Madrid/The concern of the authorities for the increase in the amount of drug that circulates on the island is as evident as the desire to fix the message that they fight against it on all fronts. It is demonstrated as apparently nimios as this Thursday the stellar news Issue Brief information from a trial held in Havana against a 50 -year -old man accused of drug trafficking for being in his possession a package in his name with 7.5 kilograms of cocaine, from the Dominican Republic.
In a country where before there was no talk of crime and the circulation of narcotics was denied, the issue of drugs is very present lately in the official media, which emphasize in that judicial case before the sentence is known.
The provincial newspaper Havana Tribune He has not lacked the appointment and this Friday has two information – one of them from the previous day – that also addresses the theme from different angles. One, to speak of the “confrontation”, with several images of police operations in the capital and the offer of “support for young people at risk”; the other, to inform A workshop held at the Urban Cultural Institute Saúl Delgado, in El Vedado, for the prevention and rejection of drugs.
The data offered by the Interior Ministry at the end of 2024 makes it clear that the problem is on the island on all fronts. Last year 1,051 kilos of drugs were detected in Cuba, most cocaine, in addition to marijuana, methamphetamine and cannabinoids. The sea road is still the most active – or, at least, where more facts were detected. Only there, the police seized 844.13 kilos (619.72 of cocaine, 222 of marijuana and 2.3 of hashish) in 133 I emphasize. There were also nine scholating facts in which 37.5 kilos of drugs were secured.
The data offered by the Interior Ministry at the end of 2024 makes it clear that the problem is on the island on all fronts
The notepublished this Friday in Granmahighlights the participation of other countries in these chains, mentioning several processes open for operations with rapid boats that penetrated national territory from the US, Mexico, Dominican Republic and Jamaica. To do this, it is cooperated with the authorities of these countries, including research on “20 organizers abroad”.
Within Cuba, a case occurred in Pinar del Río in which three people – the organizer and two drivers of vessels – were arrested with more than 8 kilos of methamphetamine.
By air, the detection was lower, although the ministry indicates that “the intentionality of foreigners and Cubans based abroad, to introduce drugs into the national territory by several airports from the region” has been corroborated, both through of mules as charges or postal route.
“From the United States, the main effects with synthetic cannabinoids are maintained (chemical), in its natural state – Polvo–, impregnated in bite and paper folds, and methamphetamine, ”says the note. This economical product is ravaging the streets of many cities of the island and visibly worries to the authorities, who have admitted the death of at least two people related to this product, as well as the addiction of countless young people.
In airports, the information indicates 94 people, 75 of them Cuban. In addition, more than 90 kilos of drugs were confiscated: 74 of cocaine, 7.8 of marijuana, 5.8 of synthetic cannabinoids, 2.6 of methamphetamine and 0.06 of ecstasy. Through Interpol, 59 Cubans and two foreigners are looking for the crime of illicit drug trafficking.
Within the island, the note adds, 157 interprovincial traffic operations were hindered, with 267 detainees and more than 73 kilos of insured drugs. Most cases are concentrated in Havana, Camagüey, Holguín, Granma and Santiago de Cuba. The concentration of dismantled cultivation in the east of the country is striking, since only those provinces are alluded to by informing the 105 cases found, with more than 49,000 plants and more than 207,000 seeds seized.
The Ministry insists on international cooperation and gives figures on it: there is contact with 37 foreign anti -drug services points
The Ministry insists on international cooperation and gives figures on it: there is contact with 37 foreign anti -drug services and 105 messages were exchanged with 24 countries.
Nor spares in numbers when informing of the “application of criminal and penitentiary policy.” There are 1,237 drug trafficking files open by the Prosecutor’s Office and 897 crowded for tenure. 92% of the defendants go to provisional prison “for their harmful character.” In the courts there were 980 causes in which 1,193 people were judged, 97% of them sanctioned and 94% with deprivation of liberty. In addition, figures are given hundreds of thousands of talks and debates in educational centers with the participation of other hundreds of thousands of people and it is remembered that an organism has been inaugurated entirely to this phenomenon, the National Drug Observatory.
In the midst of this panorama, Manuel Marrero too addressed the matter in a meeting with the State authorities and the party at the Palace of the Revolution. There the figures exposed by the Ministry of Interior were reviewed and insisted on the dangers of these substances, both for health when consumed and for national security when introduced in the country.
All interventions underlined the importance of having the phenomenon under control and the battle was used from the speech by saying that this is a war “against all those who are trying to contaminate society.” Marrero turned, as a climax, the leaders of the revolution and citing Raúl Castro said that drugs “in blood and fire” will be fought.
