Murder has been ruled out in the case of 33-year-old Oscar Lachapelle Suero, son of the director of the National Drug Control Department (DNCD). Lachapelle was diabetic. The body was found on Monday at around 7 am in the parking lot of the Presidential Military Aides Corps used by DNCD officers. Pathology reports say he would have died at around 10 am on Friday, shortly after he went missing. The autopsy results will be released today. The military and police authorities combed the country searching for him, an operation that cost millions. Daniel Pou, a researcher for the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Flacso), criticized the effort. He said that if the normal habits of the missing person had been tracked, the body would have been found days earlier. Lachapelle was found in the same parking lot he frequently used. The DNCD had released the description of the car, but gave out the wrong registration. The vehicle’s registration was AB-DU68, not AA W768 as released by the DNCD. “We have a marked level of inefficiency in our military and the policy of heavy handedness is their response to inefficiency,” said Pou. “Those are not intelligence measures. Intelligence is more secret, discrete, has clear ideas and selective criteria.”
