Britain’s Secret Drug-Running Operations in Colombia
Britains Secret Drug-Running Operations in Colombia
By T.J. Coles, Axis of Logic
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Since the 1980s, when Britains Special Air Service (SAS) and Special Boat Service started operating in Colombia, special forces on all sides have been killing rival drug gangs and even counter-narcotics police units. This amounts to a proxy drug-smuggling network, which Britain has aided for decades.
Cocaine is a huge industry, worth some $60 billion per annum. Coke is mainly a middle-class drug, used by politicians, models, film stars, and people in music, media, and other industries. More importantly, coke and other drug monies are untraceable and can be used for military black ops. A great deal is known about the US Central Intelligence Agencys s role in drug running. Alfred McCoys The Politics of Heroin , Gary Webbs Dark Alliance, and Douglas Valentines The Strength of the Wolf are vital exposés. Much less is known about MI6s role.
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According to Grace Livingstone, throughout the 1980s, drug barons, paramilitaries, and members of the Colombia government began a heavy drug-money laundering campaign via land purchases, acquiring 10% of the country.
The connections between drugs and politics are such that the Medellin and Cali cocaine cartels funded President Ernesto Sampers 1998 election campaign. Pablo Escobars Medellin cartel attempted to get farmers to cultivate coca, which, initially, the FARC opposed. FARC is the Marxist-turned-terrorist resistance group which calls for more equal land reform. According to Livingstone, Escobars money laundering greatly aided the poor (undercutting FARCs campaign advantage) to the extent that churches praised his urban regeneration initiatives.
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