Breaking the Taboo Page #3

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Mexican actor"

People are being brought up amidst

violence and insecurity,

and this is all related to drug trafficking,

in one way or another.

There's news of decapitations

on a daily basis:

It has somehow become

what you expect to see every day.

This is not a problem that we, Mexicans,

can solve by ourselves.

We need to urge the US

and other big consumer countries

to assume their responsibility

for this issue.

Crime is not new.

"Moises Naim

Expert on Global Criminal Networks"

But it is amplified by globalization,

the criminalization of politics,

the politicization

of criminals and drug trafficking.

One of my key conclusions is the link

between the criminalization of politics

and the politicization of criminals.

More and more politicians are involved

in criminal activities, and vice versa.

Criminals have more money

and power.

They are taking over politics

and becoming politicians.

"Pablo Escobar

Colombian Drug Lord and Coogressman - 1980s"

We are the new force in Congress!

We are the peoples' hope

to fulfill their dreams!

It's not the drug cartels alone

that are generating violence.

"Cesar Gaviria

President of Colombia "

When I ran for President,

they murdered three other candidates.

Later, an organization linked to

narcotraffic kidnapped my brother.

He was kept chained underground

for three months without being able

to move or change his clothes.

He was traumatized

and shoked by this experience.

A few years ago, the FARC,

currently Colombia's largest cartel,

killed my sister during a failed

kidnapping attempt

for the purpose

of political extortion.

Every Colombian family has been

victimized by the guerrillas

and narcotraffickers.

Guerrillas are increasingly fed by drugs.

Once narcotraffickers create

mafia networks,

these networks expand into

kidnapping and extortion.

The wave of kidnappings

in Mexico and Brazil

is a consequence

of these narcotrafficking networks.

"Plan Colombia

Cashing In on the Drug War Failure"

"Colombia's Caldono region"

"Indigenous tribal ritual"

"Coca leaves"

"The cocaine manufacturing

progress includes:

Gasoline...

and sulfuric acid...

mixed with ammonia...

Cocaine paste"

"Jose Hurtado

Indigenous Leader"

Cocaine can cause physical

and psychological damage.

It can be fatal.

But for us the chewing of coca leaf

is an ancestral custom.

It is sacred.

"Extermination of illicit crops"

Colombia is the only country in the world

to use aerial fumigation on drug crops.

This destroys food and plantations.

This is very traumatic

to Colombian society.

In the beginning of Plan Colombia,

coca was grown in eight states.

Today, it's grown in 24 or 28 states.

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