By Sofia Menchu
By Sofia Menchu
SEMUY II, Guatemala, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Bulletholes scar a wall in the one college in Semuy II, a distant village in northeastern Guatemala the place three troopers have been shot useless early in September as they looked for jungle touchdown strips utilized by drug traffickers.
Within the village college’s school rooms, books and open notebooks gathered mud on the desks, whereas on a board, the fateful date of the shootings was written in pink ink: “September 3.”
President Jimmy Morales mentioned the troopers have been killed by villagers defending a drug cargo. In response, the federal government gave the military momentary emergency powers over an unlimited swathe of surrounding territory, resulting in some startling discoveries.
Searches uncovered coca plantations and cocaine laboratories, together with in Semuy II’s municipality of El Estor, suggesting drug gangs have been working freely in an space higher identified for its pure magnificence, mining and African palm. The deaths occurred on the fringes of the Pataxte property that provides palm oil to Nestle NESN.S and Cargill, with…