Santo Domingo. - Three European powers with interests in the Caribbean have joined the United States to impose a sort of naval blockade or “maritime wall” and with Dominican Republic’s cooperation, use cutting edge technology and forces to confront the region’s heightened drug trafficking operations by major South American cartels.

The criminal groups are migrating towards the so-called “Caribbean corridor” in the wake of Mexico’s military attacks against its cartels and the war unleashed within rival groups for the region’s territorial control.

In Colombia meanwhile its cartels have confronted obstacles in using the “Pacific corridor,” stemming from the military strikes against its guerrilla and paramilitary groups which controlled the area’s jungles and provided protection to cocaine producers and exporters.

The situation prompted a joint thrust by the United States, France, Holland and England in the Caribbean, affording Dominican Republic a key participation given its strategic geographic position and the government’s cooperation against drug trafficking, in addition to being the underworld’s choice as one of the larger territories selected as an alternative routes to transport drugs to major markets.

Drugs czar travels to the US

Rolando Rosado, head of the country’s antinarcotics agency (DNCD) yesterday flew to the United States to coordinate the strategy with his par from other countries, and will include the use of spy satellites, modern radars, naval patrol planes and land units.

Units from Dominican Republic’s three military branches, in addition to the DNCD, form part of the operation.

“The idea is to impose a sort of maritime wall, because we’re anticipating that the use of the ‘Caribbean corridor' for drug trafficking activities will balloon in the next few months, because many of the major cartels’ top figures seek to avert Mexico’s violence and their protection which the guerrillas and the paramilitary had provided them in Colombian territory has already been reduced to a minimum,” said one the foreign agents in the operation who asked that his name not be used, quoted by news source eldia.com.do.