JPRS ID: 8557 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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6 July ~979
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NARC~OTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
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NARCOTICS AND DANG~ROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 28/79)
CONTENTS PAGE
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
Canberra, New South Wales Form Antidrug Task F~rce
(THE A(~E, 7 May ?9) 1
Airport Cu~toms Officers Plan Crackdown on Narcotics Imports
(THE WEST AL1STRAI~IAN, Lt May 79~ 2 -
Police Plan 2lt-Hour-A-Day ~Blitz~ on Drugs in St. K:ilda
(I,indsay Murdoch; THE AGE, 8 Mqy 79) 3
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Briefs
Rangoon Men Arrested 4
Heroin User Arrested j~
JAPAN
L~irgest Hoodlum Or~anizatiot; Revives Antinarcotics Drive
(MAINICHI DAILY 1dEWS, 11 Jun 79) 5
NEW ZEALAND
New Scanners To Find Narcotics in Mail
(THE 3VENING FQST, 15 May ?9) 6
New Zealand U~ug Dealers Grow Wealthy in Southeast Asia
(THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 18 May ?9) 7
Con spf racy To Impo i~ ~ Heroin, Cannabis Alleged
(~E rr~+r Z~Ar.~rm ~~n, 19 May 79) 8
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CONTLNTS (Continued) Page
Briefs
~u31ty P1ea 9
Heroin Seized 9
fioroin SentQnce 9
Cannab3.S MailPd 3n Africa 10
PAKISTAN
Brie�s
Two Centers for Addicts 11
Big Narcotic Haul 11
PHILTPPINES .
Briefs
IJrug Arrests 12
Pl.antation Qwner Arrested 12
CANADA
Police Raid Nets I,arge Haul of Marihuana
(Various sources, various dates) 13
Ship Seized
Twenty Arrested
Another Arrest
Marih~~~na To Be Burned
EAST~i EUROPS
YUGOSLAVIA
Fir~t Drug Case Prosecuted in Ohrid, Macedonia Reported
(NOVA MAKEDOriIJA, 1, 2 Jun ?9) 16 -
Facts of Case Reported
Details of Drug Operatioil, by D. Pe~cinovski
LATIN AI~R.ICA
BOLIVIA
Hundred Pounds of Impounded Cocaine Deposited in Central Bank -
(PRESENCIA, 10 Jun ?9) 19
BrieSs
Cocaine Processing Plants 21
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COLOMBIA
~SeA~ of Marihuana Found in La (~u~~ir~
(EL 'TTEMPO, various dates) 22
AnnouncemQnt of the Mscovery, by Jose
Cervantes Angulo
Up to 30-40,000 ~Iectares
Palomino: Tra.�fickers ~ ~Mecca ~
~Night of the Fireflies~ _
Risks Are (}reat
ProP3.ts Are Greater
Tha l~overnor~s View
Trafficka:s, Counterfeiting Linked by Authorities
(Various SOUI'C89~ 18~ 22 Muy 79) 48
Counterieit Money, Alleged Cocaine Seized
~Cocaine~ A].so Counterfeit
~Moto' Jaramillo Saized, on ~Most-Wattted~ List
(EL TIEMPO, 22 May 79) 52
Traffickers Attempt to Bribe F-2 Official
(EL SI(}L0, 17 May 79) 56
Briefs
Antidrugs Pact With Mexico 57 ~
MEXICO
New Laws To F`ight Addiction Studied
(EL SOL DE MEXICO, 15 May 79) 58 _
PJF Announce Arrests, Seizuree
- (EL SOJ, DE MEXICO, 16 May 79) 59
Drug Tra�fic Convictions Down lt0 Percent
(EL SOL DE SINALOA, 21t May ?9) 61
- Sixteen Kilograms oF Pure Heroin Seized
(Rafael Medina Cruz; EXCEI,SIOR, 15 May 79) 62
Heroin Trafficker: Qperating in Ti~uana Jail
(EL BRAVO, 15 May 79) 64
Captured Heroin Traffickers Der~y Charges in Court
(EL DIARIO DE t~iTEVO LAREDO, 26 May 79) 66 -
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I~OIt 01~'~'ICfAL USL ON1~Y
CGNTENTS (Coni:inuecl) ~'n~C
~[oroln, 1{ashi3}i 'rrar.f
3ckers Officlally Jailed
(~L MAN~INA~ 2a M~y 79) b7
Four Heroin Traffickers Held i'o~~ Tri~1
(EL SOL 1.)L SINALOA, 28 May 79) 69
Heroin Trat'ficker Confesyes, Receive3 Jail Sentence
(EL MANANA, 7, 9 J~? 79) 7~.
Dru~s Si;olen
OFS'icial Sentdnce Imposed
Traf'ficker Admits Selling Heroin in United State~
(EL DIARIO DE MJEVO LAREDO, 27 Mqy ?9) 73
Heroin 'Pr~fficker Captured, Accomplice Escapes
( LA VOZ DE I,II I~'RONTERA~ 15 rtay 79) . ~ 7~t _
Cocaine, Marihu~~na Sei2ed in North _
(Consueln L. De Avalos; EXCELSIOR, 17 May 79) 76 =
Pill Traffickers Captured in Reynosa
c~L ~~~A, 23 tday 79) ~7
- Pill Traffickers Jai].ed, Laboratory Sought
(EL DIARIO DE NUF"VO LAREDO, 1 Jun 79) 78
Garza: 85 Percent of Marihuana Plantations Destroyed '
(EL SOL DE MEXICO, 8 May 79) 79
Marihu~na Being Shipped With PE~IEX, CFE Fquipme~t
(EL DIARIO DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS, 22 May 79) ~1
Marihuana Trafficker Given 6-Year Jail Sentence _
(EL DIA.~IO DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS, 15 May 79) 82
Briefs
Drugs, Tra�fickers Seized ~3
- Heroin T;�affickers Arrested 83
Warden Sold ConfiscAted I?rugs 83
Heroin Tra�fickers Sentence3 81t
Traffickers Sold Fake Cccaine 8~
Children Used for Smuggli+ig 85 ~
Attempted I?rug Smuggling 'T'hwarted 85
Traffickers Released 85
Police Protecting Traffickers Held 86 ~
Court Releases Tra�ficker 86
Traffickers' Release Denied 86
Marihuana Trafficker Ca~itured 8? _
Marihuana Grower Shot _ d_ 87 _
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CON'T~N'I'S (Continucd) p~gQ
URU(}UAY
_ Brazil3ans Among Nine Arrested for Trafficlcing Mar3.huana
_ (EL PAZS, 12 May 79) 88
VENEZUELA
PTJ Seizes Mandrax, Marihuana; Fuur Arrested
(l~L NACIONAL, 10 May ?q) 91
Maiquetia A3rport Becom~s I?rug Link to North
(Hern~n Mena Cifuentes; EL NACIONAL, 10 May 79) 93
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
ISRAEI,
Heroin Problem in Israel Said (}rowing
(HA~AR.FZ, 8 May 79) 96 _
Coc~.ine Seizure Conf.irms Iran Ma~or Source of Smuggling
(MA~ARIV, 25 May ?9) 99
MC~ROCCO
Drug Trafficking Ring Smashed in Kenitra, Americans Involved
(L~OPINION, 17, 19, 20 May 79) lOlt
Concentrated Cannabis Seized, by Larbi Doulizane
Details of Operation
Bribery Attempt
WE5T EUROPE
- GREECE
Four Persons Arrested for Heroin Possession
(ATHENS NEWS, 3-L~ Jun ?9) 110 r
Briefs
Turks With Cocaine Arrested 111
Arrests for Morphine 111
SPAIN
Brief s
Hashish Confiscated 112 ~
Marihuana Crop Found 112 _
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CONTENTS (Continued) Page
- UNIT~D KINC~DOM
I'orm~r Drug Squad Chief Jniled for Seven Years
(THE DAII,Y TFLEGItAPH, 10 May ?9) 11.3
Probatxon Officors Association Calls to.r Cannabis
Legalization
(Terence Shaw; THE DAILY TET~RAPH, 19 May 79) 11Lt
Prosecution Opens in Cocaine Trafficking Trial
(Ian Henry; THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 22 May 79) 115
Briefs
HProin Import Charge 117
Cannabis Smuggler Jailed 117
I?rugs Squad Officers Charged 117
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AUSTRALIA
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. CANb~RRA ~ NEW SOU'?'F{ WAL~S FORM ANTIDRUG TASK FORCE
Melbourne 'I'F{E ACE in English 7 Ma,y 7q p 6
[Text] ,~n iinti�dru tusk force
B tl~e tusk tor;c will foll~w
is heing fi~rmed by the thesc lends and brinR a~�
_ f'edcrf~l nnd New 5outh anders hefore the courts
- Wales ~;ovarnments. nnd that convfctions will
'fhe main aim will be to tollow," they snid.
stop the fluw of drubs into If the task forcc I~ auc-
Au.tralio, cessful, the Feder.:l Govern� ~
'lYie new force i~ a re- ment will set up similar
sult of tlie bint recommend- forces in cooperation with
ntians of the Fedcral and other States. Next on the
New South W81C3 royal i~st of priorities is Victoria.
commiszfons on drugs. The FederAl Governme~~t
It ~.~ill include membera will pay tor accommodntion
~f the Commonwealth and equipment tor the new
Pollce ~orce, the.New Sc~uth ; torce. Salariea will be
_ Wales Pc+lice and the Fed- shared by both Govern-
crnl Narcotica Burec,u. ments.
It will be based in Sydney Mr. Fraser and h'~r, Wran
anJ cnntrolled by s Joint seid the co-operet~on he-
Federai�Statc committee. tween the two Government
7'he n~me af the task force indicated 2heir determirn-
leader will bc announced tlon to expand investigation
soon. ot drug�ring leaders.
Offendere "It adds a new dimension
to the tight against the des�
The force will have acc- plcable trafficking that en-
ess to intelliqence inform- dangen the iives of ao many
ation gathered by all Fed- Australians, particularly the
eral nRencies '~ut wiU oper-
nte iudependenUy ot ~.11 younR, they said.
other law enforcement '"~e existence ot thl~
bodies. new force, and the heavy
Announcing the tormation penaities now r.vaiiable to
of the new aquad at the the cuurts for those con-
weekenJ, the Prime Mini~- victed of drug otfences,
~ ter, Mr. Fraser, and the should act es a clear dis-
I NSW Premfer, Mr. Wran, incentive to those thfnking _
said thc torce would foliow of enqagin~ ir this most in-
the leads developed by both sidious and destructive ot
royal commissions last year. crimes,"
They said thc commiss- Both men prafsed the co-
iuns fu,d provided many oparative atcitudes of the
possible lead~ to people in- two commission Judges, Mr.
valved in the drug trade. Justice Williams and Mr.
"It is now the hope of Justice Wood~vard.
hnth our Gnvernmenta thAC
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AUSTRALIA
_ AIRPORT CUSTOMS OF'FICERS FLAN CRACKDOWN ON NARCOTICS IMPORT5
Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 4 May 79 p 19
[Text]
CANSERRA: Cuitome
otticera at AirportQ�are,
to crack down on tsar~
cotlca lmporta.
The move wa~ iuulou ~
ed 1n the Fl~feral: ~r�'
llament today by the
'~;:ualness and Consumer
Atfalra Mlnister, Mr
_ ::~'lle, who deecrlbQd thc
reslltence of the lnter�
national , dryR' . uade � as -
�K~y, ~D~~~
'~he Gbveti~iirienf~ was ~
diaturbpd aR the lnareae-
l~Q ten~ienc,y for al rta
dru~
lm~o~rtationrand~fhe
increaainQ, u~volveme~tt
oi yamq A~etralfa~, !n
heesaf~d, scenas ovet~i~eaa, -
Plnne had been devele~�
ed to lntensity cuatorr~'
actlvitlee at AustraUa's
International airporta.
'ILe neroin selzed. in
19'Z8 waa up S3 ,per cent
o~a. ~dzuree fn the pre-
vlrny year, and !or icari~
nabli the increase was
968 Per. ce'mt. .
- Mr Flie waa speaidng
!n t!~ ~econd-reaQing
ataKes ot ,debate on'1es-
lslatloll i~na fqu~h -
- i~ew .pena1 on , a:~u �
trsflickers' ~and prpvi~
Ing for body seaMhes
and telephonn tay
p1r~g to
combat the trade. r
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- POLIC~ PLAN 24-HOUR-A-DAY 'BLITZ' ON DRUGS IN ST. KILDA
- Melbourne THE AGE in English 8 May 79 P 5
[Arricle by i.inclsay M~irdochJ
[Tex~t] Police are planning a night-and-day blitz on drug dualers and addicts
in St. Kilda's Fitzroy 5treet.
- Police had elresdy smash- _
5eniar police are believed ed one heroin ring In the
to have discussed the drug area after concern about
problam in detail late last increasing riolence connec-
month after pstimating ted with the drug scene.
ther~etves 4ha~ neroin C r i m in a I s trying to
a~c~rth up to ~500,0()0 is sold muscle in on drug dealer9
in the st Eet euch week. caused the violence, accord-
'The ~ge' reported on ing to detectives.
April 21 th~t heroin could Police sourees said yester-
be bought there as easily as day the Increaaed , aurveil� -
a cup of coffee. lance had scared away some
Three murders, ar dealers already, And the
~ attempted murder and seve- ones st1t1 operating ere be-
ral shootings have been at- coming more cautious.
tributed to drug dealing But a detecttve added: _
- this year. 'There are still plenty M
Depu.y Police Commis- big deale being made down
sioner Mr. A. W, Conn said t6ere."
last night poliee were very 7'he latest special opera�
concerned about the St. tion In Fitzroy Street was
Kilda drug problem. last Satut+day night.
"Ther~ has been a lot of Senior poltce declined
policing in St. Kilda and yeaterdxy to release cletai~s,
special ~peradorts will con- but the offlcec in chuge,
tinue to be mounted;' he Suparlt~tendent M. Fisher
said. saW it was one of aevecxj
Undercover police are be- oe8olag operations,
~~eved to be invol~ed. As 'There has not just b~.~t
well, more policx will a audden lncrease in police
patrol rhe street on toot. acti~�ity. We }~Ve ~n
active in the area sir;ce the
beginNng of lest year."
