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My theory on Colombia is that the Bush Cartel used the U.S. "war on drugs" to consolidate the trillion+ dollar cocaine trade into fewer hands and to control this huge revenue stream through the favored big drug networks. Alvaro Uribe was the 'mafia' don whom the Bushwhacks put in place as president of Colombia to get this done. Note: The militarists have been "fighting the drug trade" for decades, in recent years with massive funds and military assistance from U.S. taxpayers, and the cocaine just keeps on flowing out of Colombia.
There are some other purposes of the U.S. "war on drugs" in Colombia, one of them being to prep the country for U.S. "free trade for the rich." Uribe's military and his paramilitary death squads targeted trade union leaders and other leaders and advocates of the poor. Uribe used the country's spy agency, DAS, directly aided and abetted by the U.S. embassy, to spy on threats to "free trade for the rich" and draw up hit lists for the death squads. The U.S. military was active in this carnage, with drone bombings, "training" and "advising" the Colombian military, on the ground presence at many military bases and very possibly direct participation in some of the massacres. FIVE MILLION peasant farmers were driven from their lands by state terror and thousands of poor people, especially labor and community leaders, have been murdered.
Something similar may be going on in Mexico. This was a Bush Junta pet project--to infuse billions of our tax dollars into creating murder and mayhem in Mexico via the U.S. "war on drugs." It was one of their final and most awful acts with regard to Latin America (but do notice how the Democratic Party leadership bends over for this kind of corruption). Part of the reason they targeted Mexico is that their operative, Calderon, has not been able to achieve his main mission--to privatize Mexico's oil. There is too much of a leftist majority in Mexico which adamantly opposes privatization. Thus, the Bush Junta strategy was to create conditions that favor militarists and rightwingers, to foster a climate of repression and fear and to prevent a leftist government from being elected and making oil privatization and other lootings of the Mexican people all the more difficult.
The "war on drugs" is also a means of taking away Mexicans' civil rights, as they have done with the Patriot Act and the militarization of our police forces here. When "the feds" can spy on you, can kick in your door and arrest you and seize your property and even shoot you, on suspicion of drug trafficking, they can do anything, really. The Corporate Rulers now have many tools with which to shut us up--the "war on drugs," the "war on terror," the militarization of the police, the denial of the right to assemble, the denial of the right to petition our government, denial of the right to even speak to our government leaders--with layers and layers of buffer between us and them--and so on. (--not to mention corporate control of the 'TRADE SECRET' voting systems all over the U.S., with evidence that Calderon was installed by electronic election fraudulence at the top of their system--i.e., Mexicans vote on paper but the tallies are now done in secret by corporate powers; Calderon 'won' by only 0.05% against an FDR-style leftist).
A third reason for this giveaway of billions of our tax dollars to U.S. and Mexican military contractors was/is sheer war profiteering.
As for the drug trade, I believe they are trying to eliminate the small or uncooperative drug networks, in favor of a consolidation of the drug traffic and its huge revenues, as in Colombia. This fosters two kinds of mayhem--favored vs disfavored drug gangs at war with each other, and the "state" at war with the smaller, or independent, or non-cooperating drug networks.
Some of the above may be why most Mexicans believe that this Interior Secretary and the last one were assassinated. (Both died in air crashes.) The Interior Secretary runs the "war on drugs." One possibility is that they were assassinated by either disfavored drug lords (the ones who wouldn't "play ball") or by the Bush Cartel/CIA for some violation of the secret pacts that are involved. Another possibility: one or both were trying to set up their own 'mafia' (such as Uribe had in Colombia)--as opposed to the Bush Cartel/CIA operation. It is also possible that one or both were good guys, who were, say, going after favored and disfavored drug bosses even-handedly, or, say, were trying to protect Mexico's sovereignty or Mexicans' civil rights (weren't doing 'their job' re the billions of U.S. tax dollars shoved in their direction).
I think that the U.S. "war on drugs" is totally, totally, TOTALLY corrupt. It's "Alice in Wonderland"--everything is upside down, inside out and backwards. There is nothing good about it. NOTHING!
After having followed the news out of Colombia over the last decade (and having "read between the lines" quite a lot), it seems very clear to me that the U.S. has been engaged in yet another evil, dishonest, unjust, horrendous war and the most amazing thing about it is that NOBODY HERE KNOWS THAT WE HAVE BEEN AT WAR IN COLOMBIA.
My conclusion about Mexico is that now we are engaged in a similar evil, dishonest, unjust, horrendous war in Mexico as well. The U.S. "war on drugs" is not a war for anything good. It is the opposite. It is a war for evil purposes, conducted by evil men, with the war profiteers and the corporate resource thieves are the main beneficiaries.
One final thought about this Interior Secretary "...leading Calderon's offensive against organized crime." Our capitalistic system has become "organized crime." That is the bigger picture. The illegal drug trade is just one aspect of this overall criminal organization that is running everything. And one of the purposes of gaining control of the trillion+ dollar illicit drug revenues is to PROP UP this system--for instance, by running this massive revenue stream through the banksters' pockets. We shouldn't wonder why this INSANE policy--the "war on drugs"--is continuing. Common sense and good government policy are NOT relevant to the discussion because of WHO is profiting.
I don't know the solution to this horrendous corruption--although I do believe that I know where the solution begins: by throwing the corporate-run electronic voting machines into 'Boston Harbor' where they belong. That is the beginning of all solutions.
OF COURSE drugs should be legalized--and the justice system completely removed from the drug "problem." But this is NEVER going to happen--common sense is NEVER going to be employed--until we get back control of our democracy. And the first step to doing that is to get our vote counting back into the PUBLIC venue, so that we can start electing non-corrupt leaders who actually represent the interests of the people of this country.
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