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...betting around the courthouse is that only two racketeering counts against Noriega will stick. Meanwhile, the DEA reports, drug trafficking is again on the rise in Panama. U.S. investigators are looking into links between traffickers and the law firm of Guillermo Endara, who became Panama's President when Noriega was overthrown...
Panamanian President Guillermo Endara's nascent antidrug force is starting to score some seizures, thanks to an infusion of U.S. aid, but it remains badly outmanned and outgunned by the narco-traficantes. Says a senior official of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration: "The Endara government has had to create a viable antinarcotic unit from nothing. In our view it has done an excellent...
Critics fear the proud father is grooming his children for political office as well. "Someday their sons will rule part of this country," predicts Luis Gabriel Cano, who has succeeded his assassinated brother, Guillermo, as publisher of Bogota's crusading newspaper El Espectador. Unless the Colombian government can now break the hold of the cartel in Cali, Cano's warning may have come too late...
Competitors remain skeptical. Observes Octavio Alvarado, president of the Association of Aviculture: "All private producers fear competition from businesses protected by the government. It doesn't look right that members of the government also have business interests." Guillermo Arostegui, vice president of Gracsa's main competitor, the Numar Group, is in agreement: "It's obvious Lacayo has an advantage. He used to run Gracsa; now he runs the country...
...that according to Panamanian pilots and dockworkers, the cocaine traffic was back to preinvasion levels and, if anything, "more open and abundant than before." American officials believe that the Panamanian banking industry still serves as a Laundromat for the hemisphere's cocaine profits, but the U.S.-installed government of Guillermo Endara is resisting a pact that would help catch drug-money depositors...