Former National District attorney, Unibe law school dean, and Al Pais presidential candidate Guillermo Moreno complains in an op-ed page in Diario Libre on 14 January 2019, that the evidence in the killing of colonel Daniel Ramos Alvarez and statements by Peravia senator Wilton Guerrero of Police and National Drug Control Agency complicity with drug traffickers would have created an upheaval in any civilized country, but not in the Dominican Republic.
“The widespread penetration of drug trafficking operations and impunity that operates in the country can only be explained because of the complicity of official civilian and military sectors in these crimes,” writes Moreno. He highlights the frequency of drug shipments arrive and in which almost never is the local capo mentioned. He recalls that the cases of Quirino, Figueroa Agosto or Arturo del Tiempo as evidence that the drug traffickers operate at the highest level of godfathers.
Moreno laments that while two decades ago drug consumption was limited to the wealthy, a 2016 survey revealed that there are around 300,000 teenagers ages 13 to 14 that are drug consumers, and to pay for their addiction have joined the distribution networks.
He says the authorities have repeatedly stated there are around 40,000 micro drug points, that is evidence they know where these are located, who operates them, but take no actions to dismantle the operations.
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Diario Libre
15 January 2019
