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...have dominated the military ever since. Vieira came from the far smaller Pepel tribe. Soldiers drove Vieira from the country in 1999, but he returned in 2005 after he won a presidential election. "This is the final reckoning of accounts between two personalities who always fought each other," Antonio Mazzitelli, regional director for West Africa for the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, told TIME by phone from Senegal. "The fear I have is that it could generate an ethnic crisis...
...months ago the judicial police finally moved into new offices, funded by the E.U., with telephones, computers and cars, according to Mazzitelli. Drug Enforcement Agency spokesman Garrison Courtney said by phone from Washington that the agency is also increasing its involvement in West Africa. "We are working a lot closer with our African counterparts to share information," he said. "We are opening new offices in West Africa." Despite the upheaval Mazzitelli believes that the deaths of two men, who have wielded huge power in Guinea-Bissau for decades, could help to pave the way to democracy. "This could...
...lucrative cocaine market in nearby Europe. When TIME visited neighboring Guinea Bissau in 2007, several Colombian cocaine traffickers were operating there, but those traffickers have since moved to Conakry, and several Colombians have recently been found traveling on Guinean passports, says the UNODC's regional representative Antonio Mazzitelli. He recently told TIME that he fears drug-fueled gang warfare in Guinea. "What we fear is a replica of the Mexico situation," he said. (See pictures of life on the streets with the anti-narcotics police of Guinea Bissau and Liberia...
Meanwhile, as the cocaine trade with Europe booms, the cartels have also spread into other African countries. "It's not just Guinea-Bissau," says Antonio Mazzitelli, West African director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. "It is also Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana and others" - countries, in other words, where the justice system has all but collapsed, where prisons are overcrowded, and where there are too few judges and courtrooms to provide efficient trials...
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