The latest development in the case of the British girls caught smuggling in Peru has a sinister twist. The girls claim that they were forced at gunpoint if they didn’t go ahead with the transportation. Their families were also targeted as the bandits said they had their home addresses on file. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/10240751/British-drug-mules-claim-they-were-forced-at-gunpoint-to-carry-cocaine-by-Colombian-gang.html
I’m not sure how this will wash with the Peruvian authorities. No doubt, their jails are full of foreign drug smugglers that say they were set up.
Never in a million years, not for all the money in the world would I ever contemplate running through customs with illegal narcotics and I‘m positive I can vouch that everyone else here is of the same mind. The only experience I have of overseas jails (I don’t have any of British jails either, in case you were asking) is through TV shows like Banged Up Abroad and stuff like that. As it’s TV you don’t know if they are deliberately making them out to be worse than they are. The newspapers are printing that the conditions in their Peruvian cells are harsh and unclean. Other reports state that the gangsters might get to the girls in jail to stop them from testifying. Possibly, this could be why the girls are on hunger strike to avoid being poisoned.
The late Pablo Escobar only used a courier once and once only. The mule had only one shot at the title before the crime baron employed a new runner. It’s high stakes and there’s winners and losers in the drug game. There are no such thing as draws as those languishing in the abyss will tell you.
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