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4/26/2010

MEXICO’S NARCOTERRORISM IS AN IDEOLOGY OF GREED

By: Jerry Brewer

As a death toll continues to significantly mount from escalating violence and mayhem, yet
criminal proceeds soar beyond those of traditional industries; does a nation consider
stopping the fight and nationalizing it?

If so, the laws and strategies originally in place designed to destroy it cease being
recognized as anything other than crime at all. As a culture matures to the presence of a
powerful organized criminal influence of great power and wealth, the external threat
appears more ominous than the internal threat.

What eventually occurs both internally and externally is the exploitative nature of the
illicit contraband. This exploitation becomes graphically visible in the safety of the
streets, in the readiness or abilities of police, government, and courts to respond timely
and in an effective manner. Too, the culture faces a myriad of moral challenges
manifested in the behavior of youth, honesty in government, to the price paid for their
homes.

Armies and their weaponry have destabilized nations throughout history. However, an
enemy that flies no flag but ruthlessly mounts transnational assault for massive profits
with superior firepower that easily matches or even surpasses military capabilities is a
global threat to mankind. In the case of Mexico, drug trafficking organizations (DTOs)
must supply the demand for illegal narcotics, as well as other related criminal activity.
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The awesome endeavor of meeting the demands and challenges that confront DTOs to
continue to reap the billions of U.S. dollars in revenue from supply, is a continuing
revolving door of risk. Bulk profits must flow unimpeded back to the trafficking
organizations. This currency must find its way via much more complex and twisted routes
and venues than the commodity itself.

Facilitators of this process must be paid along all channels from growers/producers,
transporters, the warehousing, and even police/government officials. Logistics must be
constantly updated, strengthened, new smuggling routes strategized, and rivals
eliminated. The final dollars reach the top of the DTO’s organized criminal hierarchy as
the final stop, and in most instances, this money will need to be laundered in actual or
seemingly legitimate business/industry. Some of it may even be reinvested in the
communities.

The narco dollar never really ever comes to rest. The criminal interdiction and successful
policing of the narcotics trade therefore must follow the dollars among people to the
organizational hierarchy of leadership/management. That route is always the direction to
the source of final destination, minus the intentional turns and curves of inherent
deception, personal security, and even electronic assistance. This much like a
terrorist/assassin who knows that it is easy to attack their personal target once their place
of residence and place of employment is known and they remain predictable between the
two locations.

Let’s face it realistically and factually, most narcotics interdiction is directed at

commodity. It appears to be about seizure because that has value- it is visible and has
impact for the media and is exciting to see bulks of seized drugs. The true fact is that
narcotics can’t be controlled at the borders. If you took all of the drugs in the world and
you placed them in a single location, you would have nothing but a huge mound of
eventual decay. You can’t put it in jail nor question it about its handlers. The problem is
with people and it leads to the top of the pyramid of conspirators.

Conspiracy is believed to be as old as the beginning of mankind. The first conspirators

were believed to simply be a man, a woman, and a reptile; the first item of contraband was
the apple. The arrest and conviction superseded the need to warehouse or exploit the
fruit.

When strategizing against commodity you see the obvious route and link that leads from
grower/manufacturer to the consumer. Therefore, production at its source must be an
integral part of the enforcement-based strategy, as well as the abilities to reduce demand.
All in between that equation is the hell or purgatory that results in murder with impunity,
torture, and the blood-stained illicit product for sale.

What steps must continue to induce source-country foreign governments to stop

producing, and halt/curtail drug product? Diplomacy must not fail. Diplomatic, military,
and intelligence strategies play key strategic roles in this theater of operations.
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There remains an ever-growing push for quantity and quality of product that culminates
in much more great wealth and power for some at the expense of many. Pessimism in this
light is well-founded. The only limitations appear to be the limitations on their own
ingenuity.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATES

United States of America
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Jerry Brewer is C.E.O. of Criminal Justice International Associates, a global threat mitigation firm.
Website is located at www.cjiausa.org jbrewer@cjiausa.org