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CONTENTS PAGE
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- AUS'TRALIA ;
lteport DiscusAes Crime, Drug Use Relationship
. (Ted Cavey; THE AGE, 11 Jan 79) 1
Illgli-Speed Patrol Boat Acquired To Combat Drug Smuggling
(THF WEST AUSTRALIAN, 2 Feb 79) 3
J~?il Term in Conspiracy To Lnport Cannabis Worth $70 Million
(THF. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 3 Feb 79) 5
llrug Sale Plans Thwarted
(THE WEST AUSTRALIAN, 3 Feb 79) ~
1'olice Seize $3 Million in Drug Plants
(THE AU5TRALIAN, 7 Feb 79) 7
Woman Remanded on Heroin Charge
(THE ACE, 19 Jan 79) 8
f.xpol iceman on Heroin Ctiarges
(TEtI: COU1tII:K-MAIL, 19 Jan 79) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
' M:in Wl~o Aided Urug Inquiry Sentenced to Jail
(SYDNI:Y MO[tNINC tiERALD, 13 Jan 79) 10
_ Urug Croup f3roken Up, Court Told
~ (TkIF. WEST AUSTRALIIIN, 9 Jan 79) 11
New ltadio Network To Aid Fight on Illegal Drugs
(THE AUSTWILIAN, 22 Jan 79) 12
_ Cxpert Estimates Weekly Heroin Importation IS 23 kg
(THE WEST AUSTRALIAN, 15 Jan 79) 13
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Victoria Area Heroin Offenses Douhle in Year
(Lindsay hiurdocti; THE AGC, 8 Feb 79) 14
$30,900 Bail SeC for Man Found WiCh Druga
(THE COURIElt, 14 Feb 79) 15
htalnysian CourC Frees Australian
- (THE AUSTRALIAN, 19 Fab 79) 16
_ Dog Aids Nunt for Dru~s in Victoria Area
(THF. AGE, 17 Feb 79) 18 `
B f2U NI's I
Magistrate {~arns of Crackdown on Drug Offenders
!BORNCO BULLETIN, 20 .ian 79) 19
1NUONI:SIA
_ Background Material on Bali Narcotics Case Preaented
_ (TEMPO, 27 Jan 79) 20
Prison Director Denies Involvement
Fu~itives Escaped by Air
MALAYSIA
Urugs Case Appeal Fails
(SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 12 Jan 79) 25
Australian Tried in llrug Smuggling Case
(Various sources, 25 Jan, 7 Feb 79? 26
Detense Testimony, by Ri~hard Gill
Life Sentence
N~ircotics Arrec~ts, Trials, Sentences Reported
- (Various sources, various dates) 28
- Lifc Sentences Upheld
_ Opium Sentence
Heroin Sentence
~ Sarawak Drug Arrests
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ThizCy-Xear Addict ~ined
Two Users Sentenced for Theft
414 Kilograms of Druga Seized in 1918
(KIN KWQK DATLXi;NEWS~ 27 Jan 79) 31
Establi.aMnent of Drug Withdra~tal Centers Suggested
, (KIN KWOK DATLX NEWS, 22 Jan 79) 33
Briefs
Auatralian May Face Rxecution 34 "
PAKISTAN
Br ief s -
- Outlawa Held, Goods, Narcotics Seized ~ 35
THAILAND
Australians Arreated on Heroin Possession Charge
(Varioue sources, 19, 22 Jan 79) 36
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_ Further Details, by Neil Kelly
, Arrests Spark Drive on Drugs
(THE WEST AUSTRALIAN, 27 Jan 79) 38
VIETNAM
Briefs
New Cure for Addicts 39
CANADA
Marihuana Concealed in LP Record Envelopes
(LA PRESSE, 9 Feb 79) 40
$20 Million Heroin Deal Foiled by Trro Fenale Hounties
(Robert Sheppard; THE GLOB~ AND MAIL, 23 Feb 79)....... 42 `
Record Marihuana Haul in Lang-~laying Covera
CTHE CITIZEN, 9 Peb 79) 44
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Brie~$
Jail, $50Q,000 Ft,ne ir? Drugs Case 46
Hashish Dnporting Trial. 46 ~
Alberta Drug ~nforcement Statisri.ce 46
Hashish Packeta Vom~,Ced 47
Hash Oi~, Hi.dden i.n Stan$che 47
TaAT~N AMER~CA
_ BRAZIL
. Drug Situation in Tnterior of S$o Pau1o 5urveyed
(0 ESTADO D~ 3A0 PAUI.O, 28, 30 Jan 79) 48
- F~ttent of the Problem, by Renato Lombardi
Police Conf irm Problem
Judge Predicts Tncreased Drug Addiction in 1980~s
(0 ESTADO DE SAb PAULO, 13 Feb 79) 58 -
Editorial Examines Soc~al Problem of Drug Use
(Editorial; 0 GLOBO, 10 Feb 79) 60
Briefs
Trafficker Arrested Leaving Paraguay 62
Arrest of Police Officer 62
Antidrug Efforts in Piracicaba 63 -
Drug Director Transferred 63
Traffickers Arrested in Parana 63
Providencia Hill Traff ickers Arrested 63
Selo Horizonte Antidrug Effort 64
COLOMBIA
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(Cadena Radial Super, 24 Feb 79) 65
Vendetta Among Traff ickere, 1~o Killed
(EL TIEMPO, 6 Jan 78) 66
DC-4 With Marihuana Cargo Captured
(EL ESPECTADOR, 2, 3 JAn 7Q) 69
Forced Down at $arranquilla
Crew Identified
