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Haiti used to be the place for transshipment then the UN came in and with their assistance the DEA started arresting Haitians in Haiti for trafficking cocaine - in around 2006.
Many famous characters were taken in some spectacular episodes - for example Chachou out of Gonaives, owner of a local hotel, supermarket, radio station and builder of a housing estate and all round good egg apart from the cocaine smuggling - but that is a different debate.
Black hawk helicopter gunships whisked several barons off for justice in the US. Heck, even the building that the electoral commission inhabits was confiscated from a drug smuggler - it used to house Petionville's Gold's Gym. There are other large buildings that have been taken in the same way, there is a notable one on Rout de Freres. There are a bunch of smugglers in Port de Paix who still do nicely out of the trade because as of a year ago they simply had no opposition up there. I know of other folks who talk of bails turning up down on the south coast - Cote de Fer, to be precise - where Sweet Mickey (President Martelly) has his beach property. So it still goes on.

But as everyone who hangs around El Rancho Casino late at night is aware, the trade almost died in Haiti and moved to the D.R.

This is not slander - (I think Taino8008 meant libel... lol)

Yes the cocaine problem has been transferred from Haiti to the D.R. but only because the barons are not stupid and the D.R. has become the path of least resistance due to military and governmental complicity.

It is now a Dominican problem as we are seeing from the number of arrests.

Anyway, well done MA. I know prospering is tricky, but live long all the same....