SANTO DOMINGO. - The Dominican Presidency’s Adviser on Narcotics today Tuesday questioned what he called Washington’s indifference in the case of the Puerto Rican fugitive Jose Figueroa Agosto.

Marino Vinicio (Vincho) Castillo had several times criticized the U.S.’ position regarding the country’s war on drugs, citing that country’s reluctance to supply technology in the effort and for not providing enough funds to halt the traffic of narcotics, most  of which ends up in American streets.

He also affirmed that “an ambassador” he didn’t name had collaborated with Figueroa’s activities in his country and locally.

Castillo, speaking in the National Palace also said the narcotics trafficker is a fugitive of “his structures of complicity in the Dominican Republic” and affirms has shored up his impunity within the Government, “beyond the generals.”

The official, whose office is in the National Palace and also heads the Presidency’s Ethics Commission, said that he learned that while in Dominican Republic, Figueroa traveled to Puerto Rico for his mother’s funeral, even after he escaped from a jail there while serving a more than a 100 year prison sentence.

“I believe that if there’s someone who can undergo compulsion at a given time and think that he’s in danger, it’s Figueroa because the day in which his complicity structure here understands that he poses a threat, it can dispose of him,” Castillo said.

He said Figueroa apart from being a fugitive “doesn’t have the power he had a year ago, adding that the United States authorities, “above all” after the change Administration in Washington, could be interested in Figueroa informing them on his operations and local links.