NARCOCLEPTOCRACY

Columbia has been consumed by a drug war since the 1969. Forty years later the best solutions have resulted in bumper crops, drug lords flush with cash, and our number one declared enemy stronger than ever. How is this possible? Lets examining some particular facts then you decide, first however we must take a few steps back in time:

1960-70's Vietnam Era
"It was widely alleged among various veterans that the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in smuggling opium produced in Western Vietnam and Eastern Cambodia to heroin producers in the United States at considerable[clarification needed] profit. In the book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, Alfred W. McCoy, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, provides evidence of the use of opium by agents of the U.S. Government to fund covert operations in Vietnam. McCoy discusses the use of opium to fund covert operations done by the CIA in Vietnam and provides prolific testimony from interviews with many of the principals involved.[2] According to Dr. McCoy, the agency intimidated his sources and tried to keep the book from being published.
(Wikipedia citation: CIA DRUG TRAFFICKING

1979-1980's Afghanistan Part I
It was alleged by the Soviets on multiple occasions[citation needed] that American CIA agents were helping smuggle opium out of Afghanistan, either into the West, in order to raise money for the Afghan resistance or into the Soviet Union in order to weaken it through drug addiction.

According to historian Alfred W. McCoy, the CIA supported various Afghan drug lords, for instance Gulbuddin Hekmatyar . In particular, McCoy stated that:

"In most cases, the CI A's role involved various forms of complicity, tolerance or studied ignorance about the trade, not any direct culpability in the actual trafficking ... [t]he CIA did not handle heroin, but it did provide its drug-lord allies with transport, arms, and political protection. In sum, the CIA's role in the Southeast Asian heroin trade involved indirect complicity rather than direct culpability."
(ibid)

1980's The Los Angeles Crack Explosion / Iran Contra Affair
John Kerry (Dem) head of the Congressioinal inquiriry into allegations of CIA drug trafficking in Central and South America concluded:

that "the Contra drug links included...payments to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department of funds authorized by the Congress for humanitarian assistance to the Contras, in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law enforcement agencies on drug charges, in others while traffickers were under active investigation by these same agencies."[3] The US State Department paid over $806,000 to known drug traffickers to carry humanitarian assistance to the Contras (emphasis mine)
J.Kerry Committee Report April 13 1989

2002-2009 Afghanistan Part II
The United States and multiple members of NATO such as the UK totally overthrew the existing Taliban regime (who coincidentally had totally outlawed growing poppies), eradicated all known Al Qaeda operations, and installed a new so-called "democratic" government, police force and army.

Today Afghanistan remains the worlds number one producer of Heroin for the entire world producing more than 75% of the worlds supply in excess of what is needed for medical purposes. The production is so successful that there is a Heroin bumper crop every year since the allied invasion, and it is widely reported by government agencies that the Taliban and other hostile groups are flush with cash from these drug sales.

How can we find Bin Laden and his deputies when we cant find the acres and acres of poppy fields growing openly in Afghanistan, and being sold by Taliban and other groups fighting Packist and the Afghan government?



1990's Venezuela before Hugo Chavez
In November 1993, Judge Robert C. Bonner, the former head of the DEA, appeared on 60 Minutes and alleged that the CIA had permitted a ton of cocaine to enter the United States.
The New York Times reported:
“ The CIA - over the objections of the Drug Enforcement Administration, a branch of the Justice Department - approved the shipment of at least one ton of nearly pure cocaine to Miami International Airport as a way of gathering information about the Colombian drug cartels. But the cocaine ended up on the street because of "poor judgment and management on the part of several CIA officers," the intelligence agency said.

In November 1996 a Miami jury indicted former Venezuelan anti-narcotics chief and CIA asset, General Ramon Guillen Davila, who "led a CIA counter-narcotics program that put a ton of cocaine on U.S. streets in 1990." The internal fallout however contributed to a military coup by Hugo Chavez in 1992, and his eventual popular election in 1998, 2000 and 2006. It is alleged that the CIA supported groups who attempted to assisinate him in 2002, creating a public debacle surrounding the Bush Administration.

