IS THERE NO EVIDENCE AGAINST THE DRUG LORDS?

Dear Editor,

When I was growing up in Guyana (I like to call the country BG
harking back to better times when I was a youth), smoking a
cigarette was a serious offence and, if you were a juvenile offender
you would have been punished, rather severely.

Your editorial captioned "Boycotting the drug lords" (06.03.13)
saddened me because it shows how far down the country has descended.
Imagine: drug Lords! How the times have changed.

But my biggest peeve is with the Government and the Minister of Home
Affairs. Here's the paragraph in your editorial that caught my attention:

In her statement, Ms Teixeira also lamented that the media had not
captured the fullness of her government's efforts to interdict the
drug trade such as the establishment by the PPP/C of the Customs
Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU), the increasing annual budgetary
allocation to support counter-narcotics, bilateral and multilateral
cooperation agreements and the invitation to the US Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) to establish an outpost in Guyana. Ms Teixeira
also pointed out that it may be known to many who the drug lords are
but until sufficient evidence can be gathered to take them to court
"then they are in our midst".

Where is the evidence of success from the above-mentioned efforts?
Citizens want answers to these questions:

1) Are the drug lords in jail and have their "assets" been confiscated?

2) Are the banks monitored for drug-money laundering?

3) Why is there insufficient evidence to convict the drug lords in
the first place? Who does the investigation? Who oversees the
results? Who makes the recommendations or decisions to press or not
the press charges?

4) Where is government accountability?

Finally, jailing the traffickers, i.e., the retailers, won't help
until you jail the top people in the drug mafia. And pointing out
the number of sentences handed down to the small traffickers is no
evidence of success by the government to stamp out the drug problem.

Yours faithfully,

(name and address provided)