DOMINICANS ARE BEST

Drug smuggling will probably move into Cuba, says the White House drug
czar, retired General Barry McCaffrev At the Cuban Foreign Ministry,
Fernando de Cossio says, "Tourism brings drugs. Greater contact with the
outside world brings drugs. More airlines traveling to Cuba brings drugs."
They were quoted by Tracey Eaton of the Dallas Morning News, who indicates
that Cuba and the United States are already quietly cooperating in the drug
war.

Eaton says the Caribbean has become a major drug route for or Colombian
cartels for an obvious reason: It's much cheaper than going through Mexico.
The Mexicans were taking a 50 percent cut, and Colombians were paying them
not in cash but in kind - thus, in the words of U.S. drug enforcement agent
William Mitchell, creating their own competitor.

According to another U.S. agent, the Colombians' most reliable partners are
Dominicans. Even though the Dominicans are "very hungry for power and money
... there are no ripoffs."

Checked-by: Mike Gogulski