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Clandegeine Airport Ownex Fined
(EL TTEMPO, 12 Jan 79) 7I
Briefs
Coca P1anCation 72
Cocaine ~lanta~ion Discovered 72
' Drug S~3.zures 72
Airport Arrest 72
MEXICO
End to Drug Rings in Prison Asked _
(EXCELSIOR, 3 Feb 79) 73
Cocaine, Four Dxug Traffickera Seized
(Rafae7. Medina, Victor Payan; EXCELSTOR, 23 Jan 79)... 74
Sinaloa Marihuana, Poppy Fields Destroyed -
(Sergio Gomez Pad il.la; EL SOL DE MEXICO, 20 Jan 79)... 76
Jet Setter Arrested as Traff icker
_ (EL SOL DE MEXICO, 10 Feb 79) 78
Br ief s
Heroin Seizure in Durango 79
- Drugs, Traffickers Seixed in 6 States 79 -
Peasant Growers Freed i.n Chihuahua 79
Traffickere Seized in A~.apulco gp
_ PERU
Ma~or Illegal Drug Traffic Routes Described
(CLARIN, 28 Dec 78) 81 -
VENEZUELA
Hard Drug Use Increasing Among Youths
(Jose Emilio Caste~lanos; EL NACIONAL, 9 Feb 79)...... 85 -
, NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
ISRAEL
Briefa
Druge From Iran gg
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- LEBANON -
Bashir a1~Tumayyil Diacusses Drugs, ,Addfet~,o~n
(AL-'AMAT., 28 Jan 79} 8Q -
Br ief s
- Student Drug Addictian 92
- WESTERN EUROPE
GREECE
Briefs -
Cyprus May Be Target 93
ITALY
, Growing Drug Addiction Reported
(THE WEST AUSTRALIAN, 15 Jan 79) 94
NETHERLANDS -
Editorial Questiona Police Methods Against Dealerra
(Editorial; NRC HANDELSBLAD, 5 Feb 79) 95
WEST GERrt~TY -
Brief s
Heroin Ring in Loerrach g~
_ Rising Heroin Use 97
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AUSTRALIA
REPQRT DISCUSSES CRIME, DRUG USE RELATIONSHIP
Melbourne THE AGE in Englioh 11 Jan 79 p 9
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[Article by Ted Cavey)
[Text] The esgerly awaited report by the AuaCralian Institute of Crim-
inology into the relationehip between crime and drug use has been com-
pleted and released virtually unnoticed. -
- This ie mainly bec.ause the reporC, by criminologiat Dr. Grant Wardlaw,
concludea, after inveatigating the criminal hiatories of more than a
~ thoueand con�victed drug offenders in Australia, that there is no way of _
accurately determining the amount of crime committed by drug uaers to
finance their habita.
~ Dr. Wardlaw warne, in fact, that eetimates of the amount of drug-relatad
crime in Australia ahould be treated with caution. -
~ And he found no reliable evidence to indtcate thaC drug users commit ~
crimes of violence se a direct consequence of the pharmacological action _
of the drugs they consume.
Further, his investigationa ahowed that a eubstantial percentage of
people arrested for narcotic drug offence~ had criminal histories before
- their first arrest for a drug offence.
_ The etudy found that in Australia 66.81 per cent of users of expensive/
addictive druga had been previouely convicted for non-drug offencea com-
_ pared with between 45 and 85 per cent in the United States.
Dr. Wardlaw eetimatea that between 30 to 40 per cent of income spent on
drugs is earned from non-dzug revenue-producing crime but not all of this
from crimea against property. Gambling offences and prostitution featured
heavily in Che criminal hiatoriea of a large number of .3rug offenders.
His report found that probably between 30 and SO per cent of the income
- needed to eupport large drug habite is generated wi.thin the drug diatribu-
tion network itself--by buying and selling illegal druga.
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And evidence indicated that a significant number of heavy uaers of
expensive drugs obtained substantial financial support from �amily, wel- -
fare and employment.
The report refutes the propoaition that legal heroin supply systems be aet
- up in Australia to stem the growth of illegal tra�ficking.
"Lega1 disCribution systems are not likely to be sCructured in such a way
that the illegal supply syatem will become redundant and disappear," the
report says. "To the extent that the illegal market continues to operate,
" the effectivenese of the legal aysCem as a controlling agent will be
diminiehed." _
The report adda: "It is also probable that a legal supply aystem would
- increase the absolute demand for heroin."
