Executive Branch Anti-Narcotics advisor Marino Vinicio (Vincho) Castillo reacted to US ambassador Hans Hertell’s comments yesterday by saying the diplomat was permissive with drug trafficking during former President Hipolito Mejia’s administration, as reported in Listin Diario. He stated drugs would enter the country during the past administration as if it were a public commercial or state operation. It would come in through airports and ports, because there were ministers in the Presidential Palace who were known to have close relations to people involved in drugs, according to Castillo. “Now we are working with transparency, Mr. Ambassador” said Castillo during the incineration of seized drugs that was done by the National Drug Control Department (DNCD) yesterday.