I agree it was hypocritical and weak. The US trained the colombian search bloc but wanted to keep a distance between them and the US for plausible deniability but at one point Wash. DC called back delta force but the US ambassador to colombia got them to stay. That's how much the US brass was in judgement of the situation.
Whether there are no real good guy or bad guys or not, the majority of people think there is so you have that image management to maintain with the US, especailly in the early 90s when the world still liked us and the american dream was still alive, meaning you could still have a decent life here on minimum wage, a non-reality now.
I think Colombia should have kept the US out of their problems. IT wasn't until extradition was on the table that Pablo went crazy and started to try to control the government. They should have made the drug trade legal as Colombia was sitting on a fortune while being morally condemned while the US who were it's number one customers got to pass moral judgement on them. The drugs as a legal business would have helped the economy tremendously. They should have at least made pot legal. AS it was, they were dirt poor giving birth to desperate monstrous people born in the depths of poverty and violence like Escobar and Griselda Blanco. We still want to pretend we don't know the psychological and sociological effects that create monsters but we know them and as long as people live in abject squalor, we can look forward to this cycle continuing endlessly.
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