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BRIEFS
RANGOON MEN ARRESTED--Twenty packets of heroin valued at K25 each were seized
from three men at ~he corner of 104th and '106Ch streeta in Rangoon yesCer-
day by members of the Rangoon Police narcoCic drug suppression team. The
three men ~aere Maung Maung (29), Eipha alias Muttar (21) and Ali alias Soe ~
Myint (21). The heroin packets ware found in Maung Maung's trouser pockets.
Police are taking action againn t them under Sections 10(b) (sale), 6(b)
(poasession), 11 (abetment of offence) and 14 (d) (failure to register for
treatment of the Narcotic Drugs Law. [Text] [Rangoon THE WORKING P~OPL~;'S
AAILY in Engliah 17 Jun 79 p 1]
HEROIN USER ARRESTED--Rangoon, 5 Jun--The Pabedan townahip courr No 2 chaired
by U Tha U today sentenced 18-year-old Ah Bo, alias Maung Hla Win, to 6 years
- imprisonment with hard labor under Section 6(B) (for posaession] and one and
a half years under Section 14 (D) [failure to register for treatment] of the -
Narcotic Drugs Law. The sentences are to be served concurrently. The case
- was that at 2000 on 18 July 1978 Sub-Inspector of Police U Aung Soe and a
team of policemen, while carrying out their drug suppression activities under
the direction of Inspector U Tha U of the Crime Prevention Bureau, met Ah Bo
on the 32d Street and searched him as they became auspicious. They then
seized a package of heroin worth 20 kyats hidden in his bamboo hat. Ah Bo
was accordingly sent up to trial. [Text] [Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmeae
6 Jun 79 p 7 BKJ
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LA[tCL5'I' 1t00ULUM ORGANI'LATION (t~VIVC5 Ml'I'INNtCn'CICS UItIVC
- 'l'nkyn MAINIC112 UAILY NCW5 in ~nglieh l1 Jun 79 p 12
['Cex t) KOg~ - The Yamaguchl� development ot the movement.
= auml, Jnpan's lurqest hoodlum ~ollowina the ~~pet theory" ot
organlaatlon, recently decided Kazuo Taoka, the kinqpin o( the
nt en ex~cutives meeting here Xamaguchl�aumi, that nar-
to resume its cnmpalgn agalnst cotirs wduid ruln thc notlon, the
nnrcotics tor the tirst time In organlxatlon in 156~ lounc;~ed a
_ several years, it has been narcotics�climination cam�
ienrned. palgn. �
The planned campaign, ac- It has been suspended durfnq
. cording to the police, is part ot ~e past several years due to the
the Yamauchl�qumi's attempta proionged contlicts and clashes
to dereive the pubiic with a p~tween the Yamaquchl�Ruml
- plausibie ~~ellminate narcotics" and Its Mvnl organizatlona In
sloaan under the (ntensitied and ~round Osaka.
pressure ot the police The Yamaguchf�gumt is
authorfties designed to re rted to have been lan~~in
demolish the powerful crime p� p a
syndicate. to distribute some 300,000
- ~~antlnarcotics" handbWs W the
The poHce are determined to ~enecal pubile In Kobe.
kcep a sharp lookout on the F
COPYRIC1t`~: Mainichi Daily News, 1979
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N~:W SCANNIstt5 Tn ~'INn NAItCOTICS IN MAIL
Wellingtnn ~HL ~V~NING pOST in ~nglieh 15 May 7y p 3
(Tcxtj
; THE Customs DepPrtment has bought two new mail
scanning machines in a bfd to stem the rising arnount ot
narcotics be3ng imported to New Zealand through t~he post.
Tt~ machN~, one ot whfch p~ ot narcodcs tbroug6 tbe
wlll be , In We~toa and the post had increased. he aafd
othte tn Auckl , bave cost
the deparuncdt Juat over C~ tt~ures et~ow tGat In
~20,00o each and atauld be fn the yeAr e~ximg biarch f977, 6b
o~pcratlon by the end dc t6e such iefzurea w~re made by
month. arcording to the the . depnrtmmt; In thc 1~78
director ot entorcement tor the ~tarc6 yeac 70 arero made cmd
department IMr D� E A tn the year endln~ March thb
Copps~. year the e~s+e liunped to 1se.
Firat ciaea matl ~vW pasa birCoppa saM d~e macbines :
along a conveyoe bett mnder ~ a~er tooi tbe depart�
the machine and the fmage M ment caild ure to detect ~n-
the ktt~'~ or paroM'a o0o- Pa'~~ P~
tl be trantmitted b a hoded~~ ~n tbe~imtety Q :
PreviouelY the depa~t~ne aE oarootie~ t6ougb d aoune
tas~ mail by teelia~ it they Mll pidt op Mhet �
an U any was seizcd~ had to tWcyp~~� he ~aM.
ojx~n it in the pre~eaoe ol tbe
addr+e.c~e~:.
Att Cuppe aald the maddaes
had the eftect of enabling tbe
depariment to acamine moce
mail thae prev{ously. It aaWd
rnceQ the Iag a~ mail
wouid s~ '
in the laat tM~ee yem~~ im~
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NL'W 'I.i:ALANU UItUG UCAL~R5 GI~OW W~ALTHY IN 50UTH~A5~ ASIA -
Auckl~~n~. 'TN~ N~W z~ALAND H~RALll in ~nglieh 18 Mgy 79 Section 1 p 12
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Prc~~c A~An has o"claun" pngsport with� ~~With the announcrment of
('htislchurrh out any Asian visas stamped the poat many mby heve
in it - and who w111 not st� gona to around and urc 1~n
- A numher of New tract any customs or 1mml~ low until they eee how dan
7.euianders li~ ing in Rrat(on attention, gerous tho now ~{tuetion is," ~
Soulh�eaAl Asia are Mr Duncan auggested tbat he sald.
many Nerv Zealandera were
b e r o m i n g fat and His work cntAils linison
w~ealthy on the dtuRa 1!a the dru~ busineas becauae wlth South�east Aaian drug
they puah into their ~ere I~� some degcee ot en[orcemont agencies and
adventure and they feel they passing intormation to New
home country. are 1att~r~day piratea. But 7.enland ti R
DMectlre Chief 1napector they are Mlmtnala - nothing po ce nn d�~
Brlan Duncan, ottlclally e1Se~ movernents or to Aslan
known for the last nine "it anyone is com� po~~ce, nn the movemen~~ ot
roontha as New Zealand tempiating drug trafficking New Zealand drug amug~�
police drugs lieison otticer through 5outh-east Asia they lers.
He said that althou the
attached to the New Zealand ta:e the very reai danger oI amount ot heroln aad can�
~mbAxty in Thailand, said severe aentences - even the nab4 coming trom 3outh�
yeslerday that 9o per cent o( death penAlty - it they are
heroU~ coming Inlo New caught. east Aeia waa big by our
Zenland was trom 5outh�ebvt "Thai ~ai4 sre very aevere ~~rds, amuggllog into
Asia. Much of it ceme direct� and people ~vbo are in them Amerlea and Europe wes
ly Irom New Zealand nation� have no deslre to go baok," huge,
als. he added. Heroi:. Eany
"lt Is coming lnto the it WAS organieed by "fear�
country In all waye~ tnclud� eK�er Cnught ~~W, ~ r~~~
ina by people who go over bir Duncan (eels that the Chineae syndicates and a1�
thcre to huy it," he said. trial perlod ao tor (1w b though there was no evi-
_ "5omc who live there get le- there on a yeac's avaluati:n dence to auggeat ~ had
aitlmate people to bring it of the neceasity for a New lurned their ~es W th part
back for them, or tl~ep Zealand otElcer being sta� of We worl thero ml~tht
smuaale it in carqo:' easily become a day when
Mr Duncan is back !n New tioned in Aaia) has beer? auc� they extended Weir opera�
Zealond to give evidence in cessful, although it was ditti� tions.
an Auckland drug case. cult to gauge how successtul. Mr Duncan sald anybady
Clean Paxaporl There had beea a stgn� going to Bangkek could Eind
Iie said some dealers ren� iEicant increase in seizures ot heroin tairly eas~y.~~
dezvous in other countries drugs coming into New Zea� He said the '~hal author�
such as the Pacific Islands. land since the post had been ities had cracl~ed down on
The Asian conneMion may established, but tewer ~iew heroin pu~hing and w~ere also
mect in ~(ji somebody who 7.ealanders in South~east carcying out rehabiUtntion
Asia had bcen cauRht. schemes in an attempt to get
vi~iagers in the' "Go.Jen
Triangle" area to grow other
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addicls-some as young as
cight-in Thailancl alone, it
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NCW 'L~ALANU
CONSPIEtl1CY T~ IMPORT H~ItOIN, CANNAnI5 ALLP:GCU
' Aucklund TK~ N~W z~ALANU H~RA1.D in ~ngligh 19 Mny 5ecCion 1 p 4
(Text~ .
'~wn men charged with conspir~ng to import heroin and
cunnabis into Ne~v 'Lealand were yegterday committed to the
Supreme Court for trial after a depaitiona hearing in the _
Auckland Magistrate's Court. -
They Are Brian James thl;. You guys want tha big Pecutior Nletory
- Curtis, aged 45, a aclt~m� ones. I don't coadone heroln
p~loyed property develo of Ne aubmitted that evidence
at ali.
Gicn Eden, and Dav F~Sh- ~ witneaa aaid he later given during the hearing
er, aged 32~ a panelbe~ter, ot ~poke to Fisher who aatd hia about an~~ afr�rnnditionin~
OrakeL eolicltor had to~d 61m not to unit was A red herring.
~ 'Phe pieaded not guilty to a~yW~ any ue~tkns. rh~re v?'a~ no ovidence to es�
two ~Oint charges ot con� ~ tabliah that narcotics had
Mr J. Ha gh, tor FLsher,
spirin with each other to aubmitted at the end ot the been brought tnto New Zea�
impor~ herotn and cannabis hearing that no prima tacie ~ the unlt.
into thia country and oon~ caae tud been eatabllahed Submitting that there wa~I
spiring wlth a third person, agaiaat 6is clknt. a case tor Fiaher to answer,
Susan Florence Rennte, to 1~tontlu Before Mr E. R. Winkel, tor the;
impurt the druga. Crown, said tfie etr~eon-
Curtie denkd a turther There wa~ evldence oI ~ ditioning unit Aad ha~ e pe~
charge of conapiring to im� relatlo~hip between Fiaher culier htatory. tt had ~er
port the drugs with 5uaan and Curtis. but that in itaelt ecnt trom Tong~ W New Ze~
Rennte. was oE li:qe aaelatance to the 1and, then to Fiji and beck
The accused were com� praeecutbn. agatn, wtth dit(erent etories
mitted in cuatody by btr A. Curtia and filaher had told ~bout it en route. 'I'he
R. Gorbey and Mr: A. V. lrAVelled to the Far East in coat .ot Ireighting it must
Fitzpatrick. f usticea ot thc November, 197'!, but that waa have been greater than ita
peace. abQUt nine months betore~ the vaiue.
~Not M~In 0~' alleged attemp! W import He said � euitca~e contain�
Detective ins c� ~ro~" ~~nabia from ing traeea of eannable, and
Earlier. pe Fiji and it did not eatabltah ~~~p~~ ~~~ing to tfie
tor Patrick John 0'D~novan that tl~ere was an ~gree~ unlt, had been tound in FisM
said he ~poke W CurUs [ol� meM.
lowing the diacovery of a The detendanb had gooe to e~''a car.
large amount ot cannabis FiJi in May oE last year~ but aen
b~Curtia whichnthe
and heroin by customs thet again waa aome montha r~~~ to the at-
otEicials at Nandi atrport. before the incidents aUeged k~~ ~~tton ot nar-
_ Curtis, he saW, told him by the CYown to be incrlmt- ~;a jf, wai tound In
that hP knew Susan Rennie nating. � pyah~c~s paeesakn.
and that he had aeen ha in It was, said bir Haigh,
Singapore. He aUegad the de- mere apeculation to suggeat,
fendant said~ You know I tdat the trip in May fnvo(ved
am not the mala onQ; I only Fis6er M some aoct ot agree�
pleyed a amafl part in all of inent to import norcotfca.
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N~w z~n~,nrin
I3RIEFS
GUILTY PL~A--A 28-y~ar-old Avondale m~n was yesterday committed to the
Supreme Court for ~eneence ~ft~r pleading guilty Co thre~ indict~bl~
charg~g involving heroin. K~iCh Alan Brueh, ~n unemployed panelbegCer~
appenred before Mr J. R. C~llander, SM, in the Auckland MngigCrate's
Court. He admitted rwo charge~ of ~:.lling heroin and one of offering to
supply the drug. He wag comcniCted for senCence in custody. [TexC~
[Auckland THE NEW zEALAND HE1tALD in Englieh 2 May 79 p 4j
HEItOIN SEIZED--nunedin, 6 May (PA)--A quantity of almost pure heroin with
a etreet value of $25~OOU was aeized from an Oamaru addrese by Dunedin _
detectives on ~riday. The heroin is the second largest haul made by the
Dunedin drug squad and is thought to be between 80 and 100 percent pure.
