The National Drug Intelligence Center of the U.S. Department of Justice released last year its annual report on drug trafficking operations within the continental United States.
NDIC assessed the following on Cuban drug trafficking organizations for 2011:
U.S.-based Cuban trafficking organizations and criminal groups are expanding their drug trafficking activities, especially in-door marijuana grow operations within and beyond the Florida/Caribbean Region. The expansion is largely the result of increased law enforcement pressure in South Florida.
- Cuban traffickers primarily produce and distribute high-potency marijuana in Florida. Their trafficking activities in Florida heavily contributed to the state’s ranking as first in the nation for the number of indoor cannabis grow sites seized (863) and second for the number of cannabis plants eradicated at indoor grow sites in 2009 (55,378). According to law enforcement officers, the majority of the suspects arrested at indoor grow houses in southern Florida have been Cuban nationals who arrived in the United States within the past 5 years.
- Some Cuban organizations have shifted grow operations from South Florida to areas in other southeastern states, including Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina. Law enforcement officers believe growers made the change to avoid increased law enforce- meant pressure.
Bastion military exercises in November
20120126 21:46 pm · 0 comments
by Armando F. Mastrapa III
in Armed Forces, Commentary, Generals, Military, Military & Defense, MINFAR
Via Agence France-Presse:
On February 1st, the Cuban Armed Forces begins its Year of Defense Preparation.
(Image: Cuban Army reservists train during a military exercise at an undisclosed location in Havana, 20091127. AP.)
Tagged as: Bastion 2012, Cuba, Julio Casas Regueiro, Leopoldo Cintra Fr, MINFAR