The Irony Of Trump’s New ‘War On Drugs’: Recalling The History Of CIA Narco Trafficking, by Tyler Durden

The CIA and various nefarious allies have a long history of trafficking drugs. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:

The Hill has recently estimated that some 10,000 American troops are currently supporting the Trump-ordered counternarcotics operations in the Caribbean.

At this point the military intervention has killed 27 people, including individuals who are likely not Venezuelan (for example, Colombia earlier said one of its boats was hit, and The Guardian now says two citizens of Trinidad and Tobago have been among the deceased). Many American forces among this new US build-up are likely deployed at Puerto Rico currently, as well as spread out among the US Navy’s eight ships stationed in regional waters.

President Trump’s most recent explanation to reporters for this unprecedented Pentagon build-up off Venezuela’s coast was surprisingly reminiscent of the failed “war on drugs” which hearkens all the way back to the days of Richard Nixon, when he famously declared it “public enemy number one”.

DEA head Robert Stutman with intercepted Medellin Cartel drugs at a press conference in 1988.

“They have emptied their prisons into the United States of America,” Trump said this week. “They came in through the border.” The president has been framing the controversial military intervention as necessary to fight drugs, terrorism, and illegal migration and criminal gangs.

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One response to “The Irony Of Trump’s New ‘War On Drugs’: Recalling The History Of CIA Narco Trafficking, by Tyler Durden

  1. Another glorious victory as drugs are hard to get and high priced.

    Not really.

    Those people KIA on boats have no reset button.

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