U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Mark Feder is a dutiful mouthpiece for the Drug War Propaganda Machine.
He talks about "homicidal nations", but doesn't mention that the most homicidal YEARS in those nations--by orders of magnitude--began after the USA started funding massive paramilitary buildups in concert with the local governments.
Yes, yes, the paramilitaries are "fighting the drug lords!"--and oh, if their actions have led to the displacement of tens of thousands of campesinos from their rural villages... whose land is then leased or sold to palm oil producers and mining companies--including CANADIAN mining companies... well, uh, that's just an unfortunate side-effect of this most Righteous War for the Moral Good!
The Drug War is a racket, and it has very little to do with drugs. Shock doctrine and profiteering is the name of the game.