War+on+Drugs-Colombia

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**__WAR ON DRUGS-COLOMBIA__** Going back to the 1980s, Colombia has been a literal battle ground for the war on drugs. Colombia is the world's biggest producer of cocaine. There are hundreds of thousands of small and medium producers in Colombia and no one has been able to stop them. In 1986, the White House declared the mass production of cocaine a threat to national security and declared the "war on drugs." Since then the US has invested a great deal of time, money, and military power to stop the production Cocaine. Some speculate that the US has invested over $7 billion (since 2000) in fighting the war on drugs. Even with many successful mission, the war on drugs is still viewed as a failure. The cartels are still recruiting young men and they are still producing thousands of pounds of cocaine every year. Although the amount of cocaine produced has dropped significantly, from 1,000 tons in the 1980s to only 180 tons in 2010. But the amount is on the rise, Colombia is now yielding 4% more cocaine than it was eight years ago. The police and US armed force have struggled to capture the major drug lords and their products because these bandits use guerilla warfare tactics. They set up there plantations deep in the jungle, making it extremely difficult to locate them from the air. They also set up booby traps to stop outside forces from reaching their camps. The cartels are sophisticated and will go to extreme measures to transport their drugs. These methods include: body packing, digging tunnels, attaching drugs to the bottom of boats, secret compartments in cars, and submarines. These outlaws are heavily armed and are extremely violent. Some of the highest murder rates in the world can be found in many Latin American Countries.



http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-15/world/colombia.uribe.cocaine_1_farc-colombian-army-and-police-coca-growing-regions?_s=PM:WORLD

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16213

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/01/02/the-truth-about-plan-colombia.html

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