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However, it establiehes thaC volume and price of {,llegally supplied heroin
can be eignificantly affected by law enforcement. (The Victoria Polic~e
Drug Bureau announced recently it was concentraCing heavily on amashing -
heroin trafficking ringa in Melbourne.)
The report said that the moat effective strategies to this end are likely
to be the reduction of bribery and concentration on tight marketa.
- The report rQCOmmends the aetting up of a data collection aystem undar
which police commiasioners could monitor prices and purity of narcotica
illicitly aold thrc~ughaut the country.
- It also recommends that the police commisaioners take whatever atepg are
necessary to emtabliah and maintain a heroin-uaer crime index modelled on
a similar one aet up in the United States by the Drug Enforcement Adminis-
Cration.
It also urges that police commiseioners take the lead in initiating a
thorough analyais of drug policies in Auatralia with the aim o� aetting
attainable, realietic goals in drug enforcement. -
And it recommenda that the police coimniasianers aponsor--either directly or
through a grant-awarding body such aA the Criminology Research Council--
an intensive atudy of the heroin dietribution system in a ma~or Australian
city--preferably Sydney,
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AUSTRALIA
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HIGH-SPEED PATROL BOAT ..~QUIRED TO COMBAT DRUG SMUGGLING
Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in Engliah 2 Feb 79 p 2
(Text] Jabiru, the newly acquired high-speed paCrol boat, was lowexed
_ into the water ac Kwinana yeaterday ovar the side of the freighter Chat
brought it from Sydney. The three-year old, 14-metre Custome launch
wi11 go to Geraldton to combat drug-amuggling of the North-West coast
after being repainted snd refitted aC Fremantle.
[Photo on following pagej
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'fl~c~ f~ederal Police thus found out that a connection between the wife of a
prison inmate and international drug trafficking had been made from the
Nuevo Lar~~do, Tamaulipas prison.
Ale,jandro Pena, the alleged chief of this ri^- who is conducting operations
Erom inside rhe ~ail, is serving a 24-year pt_.;on term for crimes against
public iiealth.
Pena had two women as his representatives for drug deals in the country, his
wife and mistress.
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Mnri~ de 1a Luz Salinas de I'ena and Berea Cecilia Sanchez Florea uaed Jesus
Median zavala as Cheir connecCion for the purchase of cocaine from Boliv~.a.
In turn, the m~n's connecCion was Bolivian Oswaldo Max Ponce Acosta.
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SINALOA MARINllANA, POPPY FIELD5 DESTROYED
- Mexico City EL SOL DE MEXICO in Spanish 20 Jan 79 p 7-A
[Article by Sergio Gomez Padilla]
[Text] Culiacan, Sinaloa, 19 ,.Tan--In the past 72 hours, squads of Federal
_ Judicial Police agenrs and Mexican Army troops by land and air locaCed And
destroyed 862 opium poppy fields, with 9,090,823 plants in bloom and 255,000
marihuana plants 1.5 meters high and arrested trafficker Francisco Cruz Tirado,
municipal commissioner of 5anta Catarina, who had ~ shipmenC of marihuana -
in his possession.
Squads of soldiers with trained dogs and high-power we~apons, a,s well as
_ personnel from the Office of the Attorney General of the Repuulic moved over
- winding and nearly inaccessible roads through the mountains and ravines of
the sierras of this state in search of drug fields. -
The operation is supported by 16 helicopters carrying personnel from these
same organizations, which are responsible for spotting drug fields from the
air.
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General of the Republic are intensively destroying marihuana and poppy fields
in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the states of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua.
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MEXICO
JE;T SETTER ARRESTED AS TRAFFICI{ER
Moxico C:Lty EL SOL DE MEXICO in Spunish 10 T~'el~ 79 p 25 A
[Toxt] Jacquolino Potit, the French woman who ho~ts the intQrnational jet r
set in Ac~,pulco and odi�ts the tourist ,journal rtZVITATION, was arrestod by
agent~ of the Fedorc~l Judicial Police for allegedly cooperating with the
dx~ug trafficking gang that operatea in the beautiful port.
According to invostigation resui.ts, the naturalized Mexica.n editor, in com-
= plicity with Antonio Caracas de la Cruz~ lA oke the soals placed on the night
club "Disco 9" by the Federal Public Minis~Lry. Tho gay discctreque was recently
closed down beca.use drugs were so1.d and consumed there.
Jacqueli.ne Petit and her accomplice t~oke the seals in order to rescue 100
~rams of cocaine and a kilo of marihuana ~hat wero hidden under one of the
staircases tn the den of iniquity, located at Avenida de Los Deportes 110,
on the corner of Costera Miguel Aleman. It is known that th~ Disco 9 night
club was frequQnted by drug addicts and sexual degenerates. ~hen the Federal
~ Judicial Police arrived~ manager Jorge Ducoing Lopez was arr ~ted along with
_ administrator Ma.nuel Fernandez Cab~era, and waiters Juan de ~ Parra, Carlos
- Plascencia Miranda,, Jorge Luis Sanchez Qemente~ Jaime Villa,~ �c.~al Ba.nos,
Fernando Lopez Osorio and La~aso Mac.edo Bautista. -
Also arrested on that occasion xas former xaiter and transporter of addicts _
Yerko Vidovich Galvan, who made important statements to the Federal Judicial
Police. On the promises~ 110 milligrams of heroin, 150 grams of marihuana,
_ 72 toxic capsules (psychedelic) and a vial of morphine were found.
