Airports, especially in South America, are often used as embarkation points for drug shipments produced in the region. When they are discovered -before, during or after shipment - there is a disturbing and undeniable indifference demonstrated by the civil aviation authorities who frequently defend their corner on two grounds: first, that such criminal activity is primarily the responsibility of the police or other agencies, and second, that Annex 17 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation of 1944, better known as the Chicago Convention, does not require them to become involved in preventing drug trafficking aboard commercial air routes.
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