Miami Herald Opinion: Crisis coming as Caribbean drug-running heats up

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Monday, 03.05.12
The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Cocaine cowboys? Not again
OUR OPINION: Crisis coming as Caribbean drug-running heats up
By The Miami Herald Editorial
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The fight against drug trafficking is heating up on South Florida’s doorstep. Drugs are coming in our direction again, and Puerto Rico, U.S. territories and the island nations of the Caribbean are once more caught in the middle.

“There’s increasing concern that as the pressure increases in the Central American corridors, the balloon will expand back into the Caribbean zone,” Sen. Marco Rubio of Miami said during a Senate hearing in December.

Echoing that concern, the U.N.’s International Narcotics Control Board last week noted that pressure on drug gangsters in Mexico and Central America is diverting cocaine operations to less difficult routes through the Caribbean.

The most chilling warning has come from Ambassador William Brownfield, the State Department’s main drug fighter. He predicted in testimony to Congress late last year that when pressure on drug cartels in Central America gets too strong, “their old Caribbean routes and networks from the 1980s will look very attractive . . . We see this crisis coming.”

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[Peace Patriot]

1. Yeah, and since Brownfield is the Bush Cartel "fixer" in LatAm...

...we really ought to heed his words and start pouring trillions of U.S. taxpayer dollars, through private Pentagon contractor fingers, into Central America and the Caribbean, to make "war" on "drugs."

It would be hilarious if it were not so awful.