US special forces to help combat drug trafficking in Colombia's war-torn areas
Source: Colombia Reports
by Adriaan Alsema May 28, 2020
The United States embassy said Wednesday that American special forces will assist Colombias security forces in counter-narcotics operations in war-torn areas prioritized in the peace process.
The so-called Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) will carry out joint missions in what President Ivan Duque calls Future Zones, regions historically abandoned by the state and controlled by the FARC until their demobilization in 2017.
Four of these five areas are also major coca growing regions where dissident FARC factions and other illegal armed groups maintain control over the drug trade with increased help of Mexican drug cartel emissaries.
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US President Donald Trump announced these operations early last month as part of what Defense Secretary Mark Esper called a whole-of-government approach to combating the flow of illicit drugs into the United States and protecting the American people from their scourge.
Read more: https://colombiareports.com/us-special-forces-to-help-combat-drug-trafficking-in-colombias-war-torn-areas/
Ford_Prefect
(7,894 posts)At what point do we annex Columbia? Would it eventually become the 53rd state? (Y'know after Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands?)
sandensea
(21,624 posts)Neocons prefer to keep it under military occupation instead, while making sure the yayo keeps flowing (up another 10% to a record 1,000 tons last year).
The neocons are very much of the Roman Empire school of foreign policy.
The Mouth
(3,149 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,465 posts)Well be murdering civilians again like in the 80s.
Doug.Goodall
(1,241 posts)Anti-tank missiles are effective against low paid workers loading mamajuana into a trash compactor.
Ford_Prefect
(7,894 posts)"The only thing that could stay with [those aircraft] was a fighter jet, and each plane would carry about 15 metric tons of cocaine," Vigil added. "They landed them in the desert and if they lost the plane it was no big deal because they were buying them for about $800,000," an expense that could easily be made up by a single drug shipment.
"It's aircraft, commercial freighters, speedboats, you name it and they have it," Vigil said. "They never settle on one method of transportation or on one route. They're always exploring."
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