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麻薬とCIA
アメリカが抱える最悪の悲劇の一つは、麻薬問題である。米政府は麻薬撲滅に何十億もの金をつぎ込んでいるが、一方では、麻薬産業を成長させた原因の一端は政府にあるという証拠も…。
Crack and the CIA
By DOUGLAS LUMMIS
One of the worst catastrophes to hit the United States in recent years is crack
cocaine. This is the drug that has destroyed the lives of tens of thousands of young people, mostly
poor, mostly black. This is the drug that has brought about a population explosion in U.S. prisons.
In recent years the government has spent billions of dollars to fight drugs,
especially crack. But now there is evidence
that the government was one of the original
forces promoting the crack industry.
In a well-documented three-part article, the San
Jose Mercury News (Aug. 18, 19, 20) alleged
that the crack industry in the U.S. was promoted by people working under
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Here's their story:
The key person was Danilio Blandon. Blandon is Nicaraguan, the son of a family of rich slumlords, has an M.A. in marketing, and was a supporter of the
bloody dictator Anastasio Somoza. When the revolutionary Sandinistas overthrew Somoza's dictatorship, Blandon, then 29, escaped to California.
Horrified by the Sandinistas' "persecutions" (in other words, the confiscation of property from Nicaragua's
super-rich), Blandon joined the movement to overthrow the Sandinistas. He
began supporting a group called Fuerza
Democratica Nicaraguense (FDN), a "contra" group that was being formed with
money and support from the CIA.
It was illegal, of course, for the U.S.
government to give financial support to the
contras. The U.S. Congress had passed a resolution forbidding it, and such
interference in another country's internal affairs is, in any case, against international law. Nevertheless, on Dec. 1, 1981, President
Reagan issued a secret order authorizing
the CIA to give such support.
But the money
the CIA could provide was not enough. This is
where Blandon made his contribution. He contacted Somoza supporter Norwin Meneses,
known in Nicaragua as "The King of Drugs." Meneses was able to supply Blandon with almost unlimited amounts of cocaine
from Columbia. Then Blandon used his marketing abilities to sell it in the U.S.
The money was used to buy weapons to smuggle
to the contras.
In those days pure cocaine was so expensive that only the
rich could afford it. But Blandon needed a
mass market. Using new techniques,
Blandon had his distributors (L.A. gangs) reprocess the cocaine into crack which, at $20 (¥2,180) a hit, is cheap enough to sell to the poor. At the
high point of his business Blandon was selling up to 100 kilograms of cocaine
a week which, as crack, sometimes brought in as much as $2 or $3 million a
day.
This, says the San Jose Mercury News, was the chief organization behind
the U.S. crack catastrophe.
Blandon has never
been tried in court. In 1991 he was arrested, but the charges were dropped at the request of the Federal Government. Today he has a highly paid job working for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
His specialty is collecting information on
Mexican and Columbian drug lords
― his old
business partners.
One of the worst catastrophes to hit the United States in recent years is crack
cocaine. This is the drug that has destroyed the lives of tens of thousands of young people, mostly
poor, mostly black. This is the drug that has brought about a population explosion in U.S. prisons.
In recent years the government has spent billions of dollars to fight drugs,
especially crack. But now there is evidence
that the government was one of the original
forces promoting the crack industry.
In a well-documented three-part article, the San
Jose Mercury News (Aug. 18, 19, 20) alleged
that the crack industry in the U.S. was promoted by people working under
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Here's their story:
The key person was Danilio Blandon. Blandon is Nicaraguan, the son of a family of rich slumlords, has an M.A. in marketing, and was a supporter of the
bloody dictator Anastasio Somoza. When the revolutionary Sandinistas overthrew Somoza's dictatorship, Blandon, then 29, escaped to California.
Horrified by the Sandinistas' "persecutions" (in other words, the confiscation of property from Nicaragua's
super-rich), Blandon joined the movement to overthrow the Sandinistas. He
began supporting a group called Fuerza
Democratica Nicaraguense (FDN), a "contra" group that was being formed with
money and support from the CIA.
It was illegal, of course, for the U.S.
government to give financial support to the
contras. The U.S. Congress had passed a resolution forbidding it, and such
interference in another country's internal affairs is, in any case, against international law. Nevertheless, on Dec. 1, 1981, President
Reagan issued a secret order authorizing
the CIA to give such support.
