The recent assassination of a former drug lord’s grandson may stem from disputes between members of a family clan already rocked by arrests and extraditions.
Lorenzanas
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An anti-narcotics operation targeting an alleged trafficking ring in Guatemala has shed light on the increasing importance of small, often discrete transport networks in the country’s cocaine trade.
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Izabal is one of the most important transit hubs for cocaine being smuggled from Honduras into Guatemala by land, as well as for cocaine arriving by plane or sea from …
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The Lorenzanas are a traditional contraband family, who, over time, became enmeshed in the lucrative drug trade. The group’s criminal career ended in the early 2010s with the arrest and …
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A US court has convicted two sons of a top Guatemala crime figure on international drug trafficking charges, heightening the possibility they might trade information about former associates or corrupt …
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Guatemalan authorities recently extradited drug trafficker Jairo Orellana, alias “El Pelon,” to the United States, ending a criminal career that left a bloody legacy in Guatemala.
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Analysis
Alzheimer’s May Get Guatemala Drug Trafficker Out of Prison
by Mason Garciaby Mason GarciaTwenty years ago, the United States patiently prepared a punishment for Waldemar Lorenzana Lima, one of the most prominent drug traffickers in Guatemala. But in 2015, the case against him …
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Analysis
Betrayal in the Family Drug Business: The Lorenzanas in Guatemala
by Mason Garciaby Mason GarciaLoyalty is one of the strengths of family drug trafficking clans. But the Lorenzanas in Guatemala are the exception. The children of Waldemar Lorenzana Lima deceived the Patriarch, who has …
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Guatemala’s recent extradition of a prominent drug trafficker marks the end of the Lorenzana crime family, once considered one of Guatemala’s top crime families.
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The story of the precipitous fall of Guatemala’s once-feared drug trafficker Waldemar Lorenzana may now include Alzheimer’s.