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Top 5 Drug Dealing Dictators

Written by Casey Gane-McCalla, Lead Blogger on December 2, 2011 11:54
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Drugs corrupt everyone, even public officials: police officers, judges
and politicians. It also corrupts world leaders. Latin American
leaders have turned to facilitating the export of cocaine due to the
large profit margins. Recently, African leaders have helped have their
countries serve as hubs to transport cocaine from South America to
Europe. Here are five notorious dictators who have made their fortunes
through cocaine.

SEE ALSO: Dog Shoots Man

5. Luis García Meza Tejada

Luis García Meza Tejada is the former dictator of Bolivia. He was a
right wing anti-communist general who used his military power to take
power in a coup in 1980 in what was known as the cocaine coup with the
help of former Nazi and CIA agent, Klaus Barbie. Due to his drug
trafficking, even right wing Ronald Reagan kept his distance from
Tejada. Tejada would be ousted from power in 1981 and later sentenced
to prison for human rights violations.

4. Gen. Andrés Rodríguez

Gen. Andrés Rodríguez was the former Dictator of Paraguay. Rodgriguez
would ship cocaine from Paraguay to the United States according to
documents discovered by the Paraguayan paper Noticias. Rodriquez came
into power after taking over from Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda in 1989.

3. Yahya Jammeh

Yahya Jammeh is the President of Gambia. He seized power after a
military coup in 1994 and has been in power ever since. Jammeh has
threatened to cut off the heads of homosexuals and arrested thousands
of people for practicing “witchcraft.”Jammeh has also been accused of
importing drugs from South America to Europe through Gambia. WikiLeaks
revealed that Jammeh charged three million a month to let cocaine
traffickers use airstrips in Gambia.

2. Lansana Conte

Like many dictators, Lansana Conte came to power through a military
coup. Conte ran the West African nation of Guinea from 1984 until his
death in 2008. Conte’s son admitted to importing cocaine and several
other officials from Conte’s regime have admitted to taking bribes to
help facilitate the importation of cocaine. According to the
Associated Press, drug deals were conducted inside the first lady’s
private residence and in the president’s VIP salon at the airport. To
avoid detection, cocaine was sent to Europe in the country’s
diplomatic pouch.

1. Manuel Noriega

Manuel Noriega was a former CIA asset who rose from soldier to general
to dictator of Panama. Through his ties to the Medillin Cartel,
Noriega would launder money for its leader, Pablo Escobar. After
Noriega was deposed and arrested after the 1989 invasion of Panama he
would be convicted in 1992 for drug trafficking, racketeering and
money laundering.

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