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Article: The European connection: a regional approach to fighting drugs in the Caribbean.
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- Hemisphere
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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To the Latin American drug trafficker, the Caribbean represents just one entity through which the merchandise can pass to reach the lucrative markets of the United States and Europe. The drug trafficker ignores--but at the same time exploits--the region's territorial boundaries and national differences. By using various routes through different Caribbean countries, the drug trafficker spreads the risk of detection. Meanwhile, due to the local spillover effect of the drug trade, the drug trafficker also spreads more widely throughout the region the problems associated with drugs.
The view held by most Caribbean states in the past was that drug trafficking was not ...