Members of an anti-narcotics unit are
dropped off in southern Colombia during
a raid on cocaine laboratories.
Posted on 09/26/2004 10:35:42 PM PDT by BykrBayb
Colombian police assault cocaine labs
Sunday, September 26, 2004 Posted: 6:30 PM EDT (2230 GMT)
CUMBITARA, Colombia (AP) -- Seven helicopter gunships skirted the steep mountainsides, then quickly descended on a cocaine lab, marked by a smoke grenade thrown by one of the raiders.
As the heavily armed anti-narcotics police jumped from the hovering craft, accompanied by an informant wearing a ski mask, peasants who worked the coca fields and in the complex scampered away.
Associated Press journalists accompanied the officers on the lightning raid Saturday, allowing them to see firsthand the type of dangerous operation that has put a crimp in Colombia's cocaine production.
excerpted - article here.
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Plan Colombia in action!
Better late than never..... would have been nice 30 years ago.
:-D
Ah, it's good to hear that the Federal Cocaine Price Support Program is still in business.
HOW ARE YOU PABLO!!
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
ALL YOUR FREEBASE ARE BELONG TO US.
Would have been better than nice. Someone I'll always care deeply for would probably still be alive today. The "what ifs" can eat you alive, if you let them.
The demand in the US and other countries is so high, the street value versus cost of production so astronomical, and the poverty in colombia so extreme, that I see no reality-based reason to expect the cocaine trade in the US to change.
The fact that colombia is partially controlled by a non-government military that uses terror and targetted assasinations as instruments of policy does NOT help prospects.
It was happening about ten years ago at the latest. That was quite a few years after the Colombian government had been begging for assistance and training from our government.
BUMP!
If this battle we call the "War on Drugs" is going to be won, it will be won in the churches and above all in the home, not on the battlefield or in the courthouse.
If this battle we call the "War on Drugs" is going to be won, it will be won in the churches and above all in the home, not on the battlefield or in the courthouse.
What can you say to someone who equates smoking cigarettes and drinking beer with terrorism, and is opposed to the heroes who fight against terrorism? How do you explain that it's wrong to kidnap innocent people and kill them? How do you explain that it's wrong to support these terrorists by buying their product? Or is it best to just let them wallow in ignorance?
I don't personally know of anyone dead from cocaine but I've seen a number of lives destroyed or close to it ---- I don't really understand those who want the price of that drug to come down so far that anyone could easily overdose --- but it seems a lot of people will criticize the efforts to control it as only keeping it expensive --- it's terrible how too much cocaine affects the heart.
I disagree with you. The War on Drugs is a waste of money and human resources.
Kidnappings, murder and mayhem occur in the drug world because of the obscene profits that are to be made in that business.
Legalize coke, pot, LSD and everything else for all I care....just make it legal and stop legislating personal behavior and choices that do not directly effect others.
"How do you explain that it's wrong to support these terrorists by buying their product? "
The same can be said of the labor practices in production of chocolate, but you aren't going to get any moral outrage there either.
We would have cocaine in the US with or without FARC. Before farc and before the US pushed the colombian government into going after the cartels, it was being produced and will continue to be produced no matter who in running colombia or the traffic.
You aren't going to get drug users to alter habits based on a long-running civil war in colombia's spillover effects.
It's hopeless, I tell you, hopeless!
But if it indirectly affects others, that's OK?
Not to mention the soul. Some of the replies on this thread are clear evidence of what cocaine can do to the soul.
I guess a few dead people here and there is a small price to pay for your pleasure. After all, if it feels good, do it. Let other people pay the price. What do they matter?
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