Guardian: Pinochet 'sold cocaine to Europe and US'

[Eugene]

7.15pm
Pinochet 'sold cocaine to Europe and US'

Jonathan Franklin in Santiago
Tuesday July 11, 2006
The Guardian

Augusto Pinochet's $26m (£14m) fortune was amassed through cocaine sales
to Europe and the US, the general's former top aide for intelligence has
alleged.

In testimony sent to Chilean Judge Claudio Pavez, Manuel Contreras alleges
that Pinochet and his son Marco Antonio organised a massive production and
distribution network, selling cocaine to Europe and the US in the mid-1980s.

According to Contreras, once Pinochet's ally and now a bitter enemy, Pinochet
ordered the army to build a clandestine cocaine laboratory in Talagante,
a rural town 24 miles from Santiago. There he had chemists mix cocaine
with other chemicals to produce what Contreras described as a "black cocaine"
capable of being smuggled past drug agents in the US and Europe.

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The details of Contreras' testimony were published first in the Chilean
newspaper La Nación. The Pinochet fortune, amassed during the dictator's
1973-1990 rule, is now estimated at some $26m and is being investigated
in Chile, the US and Europe.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/chile/story/0,,1818137,00.html

[blm]

1. Wherever there is a drugdealing, armsrunning dictator can Poppy Bush be

far behind?

[dmkinsey]

2. $26m ?

Sounds like walkin around money.
I'd expect a guy like Pinochet to be way richer than that. Of course his expenses are probably pretty high.

[blm]

3. Wanna bet alot of these guys have PLENTY more that will never be

recorded? The Bushes and their cronies have stashed away billions over the years that will never be in any public record