Guatemala leader to propose legalizing drugs

[Peace Patriot]

7. I don't think he's disobeying anybody. I think something else is up...

...especially since the rightwing president of Colombia, Manuel Santos, said something similar prior to Molina not long ago--proposing legalization.

See below.

I'm not sure what's going on. But I suspect that it's Big Pharma's move, at long last, to gain control over the recreational and addictive drugs that are now illicit. There's been a lot of preliminary work, consolidating this trade into the hands of the rich few (the U.S. "war on drugs," i.e., the U.S. war on the smaller networks and farmers). Time to pull this big money-maker out of the darkness and into the "light" of insurance-run, Big Pharma-run, medical profiteer "regulation."

See below, my ruminations on the politics of it. In short, it is nearly impossible to believe that a rightwing--indeed, fascist--operative like Molina is into "good government" and "personal freedom" or that he has any objection to this "war on the poor" and its many war profiteers. I've discussed some of the other "players" below.

Molina's election WAS a coup, I suspect. During the last election in Guatemala, something like FIFTY candidates and their campaign workers--mostly leftists--were murdered. A leftist won the presidency but the fascists may have been thinking and planning long term. (They tried to get rid of the leftist president with a very weird "scandal" but failed. That president, Colom, never had much power.) I don't know what the toll was this time, in murdered leftists, but the toll last time gives you some idea of how utterly corrupt and bloody the election process is, in Guatemala. Threats, intimidation, stuffing ballot boxes, criminal gang involvement, etc., can be presumed. Fascists can't get elected any other way.

So, I don't think Molina is doing anything to offend the "powers that be" here--or to get himself couped. There is one precedent of a "centrist" president going "leftist" and getting couped--in Honduras. But Mel Zelaya was never a fascist and was not corrupt. He got couped for siding with the labor unions and the grass roots political reform movement in Honduras. Upshot: It's POSSIBLE that Molina has gone "off the reservation" but not at all likely. I think, instead, that he and Santos are playing out a script and the scriptwriter is probably the CIA.

I could be wrong. I admit that. It's hard to see "behind the curtain." But I'd be interested to know what you think of my analysis thus far.