NewsWhore
05-26-2010, 03:00 PM
Today's Listin Diario carries an editorial alerting Dominicans to see in Jamaica where this country could be headed in regards to the increasing penetration of drug dealers into government and society.
"What is happening at this time in Kingston, capital of Jamaica, should be seen as a mirror for any nation that is still doubting or fearing to decisively confront drug trafficking," writes the newspaper.
The newspaper says that the money that is handled in that dirty business is enough for everything: "to buy the support of the residents of the neighborhoods where the capo operates, to bend the will of the authorities, to defy the authorities with their own paramilitary and to create chaos in any society".
"The capos that operate in the DR have the capacity to introduce large shipments of drugs, to distribute them on the local market and redirect them to other markets, to buy complicity with the authorities, to avoid jail, to escape persecution and to settle scores with spectacular murders when someone fails them or attempts to scam them."
"That is how they create a structure that is becoming powerful, almost invincible when governments are too scared to fight back, or when society is flooded with drugs, and is resigned to coexist with the phenomenon of addiction and violence that comes with it, by way of gangs or simple crime, leaving the country at the mercy of one or more capos of organized crime," writes the editorialist.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/latin_america/10164623.stm
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)
"What is happening at this time in Kingston, capital of Jamaica, should be seen as a mirror for any nation that is still doubting or fearing to decisively confront drug trafficking," writes the newspaper.
The newspaper says that the money that is handled in that dirty business is enough for everything: "to buy the support of the residents of the neighborhoods where the capo operates, to bend the will of the authorities, to defy the authorities with their own paramilitary and to create chaos in any society".
"The capos that operate in the DR have the capacity to introduce large shipments of drugs, to distribute them on the local market and redirect them to other markets, to buy complicity with the authorities, to avoid jail, to escape persecution and to settle scores with spectacular murders when someone fails them or attempts to scam them."
"That is how they create a structure that is becoming powerful, almost invincible when governments are too scared to fight back, or when society is flooded with drugs, and is resigned to coexist with the phenomenon of addiction and violence that comes with it, by way of gangs or simple crime, leaving the country at the mercy of one or more capos of organized crime," writes the editorialist.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/latin_america/10164623.stm
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)