Diario Libre has been covering reports that large drug cartels have set up operations in the Dominican Republic with apparently little done to shut these down now under the Abinader administration. Diario Libre reports the Global Organized Crime Index indicates the Dominican Republic continues to be an important transshipment point for cocaine, heroine, and extasis and a destination for cannabis. The country’s geographic location makes it a stopover for exporting to Europe and the United States.
Diario Libre points out that statistics of the DNCD indicate that in the first three quarters of the year 23,326.7 kilograms of cocaine were seized. In most of the confiscations of drugs, no one has been convicted.
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Diario Libre
28 November 2022