This report claims that the US military is secretly sending troops to fight drug traffickers in Haiti. Adm. Barrett is Director of Joint Interagency Task Force East in Key West, Florida, which was formed in 1994 to interdict drug trafficking. Barrett testifies to all the cooperative goings-on between the US military and law enforcers, as well as those of various other countries. So, let's throw even more of our tax dollars away, instead of using them to do something to better our own lives. Now it's right in your face.
All sides play the War On Some Drugs money-making game.
Drugs also make such a handy post-Cold War bogeyman now that Communism is no longer deemed a viable threat. This year, the US wants to spend even more. Haiti justice system staff across every employment segment suffer poor wages, including the military and the Executive branch of the government. No anti-narcotics legislation has been passed, and there were no convictions for drugs, not one, in 1999. Yet the US government wants to give even more funding to Haiti's crippled law enforcement structure.