Guatemala's location between Mexico and the other Central American countries makes it a major transit country for South American cocaine en route to Mexico, the United States, and Europe. Commercial tractor-trailers and private passenger vehicles are the primary means of overland transportation via the Pan-American Highway. Small, fixed-wing general aviation aircraft also are used extensively to transport multihundred-kilogram quantities of cocaine to Guatemala from Colombia and Panama. The large number of clandestine airfields and lack of an internal radar system make the use of aircraft very attractive to drug trafficking organizations. These organizations also use containerized cargo aboard commercial maritime vessels sailing from ports on the Caribbean Sea and the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Drug trafficking organizations transporting cocaine from Colombia use Guatemalan ports to off-load their vessels, as other groups load vessels with drugs en route to Europe and the United States. These shipments normally are destined for major ports in Mexico and U.S. ports along the Gulf of Mexico.
Country Profile: Guatemala, June 2001. Drug Intelligence Brief
2001
12 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Social Concerns , Problem-Solving Information for State & Local , Fire Services, Law Enforcement, & Criminal Justice , Drug industry , Guatemala , Drugs , Drug smuggling , Chemical industry , Threats , Drug interdiction , Illicit drugs , Street drugs , Substance abuse , Cocaine , Marijuana , Heroin , Trends , Chemicals , Legislation , Law enforcement , Treaties , Drug abuse , Production , Prices , Drug trafficking , Drug seizures , Money laundering , Eradication
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