Obligatory “drug war” post for the week
“[The drug war] is like a stationary bike. You look up and around and you’re in the same place. The scenary’s changed but the problem persists.”
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, quoted in Pan-American Post.
The politics of the Barack Obama Government in this matter have scrupulously followed the Nixonian model. And every time the president has a political problem, he invokes Mexican drug cartels as a threat of “national dimensions” to ask Congress for fresh resources – without, however, cutting off support for the multinational corporations making billions on “war on drugs” related business. In 2006, the weakness of the spurious Felipe Calderón [administration] allowed Washington to maximize its domination of Mexico while expanding its business network here.
Luis Javier Garrido in La Jornada (Halszka Czarnocka, trans).
mexfiles.net 