By Zoila Palma: Former Prime Minister Dean Barrow says that it is “regrettable” if the case of the Guatemalan army plane in Belize airspace was due to any anti-narcotics operation especially those sponsored by the U.S.
“Well, I don’t think that’s any excuse. And I think something like that happening is absolutely unfortunate. It’s regrettable. It constitutes a clear and present danger to our national security. Because who’s to say if they get away with it once, that it won’t happen again? I don’t know enough. And so I don’t want to say things which are not certain, and that can get me in trouble,” Barrow said.
But, Barrow added that it is “bad news” if indeed there was an anti-narcotics operation that Belize was not a part of.
“But the moment I hear anti-narcotics, I think that these anti-narcotics missions are not isolated exercises on the part of any one country. I always think that the United States is somehow involved. And if that is the case here, then it is extremely regrettable that such an operation, if it was blessed by the U.S. and if it was sponsored by the U.S., and if the U.S. participated in it, that such an operation could have taken place without the involvement of Belize is absolutely the bad news. That should not happen again and our government should be very firm in pressing that particular case to the US,” Barrow added.
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By Zoila Palma: Former Prime Minister Dean Barrow says that it is “regrettable” if the case of the Guatemalan army plane in Belize airspace was due to any anti-narcotics operation especially those sponsored by the U.S. “Well, I don’t think that’s any excuse. And I think something like that happening is absolutely unfortunate. It’s regrettable.
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