[ColoenlCassad] Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Text taken from the V Kontakte page of Oleg Yasinsky
In Mexico, for every drug-related death, there are 12 "war on drugs" deaths, most of them bystanders.
Drug trafficking controls the government, which declared war on drug trafficking 17 years ago. In most of the provinces, the real power is in the hands of armed gangs of drug cartels. In recent years, the Mexican cartels have become full-fledged multinational corporations and control business in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador, and in recent years there has been an inauguration of their criminal activities in Chile. Thousands of yesterday's military are hired by the cartels on salaries many times higher than the previous ones, and tens of thousands of police officers have been transferred to the army to increase its combat capability.
The murders and kidnappings of social leaders, along with journalists who are inconvenient for the authorities, are attributed to organized crime, without mentioning that it is organized and armed from above, and precisely by those whose duty it is to fight it.
The number of victims of the “war on drugs” in Mexico, officially launched by the government in 2006, according to official figures, from January 2006 to May 2021, is about 35,000 people, a figure that does not include 72,000 Mexicans who remain among the “missing,” that is, the abducted, murdered and secretly buried, those whose bodies are found almost every week in a country that has become a giant mass grave. The real criminals among those killed in clashes between clans and with the police - no more than 15% of the total, the rest are passers-by and suspected of collaborating with the authorities.
Although the power at its very top - the level of the DEA, the Drug Enforcement Administration, subordinate to the US Department of Justice - is more like a business administrator than an enemy. The United States is the main customer of drugs and their distributors - the main beneficiary of the business, from which the producing countries, in addition to hundreds of thousands of dead, have no more than 5% of the profit.
All prohibitions and all military operations against drug trafficking are more like a theater to maintain high market prices. In Colombia, the coca growing areas are the area with the most dense military and police presence. The Colombian army and police are forces directly funded by the United States. The pro-American government of the country created a model of agriculture, in which it is not profitable for starving peasants to grow anything but coca,
It is said that the weekly income of the average Peruvian cartel is several times higher than the entire state budget for the fight against drugs. Drug trafficking actively participates in democracy, financing presidential elections in most countries of Latin America, and often at the same time politically opposing forces.
Among other things, drug trafficking is an ideal pretext for constant US military and political interference in the affairs of any of the countries in the region. And if you dig a little deeper into the cesspool of history - the drug cartels in Latin America are the same trouble-free product of the US intelligence services as Al Qaeda, ISIS or the Kiev government.
The solution to the problem of drug trafficking and the related international mega-business lies not in increasing repression, but in creating decent living conditions for the population of raw material-producing countries and in changing the values of consumer societies. Instead of wanting a chemical escape from an unbearable possibility, people should feel the need to change it.
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