Is the United States hypocritical when it comes to the war on drugs? A day after the murders of three Americans, all employees of the local U.S. Consulate and casualties of Mexico’s drug conflict, Ricardo Aleman of Mexico’s El Universal tells President Obama to focus his rage where it belongs: on U.S. corruption and drug abuse.
For El Universal, Ricardo Aleman writes in part:
Even with the rampant corruption among police, government and specialized agencies, the U.S. clearly doesn’t understand the means that 15 million or so drug addicts in the American Union have on hand to obtain their respective doses of the drugs they want – every day, wherever and whenever they want them, throughout the territory of the United States.
In fact, the system for smuggling, distributing and selling every kind of drug – throughout the entire land mass of the United States – is equally or even more effective than the distribution and sale of hamburgers and cola. And it means that in terms of business efficiency, it would be cost-effective even without any corrupt authorities. At the very least, a business that has at a minimum 15 million customers must be considered part of the U.S. economy.
Obama is free to complain, but so is the government of Mexico when it questions the mess in Obama’s house with respect to corruption and drug trafficking.
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