Ex-US ambassador’s fears of narco-influence prompted DEA request

Former Ambassador to Guyana Roland Bullen

Former US Ambassador to Guyana Roland Bullen made a case for the establishment of a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) office here, warning that the influence of narco-trafficking was creating conditions for the emergence of a narco-state.

“The level of narco-trafficking influence on the political, judicial and economic systems in Guyana creates ripe conditions for the emergence of a narco-state,” Bullen said in a May 24, 2006 cable,