GUATEMALA MEXICO, GUATEMALA SIGN DRUG TREATY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP98-01394R000200040007-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2013
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• Publication Date: May 21, 1990
• Content Type: REPORT

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Meanwhile, the investigations continued and they led to
another group of narcotics traffickers, consisting of mil-
itary policemen. The investigation indicated that the
MPs were responsible for delivering the cocaine to the
traffickers who controlled the distribution points. They
delivered the drugs during the hours when they were on
patrol in the central area of the city.
The Federal Police promised to release the names of the
arrested soldiers and a list of the new suspects, including
noncommissioned Military Police officers, today.
Seizures in Sao Paulo
90WD0274D Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO
in Portuguese 8 Apr 90 p 12
[Text] Assis, Sao Paulo?A team from the Sao Paulo
Police Narcotics Department (DENARC) yesterday
seized 20 kilograms of pure cocaine, valued at $2 million
(about 134 million cruzados at free market exchange
rates). The drug was apprehended at Kilometer 440 of
the Raposo Tavares Highway, in a Volkswagen can,
license CB 3726, which was traveling from Corum
(Mato Grosso do Sul) to the Sao Paulo State ca
Registered to the company Transportes San Marti
Corumba, the van was driven by Manoel Fernandes e
Souza. He was accompanied by Walter de Oliveira, who
was armed with a revolver.
To carry out the drug seizure, the DENARC mounted a
real military operation, with the support of the Highway
Police, who set up a roadblock on the Raposo Tavares
Highway, near Assis. DENARC Chief Carlos Alberto
Costa said that the arrest, in Campinas, of trafficker
Antonio Carlos Cirino had led to the drug seizure. On his
arrest, with 20 kilograms of cocaine in his possession,
Cirino said the drug had come from Bolivia, through a
group based in Corumba.
The DENARC hopes to make more arrests this weekend
in the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo. According to
Chief Oswaldo Pinheiro, a trafficking ring is about to be
dismantled in the ABC [Greater Sao Paulo industrial
zone].
Luggage Seized
90WP0274E Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO
in Portuguese 31 Mar 90 p 14
[Text] Campo Grande?Early yesterday morning, the
Federal Police of Tres Lagoas?on the border between
Mato Grosso do Sul and Sao Paulo?seized 21 kilograms
of pure cocaine. Originating in Santa Cruz de la Sierra,
in Bolivia, the cocaine was to have reached Copacabana,
in Rio's southern zone, today.
Chief Olimpio Machado de Oliveira, of the Tres Lagoas
Federal Police Delegacy, believes the cocaine was ulti-
mately destined for the international market.
The cocaine was in two traveling bags in the luggage
compartment of one of the cars of the Federal Railway
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System train on the Corumba-Bauru line. Their suspi-
cions aroused by two passengers who spent large sums of
money in the dining car, the Federal Police identified the
owners of the luggage. Benedito Roger da Silva, 40, of
Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul, and his brother-
in-law, Marcos Aurelio Ribas de Barros Soares, 23, of
Corumba, also in Mato Grosso do Sul, had obtained the
cocaine from two Bolivians and admitted that they had
been paid 50,000 cruzeiros to transport it as far as the
railway station at Lins, in the interior of Sao Paulo.
Claudio Morais Junior, 19, who was to have taken the
cocaine to Rio, was arrested at the Lins station. Junior
said he was from Marilia, but lives in Copacabana. He
said he did not know who the cocaine was for.
According to Chief Oliveira, this was the largest cocaine
seizure in Mato Grosso do Sul this year to date. The
three traffickers are in custody at the Tres Lagoas Penal
Institution, but Itie_BoJiy_ians involved have not been
located by the'fderal-Retieer---,
GUATEMALA
Mexico, Guatemala Sign Drug Treaty
0WD-0288A Guatemala City DIARICIDPCENT 0
AMERICA in Spanish 17 Apr 90 p 4
[Text] Since last month, the agreement between Guate-
mala and Mexico on cooperation to combat drug traf-
ficking and drug addiction signed in August of last year
in the town of Tapachula, Chiapas, has been in effect.
The official organ of the Republic, DIARIO DE
CENTRO AMERICA, has published the instrument
ratifying this agreement, signed by the president of the
Republic and issued through the Ministry of Foreign
Relations. Previously, through diplomatic channels,
both countries had exchanged notifications that the
respective constitutional requirements and procedures
had been fulfilled.
According to the agreement, the cooperation between the
two countries relates to the implementation of programs
to reduce the illicit demand for drugs, to eradicate drug
crops, to engage in activities aimed at curbing and
prosecuting activities carried out in connection with the
drug trade and drug addiction, and to identify and
destroy laboratories and other facilities in which such
products are processed illicitly.
It is also intended to regulate the production, importing,
exporting, and storing of components and chemical
products the use of which could be diverted to the
processing of narcotics and psychotropic substances.
60 Kg of Cocaine Seized At Air Terminal
90WD0282A Guatemala City SIGLO VEINTIUNO
in Spanish 12 Apr 90p 3
[Text] A large shipment of almost pure cocaine, valued
at approximately $2 million, was intercepted by special
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