The drug ie worth about $500 in ita present form, but, according to the
head of the Dunedin drug squad, Detective Sergegnt Jim Doyle~ once broken
down with eugar, glucoae~ and ether substancee it will have a atreet
value of ~p to $25,000. Detective Doyle said a team of detectives had
made exhaustive inquiries during the last few monthe. No arresta have
been made but police inquiri~a are continuing. He would not reveal where
the drug was found. Although heroin was still reasonably easy to obtain
in Dunedin, Detective Doyle said that he was sure that Friday's aeizure -
would have a marked effect on the local drug market. "?'~ere ie etill
loC of heroin about. There must be a reaeonable amount~ becauee wa do
not seem to be having the same trouble with chemiate' ehops." (Text~
(Wellington THE EVENING POST in Engliah 7 May 79 p 17j
HEROIN SENTENCE--Barry Paul 0'Sullivan, 23, mechanic, was sentenced to
four years' jail by Mr Juatice Beattie in the Supreme Court on Friday
afternoon on a charge of beirg in poesession of heroin for the purpoae of
supply. The jury had found 0'Sullivan guilty of poae=esing the equivslent
of 2.27 grams of heroin, hie Honour 8aid. The herain had been found
inside his underwear when his flat was searched. He had previous convic-
tions for burglary related to the obtaining of natcotica. The accused wae
a drug addict~ and before thc present offence had been getting medical
help to break the habit. Aut Parliament had r~centlv increaeed the maxi-
mum sentence from 14 yeara to life and he hPd to take heed of the Legis-
lature, hia Honour added. [Text] [Glellingthn THE EVENING POST in English
7May79p2J
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CANNA13~5 MAIL~U IN A~EtiCA-~A man seconded e~ work in AEricn fdr the
Mini~Cry dE Fnreign Affgirg posted u pnckng~ conCginin~ 65.63 gr~m~ of
Cgnnnbi~ bnck ta N~w ~ealand. In the MagigCreti~'~ Coure ye~C~rdxy,
Neil. Ddnald ~r~ger, 33, un~mploy~d, plegd~d guilty Ue~or~ Mr W. M. Willib~
5M, eo ~ Cherge of imporeing c~nnnbis~ Ha wn~ r~manded on bnil to Muy 17
for ~ pre-~~nCenc~ r~pore ~nd ~entencc~ App~aring for the Cu~Com~ n~p~rt-
m~nt, Mr ltick Crayeon ~Aid that on AugueC 2 ingt yegr ~uatom~ official~
w~re ~creening oversegs mnil wh~n a drug dog indiceted gn ~irmgil pdck~ge. _
"Ie conegin~d two flnxlike tube~ cont~ining compr~~~ed c~?nnabi~," he g~id,
ie w~g diecov~r~d thet ~raser wag Che sender~ Ne wae approached wh~n he
nrrived beck in New z~aland. ~r~eer wes r~presented by Mr Mike Uungay.
(Text~ ~We111ngton TH~ ~V~NING POST in ~nglish 11 May 79 p 4~
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PAKISTAN
BRIEF5
7'WO CEN'TERS FOR ADDICT3--Two centres fnr the ereatment of drug addicts have
been e~tabllehed by thp Government of N.W.K.P. The centree which will pro-
vide indoor treatment besides out-door caees, have gtarted the work in
Chamla and Khyber Teaching Hoepiral~ Peshawar. With Che eatablishment of
- theee Cwo centree, the campaign etarted by Che Provincial Gover~ent to curb
the evilg of dYUg abueea hae achieved momentum. [Textj (Peshawan I~iYBER MAIL
in ~ngliah 14 Jun 79 p 6J
BIG NARCOTIC HAUL--CanCt. Police ha8 had a big haul of apaxe parts and nr.r-
cotics in a one dAy awoop on Thureday. 5pare parte, with one refrigerator
- and air-conditioner were recovered from a Peshawar-bound truck AD-1165 after
a hot chage on Jamrud Road and firing. The police party headed by ASI Sher
Afzal deflgted the tyrea of the truck by firing and arrcated ite driver AJ.am
Khan of Khyber Agency. Cantt. Police also recovered 720 grama of charas and
opium on Hara Road and arrested two culprite Mohd Hussain a/o Rehmatullnh
of Batkhela and Faiz Mohd s/o NooL Mohd of Hazar Khwani. The apare parts
Worth over Re 10 lakh and narcotics were aeized during Nakabandia in the
Cantt. Tehkal and Piehta Khara area~ on the directive of DSP Arbab Taleh
Mohammad Khar:. Cantt. police a18o arreated anti-eocial elementa, one of them
red-handed When he was firing in the air. (Text] (Peehawar KHYBER MAIL in
Engliah 15 Jun 79 p lj
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pNILIPi'IN~S
URIEFS
DEtUG ARRESTS--M~ni1a, 21 Jun--MiliCary operatives have arrest~d 7A -
~'ilipinog and seized large qugntitiee of drug~ in what the military
coneid~red as one of !tg biggest hauls this year in iCe anti-ngYCOCics
cnmpaign. Among the arresCed were two men nnd a woman tagged ge the ma~or
suppliera of prohibited druga to etudenta and oCher usera in metro Mnnila,
Chree pushera and 64 buyers in simultaneous rnida Tuesd~y in Mnnila'e
Santa Cruz downtown aectiun. Besidea thousands of bottled druga, cnpsule~
and tableCs, and mari~uana cigareCtes, the Constabulary Anti-Narcotic~
- Unit (CANU) raidera also confiscated two unltcensed .22 cal. maRnum
revolvers and a Beretta pistol, according to authoYities. The value o�
Che seized drugs was noC made available. The raids were conducted on
Eive ad~acent housea allegedly owned by the three euppliere, described ~
by the authorities as a"virtual row of drugstorer." (Text] [Hong Kon~ _
AFP in Engliah 0842 G*tT 21 Jun 79 OWJ
PLANTATION OWNER ARRESTED--A marihuana plan'cation owner was arreated and mari.-
huana worth P.3-million were seized during a raid conducted by PC anti-nar-
cotics operativeson a two-hectare marihua+.ta plantation in barangay Quimala- -
basa Norte, San Aguatin, Isabela recently. In a report to Ma~ Gen Fidel
V. Ramos, PC chief and director general of the Integrated National Police,
Col Bienvendio L. Felix, commanding officer of the Conetabulary Anti-Narcotice
Unit (CANU) and concurrently Task Porce Bagong Buhay commander, identified the
owner of the marihuana plantation as Simplicio L. dela Cruz, 38, married,
farmer, of barangay Quimalabasa Norte, San Aguatin, Isabela. [Text] [Manila
PHILIPPINES DAILY P.l~RESS in Engliah 17 Jun 79 p 2]
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CANAUA
pOLIC~ RAIb N~TS LAItGE t1AUL OF MARIHUANA
Ship Seized
_ Ottawn TH~ CITI2ElV in English 23 Msy 79 p 8
[Text]
- VICTOR[A (CP) - RCMP werc combing densc
bush on northwestern Vancouver island for five or six
people Tuesday after arresting 17 othera and seiz~ng
20 tons Of marijuana in a dawn raid on two large ves�
aels, -
The marijuana had a atrat value of S32 million,
The raid involved SO RCMP memlun, about 300
Canadian Forces ground peraonnel, en Argus tracking
alrcta t from CFB Comox, .?nd the'~ destroyer�escort�
HM Qu'Appelle, _
It occurred at 6:30 a.m. ~DT at Sydney lnlet~ about
250 kilometres northwcst of 6ere,' and a~qut 10 ki-
lometre; north of where 135~ tona of mari,juana, worth
S20 million, wes nabbed in July~, 1978.
Police seized the 50-metre San4rkanda~ originally
built during thc. Second World We~ to lay subma~inf
ncts. [t was not immediately known where the veaaal i~ -
~ regiatetod. ~
Superintendent T, M, ~ Gardiner' of the RCMP said
t6e Qu'Appelle blocked the entrance to Sydney inlet
during the night, after police discovered that the Sa-
markanda had gone agro~+nd in the inlet during low
tide. ' , '
"('wo police boats and a Zodiac assauit craft were
used to swoop down on the Samarkanda as the mari-
juana was being unloadod. All but two of the eati-
mated two doun poople handling the marijuena fled
ir~to the bush. Police immcdiately capturod IS of them.
Gardiner said the arrests were made without inci-
dent. '
He eaid charges had not been laid, and it waa not
clear if thoae arrested would be taken to. Tofino, about
SO kllometres south of the san~~ for t6e night~ or
would be brought directly to Vlctoria. ~
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Whon policc struck, about 500 bales of mnrijunna -
had been stnshed in the bush, while scores af bales re�
maincd in the Samarkanda's hold.
dardiner snid the marijuann would bc brought to
Victoriu~ n snmplc rctaincd for court action, and thc
. rest would be destroyed, ,
He suid the ruid cnlminated sCVeral manths of de�
tailcd invoatigation, that in~olvcd the U,S. Drug
Enforccmont Agency, ~
~aenty Arrested
~ Ot~awa TH~ CITIZEN in Engliah 24 May 79 p 20
[TexC]
VICTORIA (CP) - Thc man was being held marijuana, worth S20 mil-
RCMP said Wcdnesday in Seattic. lion on thc ~treet, wns
they underestimated their "We don't know the ex- nnbbed in July, 1978,
marijuana haul off Vun- act amount (of marijuana Cuetams officcrs scized
couver Island Tuesday and seized), but it appears our the S1�metre frcightcr Sa-
now have seized about 30 carlier estimates werc too markanda, believed to be
tons worth morc Rhan S50 low," RCMP Supt. Scotty of Colombian regiatry, and
million on thc wholsesalc Gardiner said Wednesday. the 16.5-metre pleasure
murket. "There definitely is craft Whitecap, registe~ed
Twenty people including morc than 30 tons and it in Seattic,
three from the United could be as high as 3S Gardincr said hc feara
States and the remainder tons," ~ for the aafety of the four
- from Puerto Rico or Costn Gardiner said the drug missing auapects because '
Rica, were arrested in the would have a� wholesale they fled wesring light
dawn raid by SO heavily- value of between SSO mil- clothing and without food -
armed RCMP and 300 lion and S70 million and or weapons.
Canadian Forccs ground would generate more than "Thor~ is nothing there
personnei about 250- ki- SI00 million from illicit but solid bush. There ia an
~ lometres nowthwes! of sales. outside poeaibility we may _
here. RCMP originally eati- never see them again."
The operation on the mated the bales of mari- ~ He said aearchers used
rugged west coast of the juana taken from two vea� megaphonoa to try and
island was backed up by sels weighed about 20 reach the men and tell
thc destroyer-escort tonea and were wo~th them a way to get out,
HMCS Qu'Appelle, which about S32 million. and overnight the lights on
� brought the marijuana Meanwhile~ an air and 8 p~ia boat moored at
here Wednesday, and ground seacch was oonti- the ~head of the inlet were
tracker aircraft Prom CFB nuing for four men who left on to aerve as a bea-
Comox. fled into denae b~uh when
United States Drug police raided a group of
Enforcement Agency of~c- 24 people off-loading bales `
ers arrested another sus- of marijuana from two
- pcct on Orcas Island in boats in Sydney (nlet- _
the American San Juan an~Y 18 kilometrea north
group southeast of here. of where 13 1-2 tons of
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OCtuwu TIiL CITIZCN in Cnglish 25 May 79 p 15
~Texe~
~ ViCTORIA (f;P) RCMP have arrest~d another
pcrson--bringing the total to 2l--following Tuesday's
. drug bust which netted nearly 35 tons of marijuana
with n wholesalc valuc of S70 million.
Police said the unidcndficd man was apprehcndcd _
~ednesday night and trensported to Victoria Thurs-
y, He was to appear in Victoria provincial court to-
day.
The other 20, from Colombia, Costa Rica end the
United States, wera charged Wednesday with import-
ing mnrijuana into Canada, possossion of marijuana
for the purposc of trafficking nnd conspiracy to import
~arijuana into Canada. They werc remanded in custa
~ly until Mondny.
I A police spokesman said the intest suspoct, ono of
four believed to have escaped during the dawn ~aid by
50 heavily-armed RCMP offiara backed by Canadian
Forces porsonnei, came out of the dense bush just be-
fore dark and flagged down a pasaing logging boat:
"We had alerted everyoue in the area to watch for
strangers," Insp. Marv Young said. "So the loggers
picked him up and took him to thoir camp then called '
police."
Marihuana To Be Burned
Ottawa THE WEEKEND CITIZEN in English 26 May 79 p 12 -
[Tert]
V I C 1'O R I A ( C F j - Twenty-one people have The last suspect to ~be
Thirty-five tons of mari- been arreat~d and chargod caught, Albenegipson
- juana worth about S72 in connection with the Fraeser, 39, who saya ha ia -
miilion on the wholesalc bust, which took place from Los Angeles~ was
m a r ke t w i l i g o u p i n May 22 at Sydney Inlet, charged in provincial court
smoke Tuesday. about 250 kilometrea Friday with importing
RCMP Supt. T. M. northwest of 6ere. Police marijuana~ posaeation of
Gardiner said Friday po- contipue to search the marijuarta for the purpo~e
lice have obtained permis- dense bush for thra men. of trafficking and cotupir-
sion to destroy all but re- ac to im rt mari
prysentative samples ol the Tb~ b~8b-6~de Colom- Y Po J~~
marijuana, confiscated in bian:marijuana will be in- into Canada, the same
what they describe as the cinerated at the Nort6 charges filed againat the
biggest drug bust in Cana- Cowiehan garbage dump othero.
dian history. about 60 kilometres north
- of Victoria.
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YvcosLnvin
- rIR5T DRUG CASE PROSECUTED IN OHRID, MACEDONIA REPORTED
Facts of Case Reported
Skop~e NOVA MAKEDONIJA in Macedonian 1 Jun 79 p 6
[Article by D.P.-]
[Text] Ohrid--Deputy public pro~ecutor Goce Martinof,ki ia preparing a bill
of indictment against five young people who, in one way or anottier~ committed
criminal acts in connection with drugs.
Ttte �irst defendant i.s a farmer, Zivko Stoilov (25), from Nivicino village,
Strumic~ Opstina. At the beginning of this year he sold to the eecond
defendant, Ali Kr~ba (26) of Ohr~.d, 100 grams of narcotics in the form of
raw opium of private production for 1,000 dinars. Ali Kaba temporarily
work.ed in Austria and when he returned to Ohrid he brought back a significant
quantity of hashish and marihuann cigarettes, which fie smoked witfi the otfier
defendants who were fiis associates. He met Zivko Stoilov from Nivicino
during a return. There were also other people from Strumica in the _
compartment who learned that drugs could be obtuined from thie persun.
