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"We're going to be asking more of a lot of our friends," Clinton said earlier during a stop in Costa Rica. "A number of them are not respecting democratic institutions. A number of them are not taking strong enough stands against the erosion of the rule of law because of the pressure from drug traffickers." It has always seemed to me that the US wants to put the blame for the drug problem on Latin America and demand that Latin America “take a strong stand” to help the US solves its problem. The sickness that consumes America is not the problem of Latin America; it’s the problem of the US. It’s the market created in the US by the people that cannot live without some form of drug to anesthetize them from the realities of life there. The drug business in the US produces more revenue than the total wealth of many Latin American countries and as long as that money machine exists there will be those that will attempt to benefit from it. When that money is sufficient to buy public officials or even entire governments then that is what will happen. Maybe the Latin American countries should take the view that the US is exporting terrorism through its failure to come to grips with the reality of its drug problem and the ways to deal with it. The biggest crime problems that exist here in Guatemala are related to the drug business. The cost to Guatemala goes way beyond the actual cost in dollars. There is also the cost in lives and the breakdown of social institutions that have been corrupted by the drug trade. All of this is directly the responsibility of the US. Maybe it’s time that Latin America tell the US that they need to find a fix to their problem and stop asking others to try and fix it for them.
Publicado por Rio Dulce | cerca de 2 años