Santo Domingo. - The Presidency’s Adviser on Narcotics affirmed yesterday that Colombians are involved in 70% of the drug trafficking cases or its structure is Colombian.

Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho) said Colombia’s Government should pass its criminal files to Dominican authorities, to gather the information and determine the number of individuals that live here illegally.

Castillo, who spoke yesterday in the National Palace after a meeting with Colombia’s ambassador Mario Montoya, called “severe” the situation with that nation’s criminals here. “Our youth is being devastated, destroyed as a result of the drug airdrops and the incessant transport of drugs by sea and air.”

The official said to have the Colombians properly registered implies a criminological mapping, but noted that all of those foreigners who live in the country are not into drug trafficking.

“We cannot continue tolerating the continued growth of the presence of the heads and the executors of crime. Paya was a warning,” he said referring to the seven the Colombians executed in Peravia province (south) last year.

For his part Montoya said his country as well as Dominican Republic wage an unwavering war against drug trafficking. “You can be sure that we’ll continue on that path; there’s a bit more than 4,000 Colombians registered here, people who are building companies and helping to develop Dominican Republic.”