Tag: Drugs

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2007-03-26 "Slavery is a booming international trade, less obvious than 200 years ago for sure, but all around us".
-- Antonio Maria Costa, U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime's Executive Director, on the 200th anniversary of trans-Atlantic slave trade's abolition
2007-02-13 In Peru, defense Minister Allan Wagner announced four new operations for the country's armed forces:
• Plan VRAE (for the Spanish acronym of the Apurimac-Ene River Valley)
• Plan Huallaga
• Plan Putumayo (near the Colombian-Peruvian jungle border)
• Plan Costa Norte ("Plan North Coast").

These initiatives aim to combat the remnants of the Shining Path, but also to fight the trafficking of illegal drugs, people and contraband
2006-09 "Foreign pressures are making Afghanistan the turf for proxy wars. The country is being destabilized by an inflow of insurgents and weapons and money and intelligence. There is collusion from neighboring countries, and this is a problem in itself."
-- Antonio Maria Costa, head of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, stated in testimony at the House International Relations Committee of the US Congress in Washington
2006-03-01 Colombia is the source of 90 percent of the cocaine entering the United States
2006 Figures from the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drugs Addiction revealed Britain is in the top three EU nations for the number of cocaine users.
1997 CIA assets again controlled this heroin trade. As the Mujahideen guerrillas seized territory inside Afghanistan, they ordered peasants to plant opium as a revolutionary tax. Across the border in Pakistan, Afghan leaders and local syndicates under the protection of Pakistan Intelligence operated hundreds of heroin laboratories. During this decade of wide-open drug-dealing, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency in Islamabad failed to instigate major seizures or arrests ... U.S. officials had refused to investigate charges of heroin dealing by its Afghan allies `because U.S. narcotics policy in Afghanistan has been subordinated to the war against Soviet influence there.' In 1995, the former CIA director of the Afghan operation, Charles Cogan, admitted the CIA had indeed sacrificed the drug war to fight the Cold War. `Our main mission was to do as much damage as possible to the Soviets. We didn't really have the resources or the time to devote to an investigation of the drug trade,'... `I don't think that we need to apologize for this. Every situation has its fallout.... There was fallout in terms of drugs, yes. But the main objective was accomplished. The Soviets left Afghanistan.'
-- Alfred McCoy, Drug fallout: the CIA's Forty Year Complicity in the Narcotics Trade. The Progressive; 1 August 1997.
1989-09-07 Milton Friedman writes an "Open Letter" to then drug czar Bill Bennett" in the Wall Street Journal in which Friedman called for drug legalization.
The USA will legalize drugs

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