Weekly Report - 25 July 2006
PANAMA: String of events rocks antidrugs establishment
The Panamanian government has requested US assistance to investigate the death by poisoning of a leading police officer who was involved in several antidrugs operations, including the disruption in May of the gang led by the Colombian trafficker Pablo Rayo MontaƱo. This takes place after DEA intelligence led the US to refuse entry to an antidrugs prosecutor from Panama, and precedes the decision by the chief antidrugs prosecutor to resign his post.
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