up through the surface of
For the police, bango is a problem of the soil. The entire peasant family parti-
enforcement; for tl:e street retailer, ii is cipates in production with, as usual, the
an easy, wel!-paying anc~ sometimes, the women undertaking most of the labour.
onlv avaitable job; for the peasant The field, planted in June, needs to be ~
producer, usually trapped within the cleaned only once, and three months later
traditiona! agricultural sector, it is a is ready for harvest.
f:eaven-sent opportunity to escape sub- At this juncture, three forms of the
sistence. The consumption of bango has drug may be produced from the crop:
the sanction of tradition and of hashish (with a THC - the active
customary practrce - but not of the law ingredient - conterit of ten per cent),
.Sudanow contributor Abde! Rahman hash oil (90 pe- cent THC), and bango
Abde! Rahim reports on the bango scene (with a THC c~~ntenr of only two per
in Sc~dan. cent). `Fortunately,' nc::s Police
Brigadier Hakirn Abdel Rahman Hakim,
iQ EGIN at the beginning and conti- a member of the National Committee for
ia nue on until the end,' the Red Narcotics Control, `people here only
Queen advised Alice during the latter's know how to produce the latter drug.'
trip through Wonderland. Not bad advice The crop is thus harvested as bango,
for an ardcle on cirugs. The be~nning, placed on straw mats under the sun for a
naturally and as regards the economic whole day, and then tightly wrapped in
impetus that propels bango as a brown paper. Tluee days later the paper
commodity, lies in the areas of is removed and a solid, oval-shaped
cultivation. These span the fertile soils of gandool - an easily merchandtsable `
Southern Darfur, Bahr el Ghazal, package - is placed in plastic bag~ to
Equatoria, the southeastern landscapes of preserve its humidity, and thus its
Kassala and Damazin, and stretches of the potency. The bango is now ready for the
Blue Nile. market, and it is time for the urban-based
As a crop, bango is a delight; it is hardy dealers, with their brand-new landrovers,
and insect-resistant, highly productive (1- to come and collect it from the field.
1~i kantars a feddan). It requires little The economic and social realities which
labour, and brings a high return. It is underlie t?us production are somewhat
grown on fertile land which renews itself less natural ar d problem-free. Most bungo
through annual rain-floods and is is grown within the traditional sector -
fert~ised by the burning of the trees and where production of any crop is limited -
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by extremely ~nn~afive teclin~.~lc>gy, lach fvlercl~ants I'roin hhartuwn, Wa~1
uf access to governnient services and tlie Medatu, Gedaref, E1 Ubeid and Kosti
great distances hetween areas of cultiva- arr~ve in the tttlds, where the price tbr
tion and thc final iT~arket. Bango, the crop is quite low, S,s3 a pound. '1'lus
liowevcr, escapcs this last barricr, though price will risc to perliaps Cs15 in January.
at c~~nsiderable cust in tl~e difference though its shn~l re~ayment priee will
betwcen produccr and c;ensurncr prices, remain in thc .�sl-3 margin. In urban
because it is sold in the field. In this areas, ttus same pound will fetch �s70,
context, legal cash crops frcquently bring according to Police Nfajor EI Khair
a srnall return against labour. particutarly Medani of lhe Central Criminal lnvestiga-
when the pro~lucer price is hept arti~- tion Departmeni.
cialiy low. The total val~:e of the drug traffic is
Added to tlie problems of the tradilion- ?,mpossible to determine. Pol}ce sources,
~l sector and of low producer prices is perhaps with an eye for round numbers,
that of t}ie shail system. Sllai/ is a form of put the annual value at �sl million to
usury, in which peaaants borrow money or producers, and estimate that organised -
boods from a local merchant ~~:llllSt lI1C gangs have annual incomes of �s50,000-
futurc liarvest. Tl,e key to thc system is �s100,000. In the Three Towns, the
the nianipulation oi valuation - that is, average annual inFlow of bango is
Uic loan (most often of f~od or other estimated by Major El Khait to be 50
necessities) is usually contracted during kantars. Of this, perhaps ten per cent is
the rainy season, ~vh:ch isolates whole intercepted by the police, claims a senior.
