War On Drugs

‘War On Drugs’ Has Always Been More About War Than Drugs

August 4, 2026 Carlos Ron, BreakThrough News. Educate! Caribbean, Juan Orlando Hernandez, War On Drugs, Wars and Militarism

On July 14, at a summit in Orlando, the head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Terrance Cole, declared that Mexico’s cartels and Mexico’s government are “one and the same.” He offered no evidence. President Claudia Sheinbaum demanded some; none came. Mexico’s Security Cabinet answered with figures – tens of thousands of arrests, hundreds of tons of narcotics seized – while Cole’s office remained silent. The accusation was never meant to be proven. It was only meant to be deployed. Anyone who has studied the half-century arc of Washington’s “War on Drugs” recognizes the move instantly.

Let’s Talk Capitalism, Drugs, And The Drug War

April 22, 2026 Mike Pappas, Left Voice. Educate! Capitalism, Criminalization, Public Health, War On Drugs

Let’s talk about capitalism, drugs, and the drug war. Capitalism warps our relationship with substances. It creates conditions for misuse — like despair, alienation, and a future devoid of hope — and then criminalizes that very same use. It locks people away, eliminates so-called surplus labor, and profits from their caged bodies. This alienation — a concept developed by Karl Marx — refers to the feeling of being disconnected from your work, your community, and your own humanity. Capitalism reduces people to mere cogs in a machine. When you feel like a cog, you often seek ways to escape that feeling.

Sheinbaum Rebuffs Trump After He Threatens To Bomb Mexico, Colombia

November 19, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Claudia Sheinbaum, Colombia, Gen Z, Mexico, US Imperialism, War On Drugs

US President Donald Trump lashed out Monday at Mexico and Colombia, threatening to bomb their territories as part of the US “fight” against drug trafficking. “Would I launch attacks against Mexico to stop drug trafficking? I have no problem with that,” he said during a press conference from the Oval Office of the White House. “Whatever it takes to stop drug trafficking,” he added in reference to the illegal US missile strikes, conducted under the auspices of an alleged “war on drugs,” that have killed 83 civilians from various countries in the region. During his statements, the US ruler reiterated his alleged willingness to conduct diplomatic talks with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Due Process And Trump-Ordered Murder

October 23, 2025 Andrew P. Napolitano, Consortium News. Educate! International Law, Murder, Trump Administration, Venezuela, War On Drugs

President Donald Trump’s use of the U.S. military to kill persons on speed boats in international waters, or in territorial waters claimed by other sovereign nations — all 1,500 miles from the U.S. — has posed grave issues of due process. The U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of due process requires it for every person, not just Americans. The operative language of the Fifth Amendment is that “No person … shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” The Trump administration has claimed that it can kill whomever it designates as an unlawful enemy combatant — it prefers the political phrase “narco-terrorist” — and the due process it provides is the intelligence gathered by American spies and the White House analysis of that intelligence.

Trump Announces New ‘Kinetic Strike’ Off Venezuela’s Coast

October 15, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Caribbean, extrajudicial killing, Latin America, US Imperialism, Venezuela, War On Drugs

On Tuesday, US ruler Donald Trump claimed that US military forces deployed in the Caribbean Sea carried out a new attack on a small boat “off the coast of Venezuela,” without specifying a precise location, killing six people he alleged were carrying drugs. Since Sept. 2, Trump has allegedly ordered military strikes on at least five boats in the Caribbean Sea that his regime insists were carrying drugs to the US. This latest illegal action brings the number of extrajudicial killings committed by US military forces to 27 unidentified civilians. Through Truth Social, the White House tenant published that his secretary of war, Peter Hegseth, ordered a “lethal kinetic attack” against a small boat supposedly off the coast of Venezuela, based on information allegedly provided by US intelligence.

