Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Feb 3 – Cuba reaffirmed its commitment to confronting drug trafficking, highlighting the results of its cooperation with the United States and other nations in the region, according to official data and analyses published in international media, the newspaper Granmareported.
The U.S. bimonthly magazine The American Conservative noted that U.S. policy toward the Island ignores the reality that Cuba is a key security partner in the Caribbean, with extensive collaboration in drug interdiction and information exchange.
At the start of the first Trump administration, there were already 22 bilateral cooperation instruments and eight technical working groups on confronting terrorism, drug trafficking, cybersecurity and cybercrime, travel and trade security, human trafficking and immigration fraud, money laundering and financial crimes, human trafficking, and legal assistance in criminal matters.
Advisors to the president based in Florida promoted the paralysis of these mechanisms and succeeded in rendering them ineffective.
From 1990 to the end of 2025, Cuban authorities sent 1,547 formal messages to the U.S. Coast Guard Service regarding incidents linked to drug trafficking, while receiving 468 communications from that counterpart.
Over the past 14 years, the Border Guard Troops have seized more than 40 tons of drugs with a final destination in the United States. Between 2024 and 2025 alone, 14 speedboats were captured, 39 drug traffickers detained, and over four tons of substances seized.
In the last two years, 72 operations were thwarted via air routes, involving drugs originating from 11 countries, with the United States being the main source, according to official reports.
The article cited in The American Conservativeacknowledged that Cuba is considered a positive example in Latin America in the fight against drug trafficking, as it closely collaborates with the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies to track smuggling routes. (Text and photo: ACN)
