Last week, Leonel Fernandez, the presidential candidate for the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana, said that if wins the election he will establish harsher penalties for the trafficking and consuming of illegal narcotics. He was speaking at the Colegio Apostolado girl’s school. “We will be very severe, and very drastic in the application of the law to avoid our youth, above all, being contaminated by this problem of drug consumption, that definitely degenerates into an increase in criminal activity in the country,” he said.