OOPS cocaine in the White House!!!

By: Beatrice E. Rangel - 07/07/2023

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The scoop was given by Andrea Mitchel of MSNBC. The mysterious white powder found in one of the White House rooms by the Secret Service is neither more nor less than cocaine. It is, then, the consecration of the most successful export product from Latin America to the world: Because by being present in the seat of power of the leading nation of the free world, the capacity of its producers and distributors to penetrate the instances of the power of the free world is verified. world to use them as a business support platform. And just as it was present in a White House room, surely there will also be cocaine in the various places of power in our hemisphere, as the hacked conversations of former adviser to the President of Colombia Armando Benedetti seem to demonstrate.

Because regardless of who was the agent introducing the product in the residence of the president of the United States, the finding reveals on the one hand a culture of permissiveness that, if it continues its course, could well gnaw away the roots of that republic created in 1776 and on which Benjamin Franklin warned that it was necessary to take care of it in order to maintain it. Because what it is pure and simple is committing a crime inside the presidential residence since cocaine use is classified as a federal crime. When someone dares to commit a federal crime in the residence of the head of the North American state, we are in the presence of someone who does not abide by the legal system and therefore lacks adherence to the main principle of every republic: submission to the rule of law.

And seen from another angle, the issue is truly terrifying because it reveals the triumph of a non-governmental actor over the republican institutions of the United States and the rest of the world. That actor is transnational organized crime. According to the Millennium Project “Transnational organized crime represents between 3% and 7% of global GDP annually; Taken together, that would be $4.7 trillion per year, which is more than double all of the world's annual military budgets combined ($1.9 trillion)." Approximately 40% of these revenues are attributable to the production and distribution of drugs. Hence, we should not be surprised that cocaine has reached the White House, this mass of resources makes it impossible to stop the penetration of drugs in any society at any level.

The sad thing about the event is going to be that instead of serving as a catalyst for the de facto and real powers of the United States to sit down and think about alternative policies to face this challenge, what we are going to see is how each one uses the incident to take sides. electoral. And therefore the event will serve to light the fire of a trivial debate on who was the user of cocaine and on the deficiencies of the search of employees and visitors to the presidential compound. And so we will continue locked in an absurd discussion while transnational organized crime obtains a trillion dollars more with the production and trafficking of cocaine.

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