Posted on 09/15/2011 7:39:16 PM PDT by decimon
US President Barack Obama has added Belize and El Salvador to a blacklist of countries considered major producers or transit routes for illegal drugs.
Officials said cartels were using the two Central American nations as routes for smuggling cocaine from South America north to Mexico and the US.
In total, 22 countries were included on the drugs blacklist.
Three were deemed to have "failed demonstrably" in the fight against drugs - Burma, Bolivia and Venezuela.
Correspondents say the inclusion of Belize and El Salvador on the list reflects the growing influence of Mexico's powerful drugs cartels.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Is Mexico on the list?
OK let me get this straight; he exports vast quantities of machine-guns to MS-13, THEN he puts El Salvador on the list of War on Drugs FAILURES, right?
He arms the druggies, then castigates the drug fighters?
Shouldn’t there be a footnote, or something? >_<
“Previously blacklisted were Afghanistan, the Bahamas, Bolivia, Myanmar, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.”
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/us-adds-belize-el-salvador-drugs-blacklist-214713314.html
Is there a reason why the Omullah does not put the USA on his list:
blacklist of countries considered major producers or transit routes for illegal drugs
blacklist of countries considered major producers or transit routes for illegal drugs
Good thought.
The timing of this announcement is curious. Today is independence day in El Salvador, and the falls between independence celebrations on Sept. 10 and 21st in Belize.
Also, there is sharp debate in the Belize Parliment over a constitutional amendment to allow “preventive detention”, undoing common law right of habeas corpus. Most are opposed, but this announcement will up the pressure to “do something” about drug trafficking and violence.
O Oh someone had a late payment
That’s PIAPS...guess she and barry aren’t getting a large enough cut of the money...so they’ve listed them.
Both countries need to tell US to shove it.
See my monograph, "The Comparative Uselessness to Yachtsmen of Caribbean Natives." Belizeans, despite stiff competition in almost every useless maritime category from The Bahamas and Jamaica, have taken the un-coveted "Most Useless" prize again.
Except for teaching SAS prospects how to survive in a jungle, the country serves no purpose. The next time it reverts to colonial status, I think it should be placed under Bulgarian control. Or, perhaps Belize is the one place in the world that should be officially recognized as part of The Greater Albania.
At least that way, their drug connections would become more efficient and they could more easily "fence" the stuff they steal from visiting boats.
Well, I understand Maine is very nice in the summer, when it happens to fall on a weekend.
The only mistake we made climate-wise, was listening to Al Gore, who promised us Costa-Rica-like warmth year round. It also caused many a retired lumber jack to invest in property west of Bangor, expecting it to become beach front when the ocean rose.
>If'n the gd guvmint would deliver on its promises, we wouldn't have to go to these tropic joints to warm up. Not even this Obama, who looks kinda tropical hisself, has been able to deliver us the needed Global Warming, a promise that delivered our precious 4 electoral votes to him.
FYI, this summer did not fall on a weekend.
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