Critics claim that the State Department has abolished its drug fight programs. It’s not true

In the international struggle against illegal drugs, holding a program for decades has been a kind of dependence on the US government. Because State Secretary Marco Rubio decided to review the inventory. Now that his transparent examination is completed, projects, such as freight containers in the port, are moving forward when they benefit from America.

Little, however, was ready to admit the credit for removing the program from autopilot. Instead, the main media guided by clicks launched articles that suggest Trump’s administration “stopped the anti-fentan work in Mexico“and”brought key programs against narcotics. ”

Here’s the truth. As soon as the foreign aid paused and started an examination, State Department He quickly moved to evaluate the green lights of critical programs. In weeks since then, almost 700 separate projects governed by the Office for International Affairs of Narcotics and the Law (INL) has been inspected, refined and eventually unlocked. Many of them are joint programs with the Department of Homeland Security, Drug Implementation Administration, and customs and border protection, which receive funds for their joint programs from State Department. Most of them relate to narcotraphics, but some of the financial resources provide officials for law enforcement to face other threats no less important.

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In Latin America, projects have proven to be effective that are now returning on the networking of targeting systems in Mexico and Peru, which provide intelligence on foreign passengers and cargoes, dog units in the costa Rica that sniff the drugs on the road so far, intercept the ships intermittent on the Panama coast, biometric regulations in the Aemilor area of ​​Salva. Dominican Republic Detection of the fantanil. They come to the top Trump administration tag Significant cartels and criminal gangs as foreign terrorist organizations and deportations of criminal members Too de Aragua

It is ironic that the same outlets that are committed to those who have come into the American war against drugs in the past while leading abroad. For example, the Washington Post claimed to be Republican politics “deepened the impulse according to a foreign intervention that gave questionable results“And pointed out that”Attention creator politics on foreign villains and foreign drugs has been slightly protected by the land from opioids“And Fentanil.

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I cannot have this in both directions – the comprehensive assessment of the secretary of the attack by Rubio, but they also decipher past efforts that, in a hurry to “do something” and/or “do more”, they did not prevent tens of thousands of Americans from dying from drug overdose from year to year.

Critics, therefore, would ask well the same basic questions Secretary Rubio Is it posing: is the responsibility of the United States, from a moral perspective, eliminate or at least erode foreign actors that encourage our domestic drug crisis? What roles do foreign government play, what resources do they bring and what goals cannot achieve absent American help?

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As suggested by a plaid history of foreign capacity construction, are the training programs really capable – alone – to “stop” a drug addict that owns huge financial resources, weapons and social kahé? What type of equipment-or mentoring-does it make it easier for cross-border investigation, persecution and extradition?

It turns out that certain programs are almost worthless when it comes to capturing a villain. That is why INL has abolished more than half a billion dollars of grants and contracts from January 20th. It is difficult to justify Americans who pay “alternative to prison” in Indo-Pacific furniture courts in rural South AmericaAnd gender studies for law enforcement in Central Asia – especially when resources are final and evidence of real influence, for Trump’s administration, are the most important.

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In the opinion of the Secretary Rubio, we must be honest with ourselves. In the past, certain programs have functioned as their own type of drug – as we patted on our backs and felt better in “making a difference” globally. Now for decades, high has finally worn out and reality has been set.

When it comes to counternarcotics, there are better and worse programs for law enforcement. We will keep them and cut those bad. Save US money and saving American lives may not be in conflict.