Mafia, drugs and trafficking of undocumented immigrants
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TERRORIST Luis Posada Carriles’ route through Mexico last March and his arrival in the United States aboard the Santrina boat have made it possible to uncover a widespread network of Cuban-Americans known as “Los Marielitos” with connections to the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF), involved in money laundering, human contraband and drug trafficking in the Yucatan peninsula. An in-depth investigation by Por Esto newspaper has revealed many elements that confirm the dangerous situation – for Mexico, and also for the entire region, including Cuba and the United States – which has been created in the state of Quintana Roo, above all in the Cancun tourist resort area. In order to learn some details of the investigation, Rebelión spoke with Renán Castro, general coordinator of Por Esto, who has been researching drug trafficking in his country for nearly 20 years. He stated: “We are facing a serious danger, and if the Mexican authorities don’t follow up on what the Cuban government has revealed, clear up and make public everything that happened in the Posada Carriles case, this will be unstoppable.” Por Esto undertook a thorough inquiry beginning in November of 2004, in the wake of a series of 12 executions of Federal Police (PF) agents involved in combating drug trafficking. After revelations in the daily’s pages, another 30 PF members were detained, as well as high-ranking officials at the Attorney General’s office. More : granma.cu |