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Weekly Report - 13 August 2009 (WR-09-32)
GUATEMALA: Police chief fired over drug disappearance
The interior minister, Raúl Antonio Velásquez Ramos, made good his
pledge to overhaul the Policía Nacional Civil (PNC) last week. His hand was
forced: the disappearance of 117 kilos of cocaine from a shipment seized by
police authorities and subsequent allegations of involvement in
narco-trafficking left him little choice but to fire PNC chief Porfirio Pérez
Paniagua, his deputy, Rolando Mendoza and other senior officials.
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