Journalist
20 February 2022
Their time is up
It took a long time, but the time has come when the “empire” identified drug trafficking as an ally of the axis of autocracies and has decided to fight it throughout the world.
For Bolivia, this means the end of an era, marked by the political dominance of figures and organizations linked to drug trafficking, who had managed to control all the institutions of the democratic State.
The country has been demolished by this force. Drug trafficking has as its servants the Armed Forces, the Police, justice, all State institutions and has almost achieved total control of the media.
But now America’s war has begun with worldwide scope. The trigger was the DEA announcement that the Venezuelan Alex Saab, now imprisoned in Miami, had been its informant since 2017. A key element of the Los Soles Cartel, created by Hugo Chávez and his Bolivian supplier to bring drugs to the United States, passing through Cuba.
Europol is arresting hundreds of drug traffickers in six European countries, including Spain, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has been extradited, members of the Jalisco Cartel and all the Mexican cartels are being persecuted, the Brazilian Government is mobilizing against the drug commandos and the United States requests the extradition of Bolivian Colonel Maximiliano Dávila, to begin with.
This 21st century war has only just begun. The United States has decided to put an end to the economic and political power of drug trafficking for an elementary reason in any war: drug trafficking is allied with the enemies.
In our region, that economic power came to create an organization that rivals the OAS: the alliance of Narco-States, of which Bolivia is a key player. After all, it is the only country on the planet whose President was the head of the largest suppliers of raw materials for the manufacture of a drug banned by the UN.
Not even in Afghanistan had the drug traffickers gone that far. In that poor country, the world’s leading opium producer, drug traffickers proposed to create a political party, but it was rejected by parliament in the 1980s.
In Bolivia, that political party was not only created but has managed to govern the country for fifteen years.
But their time is up. The culprits have been silent and the main one of them prepares his escape.
Proof of the political party’s degree of dominance over justice is that prosecutor Juan Lanchipa continues to defend Colonel Dávila, who is accused of having conspired to bring a ton of cocaine to the United States.
It is assumed that when the entire framework has been dismantled, and their leaders are imprisoned in Miami or Guantanamo, all the institutions that had been controlled will recover their independence and the country can be reborn from the ashes.
Source: https://www.lostiempos.com/actualidad/opinion/20220220/columna/les-llego-su-hora