Thus the contact was established. At the house of the defendant Klime
Trajanoski (32) in Ohrid, Ali Kaba gave cigarettes from those he was
carrying to the host, to the def-endant Tra~ce Saveski (20~, ~ s[~,dent, and
to a g:.rl. He had been carrying out such activities during the past 2 years.
In this drug game Klime Tra~anoski is accused of inducing a person to
smoke hashish and of making his house available for smoking hashish. The
accused student, Tra~ce Saveski allowed two peorle to amoke drugs in hia
disco club. The accused L~upco Jonoaki, 23-year-olcl student, distributed
commercial cigarettes coate@ with hashish oil, ~;iving them to his frienda
and providing a place to smoke in hia home. He brought the drugs from
Afghanistan, where his father had worked.
From what has been discovered, the five were planning to continue the
seances at a stepped up tempo, since Ali Kaba had arranged with Zivko
Stoilov for the next quantity of opium to be abont 3 kilograms at a price
of 21,000 dinars.
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DeC~tils of Drug Oper~rion
5kop,je NOVA htAKEDONIJA in Mncedonian 2 Jun 79 p 4
~~rticle by 1). Pejcinovski~
[Text] Ohrid, 1~Tune--'rhe discovery and preparution o~ An indtcrmenC ot `
criminal involvement in ncCivities connecr~d with dru~s is Che first cnse _
ever noted tn ~he annals of Ohrid ~usCice, According to the leg~l provisions
of the criminul ~ode, if Che courC accepCs the nllegations in Che indictmenC
of tl~e deputy public prosecutor, Goce Martinovaki, Che five defendantq,
~ 'Livko 5toilov, a farmer from Nivicino village in Strumica Opstinn, and the
Ohrid youths Ali Kaba, L~upco Jonovski, Klime Tra~anovski and Trac~e Savevski,
catt receive prison sentencea of 3 to 6 months to 5 years. Excluded from the
indictment is a girl, M.T., a music teacher, to whom the leg~1 provisions
relaring exclusively Co use of drugs did not apply.
Drug Activities Date From 1974
The Ohrid cioping story begins with the defendnnt Ali Kaba. Ele beg~n to use
drugs as early r~s 1974 in Turkey during a meeCing with Cerman tourists and
conCinued in Austria where he had gone for temporary work. Drugs surrnunded
him more and more and they became a regtilar habit. He even used them cluring
a visit to Italy with the teacher M.T.. He bought the grass from some
people in Milan. He and the teact~er smoked the drug in the room of the
student L,jupco Jonovski. From smoking they moved on to in~ecting. Dis-
solved tablets which had first been heated in a spoon were put in a syringe
and injected into the veins.
The defendant Ljupco Jonovski had brought back drugs from Afghanistan
where his father had worked. He had been supplied with hashish CTirough the -
chiLdren of employees of some foreign embassies. He broughC back a little
hashish to Ohrid when he returned. His friendship with Ali Kaba began
through the teacher, who brought him to the house. In the Ohrid group of
drug takers, Klime Trajanovski also established a connection with the
teacher, giving her drugs to smoke which he had brought back from Austxia
where he t~ad been on temporary work.
Without the Teacher, M.T., Nothing Could Have Been Undertaken...
- Smoking drugs would probably not have been tfiought of without the musical
education teacher, who euphorically used the drug with L~upco Jonovski in
the disco club of the student Trajce Savevski. This actually was a fitting
place for such a purpose since the drug was "sweetly garnished with music".
Other young visitors to the disco club also used the drugs.
The indictment of Zivko Stoilov, the farmer from Nivicino in Strumica,
- charges him with illegal production and trafficking in narcotics. He became
involved in this doping story on 11 January this year when Ali Kaba brought
back information from someone in Strumica~ TFie teacher, M.T., and Klime
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'1'rn;J~nnovski went ~n the cnr trips to sec him in Niv:tcinn. Kubn etttered
the hottse first attd rl~en, with StoiLov's permission, tt~e atl~er~ from the
, car ~ntered. 'The hose welcomed ehem wieh brandy and c~ffe~ and ~s soo:~
as they had finishFd drinking, zivko SCo{.lov took some opium wrApped itt
paper out of a sma11 suiCcase.
The s~~nsitive nose of Ali Kaba smelled then c~p?um And he inunediately puC
it in }~is pocket And took out 1,000 dinars anc~ tl~rew it on the bed. ~
5toilov told him that l~e djd not hnve eo pay, but luter }~e took the money.
How rtte Participants Were Discovered
When the business was finished, the farmer Stoilov asked Kt~ba to Cake him
in tt~e car to the village of Vladevci. During the course ot the ride
Alt Kaba again returned to the aub~ect of the procurement of drugs, asking
_ whether he [5toilov] would be able to find greater ~,uatttiCies aince whgC
he had gotten (lU0 grams) wa~ quite small. Stoilov then mentioned a Jordnn
from Jargulica village. They went to Che villa~;e and found Jordan who told
him that the merchandise Chey were seeking could ~e �ound tfirough Atanas,
who worked in Bitola. Through this conCact it was agreed Char the drug
would be delivered t~ Jordan and that they would meet him nt th~ bus
station in Ohrid so t~~at the group would not bave to return to the village.
.tordan said that Atanas had 2-3 kilogran:s and accor3ing to Stoilov's
statements, the teacher, M.T., offered a sum of 21,000 dinars, with delivery
date of the drug to be 30 January 1979.
The pursuit organs, picking up the trail of the drug users, took quick
action and Ali Kaba and the teacher, M.T,, were cau~ht on 17 January at Che
D��~ve Batr border crossing on the way ~o Turkey. The same day Klime
Tra~anovski and L~upco Jonovski were arrested in Ohrid and Tra~ce Savevski
was given an additional charge. While he was in custody, Ali Kabu atCempted
to commit suicide by cutting hia veins with pieces of a lightbulb.
CSO: 5300
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HUNbI2~D I'OUNAS OF' IMpdUNbEb Cl7CAINE DEPOSIT~II IN C~NmFtAL BANK
L~ p~r, I~E~iCIA in Spunish 10 Jun ?9 p 9
~T~xt_] Santa Cruz~ 9 June--One o~ the large~t load~ of aoc~ine so
f~.~ w~~ depn~it~~i in the vaults of th~ Eo13v3an Central Bank~ in ~ha
w~ic~ of a ntrin~ of police operations to hal~t th~ increa~ing drug traffic.
The Dep~rtmental Directorate for the Control rf Dar~g~rous Subntancoe
handed over 45 kilogram~~ 529 gramn ot aocaine. Narcotica chief Ur Luin
Moreno ~alcazar naid that it resulted from sei xarQg made during various
o~ration~ fro~ January to Ma~y of this year.
The load waa delivered in accordar~ce With 1ega1 formalities, and
Assurances r+ere giv~n that it w~ould be subeequently burned. Aaeording
to the official report~ 15 kilograme~ 450 gzama of the ehipment are
hyclrochlor3de (purified drug)~ aad 30 kiloe are eqllate~ in addition _
to which there are 546 "~oint~."
=
Moreno said that he aas quite taken aback by the atnount of the drug that
had been confiscated, "Which ahoas hoa extensive illicit drug trafficking
operationa are in our country, despite control and crackdorm efforts."
The narcotics ~hief acknowledged that there are organfLed gange both
far domestic and international di~tribution, and he was openly in fav~r
of enforcin~; the laW as atrictly aa possible against gvilty pa~tieB,
"fall who may" and "regnrd,leee of what ~r~ybody sa~ys."
- In addition, hc indicated that the problem ia much more gerious thar~
the public and authoritiee seem to think..."Our drug problem~" Moreno
- aaidZ "muat be tackled openly ar~d resolutely, in order to control thie
activity and come to the defenae of the health and morals of the people,
becau~e these are essential factors in the betterment of Bolivians."
1ie gave assurances that his office ti+~ould intenaii'y its crackdor+n, ~?ith
special emphasis on trafficking and on rshabilitating addiots.
Surveillance will be intensified in Sar~ta Cruz. "We are only trying to
protect our young neoplQ f~om the drug scourge," he aaid.
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Dennit~ ~,he~~ ~tut~men~n~ is nbv~oun th~t ~ci~ustmentn ot111 hava ~o
be m~a~ S.n tha a~enai~s in char~e of the dru~ orackd~t,m in ~hin aity.
mhQr~ ~r~~ avenue~, nu~h a,n 5uore, Alameda Pa~oai~ and lately ~ha ~raa
around th~~ ~a~~~~ ~~adium~ wh~~~ cooain~ ~nd "3o3n1;~" are ~t''1 ~old
- op~~~.y. Drug' tra~fiakers h~v~ tn~nag~d ti~ develop a ao~nani.cat3.one
synt~m u~ing a~r he~.dli~th~o and~ aaaordin~ ~o ~ poli~eman~ even amploy
pnr~table ehort-r~r~ge rac~.o aommuniaation equipmQn~.
~ Morcov~r, ~~~~igtica show ~hat there ig sti11 a great deal d~ aoaa3.ne
- en~er3n~; the department, mueh more than the peaeant f~rmere eoneume~
Accordin~ to unoff3cial accountg, people hava seen tiha~ look ~o bg
basrel~ nf di~sel bein~ ~hipped from Chapare ~o Ic:Llo but which
conta3ned "a green liquid tha~ smelled unmiatakably like aocatno."
A Sew d~}r~ a~o, a driver reported that he ha,d be~n kidnaped ond taken
by number of dru~ traffickers toaa~rde the Caranda region to make us~
of
thQ private car that he was driving.
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c~,~o: g~oo
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BOL IV LA
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y
B1tIEFS
COCAINE PROCESSING PLANT3--3anta Cruz--Pereonnel of the Drug Co~~trol De-
partment have recently discovered two 1ar~e cocaine proceeeing plantg.
One policem~n and one drug trafficker were kilied in thie opexation since
the traffickers reeisted grrest with modern automaCic machinegun9 which
they are now using more frequenCly when diecovered. [La Pas PRESENCZA
in Spanieh 19 ,iun 79 p 4 PY~
CSO: 5300
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COLONI~ZA
~ S~A' OI~' MARIFNANA FOUND IN LA GUAJIRA
Announoement of the Disaovery
Bo~o~a EL TI~iPO in Spanish 8 May 79 p 1-A~ 6-A
`~~Initial news 3tem plue ~ix-part feature artiale by Jose Cervau~ee Angulo,]
,CText) MilStary authorities in La Cua~ira have dealt the hareheet
~ blow yet to drug amuggling ganga throughout tho r~rorld in their gtruggle
to eraclicate marihuana xhen they uncovered and took~into offioial euetody
- a veritable "ocean" of grass being groti+n over ar~ area of 10~000 heataree.
Much more exteneive than the former top find of 1,500 heatares in M~y
1977, also in La Gut~ ira, the discovery aae made in a vagt area along
the Tapias River betxeen CuchSlla del Mico, near the munieipality of
Casca,jalito in the Riohacha ~urisdiction, and the torm of Tomarrazon.
According to official estimates, the nea "sea of marihuana" could yield
up to 31 tons of the weed, valued at 30 billion pesos on the U.S. bYack
market.
"It'o as if the entire Bog+~ta Savaruia had been aeeded with marihuana~"
~ ra,nkin~ army officer t~l~ EL ?'T_II~0 W~.~~:~~.i~ks ~ile magnitude of the
CTOp.
Militaryr sourcea gaid that the troop,s quartered on the northern coant
of Colombia and assigned to the crackdo~rn on marihuane g~o~?ing, began
deutroying the ffelds and rrould soon set fire to the plants in a ma~or
blaze that rrould last aeveral d~ys.
Other Blows
In t~~e department of Cesar military patrols confiscated 1~ tong of
marihuana and arrested Joae Eduardo Viloria, Orlando Joaquin Perez, Luis
Antonio Aponte and Jairo Ibarra. The confiscated marihuana r+aa alreac~y
in compacted, fastened packages reac~y to be ehipped to the II.S. market.
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Fbr their p~rt, Plarind ~uthoritie~ ~~i~~d Cld~~ td ~ k3~o~r~m of
aooa3t,~
in 7rt op~r~ti~n that led td the c~pture di t'our individu~l~ lnvolved in
tlir. i.11~ga] tr~fS3ckin~. mhe name~ a~' thoge arra~t~d wern not r~leased.
~n Gttcut~
Na~ootiag ~entg with th~ Admini~t~a~~.ve bepa~~r~ent o~ Security (~A~)
gt~t3on~d in ~ucuta d~~,1t ano~her harsh blow to drug emugglerA in an
orQration carried out ye~tard~yr at the Lueitani~ Ho~a1 oppo~i~e ~he
tr~.n~pnrtation tesmina]. in the capi~al of North,3rn 5gntander.
Tn on~ of the hotel reoms DAa ~gent~ eeized 111 kilo~ of eomp~oted
m~rihuana arid a ghipment o� amphet~ninea.
Arre~ted during the ope~ation ~rere Gon~al.o Garcia lbane~, a ColombSan
livir~ fn Venezu~l~, and Jose Ramon Mendoza Itodriguez, a Ve:~ezueian.
Up to ~d-40~000 Hectarec
Bd~otn ~;L TIE'MPO in Span3ah 13 Ma~y 7g p 1-A, 6-A
~mext,] Buena Yiata--Cotmnand of the Task ~brc~ of the "Rondon"
Mechanized Cavalry (Cua~ira)
mhere is marihuana of all colora, flavore and odors in La Gua,jfra~ and
there i~ enough of it to feed the gring~~s' viae for the next 50 yeare.
mhat ia hoa much planted r~arihuana we saw from the air ai~d on lanc. over
2 days in an area of about 34,000 or perhapa 40,000 hectares right in
thQ middle of thi~ penineula, rrhich could well be the paradiee of graee =
smu~ler~.