But the money
the CIA could provide was not enough. This is
where Blandon made his contribution. He contacted Somoza supporter Norwin Meneses,
known in Nicaragua as "The King of Drugs." Meneses was able to supply Blandon with almost unlimited amounts of cocaine
from Columbia. Then Blandon used his marketing abilities to sell it in the U.S.
The money was used to buy weapons to smuggle
to the contras.
In those days pure cocaine was so expensive that only the
rich could afford it. But Blandon needed a
mass market. Using new techniques,
Blandon had his distributors (L.A. gangs) reprocess the cocaine into crack which, at $20 (¥2,180) a hit, is cheap enough to sell to the poor. At the
high point of his business Blandon was selling up to 100 kilograms of cocaine
a week which, as crack, sometimes brought in as much as $2 or $3 million a
day.
This, says the San Jose Mercury News, was the chief organization behind
the U.S. crack catastrophe.
Blandon has never
been tried in court. In 1991 he was arrested, but the charges were dropped at the request of the Federal Government. Today he has a highly paid job working for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
His specialty is collecting information on
Mexican and Columbian drug lords
― his old
business partners.
Shukan ST: Oct. 11, 1996
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op19961011chu.htm
- Crack(= crack cocain)
- クラック(安価な高純度のコカイン)
- CIA(= Central Intelligence Agency)
- 米中央情報局
- catastrophes
- 大惨事
- hit
- 打撃を与える
- tens of thousands of 〜
- 多くの〜
- population explosion
- 人口の爆発的増加
- evidence
- 証拠
- one of the original forces promoting the crack industry
- 麻薬産業を栄えさせたもともとの原因のひとつ
- well-documented three-part article
- 記録資料によって裏付けされた、3部からなる記事
- alleged that 〜
- 〜と申し立てた
- key person
- 中心人物
- Nicaraguan
- ニカラグア人
- slumlords
- スラム街住宅の悪徳地主
- M.A.(= Master of Arts)
- 文学修士号
- bloody dictator
- 血なまぐさい独裁者
- Anastasio Somoza
- ニカラグアの独裁者(大地主や資本家を支持基盤に米国の庇護のもと43年間独裁が続いた
- revolutionary Sandinistas
- 革命を起こしたサンディニスタ民族解放戦線(1979年にソモサ独裁政権を武力で倒した
- overthrew
- 打倒した
- dictatorship
- 独裁政権
- escaped to 〜
- 〜に逃亡した
- Horrified by 〜
- 〜におびえて
- persecutions
- 迫害
- confiscation of property
- 財産没収
- Fuerza Democratica Nicaraguense
- ニカラグア民主軍(米CIAの指導により1981年に旧ソモサ独裁政権の国警軍を中心に結成さた)
- contra
- ニカラグアの右派ゲリラの通称で広くは野党も含み、左翼政府に反対する勢力を総称する
- give financial support to 〜
- 〜に資金援助をする
- U.S. Congress
- 米議会
- had passed a resolution
- 決議した
- forbidding 〜
- 〜を禁止する
- interference in 〜
- 〜への干渉
- internal affairs
- 内政
- in any case
- どんな場合でも
- Nevertheless
- それにもかかわらず
- issued a secret order
- 秘密の命令を出した
- authorizing 〜 to 〜
- 〜に〜する権限をもたせる
- This is where Blandon made his contribution.
- ブランドンが貢献したのは、ここのところだ
- contacted
- 接触した
- supply〜 with 〜
- 〜に〜を供給する
- almost unlimited amounts of cocaine
- 無限といえるほど大量のコカイン
- smuggle to 〜
- 〜にこっそり流す
- afford
- 手に入れる
- mass
- 巨大な
- distributors
- 密売人の元締め
- reprocess 〜 into 〜
- 〜を〜に再加工する
- hit
- 薬の1回分
- has never been tried in court
- 裁判にかけられたことがない
- charges were dropped
- 告訴は取り下げられた
- at the request of 〜
- 〜の求めにより
- Federal Government
- 州政府
- highly paid
- 高収入の
- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
- 米国麻薬取締局
- specialty
- 専門
- drug lords
- 麻薬王