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SANTO DOMINGO.- Justice minister Radhamés Jiménez yesterday acknowledged a lack of logistics to fight drug-trafficking and said the National Drugs Control Agncy (DNCD) needs more support and funds.
He said the Dominican Air Force and Navy also need equipment to protect the airspace and coasts,, reason why the Government seeks to acquire a modern fleet to pursue planes that drop drugs along the country’s coasts. "The Navy must also have logistics, speedboats, to prevent these boats which come from Colombia and Venezuela from continuing their drug transfers in our territory."
Jiménez noted president the Government’s persistence to deal with the situation and warned that in the war on drug-trafficking there can’t be a retreat of not even one inch.
As to the Presidency’s Narcotics adviser, Marino Vinicio (Vincho) Castillo’s position, that the country’s courts haven’t shown "valor or honor" in the prosecuting drug traffic and consumption, the official said "it’s a very particular position. I believe that there can be segments in the Judiciary that perhaps act timidly against narcotics trafficking."
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However, in the name of sovereignty, the local military always turn down such assistance projects. Sovereignty meaning the same guys collecting millions for looking the other way, so please, Mr Drug Czar, stop the patronizing, get in your SUV, look at your Rolex and catch a one way private helo flight never to come back. Oh, and don't bother repaying the loan from BanInter, the Dominican prople will do it for you.
Maybe your successor could do something intelligent, like applying the Thai/Chinese/Malaysian model. The firing squad for traffickers,and jail for users. But then I guess we'd have to fill Congress and the Palace with Asian politicians, because not many of the locals would be in favor of that new law.
Yea, Right.
And we all know there is not a single Dominian on the Island who does blow or smokes crack.
As part of the probe, 12 apartments worth millions of dollars each were seized yesterday in the capital’s exclusive Malecon Center, said to be owned by the Cubans, in the addition to vehicles, lots, boats, helicopters, yachts, hotels and cabañas already confiscated.
There's the answer for the this:
The Navy must also have logistics, speedboats, to prevent these boats which come from Colombia and Venezuela from continuing their drug transfers in our territory."
That wasn't so hard now was it.
If you have spent any time on the sea then you would know that the DR navy could have a dozen speedboats and they couldn't cover 1/1000th of the coastline. It is a big ocean out there and a lot of vessels.
DNCD has replaced 30% or so of it's force for corruption and other charges. Let us give them the odds of clearing 50% of their corruption cases (US catch 20% ). So you have another 5,000 corrupt officers just in DNCD.
Vincho is barking at the moon, but guess what, it is possibly just as effective as what the authorities are doing. Like in the US where a kilo of coke cost $30K in the 1970's and now cost US$16K. In DR the price has dropped as well. The only Law the traffickers have been ruled by is SUPPLY & DEMAND. Their prices have stayed the same with fuel increase.
As far as drugs the DR Has AIDS and we take a placebo to cure it.
If the RD Gov officials invest monies into infrastructure then there's less to steal!