Dominican drug control authorities expressed their concern that the MDMA semi-synthetic pill, known as Ecstasy or Extasy, is being introduced into the DR. Rear Admiral Luis Alberto Humeau Hidalgo, president of the National Drug Control Department and Vinicio Marino Castillo, president of the National Drug Council, announced that a prevention campaign will soon start to avoid that this new drug, find a following amongst Dominicans. Recently, drug agents arrested at Las Americas International Airport a man identified as Cuban resident in the US Jovanny Chaple Chalita who had 9,970 pills adhered to his body. Humeau and Castillo spoke at the incineration of 52 kilos of cocaine, 3,214 lbs. and 296 trees of marijuana, and 697 grams of heroine at the Astilleros Navales of the Dominican Navy. Castillo said that more than the DR being used as a bridge, what local drug control authorities most fear is that drug traffickers set up labs to manufacture the pills here. To read about this drug, see http://www.come.to/ecstasy
