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Image: At left the CIA logo, George Bush was once the CIA director, it should be no surprise that during his tenure as “President” of the US that crack cocaine saw its debut on the streets of inner-city communities in the US, he is the original OG, of crack dealing.     U.S. President George H. Bush holds a bag of crack cocaine as he poses for photographers in the Oval Office of the White House, Sept. 6, 1989 in Washington after delivering his first nationally televised speech. Bush outlined his $7.9 billion plan for the war on drugs. “The station chiefs ran things in Southeast Asia,” Taylor stressed, adding that the first secretary at the Vietnamese Embassy in Bangkok had a private airline for smuggling drugs to Saigon, as the CIA was well aware. “I tried to catch him, but there was no assistance. In fact, the CIA actively supported the Thai Border Police, who were involved in trafficking.” Taylor shrugged. “The CIA would do any...

Editorial - Monitoring Trinidad Saturday, 03 September 2011 13:43 These are challenging times in the Caribbean where Governments, almost without exception, are wrestling with an upsurge in violent criminal activities and the concomitant mounting concerns about the implications for their countries' and the region's economic and political stability. In fact, the deteriorating crime situation threatens the very fabric of Caribbean society all the way from the Bahamas in the North to Guyana in the South where recent reports based on information released through whistle-blower Website WikiLeaks tell about a burgeoning narco-state whose government has been compromised by at least one drug lord. It is now increasingly evident that much of the turmoil in these countries – including here in St. Maarten – is inextricably linked to the drugs trade fuelled by greed at a time when economies are under severe stress, unemployment rates are climbing and the lure of the quick dolla...