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Headlines : War on DrugsWar On Drugs: Failed
The U.S. is giving up on “Plan Columbia” their plan for a war on drugs in Columbia. Money wasted so far is $3 billion. The healh effects of the poison used to destroy coca bushes are being felt throughout the country. After all this the drug production there shows no signs of decreasing . If that wasn’t enough, this article also states that five U.S. soldiers were caught trying to smuggle 16 kilos of cocaine into the U.S. Failed? Yeah I’d say that is a pretty good assessment.
[Posted By nomadrock]Republished from The Indepedent
Washington’s “war on drugs” in Colombia is collapsing in chaos and corruption, and the drug producers are winning. The so-called Plan Colombia, which has cost the US more than $3bn (£1.6bn) in the past five years, is being abandoned, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced.
Last year, the hugely expensive effort to poison coca bushes – whose leaves are the source of cocaine – by aerial spraying ended in failure. More bushes were flourishing in January this year than in January 2004.
Meanwhile, complaints have multiplied about the damage done by the chemical poisons to the health of humans, especially children, as well as to livestock, fish and the environment.
Plan Colombia was designed to eradicate narcotics, control powerful left-wing guerrillas and strengthen the position of the US military in South America. The scheme was eventually expected to cost $7.5bn.
The government of Colombia, the world’s principal source of cocaine, has sent out an emergency appeal to the Bush administration for an extra $130m to supplement the $600m it expects to receive in 2006 under Plan Colombia.
The extra money, the Colombians insist, is needed for more aircraft to increase the government’s capacity to spray poison on the jungle patches where coca bushes grow.
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Posted by nomadrock
Colombia is spelled with an O!
clickableSo long as the Yanks can trade ‘surplus’ munitions for cocaine; so long as peasants are driven off the land to let oil and mining interests explore;
how then can Plan Colombia be considered a failure?
It doesn’t live up to its packaging?
Heyyyyy…. ever heard of Ollie North? Maybe we should stop portraying the end of Plan Colombia as a failure in the War on Drugs and instead show it for what it really is: A victory for those forces who seek to control their piece of the cocalogical pie. The drug juice is flowing and there’s money to be had, huzzah!
SPK <3 Mike Ruppert
“Drug profits have also corrupted US troops stationed in Colombia. This month a US Green Beret lieutenant-colonel and a sergeant were caught selling 32,900 rounds of ammunition to the right-wing death squads who are flush with drug profits.”
AHAHAHAHA Look at the spin on THAT one. Drug profits have “corrupted US troops stationed in Colombia? Why does this particular journalist THINK they’re in Colombia in the first place? What an absolute load of garbage. Investigative journalism is spinning in its grave right now.
Okay, so they are giving up on Colombia, but what about the extension to this project brought on by Bush Jr. ? Are they abandoning killing Bolivia and Peru (I believe there was a third as well)?
The only reason that the U.S. wants to make the supply of cocaine less is to cause the price to go up. This creates more profits for the mob controlled U.S. government and the money laundering banking industry.