(The Center Square) – Bipartisan legislation to strengthen security and combat corruption and drug trafficking in the Caribbean has been introduced in the U.S. Senate.
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(The Center Square) – Bipartisan legislation to strengthen security and combat corruption and drug trafficking in the Caribbean has been introduced in the U.S. Senate.
Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va. and John Cornyn, R-Texas, introduced the Caribbean Basin Security Authorization Act, which aims to “improve security cooperation, combat drug trafficking, strengthen the rule of law, counter malign influence from China and Russia, and expand natural disaster resilience” around the Caribbean.
The senators say the legislation would “boost support” for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative. This foreign assistance program includes Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
