Pompeo and Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes

On narcotics, at 1 minute 8 seconds, Pompeo plans to reduce Colombian cocaine production by 50%. This is equivalent to reducing the world cocaine supply by around 35%. Does he wonder, ever, whether that will have an effect on the broader region?

See this Economist piece: Cocaine production in Colombia is at historic highs

Until the end of 2016 Uribe was mostly controlled by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or farc, a Marxist guerrilla movement with a sideline in drug trafficking. Its fields, chopped from the forest over the past few decades, produced plentiful coca. Now most of the local farmers are like Mr Silva, trying to move on from drug production. When Colombia’s government signed a peace deal with the group, the local militants disarmed. The government, working with the unOffice on Drugs and Crime, stepped in to pay farmers as much as 1m Colombian pesos ($312) a month to grow something else.

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But though coca production has collapsed in Uribe, elsewhere in Colombia it has soared. The crop of 2017 was the largest ever. On June 26th the White House published American estimates which showed that coca production in Colombia last year fell only slightly from that peak.

Honestly, Pompeo is no better than the goddamned Pope! This is fucking pathetic. Of course, that is not what they were really talking about, so this is an unfair criticism of Pompeo and the Pope! This is more likely closer to 5he issues that concern Pompeo and the Pope:

Nobody can criticise freemasons, because they do their business in secret. Well, they think it's secret. See Amy Zegart on Cyberwar, ...

Fuck all of you useless assholes!