1950's - 1980' Panama and Manuel Noriega
The brief invasion of Panama without UN authorization and in violation of current UN conventions baffled many. One day we woke up and the US Army was in Panama, with the stated goal: capture Public Enemy Numer 1 MANUEL NORIEGA. Apparently he had fallen out of favor with the CIA and so the in fact accused him of the very crimes they aided him in committing for decades:

Senator John Kerry's 1988 Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations concluded that "the saga of Panama's General Manuel Antonio Noriega represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures for the United States. Throughout the 1970s and the 1980s, Noriega was able to manipulate U.S. policy toward his country, while skillfully accumulating near-absolute power in Panama. It is clear that each U.S. government agency which had a relationship with Noriega turned a blind eye to his corruption and drug dealing, even as he was emerging as a key player on behalf of the Medellín Cartel (a member of which was notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar)." Manuel Noriega was allowed to establish "the hemisphere's first 'narcokleptocracy'".

2002-2009 Afghanistan Part II
The United States and multiple members of NATO such as the UK totally overthrew the exhisting Taliban regime (who coincidentally had totally outlawed growing poppies), erradicated all known Al Qaeda operations, and installed a new so-called "democratic" government, police force and army.

Today Afghanistan remains the worlds number one producer of Heroin for the entire world producing more than 75% of the worlds supply in excess of what is needed for medical purposes. The production is so successful that there is a Heroin bumper crop every year since the allied invasion, and it is widely reported by government agencies that the Taliban and other hostile groups are flush with cash from these drug sales.

How can we find Bin Laden and his deputies when we cant find the acres and acres of poppy fields growing openly in Afghanistan, and being sold by Taliban and other groups fighting Packistan and the Afghan government?

2009 ColumbiaWhen we speak of the state of Columbia we have come full circle to where the drug war really took on its current militant form that you see today. Pablo Escobar epitomized what a narco-terrorist is and the damage a committed, well funded and organized group can do when in direct confrontatoin with the government.

While the US was eventually able to remove Pablo after considerable loss of life, the US governments actions spawned a new breed of militants. After multiple failures to capture Pablo Escobar the local military formed a group called "los Pepes". This was not officially recognized by the US agencies however it is known that the Los Pepes consisted of DEA trained, black ops vigilantes who operated outside the rule of law, executing, torturing and eliminating anyone associated with Pablo Escobar.

In the end the members of Los Pepes disentigrated into a soup of militant bosses making up the bulk of narco-terrorists being fought in Columbia today. The CIA and DEA created multiple "frankienstiens" similar to Pablo: Diego Murillo-Bejarano aka "Don Berna leader of the rebel AUC, Manuel Noriega and Felix Arroyano but unlike Pablo, their still alive and in business.

The war on drugs has metamorphosized like a hydra that sprouts cartel bosses and drug dealing Jihadists, flush with weapons, money, men, a fearful public, corrupt government officials and a hungry world demand for their dope.

As part of PLAN COLUMBIA, the U.S. Government funded coca eradication through private contractors such as DynCorp and helped train the Colombian armed forces to eradicate coca and fight left-wing guerrillas such as the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and right-wing paramilitaries such as the AUC (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia), both of which have been accused of participating in the illegal drug trade in their areas of influence. Private U.S. enterprises have signed contracts to carry out anti-drug activities as part of Plan Colombia. DynCorp, the largest private company involved, was among those contracted by the State Department, while others signed contracts with the Defense Department.

Once again however the Bush II administration found a way to get US corporations involved in runing our wars. Only in the twisted Bush mind would you rationalize paying a FOR PROFIT COMPANY to erradicate cocaine in Columbia, and other parts of South America. Please refer to the Columbian presidents speach for and update on the success of this 40 year old "war".

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