Heisenberg
Ex-Bluelighter
is BZP illegal there?
How do you guys know they were pipes? Is it the 3d shaped pill?
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan authorities have confiscated nearly 10 million pseudoephedrine pills worth $33 million in a record seizure of the precursor chemical for methamphetamine.
Police spokesman Donald Gonzalez says the 9.9 million pills were seized Tuesday at Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala's main port on the Pacific coast.
The Attorney General's Office says information from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration led to the seizure. The pills arrived in a ship coming from India.
Gonzalez called it the biggest seizure of methamphetamine precursor chemicals in Guatemala.
Central American officials say drug cartels are increasingly smuggling in pseudoephedrine through their region to get around a Mexican ban in imports of the chemical.
recently there was a decent article on this fact..and Mexican crank cartels really do use CentralAmerica as a shipping point.
recently there was a decent article on this fact..
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-guatemala-drugs4-2009jun04,0,6042185.story
The gangs are also ferrying military-style weapons north into Mexico to fight Calderon's forces and opposing gangsters while also vying to take over street sales in Guatemala. Some of the weapons are left over from the wars that the United States helped fight in Central America -- including here in Guatemala, which is still recovering from its 36-year civil war.
"They're looking for new areas," said the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to comment on the matter. "They need a place where they can operate with impunity."