Venezuela At UNSC: ‘We Believe We Are Facing Imminent US Attack’

October 11, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! China, Criminalization, Human Rights, International Law, Latin America and the Caribbean, Militarization, Samuel Moncada, UN Security Council, Venezuela, War On Drugs, Zone of Peace

On Friday, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, alerted the UN Security Council that Venezuela strongly believes a US military attack is imminent. He characterized the situation as the latest aggression in decades-long attempts to oust first President Hugo Chávez and now President Nicolás Maduro. “The plan is clear,” he said during an emergency meeting. “It is once again about executing the operation that already failed: overthrowing the legitimate and constitutional President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, to install a puppet regime and turn our country into a colony.” When questioned by the press, Moncada elaborated on the sense of urgency.

Venezuela Condemns US Empire’s F-35 Flyover: A ‘Miscalculated Provocation’

October 3, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! US Imperialism, US Military Intervention, Venezuela, War On Drugs, Zone of Peace

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino has reported this Thursday, October 2, that at least five US F-35 fighter jets have flown over the Caribbean Sea near the Venezuelan border, an action described as a provocation and a threat to national security. Hours later, the Venezuelan Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs released a joint communiqué formally condemning the incursion, which it said occurred approximately 75 kilometers (about 47 miles) off the Venezuelan coast within the Maiquetía Flight Information Region (FIR). “We have detected within the Venezuelan Comprehensive Defense System […] more than five vectors with flight characteristics of 400 knots and flying at an altitude of 35,000 feet,” Padrino said during a briefing. “What does that indicate? They are combat aircraft that US imperialism has dared to bring close to Venezuelan shores.”

US Revisits ‘War On Drugs’ Routine With A New Target

September 12, 2025 Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza, Steve Lalla, and Sahely Chowdhury, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! US Imperialism, Venezuela, War On Drugs, Wars and Militarism

Venezuela has once again been in the international media spotlight due to the US naval deployment in the waters of the southern Caribbean Sea. This military deployment was officially announced by the US on August 14, but had been reported days earlier by the New York Times. Under the guise of fighting drug trafficking and in parallel with the announcement of an increased reward for the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, the US regime has relaunched its “maximum pressure” campaign against Venezuela. The “bounty” on President Maduro has been doubled to US $50 million, and this time around, the US claims that the president of Venezuela is the head of the nonexistent Cartel of the Suns, the defunct Tren de Aragua criminal gang, and even Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel.

How The ‘War On Drugs’ Tears Families Apart

June 9, 2024 Princess Harmony, Workers' World. Resist! Child Protective Services, Families, Harm Reduction, Public Health, War On Drugs

Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (also known as opioid addiction) is a valid pathway to recovery. In fact, it can be recovery itself, even if a patient requires staying on it for a set period of time or indefinitely. The viewpoint that MAT for chaotic opioid use is a form of recovery is one that people are slowly coming to accept, even if it comes into conflict with other, abstinence-based viewpoints of recovery. Unfortunately, there is a stigma associated with MAT, as expressed in the Narcotics Anonymous World Services Board of Trustees Bulletin #29, “Regarding Methadone and Other Drug Replacement Programs”: “We make a distinction between drugs used by drug replacement programs and other prescribed drugs because such drugs are prescribed specifically as addiction treatment.

Trial Of Honduran Ex-President Reveals Washington’s Protection Of ‘Narco-State’

September 24, 2023 Alexander Rubenstein and Anya Parampil, The Grayzone. Educate! Honduras, Joe Biden, Juan Orlando Hernandez, Legal System, Narcotrafficking, Obama, War On Drugs

“Juan Orlando effectively operated Honduras as a narco-state, acquiring political power through narcotics-fueled bribes and maintaining it by allowing the free flow of drugs through Honduras,” US government prosecutors alleged in a May 1 motion filed in the Southern District of New York. Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment targeting Hernández on April 21, 2022, the same day that Honduras extradited him to the US. He currently faces three drug and weapons smuggling charges in the Southern District of New York, including one count of conspiracy to import cocaine to the United States. His trial begins this week, on September 18.

