Retired Bolivian police general, Rene Sanabria, a former intelligence chief in the war against narcotraffick, was found guilty and sentenced to 14 years in jail, for having been associated with cocaine import to the USA.

Sentence was sanctioned by judge Ursula Ungaro, in a Federal Court in southern Florida. Sanabria, age 58, was found guilty by the end of June, he was facing life time imprisonment. With him, his associate Marcelo Foronda Acero, received a nine-year conviction.

According to the DA’s office, Sanabria’s group sent 144 kilograms of cocaine to the Miami port in September 2010. The drug was in a container that was carrying zinc rocks, travelling from Bolivia to the harbor of Arica, Chile, and then transported to south Florida. DEA seized the cargo on November, 2010.

After his capture, the DA’s federal office said that Sanabria went to Panama to make a deal with presumed narcotraffickers, who were DEA undercover agents.

The antidrug policy of current Bolivian government is said to have suffered a heavy blow when the case was revealed, even though the government tried to minimize Sanabria’s role in this government.

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