- The investigation revealed that Jacqueline Petit had recen'~ly gone to the
penitentiary to visit Manuel Fernandez CaUrera~ who ha,d to~d her where ~the
- drug could be found~ They decided to rescue it~ because in a seaxch ordered
hy the federal judge the "corpus delicti" might be found.
Jacqueline and Caracas de la Cruz broke the seals, took out the drugs and burned
them at the home of the publisher of INVITATION.
However, the police had been watching the movements ~f all suspects, and with
the arrest of the last two of them, they got a detailed statement which will ~
help them continue theis fight against the drug traffickers in Aoapulco.
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MEXZCO ~
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HEROIN SEIZURE SN DURANGO--The Federal Judicial Police today arrested five
drug traffickers and confiscated 13 kilos 600 grams of her~in from them.
~ The drug was valued at 25 million pesos. The commander of the corporation~ _
Pedro Perez Hidalgo~ commented that this strike "could result in violent
reactions among the ma,fia," so the neceasary precautions will be taken. Iie
explained that the arrest took place in the town of La Herradura, where Agustin
_ Garcia Aguirre, one of the auspecta~ was surprised as he was taking the drug
_ shipment out of a tunnel. He led police to his accomplices. He said that the
drug was ready to be sent to Chicago, Illinois and other U.S. cities. The
other people arrested were Jose Martinez, Agapito Reyes Alvarez~ Alfredo Gar~
cia Aguirre and A11cia Garcia Aguirre de Nevaxez. The chief of the group is
Agustin, who has a police record in Chicago and Laredo for drug abuse and pos-
session of weapons. [Text] [Mexico City EXCELSIOR in Spanish 11 Feb 79
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DRUG5, TRAFFICKERS SEIZED IN 6 STATES--Yesterday l3 drug traffickers were
arrested in six states of the Republic by the Federal Judic:~al Police, as
they were engaged in the purchase and sale of narcotics, the cul.tivation of
maxihuana and poppy plant;:, and the sale of toxic pills to students. In a.d-
dition~ the air fleet of 'che Federal Attorney General's Office destroyed
832 poppy plants, 17 marihuana plants~ and flunigated 4 million opium poppy _
plants. The confisca,tion of the toxic pills took place in Nuevo Laredo,
Tamaulipas, where 1,890 ca.psules were seized and Mariano Amador Lopez was -
arreated. The arrest of the cultivators and planters of marihuana and popp~.es
took place in Culiaca.n, Sinaloa~ where Miguel Ruiz Sa,inz, Jesus Ramon Buena.
Sotelo and Lorenzo Lizarraga Oropeza were arrested. In Galeana,, Nuevo Leon,
'i Alvaxo Lopez de la Rosa and Gonzalo ,;,anchez Ba,zaldua were arrested as they
were selling ma,rihuana cigaxettes to students in that town. The other ax-
rests occurred in Durango, Guerrero and Tijuana~ Ba.ja California Norte.
- ~Text] [Mexico City EXCELSIOR in Spanish 7 Feb 79 p 25-A] $926 -
PEASANT GROWERS FREED IN CHIHUAHUA--Chihuahua, 7 Feb~uary--Tomorowx 29 pea- .
