Some of the rebel leaders who drove President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power are suspected of involvement in drug trafficking, US officials and Haiti experts said on Thursday. While refusing to provide details, a senior Western diplomat in Haiti said in an interview with The Chronicle that criminal elements are enmeshed in the insurgency and now seek to reconstitute Haiti's formerly defunct military. In the past decade, Haiti's role as a major route for illicit drugs into the United States has grown significantly. The drugs are typically shipped from northern Colombia in single or two-engine planes, fishing vessels, freighters and so-called go-fast boats, before arriving in Florida, the Bahamas or Puerto Rico.

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