The Monster Has Awakened

The announcement given by the United States, France, Netherlands, and England of their joint participation with the Dominican government on the enforcement of a “maritime wall” in the Caribbean to combat growing drug trafficking coincides with the seizure at La Romana International of over a thousand kilos of cocaine packed in twenty bags that were ready to be transported to Europe on a private plane.

This naval blockade, a military measure often taken in times of war, seeks to eliminate the transit of immeasurable quantities of drugs arriving from South America to the Caribbean to be transported to the U.S. and Europe.

The Dominican Republic is now located at the epicenter of the international transit of cocaine after drug measures were reinforced in Mexico where a relentless war is being waged against drug cartels, with the help of Washington and Colombia.

It’s impressive the amount of drugs shipped from all those producing regions to the Caribbean, especially to the island of Hispaniola that is shared with Haiti and which serves as a trans-shipment port to the mega markets of the United States and Europe.

This maritime wall, which includes the use of spy satellites, radar, land and sea control units, and other technology equipment, stands as the most forceful response of preventive war from the international community against drug trafficking, whose major operations are concentrated in the Caribbean.

The Dominican government is compelled to provide full support to this initiative of the United States, France, Netherlands and the United Kingdom due to the high impact its territory has faced by the growing operations of the South American cartels in the Caribbean.

The naval blockade in the Caribbean corridor coincides with the end of the war in Iraq, which claimed responsibility for the abandonment by the United States of the surveillance in this strategic zone that later became a predominant path for the transit of thousands of tons of drugs into the U.S. and to Europe.

Now a problem that threatens U.S. homeland security, we can say that Washington will pay full attention to the task of counteracting the massive flow of drugs through the Caribbean from South America, which undoubtedly will mean a reprieve for the Dominican Republic where literally every day it rains cocaine.