Great Britain’s ambassador to Peru, James Dauris, said Wednesday that approximately half of all the cocaine consumed in Europe comes from the Andean nation. In an interview with Ideeleradio, Dauris said that unofficial figures place the cocaine trade in Europe at about $21 billion. – Peruvian Times
These are unofficial figures and guesses and they should not be spoken with such confidence – as they are not confirmed through documentation. And who is to say that the source USDEA can be trusted. Looking past the accusation, someone is about to make a lot of money privatizing prisons in Peru. If we get a vote of confidence from the brits and they fund our mission to kill ourselves (genocide) over something europeans mandated a drug though it was used openly until they started attributed the negatives to people with melanin (that looked just like our sisters and brothers in Peru). We are in trouble.
“At the beginning of the 20th century, cocaine began to be linked to crime. In 1900, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an editorial stating, “Negroes in the South are reported as being addicted to a new form of vice – that of ‘cocaine sniffing’ or the ‘coke habit.’” Some newspapers later claimed cocaine use caused blacks to rape white women and was improving their pistol marksmanship. Chinese immigrants were blamed for importing the opium-smoking habit to the U.S.” Source
Always looking for a scapegoat to their own problems
Playing the opposing side for a moment, who even said cocaine was illegal in Peru. Doesn’t every country have the right to decide its own laws based on its own culture and history (japan does).
That being said, if this supposed truth causes a drug war on our soil here in Peru, one we will have more guns flowing through the citizens hands, murders will increase, two, we will be committing genocide at the hands of weaponry made by europeans (as if they care), and three, someone will get rich because of all of this (privatizing the prison industry, mortuaries, so forth and so on).
What do you think – are we close? or Will we finally see the end of the drug trade in Peru?
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