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Kendrick Meek: “Let me just say this, there is a footprint of drug activity in the Caribbean. So that means that you have well-financed…”

On the recordMarch 3, 2004
Let me just say this, there is a footprint of drug activity in the Caribbean. So that means that you have well-financed individuals that have guns that have now been green-lighted by this administration, that it is okay. And if I were the prime minister of any country in that area, I would be very concerned. You would assume that the U.S. would help put a stop to this kind of thing. This is the vacation capital of the Caribbean. They are not used to worrying about coups and all these little different things. But if they watch very slowly over a 4-week period, drug dealers, known criminals, thugs going through Haiti and if you notice as they are starting to progress, they are getting body armor, helmets, fully automatic AR-15s, M-16s.
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Kendrick Meek
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Discussing drug activity and security concerns in the Caribbean.

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