In the province of Guantanamo, 32 causes for drugs have been filed, with greater incidence in the head and Baracoa municipality.
Lima, Peru – so far from 2025, in the Cuban province of Guantanamo, 32 drug causes have filed, with greater incidence in the head and Baracoa municipality, official sources reported.
Legal experts indicated that in the same period 43 people were judged and all committed were sanctioned, prevailing the imposition of the sanction of deprivation of liberty.
The data They transcended a meeting of work with the Commission for the Prevention and Confrontation of that scourge in Guantanamo, chaired by Oscar Manuel Silvera Martínez Minister of Justice and president of the National Drug Commission.
The appointment was reported that, of the total number of people courts, three of those involved received alternative sanction, as they did not exceed 18 years of age and were students with good conduct until the moment the events occurred.
“Such results show that it is urgent to address the theme from an integral approach and act rigorously in Guantanamo as in the rest of the country to stop this universal scourge, which affects health and safety, given the new methods and techniques for the introduction of drugs,” said Silvera Martínez.
The minister warned of the crimes to which the consumption and trafficking of drugs entails, ranging from the scam to violence. He also acknowledged that the problem must be addressed with systematicness due to “complexity and severity of the subject“On the island.
The increase in drug trafficking in Cuba has forced the Government to adopt a strategy that Castro propaganda describes as “zero tolerance”, with exemplary judgments and penalties that reach up to 30 years in prison.
In that sense, the Cuban government inaugurated at the beginning of July the National Drug Observatory (OND), a new institution that, According to the authoritiesseeks to strengthen the “zero tolerance” policy against drugs. The opening occurred in a context of growing alarm due to the increase in drug use on the island, especially between adolescents and young people, according to They have recognized official sources.
Raised to the rise of the problem, they often transcend new strategies of traffickers to enter illegal substances to the island.
Last July, customs authorities of the José Martí International Airport in Havana intercepted an attempt to introduce drugs to Cuba hidden under the clothes of one of the travelers.
William Pérez González, first vice head of Customs General of the Republic (AGR), reported Through x (formerly Twitter) that the AG and the anti -drug organ discovered “other ingenious ways of masking drugs to introduce them to Cuba.”
On this occasion, the manager explained that these are liquid cocaine capsules. According to photos of the same publication, the traveler tried to enter the drug to the island inside condoms that attached around his torso.
