Luis Abinader, president of the Dominican Republic, announced the appointment of a drug czar after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Feb. 6, confirming a joint effort to fight drug trafficking.
“I thank the U.S. for its support in the fight against drug trafficking, organized crime, and irregular migration, which shows our shared commitment for a Caribbean that is safer and more prosperous,” Abinader said via a translator.
He appointed Vice Admiral Cabrera Ulloa, president of the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD) for the Dominican Republic, as the drug czar in charge of leading efforts together with the United States to combat the flow of drugs in the Caribbean.
Rubio, speaking in both English and Spanish, praised the Dominican Republic for the large number of seizures of drugs that were bound for the United States, as well as its work on extraditing criminals.
“In the whole hemisphere, if someone is wanted for a dangerous crime, no nation in the hemisphere has been more cooperative than the Dominican Republic in extraditing dangerous criminals wanted for transnational crimes,” he said. […]
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