From: InSightCrime
Written by Kyra Gurney
Paraguay’s president has once again been identified as a beneficiary of Latin America’s contraband cigarette trade, this time in Mexico, where black market cigarettes finance criminal groups like the Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel.
According to Milenio, six of the top selling contraband cigarette brands in Mexico are produced by Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes’ tobacco company, Tabesa.