Saturday, March 22, 2008
Venezuela has Seized More Than Seven Tons of Narcotics
According to a report issued by the Venezuelan Anti-Drug Office, up until March 17, 2008, the government has seized 5.13 tons of cocaine, which represents 70.11 percent of the total of seized narcotics. The report also indicated that 1,422 people have been arrested, 66 foreign nationals, including 36 Colombians and 6 Spaniards. Although Venezuela does not produce narcotics nor is consumption as high as in other parts, the country is affected by the use of its territory as a shipping port of cocaine and other illegal drugs from Colombia to be taken to the US and Europe, the main markets of illegal drugs.
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Making drugs or chemicals of any kind 'illegal' in the way the 'democratic' police-states have, is stupid, thuggish -- and hypocritical beyond belief. And in fact, the U.S. "War on Drugs" -- which they have foisted on the world by simple brute force, intimidation, bribery and threats -- is in fact a cover for imperialist class war against workers and the poor. And so Venezuela and the ALBA countries should have none of it -- if they pretend to any sort of actual socialist praxis, that is.
ReplyDeleteInstead, the ALBA countries must move first to de-criminalize possession of drugs, etc. -- and then campaign strongly around the planet to outright legalize all drugs of any kind (but including all the safeguards of prescription chemicals, etc., of course). And this will certainly short-circuit one of the main vectors by which imperialism infiltrates the world -- and pays off and arms its mafia armies world-wide. For one thing.
Let us all get things straight here: it is not drugs, or even people, which are the problem: it is the capitalist criminality that has grown up around drugs, on account of prohibition, which is the problem. Focus on the capitalist criminality: the source of the evil.