Paul Fauvet
"The value of illegal drugs passing through Mozambique is probably more than all legal foreign trade combined, according to international experts. . . (who) estimate that more than one tonne per month of cocaine and heroin are now passing through Mozambique".
Anyone reading that quote today probably assumes that it comes from the Maputo US embassy telegrams, signed by former US charge d'affairs Todd Chapman, and released last week by the whistle-blowing organisation Wikileaks.
But AIM did not need to go to Wikileaks for that quote - it comes from an article by British journalist and researcher Joe Hanlon published in the Mozambican press in 2001, years before Todd Chapman set foot in Mozambique. (The Portuguese version appeared in the independent newsheet "Metical" on 28 June 2001, and AIM published an English summary.)




