Operation Frontier Lance has been very successful in reducing the drug trafficking operations in Dominican territorial waters, according to the president of the Dirección Nacional de Control de Drogas, Luis Humeau Hidalgo, and Robert Steven, coordinator of the U.S.-D.R. operation. The Dominican Republic was being used as a mid point in the Colombia-Haiti-DR-Puerto Rico-US drug route. The U.S. naval and air fleet, with the cooperation of Dominican Navy and Air Force, is putting a stop to this. The fleet has detected and confiscated hundreds of kilos of narcotics in the seas. Frontier Lance is uniting the governments of the U.S., Haiti and D.R. in a major effort to combat drug trafficking. Frontier Lance began March 1 and will continue.
