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Drug Trafficking in the Caribbean: Do Traffickers Use Cuba and Puerto Rico As Major Transit Locations for United States-Bound Narcotics? DRUG TRAFFICKING IN THE CARIBBEAN: DO TRAFFICKERS USE CUBA AND PUERTO RICO AS MAJOR TRANSIT LOCATIONS FOR UNITED STATES-BOUND NARCOTICS? HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION JANUARY 3 AND 4, 2000 Serial No. 106–178 Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Reform ( Available via the World Wide Web: http://www.gpo.gov/congress/house http://www.house.gov/reform U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 69–521 DTP WASHINGTON : 2001 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2250 Mail: Stop SSOP, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 09:53 Feb 15, 2001 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 C:\DOCS\69521.TXT HGOVREF1 PsN: HGOVREF1 COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM DAN BURTON, Indiana, Chairman BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, New York HENRY A. WAXMAN, California CONSTANCE A. MORELLA, Maryland TOM LANTOS, California CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut ROBERT E. WISE, JR., West Virginia ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida MAJOR R. OWENS, New York JOHN M. MCHUGH, New York EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York STEPHEN HORN, California PAUL E. KANJORSKI, Pennsylvania JOHN L. MICA, Florida PATSY T. MINK, Hawaii THOMAS M. DAVIS, Virginia CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York DAVID M. MCINTOSH, Indiana ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, Washington, MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana DC JOE SCARBOROUGH, Florida CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland MARSHALL ‘‘MARK’’ SANFORD, South DENNIS J. KUCINICH, Ohio Carolina ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH, Illinois BOB BARR, Georgia DANNY K. DAVIS, Illinois DAN MILLER, Florida JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts ASA HUTCHINSON, Arkansas JIM TURNER, Texas LEE TERRY, Nebraska THOMAS H. ALLEN, Maine JUDY BIGGERT, Illinois HAROLD E. FORD, JR., Tennessee GREG WALDEN, Oregon JANICE D. SCHAKOWSKY, Illinois DOUG OSE, California ——— PAUL RYAN, Wisconsin BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont HELEN CHENOWETH-HAGE, Idaho (Independent) DAVID VITTER, Louisiana KEVIN BINGER, Staff Director DANIEL R. MOLL, Deputy Staff Director DAVID A. KASS, Deputy Counsel and Parliamentarian LISA SMITH ARAFUNE, Chief Clerk PHIL SCHILIRO, Minority Staff Director (II) VerDate 11-MAY-2000 09:53 Feb 15, 2001 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 C:\DOCS\69521.TXT HGOVREF1 PsN: HGOVREF1 C O N T E N T S Page Hearing held on: January 3, 2000 ......................................................................................... 1 January 4, 2000 ......................................................................................... 59 Statement of: Agostini, Jose Fuentes, former attorney general of the Government of Puerto Rico .................................................................................................... 60 De La Guardia, Ileana, daughter of Cuban Colonel Tony De La Guardia; and Jorge Masetti, former Cuban Ministry of Interior Official ................ 23 Diaz-Balart, Lincoln, a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida ............................................................................................................ 19 Ledwith, William E., Chief of Foreign Operations, Drug Enforcement Administration; Michael S. Vigil, Chief Agent in Charge, Caribbean Field Division, Drug Enforcement Administration; and John C. Varrone, Executive Director, Operations, East, U.S. Customs Service .... 85 Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana, a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida ............................................................................................................ 10 Letters, statements, et cetera, submitted for the record by: Agostini, Jose Fuentes, former attorney general of the Government of Puerto Rico, prepared statement of ............................................................. 66 Burton, Hon. Dan, a Representative in Congress from the State of Indi- ana, information concerning 60 dangerous fugitives ................................. 147 De La Guardia, Ileana, daughter of Cuban Colonel Tony De La Guardia, prepared statement of ................................................................................... 26 Gilman, Hon. Benjamin A., a Representative in Congress from the State of New York, information concerning a December 21, 1999, GAO report 54 Ledwith, William E., Chief of Foreign Operations, Drug Enforcement Administration; and Michael S. Vigil, Chief Agent in Charge, Carib- bean Field Division, Drug Enforcement Administration, prepared state- ment of ........................................................................................................... 