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U.S. Drug War Expands to Africa, a Newer Hub for Cartels
In a significant expansion of the war on drugs, the United States has begun training an elite unit of counternarcotics police in Ghana and planning similar units in Nigeria and Kenya as part of an effort to combat the Latin American cartels that are increasingly using Africa to smuggle cocaine into Europe.
The growing American involvement in Africa follows an earlier escalation of antidrug efforts in Central America, according to documents, Congressional testimony and interviews with a range of officials at the State Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Pentagon.
Source and full story: The New York Times, 21 July 2012
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Re: U.S. Drug War Expands to Africa, a Newer Hub for Cartels
This New York Times article is PURE LIES.
USAFRICOM uses its “war on terror” and “responsibility to protect” as excuses to militarily occupy Africa, and to push out China.
The African masses do not buy these excuses, especially in places like Nigeria where the human suffering is extreme, and government corruption is obvious.
Therefore, to control Africa’s increasingly desperate masses, Washington will now adopt the additional pretext of the “war on drugs.”
This will bring major boosts in funding to American agencies such as the DEA. It’s all about job security and mass control. The DEA and FBI will increase drug-related violence in Africa by shipping arms to the continent, just as they did to Mexico and Honduras via “Operation Fast and Furious.” The violence will keep the African masses at each other’s throats, just like in Mexico and Honduras.
Meanwhile trans-national corporations will continue to extract Africa’s resources, while they keep the masses in poverty.
The new West Africa Cooperative Security Initiative is identical to the Mérida Initiative (a.k.a. Plan Mexico) in which the masses are controlled via the drug war. Plan Mexico will now be expanded to cover fifteen African nations, starting with Ghana and Liberia, both of which have puppet dictators.
China already executes African drug dealers via a bullet in the back of the head. On 23 April 2009 China executed Chibuzor Ezekwem, a Nigerian national, for drug trafficking. Weeks later, China executed five Kenyans, aged 25-57, for drug trafficking. In mid-May 2009, Zambia (at China’s request) executed a 38-year-old Zambian businesswoman for smuggling 2.5 kilograms of heroin.
The point is that the USA wants China out of the “drug war” in Africa. The USA wants China out of Africa altogether, and also reserves the right to grab anyone, anywhere.
The USA grabbed Russian Viktor Bout, who had a cargo shipping business in Thailand, and sentenced him in April 2012 to 25 years for allegedly conspiring to sell weapons to leftist guerillas in Colombia. (In reality, Bout had been helping Qaddafi, Iran, and Syria.) In May 2010, Washington used the “war on drugs” pretext to grab Russians Chigbo Peter Umeh, and 43-year-old pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko in Liberia. Both had helped in a Liberian movement to resist US control. Both were sentenced to 20 years by the USA.
Russia responded by grabbing American operatives. Obama’s attorney general Eric Holder is now preparing to exchange his Russian captives for the American captives held by Russia.