The United States is still considering setting up a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) office here, according to Julissa Reynoso, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central America and the Caribbean in the US State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
“It is something that is under consideration,” Reynoso told Stabroek News in an interview last Thursday, where she also said that the US government’s expects to up assistance to Guyana in security as part of its commitment to the Caribbean region over the next year.
In a 2006, former US Ambassador to Guyana Roland Bullen had made a case to Washington for the establishment of a DEA office here, warning that the level of narco-trafficking influence on the
