Drug traffic routes found in Guatemala

National Civil Police of Guatemala reported at least five land corridors in Guatemala for transporting drugs produced in South America to the US, according to information released Friday.

The two most travelled begin in the northeast at the border with Honduras, and one of them permits transfer of the cargo to the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz, and from there to Sayaxche, Peten, while the other uses the territory of Izabal, through Sayaxche to the Mexican border.Three other routes start from the national territory of El Salvador.

One of them covers the Pacific coast up to the south of San Marcos, while the others touch the capital, and then go to Huehuetenango, in the northwest of the country.The police said there are 1,063 passages without control on the border between Guatemala and Mexico, which is used by drug traffickers, and vehicles can circulate in at least 40 of them,.

The air space for clandestine flights to the northern zone of the country is also used by drug-traffickers, while other airplanes go south, in the departments of Escuintla, Suchitepequez and Retalhuleu, where there is usually traffic.

Because of the geographical position of Guatemala, the Antidrug Information and Analysis Office said 85 percent of the narcotics directed to the biggest market in the world (the United States) cross national territory.Last month more than 2, 100 kilos of cocaine were seized by the authorities after almost two years without capturing any shipment.