Caracas Daily Journal (Vincent Bevins): Venezuela has expressed its displeasure with declarations made by the U.S. in Colombia about a supposed increase of drug trafficking through Venezuela.
Colombian Foreign Minister Fernando Araújo revealed Sunday that his Venezuelan counterpart was upset with a few North American claims.
The meeting with Nicolás Maduro was "friendly, but he expressed discomfort with a few North American declarations," said Araújo. He added that Maduro had commented on a communique from Caracas Friday, which angrily denounced a claim from U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield that the trafficking of drugs in Venezuela had supposedly increased by 1000% in the last five years.
The communique denounced, among other things, a country which can organize invasions of large countries but cannot fight its domestic drug consumption and therefore attacks other countries such as Venezuela.
Earlier this year Minister Rodríguez Chacín said "Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine in the world, and the United States is the largest consumer, and somehow they are working together to accuse Venezuela, which neither produces nor consumes."
Colombian Foreign Minister Fernando Araújo revealed Sunday that his Venezuelan counterpart was upset with a few North American claims.
The meeting with Nicolás Maduro was "friendly, but he expressed discomfort with a few North American declarations," said Araújo. He added that Maduro had commented on a communique from Caracas Friday, which angrily denounced a claim from U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield that the trafficking of drugs in Venezuela had supposedly increased by 1000% in the last five years.
The communique denounced, among other things, a country which can organize invasions of large countries but cannot fight its domestic drug consumption and therefore attacks other countries such as Venezuela.
Earlier this year Minister Rodríguez Chacín said "Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine in the world, and the United States is the largest consumer, and somehow they are working together to accuse Venezuela, which neither produces nor consumes."
"Drugs" are not the problem per se. People drink alcohol and coffee for instance, or smoke, or take sleeping pills, etc. Health issues aside, the problem with "drugs" is in truth the pathology of the capitalist system: which requires excuses to legislate our collective 'morality', in order to leverage that into the means by which the capitalists can divide and control the population.
ReplyDeleteThe coca-chewing indians of South America demonstrate to us that the "War on Drugs" is an obscene lie: because even coca is demonstrated to be a part of daily life, if used properly. Or at least with moderation. Same as with all the other "drugs" out there, which have been used by Humanity since time immemorial.
To continue to play this ugly game by capitalist rules is to continue to lose. Only mafias -- including the police and military and their businessmen bosses -- benefit from maintaining the illegality of drugs. Instead, a rational, future society will deal with the "recreational" use of drugs in some even-handed manner -- so that no one profits from the debasement of others by this means.
Let's concentrate on getting rid of capitalism -- which does include getting rid of all gangster activity. Of any kind.
Slam dunk logic.