Guatemala captures alleged drug trafficker claimed by the United States

the police of Guatemala arrested this Friday an alleged drug dealer local with political background claimed in extradition by USAwhich accuses him of leading the entry of large quantities of cocaine into that country for more than a decade from South America.

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The supposed drug dealer was identified as Mario Ascencio, 40, alias Rigo, and arrested after an operation in the northern municipality of Salamá, said a journalists the spokesman for the Public Ministry, Moisés Ortiz.

The official explained that the Eastern District Court of the state of Texas (south of USA) claims a Ascencio “in extradition” when pointing him out as a member of an organization “responsible for trafficking large amounts of cocaine to USA” from South America, with operations detected since 2008.

According to the accusation, the detainee, between 2011 and 2020, “was responsible for directing, managing and facilitating some of the organization’s drug trafficking activities in Guatemala and other places” to US territory, added Ortiz.

The newspaper Prensa Libre, one of the main media outlets Guatemalapointed out that Ascencio participated in 2019 as a candidate a the Salamá mayor’s office for FCN-Nación, then the official party, which led a the presidency to former television comedian Jimmy Morales (2016-2020).

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With Ascencio’s arrest, Guatemalan authorities raised a 27 arrests “for extradition purposes” a USA for crimes related to drug trafficking so far this year.

In 2021, detainees with extradition request a US courts for drug trafficking charges were 57, a record for the Central American country.

According to official sources, large international cartels, with the help of local drug traffickers, transport drugs and launder money in Guatemala and the rest of Central America, generating criminal violence in the region.

figures of USA indicate that 90% of the cocaine that arrives a that country passes through Mexico and Central America in small planes, boats and submarines, among other means of transport.

Source: Elcomercio

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