sants will be f~eed after spending time in the state peniter..tiary for plan-
ting and culi:ivating narcotics. This is because the Federal Attorney Gen-
eral's Of~ice dropped the suit against them, considering tha,t the acc-ased
had committed the crimes because nf their precarious economic and cultural
situation. Th9y ware also forced to commit the c~�ines by drug traffi.c~ers, ~
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who gave ~hem seeds and money to plant the crops on their land. The agent
of the Publio Ministry~ Antonio Quezada Fornelli~ yesterday aezit the files
of the acoused along with the ordera to drop the case, to the firat district
~udge. ~[Text] [Mexico City EXCELSIOR in Spanish 8 Feb 79 p 26-A] 8926
~ . . . . ..w.. ~...~�r.. . w ~ . . . . . . . . ~
TRAFFICKERS SEIZED IN ACAPULCO--The Federal Judicial Police arresCed nine
persons who had distribuCed druga at a nightspot in Che port of Acapulco on
several different occasione. The prisoners were immediately rurned over
_ ea the Federal Public Ministry and the appropriaCe 3nvestigation was begun
of crimes against publ3c health. The prisoners included Che manager and head-
waiter of the "Disco 9" nightspot--a gay discote~{ue--who according to inves- c
tigations had conspired with seven other persons Co distribute drugs to
customers through waiters. Jorge D. Lopez, manager of the establishment, and
the headwaiter, Manuel Fernandez Cabrera, were Che first to be named as drug
traffickers. Gen Raul Mendiolea Cerecero, chief of the police organization,
ordered a permanent stakeout of 110 Los Deportes Avenue, at the intersection
of the Miguel Aleman Coastal Highway. The agents assigned to this location
lc~arned that the discoteque was patronized for the most part by persons with
"unusual" habits. After having located the "conCacts," the federal police
_ armed with a search warrant issued by the District Judge of that area entered -
the vice spot and arrested Juan de la Parra Ju3nbe11, Carlos Placencia Miranda,
Jorge Luis Sanchez Clemente, Jaime Villarreal Banos, Fernando Lopez Osorio
_ and Lazaro Macedo Bautista, all of whom are waiters at the ni~htspot, as well
as former employee Yerko Vidovich Galvan. [Text] [Mexico City EL SOL DE
rtEXICU in Spanish 31 Jan 79 p 10-A] 8143
CSO: 5300
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MAJOR ILLEGAL DRUG TRAFFIC ROUTES DESCRIBED
Buenos Aires CLARIN in Spanish 28 Dec 78 p 24
['.Cext] "On a remote and duaty road winding through the Bolivian Andes,
behind a bi?lboard reading 'God and love, the only hope. ^old drinks -
for sale,' there is a curve. A little farther on one can s~+e row after
row of deticate planta with greyiah leavea, planted ae far and as wide as
the eyes can see up the mountain, They are coca planta. There in Chulumani
ie the beginning of the 'cocaine highway' which leada in its final lap to ~
the United Statea. This highway is expanding rapidly, becoming ever more
violent and involving thousands of millions of dollars."
This is how Associated Press newaman Druce Handler began his lengthy
reporC, after traveling all over the continent to search out the reasons
for the increase in the illegal tra�fic in cocaine between South America
and the Uni.ted States, despite the redoubled efforts to restrain it,
Various governments in South America and the United States, through its
Drug Enforcement Administration, the State Department, the FBI, the -
customs and tax collection agencies, are trying to destroy this connection
today. But the efforts are failing, due to the increasing drug consumption
by Americana.
The Drug Enforcement Administration unr.er the Department of Justice in the
_ Un3ted Statea currently has three times as many agents in South America
ae it did five yeara ago. The seizures of cocaine and the arrests of
- presumed drug traffickers have doubled on the continent since 1975, and
in some places, such as Peru, have quintupled.
Ineffective EfforCa
But all of these efforts are virtually fruitless. The new laws on narcotics
- in Latin America are difficult to irzplement, and the increase in seizures
has changed the picture little. Coc~~ne continues to be transported to
the north.
,
~ "The reas~n is very aimple," a discouraged Drug Enforcement Administration
agent explaine. "More Americans want more cocaine. The market is expanding.
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I~rices"d"re rieing, druA rrn�ficlcers are pr~apared to invoet moro money
Und ~o ri~k more in ~n effort to get rich in the co~uine businesa,"
U,S. agetlte working on Che "cocaine highway" estimaCe privutely that an
unprecedented quantity of 45 Cons of almoat pure South American coc~ine
was smugg~led into the United States in 1978,
Tuking the current price of cocaine in the United StaCes, $100 per gram
_ of 50 to 60 percenC pure cocaine, as a basis the smuggled quanCity repre-
aents $9 billion,
Bolivia and Peru
Practically all the cocaine reaching the United States comes from Bolivia
or Peru. About 28 tons of the Cota1 smuggled this year were probably -
produced from Peruvinn coca leaves~ while aome 17 tons would have come
trom Bolivia, according to experts in the subject.
The coca leaf is a traditional crop in both countries. Both Bolivians and
Peruvians atill ~raise and chew coca leaves legally.
_ The largest source of the coca crop exporred to the Unired States is the
settlement of Tingo Maria in Peru, In that eastern Andean loctttion, coca
_ plants are grown along with bananas, pineapple, coffee and avucados.
L'-
"The only thing one must do to ~aise coca is to put the seeds in the
ground," says Julio Doria~ administrator of a 20-hectare plantation called
Vil1a del Sol, -
Nolivia and Peru have prohibited further plantings o� coca, and have made
it compulsory for the present producers, transporters and sellers of coca
to register with the authorities, in order to make control more effective.
.
"The effect of the new provisions concerning coca growir.o has been zero,
_ zero, zero," says a disgusted officia~ at the PZP (Peru~�ian Investigative -
Policej, which is the Peruvian counterpart of the FBI. "The peasants say
that they have not extended thezr~plantings or tha~: they are only planting '
_ coca for legal chewing, Rut they are lying, �or everyone knows that every -
day more and more coca is being planted here."
CLbriel Duran, owner of a two-hectare coca plantation in Bolivia, says -
ttlnt "I would grow something else, such as coffee or oranges, particularly
if the government cooperated and gave me financial aid. There i.s always
a mnrket for coca, the price is always going up."
