Condor operation

Condor operation

Condor operation attacked drug clans in a plan to advance the drug trade decentralization. Still, in the same operation, federal police and the military police were allowed by the government to take over drug trades so that they could reduce drug lords’ powers. It was contradictory for the U.S government to emphasize that the Mexico government put the effort in the war against drugs while it was benefiting from the generalized extortion in the trade. When the Mexican government discovered this, they solved it in a cunning way which left the U.S government satisfied and as a result allowed enhance the advancement of the PRI’s agenda in politics.

Although the Condor operation had its advantages, the involved task force was involved in different types of violence; for example, killings extortion, disappearance, rape and torture. When all these things were happening, and many peasants were being displaced, the government was announcing the sanctioning of the drug traders and further encouraged the journalist to cover and broadcast the assumed victory.

An epilogue analysis of the pre-Columbian drug trafficking, cold wars in American politics was a great driving force in the development of cocaine in line with the U.S government drug policies. During the Barrientos era, the Andean politics polarized and as a result, accelerated the cocaine business. The U.S government inspired a conflictive reform on agrarian revolution together with the Andes modern left, and right projects made many poor people move into the coca areas of the country. When leftist Velasco experiment in Peru collapsed in the 1970s, the colonized peasant families were left in the jungle stranded with no access to any of the government’s loyalties and services. Both Bolivia and Peru became very disorganized economically and politically in 1973; the bankruptcy and Andean crisis was threatening to drive cocaine entrepreneurship over the next years.