In a dale or hollow that can be reached only along narrow trailo after
a aeek'3 Walk, LhQ Colombian Army diacovered the world's largeat marihuana
plantation, camrn,:flaged with yucca and banana cropa.
mhe crop~ are at nll atagec of develop~ent, but moat of them are betr+een
10 d~ys dnd 2 months along. This ie the s~cond harveet of tiie year. -
~3timatea are that some 120,000 tona of marihuana could bo produoed
within 5 months~ the value of khich r~rou~d be equal to the IInited 3ta~es
- budget~ according to offiQial aaloulatione.
From thc air it looks like a"sea of marihuana." The crops are not
continuous but occupy Epecific areas spread throuChout the 30,000 or _
40,000 hectares,ciue to the irregular terrain.
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~;~ch nrop covort~ ~ a~r~~.i.n number nf h~ati~ra~. 41~ vioite~ field~ of 2,
5, 10 ~nd up to 20 hec~ores~ bu~ th~ ~ntir~ ~x~p~n~~ i~ er~oz~noue.
Th~re is m~.rihu~na as far aa the ey~ can nee. We founcl planto 1 w~Qk
d1d nnd ol;her matur~ onQg. ~;~~h heat~a yi~1d~ about 3 ton~ of m~rihuana.
'1'h~ m~ritiunn~ grna~rs empl~y an t~rtqy of laborer~ to ~a1ce nare n~ ~he
crop~, ~nd i;here ar~ more of th~m tih~n th~ Military F'orcos uni~n gent
th~re to destroy the plantatlong.
Tha rankir~ military commanders directing the oper~t3on ovex th~ fir~~
30 hoctaree diecovered at La Cueva eetimate that it wi11 take a~ least
6 monthc~ to destrny the crops over ~he initial 5,000 hectarea, which will
requ3re th~ efforts of ~ome 50~000 goldiers. It is a coatly operation~
on~ of th~m noted.
The gigantic plantation fo seattered m~id mountainn, hillg and plaSns~
do~tQd aith hideoute~the ruatic cabins and settlem~nt~ xhere the dried
marihuana ie stored. They are t+atahed from the mountaing by Indiang
native ~o the region.
_ The "sea of marihuana" encompasses vast tr~cts of land between places
cal.led Cuchilla de Mico, La Palma~ ~1 Naran~al, E1 Totumul~ La Cuchilla
del Come~on~ La Cuchilla de Carrizal and La Loma de la Playa. A river, -
the Tapias, winds through the zone between the torrns of Tomarraxon,
Casca3alito and Ce~racoli~ which are the closeat pogulation center~ but
~~re at least 1 r+eek distant along the trr~ile. This ia the heart of La _
Gua3 ira.
The Manger
From the a.ir the hideouts look like harmless, bucolic mangera. On board
the small Colombian Air Force helicopter xe aere able to see cloae to
10U of these settlements, scattered all over the marihuana~filled hills
and mountains.
The firat zone, now under armyr contrQl, covera 4,000 hectares. The
second and third are 3~000 hectares each, for a total of 10,000 hectares
carefully planted aith marihuana.
It is difficult to identify the marihuana f'rom the air because it is
' camouflaged ~?ith other, traditional cropa such a3 bananas and yucca.
The helicopter was able to land on a clearing at La Cueva, which is 3,000
feet above sea level. The zone is rugg~ed, uneven. Heavy downpours t~.re
common there~ and becauae of this the land is fertile and marfhuana gror+s
wild.
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mh~ mdnt knnWl~dge~bl~ apininn adnn~rning rha gi~~ntia p~.~,ntation
di~envered in the h~art of La Cu~3ir~ 3~ th~tt th~ ~e~de were eown from -
th~ ~ir, ~rom ~ l~~h~ plane~ baoau~e it t~ inaondeivable that ~.n a~y
o~ l~box~e~g trekked tntio the mountaine to plant eeed~ throughnu~ that
area.
Yt t~c~~ 1~ hours on ~oot along ~the ~rail~ from ~uenavi~~a~ ~he base
of th~ "Hondon" Meaha,ni~~d C~valry Ta~k Forae, ~o La Cueva.
Th~ fovting 3~ muddy~ ~13ppery~ which hampere the movement of both man
and beast. Never~he~a~~~ there ie mar3huana on all eidea.
Lahorers
The laborers aho take aare of the arops ar~ natives of the interior,
"cachacos" ag they are called. Indtans or highlanders from the region
gv~d the hid~oute. xifteen of them have been detained. 7.'he rest
vanished amid the tgngled ~ungle, right before the troops' eyes.
When the soldiers in the patrol that diecovered the first eootion of
- the immense field were confronted With so much marihuana, they refused
to believe their eyee. The plantation ia so vaet that ft cauaes
aston~ ehment.
The 15 captured laborers do not fear the ~roopa. They are humble people
who have alw~ye lived in the foothilla of thoae mountaine.
When questioned as to what they were doing there, one of them replieds
"They pa~y us to take care of this."
"I3ut do you knoW ahat this is?" asked an officer.
"Yes, we knoa that it'a marihuana," they anawered.
"Do you know that it's a crime puniahable by law?" the officer went on.
_ "No, we don't kriow whether it's a crime," another hig~lander replied.
"The only thing that I know is that they sell this to the gringos~ who
pay a very good price. Also, it's our only way to ma]ce a living," he
concluded almost innocently.
Idle Lands -
The lands on r+hich the 10,000 hectare plar;tation was uncovered are -
idle. -
The military s~yr that early in the year, during th~ time of the first
harvest, the hills in the region are invaded by swaxms of laborere and
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work~rg who, ma~h~t~ in hand, g~o abou~ olearing the vast tracts of
P~rtile land that ase fine for growing at~y kind of
orop.
Siz~ble extQnsions of land ase ready for the planting of' marihuana in
_ ~ome 15 days. Then come the Indiann and "caah~oos" with large bage ot'
seeds, which are scat~erec: throughou~ the zone. 'rhe fir.st t'ew ehoots
appear 15 dqys later. What's aoming up ie the beot businese in ~he world.
planta bestroyed
It i~ a 20-minute helicopter ride to L~ Cueva, located in the midst of
m~untains in a zone buffeted by contrary winds f~om the Caribbean.
~'ifteen minutea into the flight, thA heliaopter enters a guloh or ho~.l.ow
where it ia toased about by the winds. Finally, after hundreds of ~o1ta,
- i~ lands at a heliport that the soldiera haoked aut of the undergrowth.
You arrive half-dead fran fright and with your stomach in your throat. _
From there on the trip is by foot through the thick "soa of marihuana."
The hills are so steep that you think you're g~oing to faint. The eoldiers
have to help the reporters so that they don't fall into the chasme.
_ There are several deep streams in the ~ungle that can be crosaed only
by swimming or by erecting makr~hift bridgea. The soldiera have felled
thick trees, which then epan t:.~ banks. The terrain is so rugged that
a 30-minute hike has taken us only a few metera.
The zone is infested with mosquitoes, which make the arduou~ trek even
more difficult. As they move forward~ the soldiers hack at the plants,
- pull them out by the roots and destroy them. The marihuana grows so
well in this zone, however, that a day after they begon cutting, the
eoldiers had to retrace their tracka because new plants were coming up
in places where they thought they had eradicated the weed. This is
- unqaestionably fertile land.
41e finally get to the top of a hill. Your legs can no longer support
the weight of your body, arid you feel that the air has thinned o~;t. It'a
the altitude. Nonethelesa, you. continue to come upon more and more
marihuana planta. Wherever you look, there are mountains of the Weed.
From the top of the hill you can see the awesome groFrth of marihuaria~ -
the weed of evil. The soldiers deatroy it, but it grows up again almost
- immediately. It is all simply incredible.
The Hideouts -
Nestled amid the hills or spurs of the Sierra Nevada, the hideouts look
like a string of rustic huts. They are rural hovels or. shacks covered -
with branches.
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~.ChQy ~aner~.ll,y connia~ of four ver~ically plaoed loga cro~aed at i;heir
ends with tr~e br~anches. Sometimes dark-aolored awnings are plaoed on
top as roofo to prevent them from being detected from the c~i.r by
~olombian Armed For~ea (FAC) planes or heliaoptera.
'.t'he trai'1'icker~ conceal the harveated and sun-dried mari.huan~ in ~hese
hideouts. mh~y are guarded by Indian~ or peaeanta from the zone~ w}io
receivQ botween 50~000 and 100~000 pe~os for hiding the .~i-uit of the
ha~rv~+st. P.~yment is made per harvest or planting.
Theae are the individuals who usually fa11 into the hands of the
author3tiea. Th~y innoaently confeae that they were hired to take care
of the weed. The traffiakers provide them with arms that ~he gring~os
themselves have smuggled in from the Unite!~ States. They a].s~ give them
provisions for 3 or 4 months eo that they do not have to g~o into town.
Palomino: Traffickers~ ~Mecca~
Bo~ota EL TIIIKPO in Spanish 15 M~Y 79 p 16-A
~Te:r~_,] San Pedro de la Sierra, Gua.~ira--Marihuana trafficking and
- smuggling are the most lucrative activities in thts region. The peopl~
, involved are peasants and "cachacos."
'1'l~e "cachacos" ase hired in the interior of the ~ountry and are uaually
' driven by comp~u].eion. They are peasants seekin~ a better f~ture in
Atlantic Coast regions, the land of marihuana.
The "marihu~na bonanza" has been the bait for theae people~ who are
accustomed to hard labor in the fields of the country's interior. In
past years they worked on lands in Cesar and Magdalena, in the cotton
fields. Now they are working on marihuana plantations. The difference is,
today they earn more money than when they picked cotton. In fact, some
of their '.'ormer masters who owned cotton fields are noW proeperoue
marihuana growers.
Each laborer is hired at 100,000 pesos for the entire h~.rvest, which
lasts about 5 montha.
For example, many have already come down fro,~ the aierra beoauee the
first harvest of the year has 3ust been gathered in. Much of the
ma_..rihiiana has left for the United States. Much of it has a1.so been
seized by the military forces.
The Cutters
The first to be hired are the cutters, in other words the laborers who
, clear the undergrowth and prepare the land for the planting. These day
laborers earn between 5,000 and 10,000 pesos for 3 or 4 days of r~rork.
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mhen como the ~rowers, who ~ro in char~Q of pJ.ontin~ the seeda. ~1'hey
are acaompanied at times by gringo agxonomists whose ~ob is ~o appl,y
ferti~.izers ~o the crope.
When ~he .~irrst plants emer~e, a third ~,2oup of laborers entexe the scene;
- th~y are in char~e of oaring Sor the crop for ~che 4 or 5 montha that
the harvcnt lanta.
`Phe plants that are earmr~rked for top quality marihuana are irri~ated
with brown su~ar water. The chemica,la used during germination will
oubsequently determine the various levQls of qual.ity.
Prisoners
The men hixed to work on. the marihuana plantations in the sierra are ~
prisoners. The fields are like a Nazi concentration camp.
They are not allowed to go down to population centers, and the gights
of rifles ~nd carbines are f3xod on them at all times. They havQ everything
- there, food, drink, clothing, and every 15 or 30 days they are evon
allowed to live with provtitutes tvho are brought in blindfolded on mulea
to a, epeaifia apot in the ~nountains from Palomino and Mingueo. -
The rougll roads or trails, the only acceas to the crops, are under
permanent surveillance by hired assassins, who have ordera to fire on
eoldiera who ~tick thoir nosea into territoriee off limita for the at~nqy�
Everyone there is an accomplice of the marihuana growers, because they
run the risk of being murdered.
All Drug Trafficking Roads Lead to Palomino
Pa,lomino is the mecca of the drug traffic. It is the obligatory meeting
place for sellers and buyers. It is the torra where the "marihuana
exch~.nge" operates. Bids and counterbids are made there; purchasing and
marketing priees are set, and even r+orldwide pricing schedules r~re
decided on. Nonetheless, it is an insignificant town, located beaide
the Main Caribbeau Highx~y.
Many roads into the mountains, into the areas of cultivation start there.
It is off limits, a restricted area, especially for soldiera.
No one dares take a step up the mountains unless he has something to do
with the traffic or the gr.owing.
Palomino is a small torm~ almost a humble, rustic hamlet. It hao four
large and important houaes. One of them is the Police Station; another
is the custo~~~shouse, and the remaining two are brothels. The rest of the
huts and sb~:cks in the town are saloons.
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Mirtf;ur.o, A Ghoa t Towri
Min~,nzeo is ano~her ~nwn along the Ma,in CaribbeFU^. Highway; it lies near
P~.1.omino. It ~.ooka like a ghost town. The few e~tabliehments operatin~
th~rc c1o~e ~,t 1500 tiours~ which is when the "cachacos" who control thQ
- re~ion be~in arrivin~. All of the hou~e~ h~,ve their door~. cloc~ed~ bu~t
inside it ditt'erent world. L`veryone plays cards, drinke whisky or
~nuse~ hitns~lf with women. Etreryone carries #'ireasms. Zt ie the meetin~
~l.~ce for the laborei�~ whn ~,m into the mountains. It is an apparently
pQ~ceful town, but five or six pereone are shot to death there ever~? da;;~.
' Piin~ueo ha3 a very pretty higtory. It was a settlement of tenant fasm�rs
deported from Venezuela years a~o. In the wa.ke of the marfhuana bonanz:c
end becausQ it wa~ a meeting place a1on~ the route towards the ~ierra,
it became an important town. The "cachacos" wour~l up dieplac~n~ a11 of
the local peasants, and today bott: Mingueo and Palomiri~ look like
inland tcwns, populated entirely by "cachacos." There ia no on~ f`xom
the coast there, even by accident. Six-figure masihiiana deale are made
in both Mingueo and I'alomino. The big boys of the drug i;rafficking gang
~.re not to be �ound there, just mesaenger~ and hire~l a~nasaina. It is
unquestionably a violent town...
Palomino, Mingueo, San Pedro de la Sierra, San Tuan del Cesar are
violent torms where the afr smeels of blood r~.nd dust. Crimes are the
order of the dq}r. They are towns that look a lot like the ones in
American we3tern~, their atmosphere charged with violence and doath.
