Expert on Colombia Explains Why California’s Drug Crisis is Only Getting Worse

Francois Cavard, a human rights activist who spent years investigating the drugs trade in Central and South America, gives us an insight into drug trafficking—and what roles the world’s communist regimes play in the overdose crisis in the United States.

While cocaine is poised to surpass oil as Colombia’s biggest export, San Francisco saw its deadliest year in 2023 in terms of overdoses, with 806 dead. The cultivation of cocaine plants on 400,000 hectares in Colombia is the source, and we follow the flow of that cocaine to see how it reaches the United States.

According to Mr. Cavard, if Colombia continues on the path toward decriminalizing drugs, it will become a paradise for mobsters. FARC, the biggest cocaine cartel in the world and a group classified as a terrorist organization by the United States until 2021, controls some 80 percent of cocaine trafficking worldwide.

This is carried out in alliance with the Mexican cartels, which have full control of the distribution of drugs into the United States. They have a common interest: to see the United States of America fail. And to make it fail, they need chaos.

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