Mafia and drug trafficking: the drug-problem
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he business of drug-trafficking has been the most dynamic sector of the Colombian economy for the last three decades. In this period, their “managers” have become the most important economic group in the country, exceeding the accumulation of capital by other business-financial groups.
Buying consciences
In spite of all the legends launched by Colombia military intelligence and the Pentagon’s and the DEA’s (Drug Enforcement Administration) “think-tanks”, the FARC has fought against drug traffickers as it has fought against the whole Colombian bourgeoisie. Moreover, it has proposed to attack the drug trafficking problem, starting with its economic base, with the substitution of illegal crops for others, but without ever confusing drug-traffickers and multi-millionaires (inserted in the state and closely linked to the traditional parties and the military) with poor peasants who grow coca only for survival, without having any other alternative.
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