From Tiules to Jeeps
In the mountains and crop-growing areas mules are so important to
traffic~:ers that they have come to cost 100,000 pesos or more.
It seems ridiculous, but it is a result of the marihuana bonanza.
Mule:~ are the only means of corcm~unication between the ~ierra and t~,~e
population centers. Because of the steep, inaccesaible terrain, which
prevent~ the u~e of motor vehicles~ mules have become essential animri:,
for the marihuana growers.
The marihuana is taken down on muleback fron growing areas in the sierra.
The animals deposit the weed at siteg that trucks and ~eepc have c.cceas to.
There have been cases of marihuana growers exchanging jeeps for mules~
because the latter are ~ore important in growin~; areas than the motor-
ciriven vehicles. They pr~vide better service.
1~/hen the helicopter that took us all around the growing area~ flew very
low, the mules became frightened and betr~yed the pre:~ence of m~rihuana
~;rowers.
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mrr~gia ~ou~e
mhe t~ails tnto ~he sierz~a ~re a veritable aemetery of people ~.n ~h~
marihuan~, busin~ss. Mar~y of ~hem wen~ to aeek ~heir for~une and wound
up wi~h bulleta. Mi~ht makaa right i~ ~h~ law ~the prevai.la in ~hio ~eg3on,
tho law o� ~rie ~u.ng1Q and the r~volver.
mhere havo been peraona who wanted to leave the growing areas af~er a
6-month s~ay and have wound up murdered along ~he ~rails.
A~ timea the,y are attacked by cximinals who watt for ~hem in Palomiud
and Min~ueo; o~here are victims of vendettas among marihuana gang~s or
have ~imply been condemned to die by the pereon in aharge of the erops
~o that they do not have to be pai.d or in order to rob them or ~o
prevent potential betreyals.
Life ie tough in the sierra, and the people who.~e~ involved in the -
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~ Night of the Firefl3.QS'
Bo~n~a I;L T2EMP0 in Spanish 16 May 79 P 8-~
~Text] I,oma de San Pedro, Gua~ira--Durin~ tho perind of thQ
mc~ihuana haxvesta in the sierra there i.s a date called the "night of'~tho
firef~.ies."
- This is when the "Red Point" or "Santa Marta Gold" varieties of mar3huana
reach their zenith of excellence as a crop after lengthy periads of
sprinkling with brown sugax water.
On that night, which for the laborers is unforgettable, the leaves of
the marihuana plants give off a bright red or reddish sparkle that makes -
them look like fireflies in the tropical nj.ght.
The laborers enjoy that moment, which could be deacacibed as "sublime"
hi~h up in the sierra. It is the "night of the fireflies."
Revenge at the Hideouts
Most of the confrontations between people in the marihuana business
_ take place at the hideouts or at maxketing sites, and they generally
take a heavy toll of casualties.
After the weed is harvested, dsied and compacted, it is packed in pita
- fiber saaks or polyethylene bags and cardboard boxes. Weighed and reweighed,
it is loaded ~nto mules, which take it down from the sierra to the spota
where bt~yere can bring~ their trucks. Prior to this, it is stored in the
- famous hideouts, where it is selected and graded.
The marihuana is dried in barns, which axe rudimentary "altaxs~" like
those used to dry coffee.
In growing areas in the sierra the maxihuana farmers often plant coffee
on one side and marihuana on the other. Yucca and banana.9 axe generally
planted in between them for camouflage.
The hideouts are generally visited by people who are experts in grading
maxihuana. There are three categ~ories: A, B and C. "A" is Red Point or
Santa Marta Gold.
The hideouts are attended to by natives of Guajira, whereas the
dealers or middlemen are "cachacos." Indiax~s are generally used to
transport the loads of marihuana along the trails and paths.
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"'Che i,~a df' the JunEle"
At tha ni~ceq wtier~ d~~l~ ar~ m~d~ th~ bt~yer~ ~t tim~~ betray th~ sellers.
7'hey brin~ alon~ mn.re men ~nd tak~ the m~rihuana fram thr~m.
5nmetimes th~ opposite h~ppens. The ~el:ers brir.g in more hired agga~einn,
whn g~c~ ~.bout liquid~tin~ th~ buyer~ to tai~e their money. After k111ing
them~ they nffer the gras~ to ~ther bu}rers.
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mh~re is a third typ~ of vendetta~ which is whon the aellera~ in an
~r~ement wtth iaw p~~role, arrive at thQ nite of ~he d~a1 and pr~tend
to be c~u~ht by aurpri~e by them.
mh~n comes the put-on of thc b~yer making friend~ with the m~mbers of
the patrol, after which they a~,rree to oet the ~ellers frQe~ but with
the marihuana remAining "seized." In this w~y the btLyer come3 out ahead
because he puts out less money for the grass.
The hideouts or transaction sites are u~ually the ~cQnes of fiQrce
battles betwe~n bi,~yers and sellers~ as they try to Ret the best of ee~ch.
other. '
It takee about 7 or 8 houra on muleback along the rails to get to the
croia from Palomino and Mingueo.
After the deal is made, both the bi,~yers and sellera clear out. If the
law appea~rs and captures groups from either band, no one can make an
effort to help the oth~r. It is every man for himself from the time
that the money ia delivered and the aeed handed over. Thie ia the "laW -
of the jungle," the Arhuaco Indians ae~}r.
"Cachaco~" Versus Guajira Nativea
People sa~y that La Gua~ira fs becoming "cacha.ca." Thfs is because most
of the activities, eapecially m3rihuana amug~lin~ and trafficking, are
in the hand3 of peoplc from the interior of the country.
_ The displacemE.it of Gua,jira natives by "cachacos" has triggered a battle
between the two~ and the confrontations have already taken a high dea~h
toll ar~on~ tne two grc~ups.
- The most recen~ incident took place near Palomino, when a group of
Guajira nativea tried to storm a hideout controlled by "cachacos:." They
b~~.t back the fierce onalaught and felled several locals.
Family members of the natives notified the police and launched another
attack. In all, there were more than 13 deaths.
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Later, .f.n Itioh~ch~~ ciurin~ th~ burial o� one of ~he non-loaald, the
Cuct~iro, nativeg went nn the atta~k again and kil].ed s~ver~l ot' ~he enemy,
bu~ ~here were ~lso c~ual~ies among ~heir rgnka. mhQ nkirmi~hes
cantinu~ around this p~ninsu~.a~ and no one c~n te11 wh~t wi11 happen
- ahen nutiv~n oi' Gu~jira ~nd "c~ahacoe" come face ~o f~ce eg~3n...
It i~ ~en~rally accepted tha~ the caahacos are the one~ that control the
grnwin~ area~ ~nd dominate the transactions. ~'he natives have been
relegated ~o ~;uarding the hideou~~ and eerving as guides or ~uttera.
The dqy lnborers are hired in the interiori 1n other worfla~ the wo~k
fnrce in the ~rowin~ ar~~s i~ "cachacs~."
mhis 3ndicAten, in general, that thQ Indians of La Gua~3ra are ~till
being exploited and are regarded ae inferior ~o ~he people from the
interior, but in the end everyboc~y ia a winner in thQ marihu~na busineas.
Minp,ueo and Palomino contiinue to be the cachaco strongholds. The nativoa
are ~tmnE in the Upper Gua~ira.
In order to neutralize these vendettas betrreen cachacos and nativee
of Gua~ira, the arrqy has aet up military posta in Palomino and Mingueo,
but the shots contirrue to ring out.
Mother Sort of Transaction
The following is another aort of transaction betrreen b~yers and sellerss
you can often find people in Palomino and Mingueo who are willing to do
ar~ything. Hired thugs, cutters~ d~y laborera, rrorkera, middlemen,
mesaengerE~ a xho1Q menagerie of persons attracted by the sparkling
"night of the fireflie~."
It is common there for btiprera to deliver the seeds to a group of
cutters and growers, who search for idle land that is 6, 7 and more
houra diatant by road from Palomino and Mingueo. They take the land~
by force, plant and harvest.
The b~yer pays the growers in advance half of xhat they will earn when
they deliver the yfeld of the harvest. Delivery is usually made at the
_ end of 6 months. During this time the b~yers promis~ to provide all
needed supplies to the men holed up in the sierra.
After 4 or 5 months the raiddlemen appear; they are the onee who pick up
the weed at a predetermined poin~ between the growing area and the shipment
sites.
For example, by this time of year the firat harveat is alres.~y completely
in. At the nerve centers of the traffic they are sa~ying that it was a
grood harvest and yielded excellent results despite pressure from the
authorities, who managed to seize sizable amounts of the xeed.
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'1't~c ~Cannd h~.tnte~t n C th~ ye~.r begt~,n in 1~,t~ Apri1. 'Che ~i~~n~ic cr.op
t'duncl in ~ha vrry hc;u~t ol' I,n Cua~irn iu evidanae ot' tha indusi;riounr~a~a
nC the ~rrdw~~s, who were abl~ td snw no 1eoc~ than 30~000 he~~ares. ~he
~acond ~rop ia beir~ help~d by the rair~y season, whloh faaili~ete~ the
~rowth or t~e nlanto, mhere ar~ gen~ral].y three harvest~ a year~ whloh
_ ylalcl tha ~r~w~,rs �~stronomice?1 ne~ profit~.
A~ we have already ind3cated in previous ar~iclee, the planting is done
by h~etarea, aeparated by hidQOUts~ clandeatine runwaye and natural
nbotaclea to hnmper the accesn of the authori~iea.
P1an~ Nurseries
In the growin~ zones grin~o b~yers pay for the congtruction oP nurseries
whar~ experiments are conducted with marfhuana plante.
For axr.unple~ at the site called La Cueva, near Cuchilla del Mico,
soldiera found a nursery with Q00 neat little marihuana plants that were
being careflilly attended to and ahoae atems shoWed signa that agronomiats -
hacl used them in experimenta. Perhape experts are looking for a new
or better variety of Colombia~n "cannabis sativa~" whiah is :egarded as
the world's finest. Nurseries are frequent at the hideoute. Soldiers
have fbund several of thera in such perfect condition that at times they
munt be attended to by aomen...
Riaka Are Great
Bogota EL TIEM~ in Spanish 17 Ma,y 79 p 12-A
~Text,] Puerto Estrella, Upper Gua~ira-Approximately every 30
minute~ r~arihuana ships and planea attack Gua~ira by land and sea. The
plrsne~ com~ from tho United States. The ~hipe g+enerally belong to
Colombian gang leaders, who live in luxury in Cartagena, Barrariquilla
and Santa Marta.
At his command post with the Cartagena Battalfon~Colonel "X" thinka that
he aeea planes fnvolved in marihututa smuggling ttherever he looka.
At thc Rondon Task Force radio station, Colonel "Z" ia alw~ys receiving -
report~ on plane~s violating~Colombian air spaae. As calmly as can be,
he tells the pilot of the T33 or the T41: "If he doesn't take notice,
fire on him." -
Since January~ one or two planes connected xith the marihuana busineas
have been captured almost every d~y. The gringvs who pilot them escape
into the underbrush or are captured.
They always have the same story to tell Colombian courts: "We lost our
' way...an engine blew out on us...We had to make an emerg~ency landing here."
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~u~ as ~n A55dCIA~'~b ~'f~~SS newsm~~ who wan with un for a Whi1e in L~
Gua~ir~ noted almoeti W~ggi~hly, '~the furu~y thing abdut th~~~ g~y~ in
t}i~t they almos~ alw~rs m~c~ ~m~~g~ncy la.nding~ on cl~ndestine ~unw~y~."
mhi~ wa~ what h~ppen~d with pilot Willi~un Spr~dl~y, ~~~e~i~nt r~~e~~,
in Houetdn~ Texae but a common smu~g~.er 3.n Colombi~'s Upper Cu~ir~.
mod~y no one believes hia story that h~ w~s flytt~ ta Ven~zuela td pick
up some oil drSllir?g equipment in poor condition that wt~e ~oing to be
repaired in Mi ~ni and that he was forced to make an emerg~nay landing
on on~ of the beaohen in the region beaau~e one of hia lig~t plor?~'o
enginea wa~ experiencing problem~.
Almost gimultaneouely, at hig office in the port of Cart~~na, Ship
Captain "A" and Vice Admiral "B" receive radio reports from a ooagtguard
cutter th~t a boat is being loaded w~.th marihuana at R given point along the
coast~ Which is more than 1,600 kilometere long. Who would believe ft?
How do they monitor so mar~y kilometers of beach aith so little eq~~i pnent~
especially light and Gombat vesaels?
The situation in thfa regard ia critical if we keep in mind that the
traffickere r.ave a veritable fleet of shipe, planes and land vehiolea to
transport the marihuan~.
According to an investigation conducted by ~L TIFI~fiPO in the files of the
_ Second Brigade, since November of laet year the gangs of traffickern
have risked losing a total of 147 planes of different modele, including
a DC7, rrhich was captured in Plato, Mag~dalena last veek, and more than
60 sh.ips. With regard to land vehicles, the authorities have captured
more than 500 motor vehiclea of varioue types, brands, modele and
oarrying capacity. It's almost as if we Were in a state of War.
~ ilow the Indians Take Revenge on the Gring~os
- To the people of La Gua,jira, the gring+os have been the cause of their
misfortune, of that terrible nightmare called "marihuana fever" that
preventa them from living in peace and that has made thec~ the center
of attraction of the whole rrorld.
The Indians have thought up a w~y to take reveng~e on the gringos~ glmost
_ aithout realizing that they are thus making the mercenaries ~ho come to
Colombia pay the price for their thiret for marihuana.
It so happen~ that in thia region of the Upper Gua~ira the Indians hunt
down marihuana plane~ at niEht.
Every time they hear the noiaQ of airplane engines, the Indians in this
area set their trap, lighting torches and signaling the pilots to land. -
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Snma pilats do not ~ for the bait, bu~ oth~r~ have already fallen into
th~ t~ap and b~~~me victime o~ ~Ehi~ sort or '~reveng~ af ~h~ Indi~ne."