Drug Decriminalization Saves Lives

March 20, 2023 Editors, In These Times. Create! Harm Reduction, Health Care, Legalization, War On Drugs

The criminalization of drugs hasn’t kept them from becoming a public health hazard — and we can’t just pretend they don’t exist. More than 106,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2021 in the United States, a number that has doubled since 2015. Three-quarters of the overdose deaths in 2021 were from opioid use, and nearly 3 million Americans struggle with opioid use disorder today. To help affected people, many are arguing for a policy of “harm reduction” to make drug use less risky. Sites provide clean syringes and alcohol wipes to prevent the spread of infectious diseases for IV drug users, for example and are prepared with oxygen masks and the anti-overdose drug naloxone to help manage bad reactions.

From Wounded Latin America, Demand To Put An End To The War On Drugs

September 30, 2022 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Colombia, Latin America, UN, War On Drugs

Each year, in the last weeks of September, the world’s leaders gather in New York City to speak at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly. The speeches can usually be forecasted well in advance, either tired articulations of values that do not get acted upon or belligerent voices that threaten war in an institution built to prevent war. However, every once in a while, a speech shines through, a voice emanates from the chamber and echoes around the world for its clarity and sincerity. This year, that voice belongs to Colombia’s recently inaugurated president, Gustavo Petro, whose brief remarks distilled with poetic precision the problems in our world and the cascading crises of social distress, the addiction to money and power, the climate catastrophe and environmental destruction.

At United Nations, Colombia Condemns ‘Addiction To Money And Oil’

September 26, 2022 Ben Norton, Multipolarista. Resistance Report Colombia, Gustavo Petro, Oil and Gas, United Nations, War On Drugs

Colombia’s first ever left-wing President Gustavo Petro delivered a historic speech at the United Nations declaring, “The war on drugs has failed.” Petro emphasized that drug addiction is a social problem, and cannot be solved with violence and militarization. Rather, he argued, it is a mere symptom of a much deeper problem: the capitalist system itself, with its “addiction to money and oil.” The Colombian leader warned that the infinite greed of capitalism is destroying the planet, threatening life on Earth. “The cause of the climate disaster is capital – the logic of dedicating ourselves to consume more and more, to produce more and more, and so that a small few can earn more and more [money],” Petro proclaimed. The “logic of increasing accumulation of capital” is ravaging the environment, he warned. “The increasing accumulation of capital is the increasing accumulation of death.”

America’s Drug Wars

July 13, 2021 Alfred McCoy, Tom Dispatch. Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Health Care, War On Drugs

Fifty years ago, on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon stood before the White House press corps, staffers at his side, to announce “a new, all-out offensive” against drug abuse, which he denounced as “America’s public enemy number one.” He called on Congress to contribute $350 million for a worldwide attack on “the sources of supply.” The first battle in this new drug war would be fought in South Vietnam where, Nixon said, “a number of young Americans have become addicts as they serve abroad.” While the president was declaring his war on drugs, I was stepping off a trans-Pacific flight into the searing tropical heat of Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, to report on the sources of supply for the drug abuse that was indeed sweeping through the ranks of American soldiers fighting this country’s war in Vietnam.

Let’s Reject The Violent Vs. Nonviolent Crime Dichotomy

January 14, 2021 Kassandra Frederique and Danielle Sered, Truthout. Create! Legal System, Nonviolent crime, Violent crime, War On Drugs

November’s election saw criminal legal system and drug policy reform win big at the polls. Oregon became the first state to decriminalize all drugs, and voters overwhelmingly passed other reforms to drug laws, even in deeply red states like South Dakota. Policing took center stage in the national dialogue. And both the vice president and president-elect in their first addresses to the nation promised to “root out systemic racism” in the criminal legal system. The people have spoken, and we are on the precipice of a new moment for justice reform. But how we understand the scope of this collective call for change — and the challenge to which Biden and Harris will have to rise — stands to shape what our new world may look like for decades to come.

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