Guatemala president orders army to join drugs fight
One day after his inauguration, Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has ordered the army to join the fight against drug cartels.
Get ready to start reading death counts.
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How many fragile democracies do we actually have on this planet that haven’t yet realized how easy it is to start an un-winnable war at an horrific cost to it’s civil population? It’s a human tragedy!
And there goes more budgeting for the ONDCP,,I hope the Ways and Means committee is feeling the pinch when the budget hearings start up.
Guatemala is so bad already, this will hardly make a difference.
The war on drugs is a convenient tool for dictators.
So is the war on terror.
Notice, neither war has accomplished it’s main goals – the reduction of the thing we are at war against. In fact, the evidence shows that these wars create more of the very thing they were created to eliminate.
Was that the point? Is the whole “war” routine a ploy which allows governments to gain power and kill their political foes (along with thousands of innocents)?
You betcha.
“And in Mexico, the military has been part of the war on drugs for more than five years, ever since it was deployed by President Felipe Calderon in December 2006.”
And how has that approach worked out for Mexico? I don’t follow the news very closely, but I’m guessing it must have been a tremendous success. I mean, why else would you emulate it?
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It certainly has been a success Francis. The cartel which employs Señor Calderon has increased market share over 37% in the last 5 years! Several of their smaller competitors have folded up the tents and the rest are hunkered down. As soon as the corrupt officials that are protecting the competition are eliminated it should have a monopoly. Now I’m just speculating, but perhaps this Guatemala thing is actually expansion rather than a discrete event?
It all depends on what you mean the word “success” to mean.
OT: Dylan Ratigan brands the drug war as racist.
They’re finally getting it. We’ve been hammering, hammering, hammering that particular nail for over a decade, and just like with our pounding the ‘prohibition’ nail, the MSM began to pick it up. Keep it up, folks, because this is the sort of bullet the prohibs cannot dodge.
There are some people really pounding the Ron Paul is a racist meme. It’s very sad.
gary younge covered the racial disparity in jail inmate numbers in the guardian yesterday without linking it to the wosd. an extraordinary omission. this enabled every racist on the internet to claim that figures meerly reflect greater “criminality” amongst blacks completely dodging the core racial targetting of the wosd. glad to see the full story addressed in this article
The leaders of the GOP are probably behind some of it,,the last thing they want is for America to pick RP and force them to make history disqualifying him.
We still might see Dr. Paul on the Libertarian ticket. It ain’t over ’til it’s over.
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I sometimes read calls for the US to use its military as well, as if the reason that the war on drugs fails is a lack of firepower. You’ll run out of bombs before you run out of people willing to smuggle drugs. The only thing you do get when you use the armed forces in this way is a military that’s corrupted by drug money.