Guyana’s fight against illicit drugs is gaining recognition, and this country has managed to keep its name off the United States’ “Drug Blacklist”.
“The report gives the lie to those in Guyana who are in the habit of describing Guyana as a narco state and (are) not actively engaged in fighting the drug trade,” a release from the Home Affairs Ministry said.
Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee
According to the BBC website, U.S. President Barack Obama has added two Central American countries to a U.S. black list of countries considered major producers or transit routes for illegal drugs.
Those countries are Belize and El Salvador.
U.S. State Department officials said cartels were using the two Central American nations as routes for smuggling cocaine from South America north into Mexico and then into the USA.
A total of twenty-two (22) countries worldwide now appear on that American drugs blacklist, but Guyana is not listed.
Three countries were deemed to have “failed demonstrably” in the fight against drugs. A country is so deemed when it does not fulfil its obligations under international counter-narcotics agreements and conventions. Such a designation can lead to a country attracting sanctions from the U.S. Guyana does not feature among those countries. The U.S. report underscores the success of Guyana’s counter- narcotics efforts over the years, which clearly surpassed those of many countries in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean, the Home Affairs Ministry release said.
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