Caribbean drug trafficking boom predicted as Latin America cracks down

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Friday April 5, 2013 – William Brownfield, a top US State Department official, has predicted that the Caribbean is likely to see a surge in drug-trafficking activity by 2015 as operations out of Central America dwindle due to an international crackdown.

Brownfield, assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement, said he believes drug traffickers squeezed out of Mexico, Central America and South America will target the Caribbean because it's spacious and allows them to remain undercover and take advantage of weak law enforcement in certain countries. Read more:  

The Caribbean made up about five percent
 of the cocaine reaching the US in 2010,
 with that figure estimated to jump to 10 percent this year