Bolivia Calls the DEA's Drug War a Total Failure

[Catherina]

SATURDAY 25 MAY 2013

Bolivia Calls the DEA's Drug War a Total Failure



24/05/13.- Bolivia's government today described the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) war on drugs in Latin America as a failure.

At a press conference, the Minister of the Presidency, Juan Ramón Quintana accused the institution of being responsible for thousands of deaths, money laundering and increased arms sales in the region.

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"What are the DEA's achievement in 40 years? About 70,000 people dead in Mexico, more than 150,000 people dead in Central America, selling weapons, more drug trafficking, more money laundering. 40 years of failure," he said.

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The day before, more than three weeks after President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington ordered the removal of the Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS), which had operated in the country for over 40 years.

The president stated that USAID committed acts of conspiracy and political interference in the peasant unions and other social organizations to destabilize his government, as had the US Embassy.

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[SamKnause]

1. Drug War

Any one with a functioning brain is well aware of the dismal failure of the 'fake and failed war on drugs'.

The banks love the 'fake and failed war on drugs'.

The CIA loves the 'fake and failed war on drugs'.

The private prison industry loves the 'fake and failed war on drugs'.

Weapons manufacturers love the 'fake and failed war on drugs'.

Pharmaceutical companies love the 'fake and failed war on drugs'.

The United States government is corrupt and has infested the entire globe with their epic failures on this issue and many others.

I look forward to the day that the majority of countries in the world ignore what the U.S. has to say.

[Judi Lynn]

2. So good seeing the comments from Evo Morales.

It had to be horribly disappointing to realize so reluctantly the great hope we all had for our Democratic President would dissipate so painfully, flushing all the anticipation we had for the beginning of world-transforming change away. Of course, who will ever know what would have happened had the right-wing deviants in Congress not have had the power they did to do evil, to destroy all opportunity for progress.

Hope President Morales will come to know how important his appearance on the earth has been at the time his country needed him so much. His hard work, with that of his supporters has brought Bolivia light years out of the hell for the majority of Bolivians, created by the racist fascists, all supported by the U.S. prior to his election.

May he be spared all interruptions, disease, "accidents," and assassinations. His compatriots do need him.

[ocpagu]

3. Great statements by the Bolivian government.

There's no other to call this, but a total failure. Wonderful to see the small countries of Latin America not feeling intimidated for saying "no" to the US. More power to them.