US drug czar to form team in Colombia .

[Judi Lynn]

US drug czar to form team in Colombia .
Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:48 Joey O'Gorman

U.S. "drug czar" Gil Kerlikowske is to form a team in Colombia to renew efforts against drug trafficking, reported local media Tuesday.

Colombia's police director General Jose Roberto Leon Riaño met on Tuesday with Kerlikowske, the U.S. Director of National Drug Control Policy, to discuss a strategy to combat the drug issue as well as implement a new preventative policy in regards to consumers that are considered addicts, said Radio Santa Fe.

They agreed to confirm the bi-national team which will work on reviewing the efforts against the cultivation, processing, production and narco-trafficking from Colombia to the exterior.

According to Caracol Radio, figures from the U.S. Department of State place Colombia as the origin of 95% of the cocaine consumed in the U.S.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/26063-us-drug-czar-to-form-team-in-colombia.html

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1. Fool. nt

[Peace Patriot]

2. "Czar," huh. That means oblivious to the sufferings of millions of people from war and poverty

as well as inherited and extremely unjust wealth and privilege.

The last Czar got over a million Russians slaughtered in the most insanely stupid war ever concocted by the 1%, as well as acting the absolute monarch in a country that cried out for social justice and democratization.

"Czar": An appropriate description of Gil Kerlikowske and his ilk and what they do--the insanely stupid and horribly fascist and bloody U.S. "war on drugs." Even untwisted from the perverse objectives of the Bush Junta (consolidation of the trillion+ dollar cocaine revenue stream to certain beneficiaries), the "war on drugs" is horrible. And I have my suspicions that not enough of the small players (such as the FIVE MILLION peasant farmers brutally displaced from their lands, under Bush/Uribe junta policy) have been eliminated--more needs to be done--for Big Pharma's big legalization/monopoly move. Criminy, the president of Colombia has called for legalization and still this war and its profiteers go on!

It's hard to choose between the war/corruption of oil theft and the war, corruption, lies, hypocrisy and sheer carnage of the "war on drugs." I would put them equal as to destruction of society and civility, and might even put the "war on drugs" above the war on Iraq, all things considered (U.S.--highest imprisonment rate in the world, things like that), lo, these forty+ years of fascism, militarism, murder, imprisonment and other horrors inflicted by the U.S. "war on drugs" throughout Latin America, here and elsewhere.

"Czar," indeed. It takes a bloody tyrant, in love with his own privileges, to buy this horrible policy and inflict it on others.

Note: I wonder if U.S. war profiteers are grooming Colombia's police director General Jose Roberto Leon Riaño to become president of Colombia, when Santos, who supports legalization, leaves office. I do think there is something of a struggle going on between Big Pharma and Big Military as to strategies of profiteering from medicinal and recreational plants.