The war on drugs is just a powergrab by big business and the US Intel services. Obama is merely doing their bidding.
The Merida Initiative which provides military hardware like Bell and Blackhawk helicopters and CASA coastal patrol planes is not working. Mexico is a more dangerous place today than it was three years ago and with 35,000 dead, the Global Commission on Drug Reform says the war on drugs is a complete waste.
But it's making big money which is why it won't be abandoned. Writing in CounterPunch, the director of the Americas Policy Program in Mexico City Laura Carlsen says: "The drug war has become the major vehicle of militarization in Latin America. It's a vehicle funded and driven by the U.S. government and fueled by a combination of false morals, hypocrisy and a lot of cold, hard fear. The so called "war on drugs" is really a war on people, especially youth, women, indigenous peoples and dissidents. The drug war has become the main way for the Pentagon to occupy and control countries at the expense of whole societies and many, many lives … The drug war is a model designed to repress populations and militarize other countries."
Lawrence M Vance at the Future of Freedom Foundation says Mexico is now crawling with US Intel agents. "The DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) has more than 60 agents in Mexico. There are in addition 40 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, 20 Marshal Service deputies, and 18 Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents, plus agents from the FBI, Citizen and Immigration Service, Customs and Border Protection, Secret Service, Coast Guard, and Transportation Safety Agency. The State Department also maintains a Narcotics Affairs Section. The United States has also provided helicopters, drug sniffing dogs, and polygraph units to screen law-enforcement applicants. US drones spy on cartel hideouts, and U.S. tracking beacons pinpoint suspect's cars and phones. US agents track beacons, trace cell-phone calls, read e-mails, study behavioral patterns of border incursions, follow smuggling routes, and process data about drug dealers, money launderers, and cartel bosses. According to a former Mexican anti-drug prosecutor, U.S. agents are not restricted from eavesdropping on anyone in Mexico by US laws that require judicial authority as long as they are not on U.S. territory and not bugging American citizens.
And guess who is making money out of this? It's the banks. Writing in Global Research, professor James Petras says drug money is helping drive US bank profits. "Drug profits, in the most basic sense, are secured through the ability of the cartels to launder and transfer billions of dollars through the US banking system. The scale and scope of the US banking-drug cartel alliance surpasses any other economic activity of the US private banking system. According to US Justice Department records, one bank alone, Wachovia Bank (now owned by Wells Fargo), laundered $378.3 billion dollars between May 1, 2004 and May 31, 2007. Every major bank in the US has served as an active financial partner of the murderous drug cartels – including Bank of America, Citibank, and JP Morgan, as well as overseas banks operating out of New York , Miami and Los Angeles , as well as London … The major agency of the US Treasury involved in investigating money laundering, the Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, deliberately ignored the blatant collaboration of US banks with drug terrorists, concentrating almost their entire staff and resources on enforcing sanctions against Iran . For seven years, Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey used his power as head of the Department for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence to pursue Israel 's phony "war on terrorism" against Iran , rather than shut down Wachovia's money-laundering operations with the Mexican drug terrorists. In this period of time an estimated 40,000 Mexican civilian have been killed by the cartels and the army.".
Which means basically that the White House pays the Mexican state and army to kill Mexicans suspected of drug trafficking but does nothing about the US financial accomplices to the drug trade.
This drug war is a fraud.
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