Sealing of warehouse by Fresnel Jean-Baptiste and Fritz Gerard Chery

Smuggling is a punishable crime of transporting goods, and even individuals, illegally or without lawful means. This has been a growing global problem for countries that rely on the import and export exchange market. Smugglers cheat their way in without paying the proper taxes and their illegal merchandise such as drugs, firearms, and other contrabands.

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The Caribbean is known for its growing smuggling problem because of the easy back-and-forth transportation between islands which lack sufficient security and checkpoints, most especially to Florida. In Haiti, smuggling has been quite rampant with discovered contrabands such as cocaine and guns that were easily entered to the country.

With this alarming situation, Haiti's Director General of the General Administration of Customs Fresnel Jean-Baptiste, along with the government's Deputy Commissioner Fritz Gerard Chéry have recently launched their campaign against smuggling. They were able to close a warehouse full of suspected contrabands. This action taken by Jean-Baptiste and Chéry will be the stepping stone of a more effective and proper way of defeating smuggling in Haiti, which is strongly supported by newly-elected Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe.

Despite these ongoing efforts by Haitian government officials which have proven their worth, Haiti is still a long way in solving its smuggling troubles. Aside from the growing number of illegal goods imported and exported from the Caribbean, human trafficking has also worsened in these areas. Several children and women have been victimized of this illegal trade and the government should immediately act on it before more victims are smuggled for prostitution.

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