US - America's shadow war on drugs

[edgarshade]

Global Post
December 6, 2011 06:19

With reader comments

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — The shady figures set up bank accounts in false names and fill them with drug money. They keep convicted criminals on their payroll, and watch guns smuggled over the border. And for those wanting to transport cocaine, they have trucks and ships available. But these clandestine operators are not drug traffickers. They are the American agents paid to bust them.

Russell Jones said he discovered how drug busting led to difficult choices when he worked as an undercover narcotics detective busting cocaine traffickers in California.

“I was aghast about what was happening. I saw people crossing the line,” said Jones, who became so disillusioned he eventually left the police force and joined Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, a nonprofit drug policy reform group. “I saw what was going on and got out. This isn’t a few bad apples. This is the culture of the whole war on drugs. What is happening in Mexico now is especially worrying. Agents have allowed money to walk that can be used to pay for killers,” Jones said. “We cannot win this war. We have to look for alternative solutions.”

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http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/mexico/111205/how-dirty-the-war-drugs

 

[Newbierock]

Mexicos a pretty scary place these days it seems.

Good article, thanks for posting.