Attr~ct~d by ~he ~3~naling from 1c�id in ~he d~rk Gua~3r~ nigh~, ~he
marihu~na pilut thinkn that th~y are hi~ buddi~~ and ~ush~a to the epot
- wh~re th~y h~v~ india~ted to him ~o land. _
Wh~n tha plane tou~hes down~ it and ita ocaupants are hit by a rain nf
bullets. Generally no one ia hurt. Th~ Indians then ~ack the plane~
rnb the dollar~ thati th~ gringoe have brnugh~ in to b~y? the graes arid
a~fterwards nn~ify tha soldierg at the neares~ poat of ~n acaident. Th3e ie
th~ revan~e of the Indian~, a ruatio vereion of the famnus "Ch3nese
revenge.~~
nn var3ous nccasions ~h~ Indians kidn~p rather than kill th~ pilot~ after
sackin~ thr planes and robbing the money.
mhey fbrcp them to confesa for whom they are rrorking and who was g~oing
to bi,~y the marihuana from thetn. They then cont~ct the buyers and demand
"ranc~om" for the captives. There are generally no deals becaue~e the
trai'fickers do not neg~otiate r~ri.th the Indians~ and thue the gring~oe are
found dead on some cl~ndeatine runwqy or path or simply disappear. This
ia another form of the "revenge of the Indians."
Runw~ys and Loadfng Platforms
On board the Colombian Air F'orce helicopter We Were able to fly over the
entire Gua~ira P~ninsula, both ite mountainous region and ita coaetline.
. We wanted ~o see for oureelves xhethQr everything that people aere saying
about La Guajira and the traffic was ~uat exaggeration or not. In light
of the magnitude of t:.e problem, we were forced to accept the evidettee.
A~ that highlander from the G`uchilla del Mico region told us: "Look
friend...4Je don't know how to do ar,ything! Thie is the only we`q ye can
ma}cQ a living." That Was how he ~ustified the growi:~g of marihuana.
Iiow many clandestine runW~ys and loading platfoz~s are there in La
Gua,jira? Thousanda. Colombian Air Force pilota s~y that in 1 month they
could not count all of the runways and loadityg platforms in clandestine
operation around the peninsula. "We find something new every de`y," one
of them said.
In the Upper Cuajira all of the scenea wfth the military are ri~t out
of the movies! They are always gettfng radio reports about planes that
have violated Colombian air space or ahips that are preparing to take on
marihuana. It's enough to make your heart stop. Its startling to hear
high-ranking military commanders give orders to "shoot to kill."
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pir~~e~ ~verywhQrQ
A~ you dr~w away ~from the highee~ peak~ in the ~ierra Nevada da 5anta
Morta and anter Gun~i~~ tQrri~ory, from ~hQ helicop~er ynu begin tn pick
ou~ the alandrgtine s~unw~y~; they ase ~nat~~red ov~r an um3,maginably
immenae area.
From thQ ~.ir th~y look like long clearinga or bare land, with branohea
or acceea roade where the planea cariying the marihuana airaulate. There
are runways that are in better cond3tion than the oneg that the National
Cavernmen~ author3zes for some towns. Some are cloae to the ooeani
o~hers are neetlod in forested or uninhabited zones. xhere are some in
areas of underbrugh and othera in desert regions.
The traffickers are brazen. They have built runwqys almost by tha sea-
- shore near Palomino~ Mingueo~ Camarones, Cari Cari, Riohacha~ E1 Pa.~aro~
- Cabo de 1a Yela and Pu~rto Eatrella. At thQ other end of the penineula
by the Caribbean and the Gulf of M~r~caibo~ the most famous and the finest
runwqy is the one in Puerto Lopez. They are also to be found in Nazareth,
Uribia and almost all o� the towne in the Upper Gua~ira.
It was thought previously that me~rihuana was not grown in La Gua3ira,
that it was ~uat the drug~a launahing pad towards the Antilles and the
, United States. But it so happena that the largeat field in the world
is right in the heart of the peninsula!
~ The runways are vieible from the sea and the coast. The pilots coming
from the United States usually have their coordinates and rarely land
at the xrong runw~}r, except in the case of accidents such as,common
engine problems, or unlesa the xind bloas them off course.
Suicide Pilota
Marihuana fever makes the gringo pilote do crazy things. The clandeetine
runxays are usually clear enough to be seen f`rom the air. Technically,
hoWever, they are inadequate because the terrain ie very irregular and
eteep. Nevertheless, these ara~zy, suicidal pilots rush after tha
marihuana and do not think tvice about accidents or in~uries. Their
weapons are the dollars that they bring in auitcases. They are generally
mad pilots ~rho were imrolved in the aar in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
They are unquestionably suicidal and cynical.
These men are so bold that they have g~one so far as to land on main or
rural highWays. Some have tried to land at the Santa Marta and Riohacha
airports when they Yost their wqy to the clandestine landing stripa.
One of the major strips is the one in E1 Pa3aro, which is above Rioha,cha.
It is very long and masterfhl.ly designed and constrncted, seemingly by
experts. It can be easily seen from the ocean. _
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~h~ I'uer~o LnpeL landfn~ ~~rip is a m~,~-~erworlc of ~he traffioltere'
in~enuity.
'1'he t;r;~i'i'ickern ~.~.~riv~ by nea and ri~}~t by the coa~~t i;hoy be~in 1;o tc~~ci.
a,nd ~lidQ ddwn tho ruriw~y, whioh i~ J.ong~ enc~i.ng in a 1ar~e ~ax3,~.ng
asea. Then, as if i~t were highwey~ 3t has another return o~ tekeoff
ntrip, which mak~s for an ea~ier getaxay.
. Colomb3an Air ~'orc;e planes have de~tected at leant 200 clandQ~tine airfields
from Puerto Lopez to Puer~o Estrella.
Near E1 P~3aro there is a landing atri,~ as g^ood and as large as the one
at the L'rnesto Cortissoz Tn~ternational Airport in ~arranquilla.
I`rom there you can see three more ~tnways, which indicates that thia is -
- a ma~or area for clandestine r,~ir traffic.
The Lo~,din~ Ylatforms
Ar~y sma11 bay or lonely spot along a ehore can be a alandea~in~ loading
poin' in La Gua~ira. That ia why people s~y that there are hundreda~
Perhaps thousands of ship loading platforms 'hore.
The ma~or ones ase in Palomino and Camaronea, where close to 30 hideouta
have bcen detected almost by the seashore.
_ The loading is almost done in bulk there. All that the traffickers do is
put a wooden bridge between the truck and the boat and pass along bundles
of marihuana. The depth of the waters in the Palomino area is of great
help becauae the marihuana ships can almoat get to the ahore itself.
Ymy don't they monitor tha places where frequent cargo loadings are
known to be made? .it is a dif~icult situation for the National Navy
because there are very few official vessels and a g~ood mar~y kilometera
of shoreline to watch over. The fact is, the Colombian Navy does not
� have enough naval units to comba+. the ocean-groin~ marihuana traffic.
The fleet of the marihuana dealera is much larger than the navy's, and -
it cannot i~nore other fronts to monitor a single loading point. It
_ i~ another critical situation, like the one on land and in the ~.ir.
There are not enough ships, planes and land vehicles to do battle with
the lar~e fleet of the traffickera. That is the truth.
t~lar to the Death
The ~truggle is to the death, especially here in the Upper Guajira, along
these shores of white sand like the onea that Sinbad discovered in the
land of the one-eyed monsters.
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The struggle ia unque~~ionably to the dea~h~ because there are orders to
kill on bot~h aides~ bo~h the axmy and the ~an~s. The traffickera seem
to be bet~er outfitted, and one of the pointa in their favor ia the
dollar~ which aan buy everything, even people's aonaoiencae.
Profits Are Greater
Bo~oi;a ~L TYIfl~IPO in Spanieh 18 May 79 p 2-A
~Text�~ Riohacha, 17 May--l~t present in Colombia more marihuana Ss
Uein~ producEd than coffee. The people in the masihuAna business ase
taking in ~uicy profit3 from the trafPicking of the weed, the legal.ization
of whioh has met with a aategorical "no" from a].1 aeotors of the citizenry.
~ At the moment Colombia is faaed with a tremendoua economic dilemma,
because its tw~o ma3or crops are currently marihuana and cofSee, and
whereas world coffee prices have been hit by sizable c~icopa on the U.S.
- marke~s, marihuana prioee have risen enormously an a result of the fieroe
battle by Colombian authorities to orack down on trafficking.
Incredibly enough, pressure from the as~y, navy and air force hae he].ped
to boost the international prices of the weed, inasmuch a.s traffiakera
feel that today the risks are greater and therefore the "cannabis sativa"
shduld cost more.
� Moreover, the country has lost its look as a coffeo-grower, as the
"marihuana boom" has emerged and taken over all regions to a greater or
lesser extent. -
Marihuana is no longer grown just in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada
de Santa Marta~ Magdalena, Cesar and I,a Guajira but in Cordoba, Sucre~
the Cauca Va11ey, Cauca and especially in the Darien region and the
eastarn plains as well. In other worda, the entire country is currently
infested with marihuana fields, and estimates are that the plantations
of the weed cover more hectares today than thoae earmasked for coffee.
This is a critical situation that the authorities are trying to rectify
via the army, navy and air force. Their efforts are enormous, and the
traffic has dropped in the wake of the enactment of the Security Statute
~ate last year.
The traffickers have lost many ships, planes, motor vehicles and laxge
amounts of grass, but there are those rrho eay ~hat incalculable tons
of maxihuana are still being shipped to the United States because the
crops are more extensive today and the yield is simply fabulous!
Neverthelesa, the actions of the railitazy forces can be described as
positive, even though it is impossible to eli.minate the plague for gocd.
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Marihu~na has been grown in the past ~.n ~he foothil.ls of ~hQ sierra.
Zt 3g not a new business, dating from sever~,1 yease baak. I~ is ~uet
that now ~he craakdown on the traff3o is more intense, eepecially with
the so-called Securi~y Statute.
Despite ~..1.1 the restrict;ive measures, the marihuana business is atill
.~abulously proFit~,ble. Wor1d prices have ~umped because of the restrictione
and controls on its transportation by land, sea and air.
- Th~ business is so grood that as planting is curtailed in Gua~ira, Cesar
and Magclalena, .�iQlds abound in Suere, Cordoba, the plains~ the valley
and Choco in the Dasien region, where traffic ia more intense than in
La Gua~ira but hard ~o control beoause of the steep ~errain.
~p600 A Pound
The grir~g~os pay ~p600 a pou~nd for top quality marihuana in this region.
The middlemen get it from the gxowers at rock bottom prices, p~enerally
1,000 or at the most 2~00(: pesos. ?n other words, they are making more
than 20,000 pesos per pound vf b~aes.
- In round numbers, if a pound of marihuana coste $600, a ton costs $1.2
million, which comes out to the pretty sum of 48 million Colombian pesos.
Machines compress the marihuana at hideouts and in ~rowing areae into -
40 kilo blocks, about 100 pounds. Thus~ each block carriea a price tag
of ~$60,000, or 2.4 million Cfllombian pesos. Thousands and thousands
of these blocks are compacted every day in I,a Gua3ira, whioh gives us
an idea of the astronomical sums that the cannabis sativa traffic involves.
The middlemen bu}r the blocks of marihuana from the growers for 20-25~000
pesos. They, in turn, sell to distributors and Nholesalera at 30-40,000
pesos. Then the major b~}rers come on the scene, who purchase most of
the ~rass to be sold to the gring~os who come by air and sea to pick it up.
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Laboratories in the Middle of the Jungle
The ~traffickers have laboratories at the hideouts in the middle of the
- jungle. They are equipped with scalea, compactera, 40, 60 or 100 kilo
molds, dryers, roasters or filters to separate the grass from the seeds~
as well as special packaging machines. There are also nurseries to
do exp~riments with varieties of cannabis.
Each Flight Brings in 24 Million Peaos
The marihuana merchants make $600~000, or 24 million pesos, on each flight
in a Piper Cub. These light planes can hold 1~000 pounds of marihuana~
one-half ton, which at $600 a pound adda up to this 3uicy, tempting swn.
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Pt1ot~ Are unu~lly raid ~10,000~ or r~00~000 ne~o~~ Qnch. Thnro wc~
alwayn two ~,viator~ per flf~ht. Fuel ~.nd contirigonciea do not cor~e to
morQ than $2~000, Ar?d ~hue each flight yielda sizable net profita in ~he
casQ of ~he Piper Cubs.
So then, you could not even put a round number on how muah these
individuals mfilce when they get DC-3's DC-c~'s and even DC-7'e, S'i11ed
with marihuana, out of the country, as well as ships with gro,sa stored
in ~11 the3.i~ holds.
The most critical problem is finding out how much of this money remaine
- in the hands of the gxoaere~ workers~ cutt~rs and laborers, who in the
long run are the foundation of the business. We should note tha~ ~the
traffickers~ especial.ly the foreign gang leaders, have m~de sizable
investmen~s, beaause the arrq}r of laborers and growers epends money
lavishly.
The people involved in this business are generally ignorant becauso they
- do not lrnow what to do with ~.11 the money that they ~~rn ond they thus
become easy to pick out bQCauae of their ostentation, excesaes and
exaggeratione.
The leaders provide thei.r people with modern weapons, sufficient amrmuiition~
powerful radio-communication equipment and facilities to live well and
squander money. Nonethele~s~ there is a social problem ~nong the
peasant farmers in the growin~ areas, who are the ones who really "live
off the crop," in other word~, work there to earn their daily sustenance.
They have no livelihood other than planting marihuana or helping the
groWere because there are no other crops that they can work on with the
same productivity as marihuana.
A IIuge Marihuana Potentiall
The amount of marihuana that could come out of the second harveet at
present is so enormous that the numbers are hard to believe. For example,
the 10,000 hectare field discovered by the ara~y could yield some 30,000
tons in 5 months. If we recall that each ton is worth $1.2 million,
then 30,000 tons would carry a price tag of $36 billion.
