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来源类型 | Testimony |
规范类型 | 其他 |
Testimony: The narco threat to US security | |
Roger F. Noriega | |
发表日期 | 2019-06-11 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Thank you, very much, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to offer my views on the US counterdrug strategy. Last December, I told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the threat of illegal drug trafficking to US security has never been more dangerous—because of the depth, breadth, and wealth of criminal networks; the quality and quantity of the deadly drugs; and the inability or unwillingness of governments to confront the threat effectively. Much of the instability in the region—including the mayhem in Central America that drives migrants to the southwest border—is sown by transnational organized crime. Confronting that dangerous threat requires more than better tactics. It demands a more intelligent strategy, adopted and implemented by dozens of allied governments around the world to choke off access to national territory and to the international financial system. A sobering fact is that transnational organized crime commands annual revenue of $2.2 trillion—about the gross domestic product of the nation of Mexico. US policymakers also to have to confront the dangerous new reality of state-sponsored crime. In this regard, the narcostate that US diplomats are tangling with in Venezuela is only the most obvious offender. Cuba, Russia, Iran, and even China have circled the wagons around Venezuela, making them willing conspirators, as the toxic narcostate churns out corruption, cocaine, violence, and refugees on America’s doorstep. The global transnational organized crime network grows more powerful ever day as it optimizes the supply chain of illicit drugs to the US market. On the other hand, the anti-drug alliance that once existed between the United States and responsible governments in Latin America has been lost. Leftist regimes provided an ideological pretext for destroying democracy and the rule of law, leaving countries bereft of effective criminal justice systems, independent judiciaries, and professional police forces. Populist authoritarians take advantage of these weak institutions to hold on to political power and surrender their territory to organized crime. It’s not an ideological case of right versus left, but right versus wrong. Read the full testimony here. |
主题 | Latin America |
标签 | Central America ; Latin America ; Mexico ; narcotics ; Narcotrafficking ; US-Mexico relations ; Venezuela ; Venezuela crisis |
URL | https://www.aei.org/research-products/testimony/testimony-the-narco-threat-to-us-security/ |
来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/209905 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Roger F. Noriega. Testimony: The narco threat to US security. 2019. |
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