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Weekly Report - 05 February 2015 (WR-15-05)
PARAGUAY: Missing cocaine fuels ‘narcopolitics’ concerns
The case of the 252kgs of cocaine that went missing from a police station in Pedro Juan Caballero (PJC), the capital of Paraguay’s north-eastern Amambay border department, has once again raised questions about the extent to which drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) have infiltrated local institutions. Last year’s murder of journalist Pablo Medina [WR-14-45] had sparked serious concerns about the prevalence of ‘narcopolitics’ - the apparent close links that drug traffickers had managed to forge with local politicians including national legislators. The latest case exposes the serious risks that these links represent both for Paraguay and its neighbours.
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