Car bomb linked to Mexican drug cartel CJNG goes off in #Colombia. Thank you very much #AMLO @lopezobrador_ for giving drug cartels a free run in #Mexico.
https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/mexican-cartel-strategic-note-no-28-alleged-cartel-de-jalisco-nueva-generacion-cjng-car

As">https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/... if Colombia doesn& #39;t have enough trouble with #FARC terrorists allegedly backed by #Venezuela....
If reports of #Venezuela backing #FARC are true, it& #39;s a huge strategic blunder by #Colombia. Venezuela is already a huge unmitigated disaster in terms of humanitarian costs. Vladimir Putin already placed his warplanes in Venezuela earlier this year but he couldn& #39;t have done much/
to help Maduro when the latter was particularly vulnerable in May. But now Maduro and his backers in Havana, #Cuba, are backing ultra left Marxist terrorist organization #FARC in #Colombia and also radical leftists in #Chile who are vandalizing and destroying public property.
#Venezuela is armed to the teeth.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/02/venezuela-is-armed-to-the-hilt/

And">https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/0... despite bankruptcy, they& #39;re signing more arms deals with #Russia.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/10-billion-hole-venezuela-owes-russia-tons-money-weapons-93906

Remaining">https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz... inept to the threat of #Cuba and #Venezuela won& #39;t help Latin America in the long run. Already #Mexico has seen/
more than 37,000 deaths in 2019 alone. Try to wrap your head around this number. Thirty seven thousand deaths due to drug cartels, in under one year.

All thanks to #AMLO @lopezobrador_ giving drug cartels a free run.

This chalks up to more than 100 deaths a day and is worse....
than even South Africa& #39;s rate of 57 murders a day.

What Latin American nations like Uruguay, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina need to do now: Legalize drugs and divert resources to drug treatment. Follow Portugal& #39;s example.
#AMLO @lopezobrador_ will remain in power till 2024. Just over a year into his tenure and #Mexico has already become worse than South Africa in terms of crime. That country will become a failed state soon. More trouble ahead.

Legalizing drugs will not only help Latin Americans/
it& #39;ll also cripple an important source of money for the murderous thug regimes of #Venezuela and #Iran (Hezbollah trafficks drugs in the Americas).

Remember: #Syria became an unmitigated disaster in terms of humanitarian and strategic costs and had far reaching consequences.
To highlight a few ways in which #Syria changed the world:
1. Rise of right wing populists worldwide.
2. Normalization of brutal dictators in MENA and elsewhere.
3. Normalization of chemical weapons (and possibly other WMDs) in war.

and that& #39;s just scratching the surface.
#Venezuela is already a terrible disaster trailing only #Syria in terms of humanitarian costs. Will allowing the thugs at Caracas and Havana room to operate any further help us in the long run?

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