Teen Age Drug Abuse Supports “Big Business”
Perhaps teen age drug abuse could be defeated by spotlighting the kingpins and drug cartel chiefs who provide the pot smoking or cocaine snorting teenager with their high. Since teenage rhetoric is full of criticism for “big business”, maybe they need an education about how their drug habits support one of the biggest businesses on the planet; narcotics trafficking.
Well, you can score one for the good guys because one of those drug kingpins is now behind bars.
“Only Osama bin Laden had a higher price on his head than cocaine lord Diego Montoya, No. 2 on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. Now he’s in custody, and the U.S. owes Colombia a debt of gratitude.
The Colombian army’s capture of Pablo Escobar’s successor couldn’t have been more satisfying. Montoya, capo of Colombia’s Norte del Valle cartel, whose spies tracked U.S. Navy warship positions to ensure control of 70% of the cocaine headed for the U.S., got busted Monday wearing only his dirty underwear.
“I lost,” was the toppled kingpin’s only observation.
The rest of us won.
“This is huge,” DEA spokesman Steve Robertson told IBD. “This strikes at the head of the source for all the cocaine coming into the U.S. This was one of the most powerful cocaine organizations in the world, and when an organization loses someone of this stature, it’s going to have a tremendous negative impact. … We salute the Colombian government.”
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