{"id":11060,"date":"2011-08-17T10:01:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T18:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=11060"},"modified":"2011-08-18T08:36:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T16:36:10","slug":"corporatist-drug-war-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/corporatist-drug-war-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporatist Drug War Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via the Just the Facts blog<\/a>, this U.S. Trade and Aid Monitor<\/a>*\u00a0details the corporatist approach to drug war foreign policy. The Department of Defense is extending a privately contracted five-year global counter narcotics program valued upwards of $15 billion. The program employs five primary corporations in the military industrial complex:\u00a0Blackwater Lodge & Training Center, Inc<\/a>.;\u00a0Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems<\/a>;\u00a0ARINC Engineering Services, LLC<\/a>;Raytheon Technical Service Company<\/a>; and\u00a0Northrop Grumman\/TASC, Inc<\/a>. The countries in which these taxpayer-funded rent-seekers and mercenaries have been and will be operating in include Afghanistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Colombia, and Mexico.<\/p>\n

The extended program would again be granted for a five-year period, beginning on or about June 1, 2012, and would continue to support the CNTPO’s mission to “disrupt, deter, and defeat the threat to national security posed by illicit trafficking in drugs, small arms and explosives, precursor chemicals, people, and illicitly-gained and laundered money.<\/p>\n

[…]\u00a0Specific details about the extended program have not been released, but the announcement did include\u00a0four attachments<\/a>\u00a0(attachments 2-5) detailing projects anticipated under the follow-on contract…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those four attachments are worth exploring. They detail the program’s projects – which include everything from training and equipping counter-narcotics forces, to construction of high-tech facilities and equipment for border and airport security, to language lessons and media training – within the above mentioned countries.<\/p>\n

See recent drug war coverage at Antiwar.com:<\/p>\n

Latin America Beware: The Imperial Pretext Is Changing<\/a><\/p>\n

US-Trained Guatemalan Forces Tied To Drug Gangs<\/a><\/p>\n

Interventionism South of the Border: Teaching Drug Cartels How to Kill<\/a><\/p>\n

CIA, DEA, Contractors Operate Secretly Inside Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n

Mexico Blocks US Extradition of \u2018Drug Queen\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Supporting Atrocities in Colombia<\/a><\/p>\n

Update on US Support for Colombia<\/a><\/p>\n

US Pledges $300 Million More for Central America Drug War<\/a><\/p>\n

Drug War Wreaking Havoc in Latin America<\/a><\/p>\n

*The original language of this post incorrectly<\/a> described the U.S. Trade and Aid Monitor as affiliated with the Christian Science Monitor<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong>\u00a0Jason Ditz writes in the news section on the U.S. hiring Blackwater for the Afghan drug war<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via the Just the Facts blog, this U.S. Trade and Aid Monitor*\u00a0details the corporatist approach to drug war foreign policy. The Department of Defense is extending a privately contracted five-year global counter narcotics program valued upwards of $15 billion. The program employs five primary corporations in the military industrial complex:\u00a0Blackwater Lodge & Training Center, Inc.;\u00a0Lockheed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[392],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-drug-war-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11060"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11065,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions\/11065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11060"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}