At the general headquarters of the PIP in Lima, the second in command of C
thAt body, Chie� Inspectar Artidora Mejia, gave his viewpoint. "Coca is
raised in regions of whicli we do not even have detailed maps. The drug
traffickers use fleets of planes to transport the cleaned plants. We need
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helicoptere to patrol Che coca plantationa. We need radar and weapona to
bring down the drug traffickera' aircraft, bu~ we have none of this."
Between 70 and 90 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United Statea
= leaves South America through Colombia. "~t ie a good place to operate.
It ia near North America and has a 1engChy cosetline both on the Pacific
and the Caribbean," an OAS ~Organization of American StateaJ inveatigator
commenta,
The procesaing o� the washed cocaine paste is generally dor.e in aecret
laboratoriea in the large Colombian citiea--Medellin, Cali and Bogota.
The washed Peruvian and Bolivian cocaine paete comes into Colombia along
two main routea. Three-quarters comea through Ecuador, either overland,
in automobiles, trucks, and buaea, or by boat.
Quito is juat a few houre from Cali by road. The rest comes through the
Amuzon �orest~ carried by a fleet of river vessels or private planes. The
second route is longer and more expensive, but because the drug traffickera
_ who choose thie syatem use planes, they can carry ever-larger quantities,
sometimes up to 300 kilograms. The Colombian city o� Leticia is Che main
coordination point for this Amazon route.
Cocaine from Peru and Ecuador is generally transported to the United States
in px~ivate or commercial airplanes and by merchant veesel. Bolivian
~ cocaine may also be aent dixectly north via private or sirline planea, or
it may be aent via Paraguay or Brazil.
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VENEZUELA
HARD DRUG USE INCREASING AMONG YOUTHS
Caracas ~L NACIONAL in Spanish 9 Feb 79 Se~ C, p 3 '
[Article b~' Joe~e F~qiJ.io Cast~7.lanos]
[Text] An alarming "hard drugs" traffic among the country's adolescents has
been detected by psychiatrist Rafael Erneato Lopez, director of CETRAC [Com-
- munity Treatment CenterJ, who has found among his patients--al]�young--an
increase in the use of in~ected cocaine.
Lopez is a student of the drug problem in youths and has performed abstruse -
research based on his clinical consultations and on the CETRAC he directs.
He studied medicine at the Central University of Venezuela and did his post-
graduate in psychiatry at McGill University in Canada. He is a psycho-ana- -
lytic therapist.
Giving the alert, he reveals that among his patients he has found youths
with necrotic veins, decayed body t~ssues and brain damage due to the effect ~
of in3ected ha:~i drugs, including some synthetically prepared opiates.
"It is true that Venezuela is used as a bridge in the international narcotics
traffic, but part of these shipments are distributed among the country's
- adolesr:~nts and youths. Only 10 percent of drugs fall into police hands. -
_ "The rendency of some youths to defy death by resorting to these hard drugs
is visible," he says. "Many have set marihuana aside zo turn to in~ected
- narcotics, what they call 'fisiarse'. Those who have fallen in that trap -
emerse with envy and rivalries toward normally behaving youths. In this way
- aggressive groups appear, as well as all the sequence of known deviations,
including violence and theft in order to obtain cocaine."
He refers to four fundamental problems that drive the adolescent in a dis-
oriented way toward drugs: social, family and individual problems and those _
related to the drug itself.
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"There is n phenomenon known as the dru~ culture," he specifies, "wt~ich has
involved adolescents throughou~ the world and goea hand in hand with the
reduceion of space on earth, with the large cities. A kind of internat3onal
youth union has been created around drugs."
"The 'Travolta' phenomenon, for example," he says, "is not new; it is not
a matter of today's youths imitating Travolta. He personifies an existing
si.CuaCion which has arisen in many countries and comes to Venezuela, as thP
hard drugs, 9 years after it arrived in the United States."
Drugs and Gangs
~
~ Dr Lopez has also conducted abstruse studies about the gangs, their social
, complexity and their relaCion Co the environment in which youth develops.
"In general," he points out, "gangs are consCituted by groups of adolescents
and young adults of both sexes who come together without any expliciCly _
defined purpose, but who achieve an internal and unconscious cohesion caused
- by many and complex factors. Even though contact with the rest of society
can vary~ the most prominent group manifestation is undoubtedly the danger-
ous and destructive aggressiveness."
We asked him about the resurgence of ~angs in Venezuela, taking into account
that his work deals with youths having behavior problems. -
"Present-day resurgence [of gangs]," he points out, "may have been stimulated
by the constant rise ici cocaine usage, especially in~ected."
He tells of three fundamenta! factors which lead youths to integrate them-
- selves into those groups w}:ich we call gangs: factors characteristic of
adolescence, group and family factors. And he develops each of them.
"The need to reaffirm an identity: the adolescent suffers, is no longer a
child, and therefore does not en3oy the protection parents grant children.
