A Cuban border police officer checks a suspicious package found on the shore near Havana in this Jan. 1999 file photo. In a letter by the National Association of Small Farmers published prominently on the back page of the Communist Party tabloid Granma, Cuba's small farmers pledged to help fight the communist island's incipient drug problem, saying they will watch out for and report others who grow, sell or use narcotics in the countryside. The association also acknowledged that drug packages dropped from low-flying planes in isolated coastal areas for transshipment to other countries are sometimes snatched away by third parties who then sell them on the island.