VHeadline.com - Mexican black bag allegations of Venezuelan transshipments of heroin: "Mexican black bag allegations of Venezuelan transshipments of heroin
According to news reports from Mexico, state security forces allege that they have discovered a new transshipment route to get heroin into Mexico via Venezuela.
The Mexican Procurator General's Office (PGR) made the announcement on the same day that Mexico and Venezuelan withdrew their ambassadors because of a diplomatic tug of war between Presidents Vicente Fox and Hugo Chavez Frias regarding the USA's Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) that simmered at the Summit of the Americas in Argentina two weeks ago.
The PGR claims that 10 of 11 seizures of heroin in 2005 had come through planes ' setting off from an airport near Caracas.'
According to top PGR official, Noe Ramirez the announcement has nothing to do with the diplomatic row but Center of Economic Teaching and Research professor, Jorge Chabat counters that the timing would appear to be political and aimed at discrediting President Chavez Frias.
Leading Mexican broadsheets had reported last week PGR claims that Venezuela was arms-trafficking. The Mexican government denied the report. Most commentaries seem to agree that the row has been a matter more of hot air than anything else.
The latest twist is that President Chavez Frias initiated the row to stop Mexico from entering the Southern Cone Economic Zone (Mercosur). Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Ali Rodriguez Araque dismisses the allegation as rubbish.
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