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Washington.- White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Monday that Caribbean countries are "grateful" for the U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean, after citing as an example the cooperation with Santo Domingo in the seizure of drugs from one of the drug boats attacked by the U.S. Navy.
In statements to reporters, Leavitt mentioned the most recent seizure of narcotics by the Dominican Republic and cited it as an example that the countries of the region are "working together with" Washington to "end the scourge of drug trafficking."
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"If you listen to the Caribbean countries, they are grateful for the actions of the Trump Government," the spokeswoman indicated.
Dominican Republic recovered a total of 377 packages of the alleged cocaine that was on board the most recent vessel bombed by the United States Army in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, according to a report on Sunday by the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD) of the Caribbean country.
The boat, in which three people who died in the attack were traveling, was carrying a total of one thousand kilos of alleged cocaine, according to Dominican authorities.
The packages were seized eighty nautical miles south of Isla Beata, southwest of the Dominican Republic, after authorities acted "in close coordination with the United States Southern Command (Southcom) and the Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF-South)" in the detection of the vessel, the DNCD indicated in a statement read before representatives of the US embassy and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