Aut neither is he an adult, and lacks therefore the position, security or
social and psychological definition provided by adulthood. The 'group'
provides the possibility of belonging, and an identity, even if negative.
"Tt~e adolescent must ~rotect himself from the childish feelings he ~ust
_ g~ve up at the appea~-.~nce of puberty. Socially, the fragility, dependency �
und insecurity of childhood are identified with the feminine character and
are perceived as feminine. The adolescent must emphasjze the aggressive as
1 an expression of mRnlinesa and machismo to protect himself from his internal
sexual confusion, which draws hi~n closer to weakness and femininity accord-
ing to rhese reasonings. -
"The pubescent explosion: Puberty appears with extxaordinary violence, in
suct~ a way that, while still a child from the psychological point of view =
of emotional maturity, the adolescent is already biologically capable of pro- -
creation."
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About Group causes, Lopez focus~s h3s analysis in this way:
"A person is exposed to group presaure. Tn the group there is always a
leader who stands out by virtue of characteristics related to what I~ust
said: more courage, more aggressiveness and a talenC for taking risks.
There are, in addition, secondary leaders or deputies and then come the
feminine componenta of the group and the ma~s. Internally w3thin Che group
there are rivalries where woman's position plays an imporeant r.ole."
The psychiatriat analyzes also the so-called "negative identification." And
he finda truth in the premise that gangs are constituted by the malad~usted.
"These youngsters," he points out~ "al~aays come f rom homes in conflict, not -
necessarily divorced, since a legally const3tuted and apparently conflictless -
marriage can hide the germ of delinquency. For exa~ple, a frequently found
couple structure among upper middle class gangs is that of an exaggeratedly
fearful and insecure mother, a kind of girl mother, whose Uehavior is quite
inconaistent when dealing with the children, offering anything to pacify
the child, but not coming through with it. It is a mother ready to agree Co
anything, due to the insecuri and the fear she experiences.
"On the other hand, the father may be a prominent person, socially important,
often violent and~ above all, distant and busy. By virtue of the importance
that materia~ possessions have for thse families, this is reflected in a
- behavior in which interior values and even love are replaced by external -
poszessions.
"The adolescent feels then that the intellectual ae~uisitions which are
natural for his age--to study, to compete in sports--are not within his reacli:
= they belong to others, whom he envies and tries to attack by showing that
that is stupid, that there is no worsE crime than 'being carrot' [not taking
drugs], that shrewd is he who acquires things, he who takes advantage. This '
is then the code that dominates gang subculture and creates a negative pres-
sure on those who, due to the structure of their own families, are also
predisposed." � -
Finally he refers to the generalized attitude of parents toward both boys
and girls which instills the idea of machismo in an unconscious motivation
. toward violence and aggressiveness. -
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--.JiRT.F�~S. _
DRUG5 I~RO~t IRAN--The vici~situdea in Irnn 1~~tely caused the appe~nrunce of
.i ne~o dr~ig in Israel nnd, nfter it gaitted n"crowd of fnns" ~~mong Iarneli
addicts, the same events led Co itf disuppe~rance. This drug, c~ll~d "P~r-
si~~n r.olce," iH ;~ernin mixed with acditi.ongl narcoeics ~nnd its price i~ cheap-
er th~in heroin-3 tmported from Non~; F:on~. The ~ppearunce of this in Isr~el
i:~ explc~ined by thc Pucr that with the be~innin~ of th~ rioCs in Tehrnn over
u yeur u~;o all those holdinR ~toc~:s on this rlrug beg~n ~~nait,g it out of
' Iran. Part of thie stock refic}~ .d Israel. 7'he disuppearance of the drug is
acco~~nced for by the severance of tiea with Iran. (Text] ('I'el Aviv YLDI'OT
� AFIARONUT in Nebrew 5 t�!nr 79 p 1 TAJ
- CSO: 53Q0
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gA5NIR AL-JUMAYYIL DISCUSSES DRUGS, ADDICTION
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B~iruC AL-'AMAL in Arabic 28 Jan 79 p 4
(RepnrC on interview with Bashir al-Jumayyil, leader af the Lebanese Forces,
date at~d place not given: "We Have Invaded the Dens and Nnve Arrested Ct~e
Clii~yf.~ oE ehe Trade Nekworks"J
(TextJ The wi.dening of the wave of addiction Co narc~rics ~nd the exi~tence
of variouq sector~a of society in danger of falling in..:; experimenration with
drugs is n_ragic, present supposition which musC be treated as soon as pos-
s~ible.
Since official legal pr~secution has been impossible due to the exceptional
circumstances whi.ch have necessitated the continued impotence of autliority,
and because of the sudden danger oE the wave of addiction which threatens all
smokers with annihilation, and since it carries in its wake a great danger
to the well-being and purity of the so~iety and country, the LebanesP Resis-
tance, repreaenting the judiciary commitCee of the Lebanese Forces, has been
~ compelled to deal with che problem, and to put an end to the tragic situation
which threatens the co~~ntry with most dangerous consequences. The special ~
organization, in the name of tl~e Lebanese Resistance, has taken steps guar-
, anteeing to puraue the drug dealers and distributors, and all those ~onnecCed
with this network. It has also Caken all possible measures to assist those
- wlio have fallen victim to drugz, und to restore them healthy to society.