communities from t}te outside world and police offcer. Additionally, large
thus permits tt e merchant to clrive up his quantities are lost to the market when
prices; while repayment is calculated they are huniedly dumped to escape
against the immediate ~ost-harvest, when police detection. But just to show the
crop prices are at tlieir lowest. Such a potential value of the business, police in
system encourages the production of Southern Darfur last December burnt one
crops with t1~e highest rnarginal return million kilogrammes of raw cannabis
against labour, and appeals against such a w'~ich, at a street price of �s70 a poiind
crop on grounds of `illegality' are - not weighi, was no sma11 fortune.
surprisingly - ignored by poor peasant '1"he retail system is complete witl~
producers. `People are caught in tlie crush oudets, staff an~l }'unds for bribery. 11ost
of the shuil system,' observed Yousif bango merchants will own, an~ less
Ahmed Adam, who recently conducted a frequently, roanage, k{raiias small.
survcy on the bango business in Soi~thern illegal retail stures wherc bango, hruken
Darfur. `Beriveen the need for cash to into merchandisable sues, is sol~ each
reproduce themselves and their environ- of whicti may bring in up tu ~s100 a clay.
_ mental handicaps, they are ~rag~ed into W~thin the Tl~rce Towns, there are
bango production.' perhaps 100 ~;ha~ras, most of them con-
Unlike the `Colden Triangle' of Burma, centrated in the mushrouming sliauty
Laos and Tliailand -~~vhere the first rank regions on the outskirts uf the main
of drug users is filled by opium farmers urban area.
and their families few cannabis growers Well�know~n locally, these h/ra�u.s a~c
are consumers. Mustafa Abdel Kahman of well-protected in more ways than une.
the Econamic and Social Research since they could liardly cscape thr, notice
Cuur.ci (ESRC) estimates that as few as of the police buildings of 30-50 sq
one per cent of the growers conswne metres. The only door is w~ell padlocked,
d~eir own pr~duct. If this f~guce is thc bango bein~ sold throu~;ti a small
accurate, poverty may well be a major wir:~ow. Generally, yuunb nien ,~rc liired
cantributory factor. For although bango to run the hha~rus.
~ brings the higher rewards of illegal '[t really pays to sell dopc.' saie! "I:?lia.
production, `Tlie producers are not the aged 23. `You are prc~videJ wilh fou~l,
real beneficiaries from cannabis,' argues drugs and a persuasive salarv.' Indee~l, he
Mustafa Abdel Ra1u;~an. This brings us wishes no more, and views his involvc-
back to the wliolesale drug dealers, ment in the business as a step forwaril. `l
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wantecl to gu to Saudi Arabia, but since i 7'his matter may take on greatcr
had nc> ~raft or specialisation, I couldn't.' urgency as there is some evidence to
Outside ttus drug castle, dealers keep suggest tha~ the consurnption of hango
their alert watchmen (kishiJ). 1'l~e kishif is is on t}ie increase. Reliable statistics are,
usuaUy a pavement-based barber, an of course, difflcult to come bv. But Dr
elderly man selling snuff or a youth who Hassabu Si~lieman, who in 1977
is apparendy just hanging around the conduCted a Survey on Cannabis Use in
street comer: F.arning as much as .�s5 per Sudan", found that 30 per cent of ltis
day, this is lucrative work. Wl~en the respondents admitted using the drug.
kishif passes tt~e word, "Government's with the figure rising to 47 per cent
come", the searched-for bar.go is hidden, ~ongsturbanresidents.Particularlynote-
if necessary by being abandoned down worthy ln his view was the trend towards
the water closet. consumption by young people.
