Baby this conflict is the REACTION from Crime lords to Ecuador even considering to adopt El Salvador measures.
As long as there’s demand offering money, offer will always come from somewhere no matter the repression. It’s money and people wanting to make it we’re talking about. If US and European elites stopped consuming Cocaine it would already do a looooot of help.
Better: legalize all drugs worldwide. So that people can be free kill themselves rather than murdering others through sustaining this illegal drug industry.
the Karens, "wont someone think of the children" progressives and Christians will never allow it, they don't care if brown people 4000 miles away have been suffering for decades. People they don't like might enjoy themselves a little bit more in ways they don't approve and they have no problem with Latin Americans paying the price in blood.
Even internally the mindset has to change.
Back in dictatorship and post-dictatorship days it was seen as “cool, progressive and hip” for liberal elites to go up the hills to talk to their drug dealers and get their stuff, because of the background of that era. People were still a lot influenced by Hippie culture entering the mainstream as well - mostly to positive effects but some negative too.
Disobedience of prohibitions and defiance of taboos was seen as “Pro-freedom” in that 80s/90s and even 00s moment of opening up after a period of government repressions in 60s/70s, as you were asserting your individual freedoms and independence.
These days the context changed and is very different, the individual freedoms are mostly secured, making the topic br more about how people choose to use their freedom and how this has effects to the collective.
Nothing disgusts me more nowadays than “progressives” who smoke pot or sniff coke and think they’re so cool for this at the expense of other peoples lives who die because of that stuff. It’s a freedom that comes at the expense of the freedom of others.
There are only two possible solutions: Either legalize all drugs in order to end this underground industry OR all people get a conscience and agree to not sustain this kind of business as consumers. I don’t believe the latter is possible, so there’s really only one path.
