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Caribbean & Central America - March 2007 (ISSN 1741-4458)

CARIBBEAN: Caribbean remains major drug transit route

The Caribbean remains a major transhipment route for traffickers smuggling cocaine and heroin from mainland South America to the US. Just as last year, the US State Department's International Narcotic Control Strategy Report (INCRS), published on 1 March, identified The Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Guyana as major transit countries for drugs to the US, but commended their cooperation with US authorities, except in the case of Guyana. The INCRS is highly politicised and two important factors must be borne in mind when assessing its findings. First, that countries which cooperate with US law enforcement often receive a more positive report than their interdiction efforts might merit, and second, that the INCRS pays little attention to those countries with stronger drug links to Europe.

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