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Isabelita y la cocaina
Por Lalo - Friday, Dec. 05, 2003 at 8:52 AM

Un articulo en base a informacion de Robert W. Scherrer (un agente del FBI que trabajo en Buenos Aires y fue respetado y apreciado por los grupos de derechos humanos, murio en 1994) muy interesante. Nunca antes habia sentido que Lopez Rega estuviera metido en narcotrafico.

MARTIN EDWIN ANDERSEN IS A REPORTER FOR Insight. THIS ARTICLE IS BASED ON HIS 457-PAGE BOOK,

LA POLICIA: PASADO, PRESENTE Y PROPUESTAS PARA EL FUTURO, A HISTORY OF ARGENTINE LAW ENFORCEMENT FROM 1880 TO 1999

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Scherrer, who conducted a series of written and oral interviews with this reporter in 1987, said that Lopez Rega frequently used the guerrilla threat as an excuse to murder people who got in the way of his drug and gun trafficking. "It was well-known that Lopez Rega and the thugs who worked for him were conducting extensive extortion and drug operations," Scherrer said. "When the target of the extortion or the drug trafficker refused to pay off, he was eliminated by the Social Welfare Ministry people and the assassination attributed to the [guerrillas]."


Isabel Peron's 1975 appointment of retired brigadier Raul Lacabanne as a military overseer of Argentina's second-most-important province helped consolidate the hold the drug traffickers had there, Scherrer said. (A silly turf war between Lacabanne's provincial police and the Federal Police headquartered in Buenos Aires had contributed to the 1975 abduction and murder by left-wing guerrillas of the U.S. honorary counsel in Cordoba, John Patrick Egan, he added.) Lacabanne's associates, Scherrer said, "were deeply involved and conspired with major narcotics traffickers in the Cordoba area who paid off Lacabanne's people for protection."

One of these was Francois Chiappe, a major player in the fabled French Connection heroin-trafficking ring, who was wanted in the United States. Mistakenly freed during a tumultuous release of political prisoners, including jailed terrorists, that accompanied the military's retreat from power and Peronism's entree into the Casa Rosada presidential palace, Chiappe had become a local potentate with serious sway over local law enforcement.

The ties of Isabel Peron's closest associates to drug trafficking, and the report that she herself used drugs, provides a new and interesting overlay to what already is known about the 1976 coup, which ushered in one of the bloodiest military regimes in South American history. Peron's two years as president were punctuated with public appearances in which she appeared pasty-faced, unkempt and shrill. The performances -- in which Peron appeared to border on hysteria -- often were attributed, in an excess of Argentine machismo, to her being a woman. The allegations of cocaine use may provide another answer.

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