Among tl~eKe gteps, Eor exampl~, is the arrest of drug smugglers, manufactrirers
nnd dralerg nnd local networks of distribution. They were forced, aEter the
period oE trir~l atipulated by Lebanese law, to attend centers srecified by
ttie Lebanese Forces once every 2 weeks to corroborate a body of evidence.
Ttiey were also sub~ected to strict observation, both them and all their
friends and those who h~ve been dealing with them.
Mr Bas}~ir al-Jumayyil, leader of the Lebanese Forces, spoke briefly on this
subject. He said:
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"'1'hc prablcm aE nddictton hng urgently conErdneNd ug, und we cun no longer
ignore ir. Until recent yer~r;~, Lebnnese p~nple did noC use drug~. In eh~
p~gt few months, in~uries h~ve occured amon~ the ranks of the populace due eo
~ hombingy~ without druga bQing blamed for these incidenea. Tliis is what
- alerCed us to the existence of an urgent healCh And social problem. We dis-
~ covered that betw~en 50 and 60 percent o� the crime~, thefCs and 1ega1 nf-
� fenceq cahich occur nre fr~m cert.qin element~ of socieey, wh{ch T would not
s~y ar~ undisciplined, but are elc:ments whict~ ar~ noti congcious of und irre-
sponsible in their actions because of tlieir use of drugs." Mr Baghir added:
~ "We commissioned Che securiCy organi.zations witl~ c~rrying out ~ sCudy on this
' sub~ect, r~nd it became c'-~r to them rhnt 60 percenC of the criminnls come
frnm, the alcohol, narcot. , and gAmbling dens. We decided eo tr~ae th~ pro- -
hlem in a rudical way. We yAW~ ~haC it w~s best, before resorting ~o punish-
ing criminals afCer a crime is commitCed, Co deal wieh the causes of crime.
Sde dccided to raid the alcohol and narcotics dens whexe the addicts become
unable to distinguisti between good and bad. We raided Chem and w~ confiscated
:~igniCicnnt qu~ntities. We were nble Co diycover extensive networks wh3ch
were undercover and un~uspecCed.
"'Thc~ step WI1LCIl we have taken hus en~bled us to arrest all the chiefs and
tl~e networks attached to them, and their branc}ies in our comm~nitie~. In one
oE tt~e raids, we confiscated a laborarory for manufacturing imported drugs,
whicti belonged to a pc~rson wl~o is looked up to by society with respect and
trusr. We hesitated a great~deal before making the raid. We were afraid to
knock on t1~e door of a man wtio has self-respect nnd is esteemed by society,
- and find tt~at he is innocent. But finally we did raid, and we confiscated
- the laboratory and destroyed it. This man is from the we11-known 'velvet
society'."
in response to another question~ Bashir said; "The tragedy of addiction to
drugs has ac.companied all wars. When the communists entered South Vietnam,
ttiey found approximately 150,000 addicts in a state of complete breakdown,
- wt~o were no more than skin and bones. There are armies from the most pro- _
gressive and powerful countrie~ which fear with alarm the entry of drugs into
t~~eir ranks. In any case, we have informed international authorities and
some cancc~rned states of the situation in Lebanon. -
"From tlie information obtained from the investigation carried out by the in-
vesti~;c~tors of tt~e 'special organ~zation' wt~ich deals with the problems of
~;rambling cluhs and narcotics dens we have discovered a new world which is
~c1E-s~~fEicient and has its own phrases and subtle expressions, like 'nakzah'
(in,jectlnnJ, 'shamma' [sniff) and 'makt~'ah' [snort]. It was observed that
tlic 'crouplrrs', the money-changers and restaurant owners are usually those
w}~o facilitate the exchange. They store the drugs in small quantities and
give it to customers on demand." ~
Onc oE [t~e investi~ators reports to AL-'AMAL that the patrons of the net-
_ works Intervened at first, ancl they thought that they were dealing witt~ the
mentality which prevailed before 1975. "They were taken by surprise when
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tlir.y lc~;~rnr.d th~t tn rhe welfare of ChosE~ who were ~7ppr~hcncir.d we hnd r.lenr.
d(r~r.tivey to ~rrc~t ~tiyone whn would inrerfer~. In view of tlie detailed i?i- '
form~~rton whtr.h the invr.sti~;ation has obtained and the ~CCUxL~)1 0� i~q grasp
o� Che dru~; trafftc, ~i nu;nh~~r nf dealers hasrened tn quierly surrr.nder what
thE~y had in ordcr to prntECt thcir reputatlnn, tr w,7q nhserved Chnt tl~e
cl~Ic~E~ of Clie drug n~t~aork, 7re well-known men of society who et~l