89 Masetti, Jorge, former Cuban Ministry of Interior Official, prepared state- ment of ........................................................................................................... 31 Mica, Hon. John L., a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida, U.S. Customs Service Caribbean staffing information ................ 126 Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana, a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida, prepared statement of .................................................................... 15 Varrone, John C., Executive Director, Operations, East, U.S. Customs Service, prepared statement of .................................................................... 109 (III) VerDate 11-MAY-2000 09:53 Feb 15, 2001 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 C:\DOCS\69521.TXT HGOVREF1 PsN: HGOVREF1 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 09:53 Feb 15, 2001 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 C:\DOCS\69521.TXT HGOVREF1 PsN: HGOVREF1 DRUG TRAFFICKING IN THE CARIBBEAN: DO TRAFFICKERS USE CUBA AND PUERTO RICO AS MAJOR TRANSIT LOCATIONS FOR UNITED STATES-BOUND NARCOTICS? MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 2000 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM, Miami, FL. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 1:23 p.m., in the Com- mission Chambers, Sweetwater City Hall, 500 S.W. 109th Avenue, Miami, FL, Hon. Dan Burton (chairman of the committee) presid- ing. Present: Representatives Burton, Gilman, Ros-Lehtinen, Mica, and Ose. Also present: Representative Diaz-Balart. Staff present: James C. Wilson, chief counsel; Kevin Long and Gil Macklin, professional staff members; Kristi Remington, senior counsel; Lisa Smith Arafune, chief clerk; Maria Tamburri, staff as- sistant; and Michael J. Yeager, minority counsel. Mr. BURTON. Good afternoon. A quorum being present, the Com- mittee on Government Reform will now come to order. I ask unanimous consent that all materials, exhibits or other ex- traneous materials referred to in the course of this hearing be in- cluded in the record. Without objection, it is so ordered. I also ask unanimous consent that the Congressmen who are not members of this committee be allowed to participate in this hear- ing. Without objection, it is so ordered. Before I go to my opening statement, I would like to state that not only is the chairman of the Government Reform Committee here and other members, but also the chairman of the Inter- national Relations Committee, Mr. Ben Gilman is here. So this is a very important hearing for southern Florida and for the United States, because it bears on not only an important subject, but it also is important enough to have two committees represented here today. I want to thank everybody in south Florida for allowing us to be here. Everyone today will be able to say that they are part of a his- toric event. This is the first congressional hearing of the new mil- lennium and it is being broadcast live into Cuba on Radio Marti so Fidel Castro and the people of Cuba will be hearing what we say today and what we find. And if he blocks it, I hope Radio Marti will rebroadcast it again and again so that the people of Cuba will hear the facts. (1) VerDate 11-MAY-2000 09:53 Feb 15, 2001 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 C:\DOCS\69521.TXT HGOVREF1 PsN: HGOVREF1 2 The topic of the hearing is drug trafficking in the Caribbean; spe- cifically, do traffickers use Cuba and Puerto Rico as major transit points for United States-bound narcotics? Fidel Castro’s longstand- ing participation in international drug trafficking is well-docu- mented, as is Cuba’s notorious state sponsorship of terrorism. Un- fortunately for the American people, President Clinton has chosen to ignore these facts and proceed down the trail of normalization with a totalitarian drug-running Castro dictatorship. In November, the Clinton-Gore administration refused to put Cuba on the major drug list of countries that substantially impact the United States. Just last week, the State Department informed my staff that they are going to send a United States Coast Guard officer to Cuba to be a liaison with the Castro government on drug trafficking matters. That’s very curious to me since Castro is deep- ly involved in the drug trafficking himself. These decisions were clearly rooted in politics rather than determined by the facts. The stained foreign policy legacy of this administration has never been more evident. The Clinton administration has turned its back on American children in order to normalize relations with Fidel Castro, a brutal dictator who is helping flood American streets and school yards with deadly drugs, all the while lining his pockets with illicit drug money. The Clinton-Gore legacy will be an entire generation of Ameri- cans subjected to dramatically increased drug use as well as record numbers of drug addicts and overdose deaths. This has already happened in places like Baltimore, MD where 1 out of 17 citizens— 1 out
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