Pinochet and the discreet charm of cocaine
most surprising thing about the coverage of the death of Pinochet is under the complete absence of references to his involvement in trafficking of cocaine. El Pais devoted several pages to the death yesterday without mentioning at any time allegations of Manuel Contreras, the right hand of the dictator in their most virulent of Pinochet's repression in his capacity as head of the secret police (the notorious DINA).
We are not talking about cookies middling as those routinely overlook the pages of The World to fan the flames of a particular conspiracy theory crazy, but a high position close to Pinochet, but the mantle silence that has fallen on this story is total. Six years ago the British newspaper The Guardian revealed that the secret police Chilean Army and cocaine had flooded Europe and the U.S. for at least twenty years
"Twelve tons of the drug with a street value of a billion pounds, left Chile, between 1986 and 1987 only. The drugs, destined for Europe, were often sent to English territory in equipment manufactured in Chile carrying weapons bound for Iraq and Iran. The distribution in Britain and other European countries under the control of the secret police, hosted by the embassies of Chile in Stockholm and Madrid. "
Revealed: Pinochet drug smuggling link
In" The Discreet Charm the bourgeoisie ', Luis Buñuel showed an ambassador of a South American country, played by Fernando Rey, who was dedicated to this very thing, but in a much more traditional. In this case we Pinochet himself and some members of his family mired up to their eyeballs in the world's most lucrative business, dealing in large-scale and with impunity, and though this is the best explanation for the origin of fortune found in the Riggs bank accounts, no one seems interested.
is not the first case of a dictator involved in shady business which mixes the drug and arms trafficking, the savage repression of dissent and the friendship of the United States:
"In Bolivia there are studies like that of Federico Aguilo (Banzer father of the mafia. p.52. Trafficking and Violence) and the testimony of another dictator, Garcia Meza, who accuse Hugo Banzer Suarez of being "the father of cocaine in Bolivia" angles of view opposite, that after the 1971 coup and when he began the height of the global cocaine, Banzer established distribution networks as issued then by the conviction of Alberto Sanchez to five years in prison in Canada. It appears that Operation Condor was among others the mission of dealing in cocaine. "
Pinochet, Contreras, Banzer and cocaine A possible explanation for the blackout would be the farce of the drug fight is with the ass in the air when these issues are uncovered. It is very difficult to try to convince people that using cocaine is financed terrorism when governments continuously violate the conduct alleged against drugs and geostrategic reasons.
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