_ The kishif are not the only problem for A solution to the present situation
thc police, who in any event have ?nore seems far off, indeed utopian. Among the
serious crime's to solve. Brigadier Hakim recommendations of the Tlurd Arab Cou-
stressed the lack ofany personnel trained ference for Alcohol and Narcotics
in combatting the drug trade, whIle First Control, Khartoum, in December 1977,
Lieutenant Awad Wida' talla spoke of the was a call for all concerned international
'tinder-equipped, undermanned police and Arab organisations to assist d~e
forces in the areas of cultivation, who Sudanese authorities in the development
chase drug merchants along hidden of altemadve crop production in the
trails.' U?~e of lus colleagues, Major Hamid cannabis-growing areas, as a measure to
Mohamed el Hassan of the Interpol ofRce combat the illicit traffic. `Crop replace-
in Khartoum, holds a rather different
view: "Given only five cars and an ment seecns the most practical solution to
adequate numt~er of soldiers, ! can ~e drug problem. By introducing a c~sh
assure you that no one would be smoldn crop that is }ust as profitable as cannabis,
8 and educating tlie public about tfic
a reefer." dangets of the drug, we are sure we arc
The Hashisli and Opium Ordinance heading f~r the total abolition of thc
1928, which fonns the legal basis for the illegal traf6c,'said f3rigadier Hakim.
suppression of the drug trade, is not
widely adnured by those required to Yousif Ahmed Adam argues an even
enforce it. "Its barely of use at all, since less likely scenario: "This, and other
it rnakes no distinction between major problems of tlie traditional sector, will
dealers, peasant cultivators, and not be remedied until a more comprehen-
occasional users," noted Major Hamid. sive and continuous attack is launched
The maximum penalty under the law is against backwardness and underdevelop-
only seven years detention plus a fine of inent. The weapon for such an attack is
�s5,000. `I would advocate a severe democratic agrarian reform, which will
deterrent punisfunent. In Egypt, for liberate niral populadons from ex-
erample, drug trafficers are sentenced to ploitative relations . . By revising
fife i,-nprisonment. The big dealer, the patterns of tand ownership, establishing
owncr of the kharar, is alway5 out of state-owned farms and cooperatives, and
sight. When raided, his salesman will by crop replacement we can overcome
claim ownership of the confiscated drupYs. t}us problem."
Their bosses are never reached,' argues If this is inaeed the solution to
Major F,l Khair. 17iere is some pressure Sudan's `drug problem' , then rve may
for a reform of this leg~slation. As Briga- rxpect ba�go to be witli us for a long,
uier Hakim observed, "Sudan was among long dme.
the sig~atories of the International Sin~e
Convention for Harcotic Drugs, 1961 and
we now need a Urufied IYarcotics Control
Ordinance as soon as possible."
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K I.NYA
POLICE ACTION AGAINST BIIANG CROWi;RS, POSSI:SSORS NOTLU
- Fine for Growing Bhang
Nairobi LIAILY NATION in L'nglish 10 Sep 80 p 21
~~OXt~ A MAN hn~ been tined'l,5(Nl/- or '1'he mx{;ivlrutc cnremi~ndr~1
I'l m~mthri . jail fbr havinK und i he pulice Cur the g~Krc! wurk 1lu~~~
Kr~rwinK bhanK. were 'dt)in~ tn rid t he erea ~~I
Beli~re KiFii arnior re~;ident bhenK growinK,,,and chank'He
maKistrate D. K. S. ARanyanya brewing. He urged Lhecp to, con�
wa~ OnKan OmanKf, charKecl tinue in thexamespirit.
Ihat, on Sep(emt~er 6,' he had 127 Mr. A~anyanyn ~aid 1 hn~
kk. ul' bhapK and wati also K~~~Wiqg u1t h~~uKh the accused was a lir.l
I ~dl planlti nf ~ he drug. � ~d'I'ender who lcx~ked cdd, he de~er
He admilted the twocharKes. ved such yunishment eti wuuld b~
Chief (m~. .1. Shiundu'~eid a wnrninK tu other putentiel
~Hdii�e, aclin~; nn a tip f~um the