Caribbean & Central America - September 2014 (ISSN 1741-4458)

Dino Bouterse, the 41-year-old son of Suriname’s President Desi Bouterse, pleaded guilty to the joint charge of drug trafficking and possession of a light anti-tank weapon as well as to a separate international terrorism offence in a US federal court in New York, on 29 August. Dino Bouterse is scheduled to be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison on 6 January next year, just four months before Suriname stages general elections.

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