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Top Guatamalan Drug Cop Busted

By Jeralyn, Section Foreign Affairs
Posted on Thu Nov 17, 2005 at 11:32:15 PM EST
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Oh what a tangled they weave....

Police found five packages of cocaine and thousands of dollars in cash in the office of Guatemala's top anti-drug cop, shortly after he was lured to America and arrested on charges of conspiring to ship cocaine into the United States.

The shocking arrests of Adan Castillo and two of his deputies by U.S. officials prompted Guatemalan President Oscar Berger on Wednesday to pledge to renew anti-trafficking programs in this Central American nation that is a key transit point for drugs heading north.

According to a U.S. official, the FBI lured the three here under the pretense of attending a drug trafficking program.

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    • Top Guatamalan Drug Cop Busted | 5 comments (5 topical)
    Re: Top Guatamalan Drug Cop Busted (none / 0) (#1)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:14 PM EST
    I have first hand experience with low level Guatemalan Policia de Drugas and can state w/out question that the ones I dealt with were full-on crooks. However, someone being lured away from his office to another country and then a bunch of drugs being "found" in his office, seems a little questionable to me...

    Re: Top Guatamalan Drug Cop Busted (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:15 PM EST
    Another famous cocaine smuggler was able to evade capture, even after he paraded his underwear out his open zipper, with a sh*tfaced grin, in front of horrified diplomats in 2003. This felon has been active for 30 years without capture (though rumors of his capture and subsequent escape through powerful friends abound):
    Spring 1971: Hired by Texas agricultural importer (CIA), Bush uses F-102 (stolen from TANG) to shuttle tropical plants (cocaine) from Florida.


    Re: Top Guatamalan Drug Cop Busted (none / 0) (#3)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:15 PM EST
    PIL, you told us you were going to protest today. I guess your comment above is what you meant.

    Re: Top Guatamalan Drug Cop Busted (none / 0) (#4)
    by cpinva on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:15 PM EST
    gee, i'm shocked, shocked i tell you! that a south american law enforcement official has been found to be in cahoots with drug lords is just mind bending.................not! our approach, such as it is, has been kind of ass backwards: it starts from the premise that the government & law enforcement agencies of these countries are all honest and incorrupt. bad premise, expectable results. a more realistic approach would be to assume the worst case scenario: they're all corrupt, and in league with the drug cartels, until proven otherwise. i realize that sounds harsh but, given their history, entirely reasonable, i think.

    Re: Top Guatamalan Drug Cop Busted (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:15 PM EST
    I'm not surprised; Guatemala was version 1.0 of US regime change tactics and left with very little in the way of democracy afterwards and even less governmental infrastructure.

    Top Guatamalan Drug Cop Busted | 5 comments (5 topical)