Since the crops are intermittent rather than continuous, the Armed Force9
estimate that the surface area under cultivation is much greater. Some
assert that it is more than 30,000 hectares, which would yield 90,000 .
~ tons, the value of which would be astronomical.
The Guajira Peninsula is continually assaulted by legiona of traffickers
who, in their hun~er for marihuana, take out a.fter the weeo along the
dan~erous ruatic runways, the unsafe loading platfozms ~nd the ominous
trails. The assault ia ceaseless, disgraceflil.
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Thc Gun.;}ira ~'etii.n~u1~, i~ li.vttt~ a terrible nt~;hm~.r~ tod0.Y becaunc oi'
tha m~.rihuana ~rafi'i.c. mhe quegtion that everynn~ i~ ~~kir~ him~~lf t~erc
i3: "l~Jhen will this ~acriftc~ end?"
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Boxes, polyethylene bags, paper and various other wrappin~~ 1re used to
packa~e the "exp~rt variety" marihuana that authori.ties in ~everal place~
arouncl the country, but especially along the coa~t, confissate almost
every day.
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Thg Gov~~n~~' ~ V~.~ws
no~t~ ~L mZl~'I~'CJ in Sr~ni~h 15 MaY 79 P 1~-A
~m~x~) Itioh~ch~, Gu~fra--Am~ric~,n pilota continu~ t~ l~nd on i:he
cland~st3n~ runw~y~. Shin c~ptain~ point th~i~ G~mpn~a~~ ~t ~ir~~~
- loadin~ roin~~. people keep cul tiv~tin~ m~rihuana~ ~v?d m~rihuar~a keapa
growtng!
At thQ command o~ the "flondon" Tank Forad Co1 ~i.lva Rosero eontinuee
- directing the opera~3onn ~o ~1~stroy ~h~ Sields disoovered over mora than
10~000 hect~es.
At the command of the "Cartagena" Infantry natallion Colonol pntino
has waking drQ~.ms of clandes~ine landing atrips and ~eQ9 pl.ana~
carryin~ marihu~na along every inch of the ekies over La Gua~ira.
At the command of the Nort}�~~.~~.~ Air Group Ma~or Cuete rep~~ts to hi~
pilots almost unconaciouely~ If those planee do not identify themgolveg,
- or follow our inatructions, ~ire on theml
And at the Northern Naval Command the admiral aalcloaled.geg th~t hQ does
not hnve Qnou~h coastguard cutter~ to watch over ao mar~y kilometers of
shoreline, whiah the marihuana dealera uae for their alar~destine ahipnente.
While this is p,ning on at several pointg on the coast~ Governor Rafael
Iguaran Mendoza receives us at his office with theee r+ordat "I'll grant
you an interviea, but please let'a not talk about rt~arihuana trafficking...
It's made me bleary-eyedl"
- Neverthele~s, the sub~ect of marihuana and marihuana trafficking ia
unavoidable in a11 of the country's quarters, inasmuch as American
traffickars have intensified their activitiea in theee parts to the
point that they are noW landing their planee on highWqys and on birport
- runwqys duly authorized by Civil Aeronautiae. As far as the crops arQ
- concerned, they are a high priority thro~ughout the region.
In an exclusive interviex rrith II, TIFMPO~ Igaaraa Mendo~a pointed out:
"This entire situation nas me very aorried, even your preaence here.
Look, the problem ie so big that we cannot aesess ita extent at the moment.
Neverthelesa, I feel that the Americans are to blame. They do not
respect us."
Gua~ira Peasant Farmers I,ive Off The Crop
Accorc~ing to Governor Rafael Iguaran Mendoza, criminal elements i~com the
Unite~i States have corrupted the Gua,jira peasant farmera.
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"Look, a11 ~f ~hi.~ incLic~~ea th~t our ppa~an~ farma~~, who used ~o d~vote
thamselvap ~o l~g~.1 f~smin~ ~nd live~~oak ~r~.c~in~~ have 1os~ that ca].ling
~od~y~ ~d dddn th~re will be notn~.~ iQr~t of ~;hat grea~ ~radi~~.on~
b~aQU~e thay come .�rom where th~ 'aannabi~ ea~iva' beinE ~rown, and
they h~ve told u~ ~hat they h~.vQ gnt~en involvQd wi~h the mar3.huana
bu~ines~ bec~u~o ~hoy have had to~~~
He add~ds "Yeg~ thay grow ~the mar~.huar~a to subsie~ F~nd thoy have bean
surrounded by thQ en~ioing opportun{~ies offered by the ~^ingos, who
dQServe a11 the blame be~ause they he.~ve given them the wherowitr.al to
grow ~the arop. "
Th~ ~,rov~rnor went on to indicates "We know ~hat the~e foreigners are
the onen who give the peasante the money to ~ake aarQ of tho crop and
Who ~7.ao sub~id3z~ tham during the harvest until thoy crop is 3n."
No x'riction With the .!Urnqr
Z~u~.r~n Mendoza denied rwnors concorned an allegea confrontation with
the ar~ or f`riction with the military authorities as a result of the
ae~ivitiea pursued here to crack do~rn on and control the traffic.
"I h~ve only had immense concern for the fate of La Gua~ira," he said.
"What T have done~ guided by n~y sense of duty~ what I have tried to
do is preserve the National Covernment's goad image in this region and
defend aur institutiona."
The governor spoke at length and in generous terms about the railitary
forces, about Which he said: "I have always regarded them as our
country's most si~n.ificant bastion and I bel3eve that the difficult and
d~erous mission that they are charged with at the moment deserves a11
our support." He clarified, however, that "the action that they are _
undertakin~ at the moment is not ~hat our constitution wiahed to entrust
to thnt institution."
The Marihuana FIa~ Plot Benefited Gua~ira Peninaula
According to Governor Iguarnn 14endoza, the "marihua.na bonanza" has not
benefited La Gua3ira at a11.
"Look, because of its geograp}~y Gua~ira is a natlaral site for sea, land
and uir trafficking. ~he traffickera have chosen it because its terrain
facilitatQS their activities~ But the people of Gua~ira have received
very fex benefits from the 'marihuana bonanza.' I haven'~ seen ar~y social -
pro~ect in Gua~jira that has come from this bonanza."
Iie went on to say that "the people have been hurt because the cost of
livin~ has ~one up, and moreover they have loat the ae~urity and
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tr~nquj.l3ty tha~ the,y uaed to en~oy here in the past. Paople have
for~o~t~en the solidasity and ~eneroeity that ueed to be the hallmark~
of Guajira natives. Tadc~y there is a lot of shootin~ and a lot of
murders here."
There Ta Marihuana in Other .Departments Too
Governor Zguaran Mendoza was annoyed that a11 of the activitiee to craak
down on and control the mar3huana traff~.c were being undertaken in
Gua~ ira.
"A new soandal has emerged," he said~ "that has alarmed the country and
- the world, because the mere axinouncement that 10,000 hectares of
- marihuana have been uncovered ia enough for people to real.ize ~hat
something~very serious ia involved, because people~ and espenially
foreignera, are g+oing to th3.nk that if ~here are 10~000 hectares here
and that it is being grown in other departmenta such as Cesarr Magd~.l.ena,,
Sucre, on the eastern pla3xis and ~.n Darien as well, the country is
just one big marihuana plantation and that we are headed down the road
to r:ina,tion. T think that we have to remedy this situation, and
energetically."
He added: "We cannot allow Colombia, which has written glerioua pagoe
in the history of the Americas, to be labeled today as solely the couni;ry -
where marihuana is grown. Today we are seeing that image chang~e~ an
image that is the result of an illicit business that we have to conf`ront
at all costs."
Solutions
- To Governor Iguaran Mendoza, the solution could be "to do aKay with the ~
crop once and for all, destroy it during the initial months of planting
to prevent it from thriving. Of course we have to look for ways that
will not sterilize the aoil, because I think that soonpr or later we
have to return to the traditional crops."
With regard to the traffickers, he said: "Mast are foreigners, and it
would be a gaod thing for the country if the consumer na,tions also took
responsibility for the problem. If we did not have so mar~y good offers~
our peasants would lose i.ncentive and voluntarily or perhaps unavoidably
give it up and go back to the usual crops. But there are more gringos
here than ever before, and even honest II.S. citizens come here now _
for the marihuana tra.ffic."
Against Leg~al.ization
"I do not agree with Dr ~nesto Samper's proposal to try and legalize
marihuana in Colombia. It would be an absurd move with fatal consequences
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br~cnu~a t}ih country coulcl noL ai.m at havin~; a lE~~;a1 c~cL~i;c:?oe wh~.~.o
livin~ ofr oi vice, crimes and the grave impar,~ t,n ynung peop],Q,
wlid ar~ ~he hone ot our coun~ry."
- 'i'he Security ~tntute Has :Flcen Beneficl~.l
mhe ~rovernoi{ df Gu~~ira admit+ed thut ~hc Sea~urity Stutu~;a ha~ baen
beneficia.l f'o.r thr countr,y. "Yt wan vcr}r timcly in L~~ Cu~,~ira and in
- t}ie re~t o� the country, becau~e wii;hout it we would be buriecl in the
~lootr~y aby~s that we yaw comis~*, ina~much a~ mcu~y pe~~;lc~ w~re i~o~l,y and
willin~ to ~ubvert the rJublic orcier and do ~,way with our, demOC~~L'~~.C
inr~ti~ution~, nnd once ~he~e are gone, ~hat':~ thc enc~ af ~,7.1 our
f~~Qdomc, which are thc mo~t ~ignificont bastion th~t democracy ha3
- ~;iven u~. "
Ilc pd3.ntcd out that the enforcem~nt ot the Securit;f S~atu~e h,x~ m~de
~ roU3ible ttie preservation of the lffo~ honor nnd prope.rty of Colombian4,
who ~aw them~elve~ with Pewer ~afe~;uarde eve~y day because violent
pcople h~d bcen preparing to di~rupt our le~~~.l. 3yatem.
- T Don't Want to 2'a1k About Marihuana Anymorc...Tt~;~ Mudc Mc I31a~.ry-L~?od
The governor receivea a telephone call. It's someone A~king him about
the Iiou~ton firemar?, William Spradley. Spradley i~ being hQld on chargee
of violatir~; Colombian air space. Under the Security Statutc he will
have to p~r w~izable fine or ~erve a number of month~ iii ~riil.
"Plea,~e," he sa;~s, "I don't ~,~ant to ta].k about marihu..~na ar~ymore. It's
made me bleary-efed"'
~ Ple:se, ~~ir Covernor, one la~t question, we insisted. Do you think that
traffickcrs from the Uniced States are being de~.lt with very leniently
under the Security Statute?
"I'm not c-^itici-inf; the Secur.s.ty Statute," he ~eplies. "I can only
say that a heayier hand is nec ad against these outsiders...The real
traffickers have been coddled quite a bit, and I don't think that the
.~olution i~ to corae down h.~d on our peasant~ and Indians~ who are the
on~~ who reall,y live off growing the wee~l or taking care oP thQ plantations,
nor can exemplary guni~hments be justified for thesQ poor people. But wQ
do have to come down h;rder on the real tratfickern, the leader3, the
people who Ieave their countz^y and take auicidal risk~ dorm here,
violAtin~ our laws and our sovereignty; those are the elements that we
have to corae down harder on...That'~ the truth!"
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COLOMBIA
TftAF~ICKER5, COUNTERF'EITING LINK~D BY AUTHORITIES
Counterfeit Money, Alleged Cocatne Seized
Bogota ~L LSP~CTADOR in Spaniah 18 May 79 p 1-A, 16-A
(Text) A powerf ul criminal organization which elternated counterfeiting
of dollars with traff icking in druge has been uncovered by ~'-2 agente of _
the Police General Staff in one of the severest blowe yet dea1C by
authoritiea to organized crime. -
The ring had its operation aet up at 26-36 114th Street, where undercover
agenta found a sophisticated printing press, $3 million in counterfeit
- bills of 5, 10, SO and 100-dollar denominationa, 6 kilos of cocaine and
items comprising a laboratory for procese~.ng the alkt~loid.
Th~: shop had a very modern printing press, and during th~ F-2 raid agents �
found the metal sheets and plates used for the almost perfect imitation
of the American currency.
Undercover agents found enough paper in the clandestine establiahmen t to
make at least another $8 million in bills--paper which, according to
expert8, was imported and of such fine quality that it differs little
from that used by the U.S. m~nt.
F-2 NaCional Director Col Miguel Maza Marques said he was satisfied with
the results of the operation, and he said that the diamantled counter-
feiting ring is one of the most powerful and best organized of those ~
discovered to date and that there ia no doubt it had international
connectione.
Six persons were arrested during the raid on the pr.eas. They were identi-
field as Manuel Mogollon Franco, Arm~zndo Castellanos or Nicolas Ro~as
Castellanos, Jorge Gonzalez Arboleda, Julio Acevedo and two brothc:rs, _
Wilson Adolfo and Jorge Alberto Gonzalez.
Jorge Gonzalez Arboleda, one of those arrested, was identified as being
in charge of swappin~ the counterfeit dollars for cocaine, 6 kilos of
which, as was stated before, were found on the premis~s, packed ir~ poly-
ethylene bags. It is understood that the gang's activities have been largely
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r~~pon~ible fdr ~rticle~ publi~hed r~c~nely in ehe Unit~d St~C~~ ec~ Chp -
e�f~Ce thati Col~mbi~ hgd b~come on~ di the mo~t gcrive dnllar-c~unt~r-
fe~.ting c~ne~r~.
~tt~ org~niz~tion had achiE,ved gr~aC p~rfeceion ln nnuneerf~~.tir~g the bi11s~
thgnk~ not dnly to rheir modern printiing presa, bur aleo Co th~ high
qu~lity nf rhe p~per u~~d, which came from outgide the country ~nd was
v~ry ~imilar ro that u~ed in Che legiCimgte bi11s.
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Presa for printing the bogus currency, seized yesterday by the General
Staff's F-2 in a Bogota residence, where they also found $3 million in
counterfeit bills and arrested six persons.
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