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Weekly Report - 22 November 2005
GUATEMALA: Anti-drugs chief lured to arrest in the US
Extraditing Guatemalan drug traffickers to the US has proven a risky business in the past. So when the DEA told the Guatemalan government that its top anti-narcotics official was involved in the trade, he was tricked into going to the US of his own free will, where he was indicted and arrested for conspiring to import and distribute cocaine in the US.
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