The President’s Adviser on narcotics warned Monday that real mafias are taking root in Dominican Republic, whose society has been neglectful by ignoring their mechanisms and presence, calling the recent executions of local and foreign citizens, their “simple tertiary manifestations.”
The Brazilian and Bolivian police are starting joint anti-drug operations, an acknowledgement of the scale of the cross border problem, perhaps heralding a new direction for the Bolivians, who have resisted working closely with the United States on the drug issue.
War has begun. Firefights rage between gunmen loyal to Dudus and the government’s forces. Four police officers and soldiers have been killed, a police station firebombed. Tivoli Gardens’ multicoloured tower blocks were built in a courageous attempt to move impoverished Jamaicans from hellhole slums into modern housing. Now they have become Dudus’s fiefdom, a state within a state.
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