Colext/Macondo
Cantina virtual de los COLombianos en el EXTerior
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Paul Reid, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer says,
...Joe Toft, who spent seven years as head of the DEA in Bogota, Colombia,
used to give visiting journalists a history lesson. Yes, there's
corruption, he'd say, but there are thousands of good Colombian cops, and
they're dying for American's buying habits. Rather than measure failure by
the percentage of drugs intercepted, consider any interception a partial
success. But most important, Mr. Toft would say, if we let criminals and
narco-terrorists take over the governments of our Latin American neighbors,
we'll have more than a drug war on our hands; we'll have international
chaos.
In fact, Traffic (the movie) grossed more in its first weekend -- $17.5
million -- than
the projected lifetime earnings of more than 1,000 Colombian police
murdered in the early 1990s by Pablo Escobar, the cocaine smuggler who ran
the Medellin Cartel. Those cops earned about $1,000 a year. Most were in
their 20s when they died. They died because real Americans, not movie
creations, demanded -- and received -- drugs from criminals. There is an
inescapable and direct link between the buying habits of American drug
users and the death rate of police in Latin America.
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