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10-30-2009, 02:50 PM
The number of illegal flights by South American drug cartels to the Dominican Republic has risen to 354 over the last three years, while drug package drops over land and water total 59, according to National Drug Control Department (DNCD), chief Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo. He was addressing a Round Table meeting on "Organized Crime: a Threat to Governance" organized by the Justice and Institutionalism Foundation (FINJUS).
Along these lines, the United States embassy's consultant to the Office of Narcotics Affairs, Beatriz Arenas, warned that the criminal organizations have become a threat to security and democracy because they have crossed the very limits of internal public order.
She said that international organized crime was interested in molding political institutions. She warned that there could be no democracy without security. "And there will be no security ever, if we do not have control", she added.
Her advice was not to forget the cartel that makes false medicines, because they are going to try and import products to process drugs in countries such as the Dominican Republic through the business of false medicines as a way of diversifying their activities in response to the stronger controls being exercised.
Meanwhile, Rosado Mateo said that there were 98 illegal flights in 2008, but during the period from January to August of this year, there were 59. In September alone they detected 6, and in October 4.
The general said that he believed that the reduction in the number of flights is due to the concerted effort of the authorities and the national and international organizations that are fighting drug trafficking.
The DNCD head also stated that Colombia has regained control of its airspace, leading the illegal drug traffic to depart from Venezuela.
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Along these lines, the United States embassy's consultant to the Office of Narcotics Affairs, Beatriz Arenas, warned that the criminal organizations have become a threat to security and democracy because they have crossed the very limits of internal public order.
She said that international organized crime was interested in molding political institutions. She warned that there could be no democracy without security. "And there will be no security ever, if we do not have control", she added.
Her advice was not to forget the cartel that makes false medicines, because they are going to try and import products to process drugs in countries such as the Dominican Republic through the business of false medicines as a way of diversifying their activities in response to the stronger controls being exercised.
Meanwhile, Rosado Mateo said that there were 98 illegal flights in 2008, but during the period from January to August of this year, there were 59. In September alone they detected 6, and in October 4.
The general said that he believed that the reduction in the number of flights is due to the concerted effort of the authorities and the national and international organizations that are fighting drug trafficking.
The DNCD head also stated that Colombia has regained control of its airspace, leading the illegal drug traffic to depart from Venezuela.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)