The War on Drug Trafficking, the longest civil war in Latin America

America has suffered from its civil wars more than any other type of war throughout its history. We call civil wars when the army of a country uses its weapons and soldiers against the population and this reacts by using force, or weapons against its soldiers. This is different than conventional warfare, in which the armies of two or more countries or kingdoms face each other.

The first civil war was suffered by the Latin American countries that had been experiencing disputes over the presidencies and governments since their independence, which began at the beginning of the 19th century.

In Ecuador, the first civil war was called the War of the Chiguallos and it was a popular uprising repressed by the army, during the government of the first president of Ecuador, Juan José Flores, and this was similar to the rest of the Latin American countries. But in the United States, it had a colossal dimension. His Civil War killed more than 700,000 inhabitants, of a country that at that time did not even have 7 million, that is, more than 10% of the population. It was mainly due to the fact that repetition weapons were invented in that country, the machine gun, battleships, submarines, or military balloons, it was a revolution in the industrial production of weapons.

In Latin America, civil wars produced fearsome dictators such as the Duvaliers in Haiti, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Somoza in Nicaragua, Castro in Cuba, Ortega in Nicaragua, numerous dictatorships in the rest, such as those of Pinochet in Chile, the military in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Stroessner in Paraguay, many in Bolivia, and in Peru, such as that of Fujimori, which was an electoral dictatorship of the right, in which the dictator won elections, and this president used the army against his people, with the excuse of the War against the Shining Path, or the electoral dictatorship of Maduro against the USA.

In Colombia, on the other hand, there was the longest civil war in the history of the Continent, possibly the World, between conservatives and liberals, which was very well used by the United States to make Panama independent, and then take that country to build the Panama Canal, which is the main infrastructure built by this country outside its territory. But this war of the Thousand Days later became the anti-communist war, which the United States started in the 1960s with the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, and spread as civil wars throughout Latin America, in which the armies of our countries did not shoot at soldiers of other countries, but at their population.

The Anti-subversive or anti-communist War became a war on drug trafficking when the USSR fell, the Colombian guerrillas stopped being financed and armed by this country or Cuba and sought forms of self-financing, which was possible thanks to drug trafficking, kidnapping, and extortion or vaccinations of peasant people and towns, the first place where they recruited guerrillas, who later, like the cartels recruiting hitmen, did so among the gamines, or poor boys from the cities, who gave rise to the North American mafia and the drug cartels in Latin America.

Since the origin of Latin American countries, civil wars were firstly over land, which forced agrarian reforms in many countries, but in Colombia it was impossible, then the separation of the Church, which was the largest landowner and educator in the country. State, which originated the so-called Liberal Revolutions.

Currently, the war is for political participation, since the USSR was also the main financier of unions and trainer of union or indigenous leaders, who could send their children to study for free in that country, in the countries of the Warsaw Pact, or in Cuba.

When the street protest became a political weapon thanks to women, workers, students, Gandi, Mandela, and Afro-Americans, who saw themselves outside the rights and benefits of the so-called development society, the one that qualifies countries by developed countries and developing or underdeveloped countries, based on the level of industrialization they reach, our armies have become the main actors in the civil war against demonstrators in Latin America, and they are becoming so again in the United States.

Today Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador or Ecuador are experiencing a new civil war called the War on Drug Trafficking, against the cartels and the gangs.

This is a civil war that has been going on for 40 years, which is being won by drug traffickers, gangs and cartels, armies and police formed, trained, equipped, and even directed by the State Department, the DEA, the CIA, or the Department of Justice of the United States, through puppet presidents, who win elections in costly and tricky electoral campaigns and which is also a big arms business, for both sides, the armies and the drug traffickers.