Airman with Brazil's G20 delegation held over drug trafficking

Spanish police find cocaine in man’s luggage at Seville airport en route to Tokyo summit
by Sam Jones
Wed 26 Jun 2019 12.19 BST

Spanish police have arrested a member of the air force travelling with the Brazilian president’s advance party for the G20 summit in Japan after 39kg of cocaine was discovered in his luggage during a stopover in Seville.

A spokesman for the Guardia Civil said the man was arrested on Tuesday after his plane landed at the Andalucían airport.

“The serviceman was travelling on a military plane that had flown in from Brazil and stopped over at Seville airport en route to Tokyo,” he said.

“The serviceman was found to have cocaine in his hand baggage that weighed a total of 39kg. He was arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking and is currently in custody at our Seville headquarters waiting to appear before a judge.”

It is understood the plane was carrying a military delegation tasked with protecting the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, during the summit in the Japanese capital.

Bolsonaro confirmed the news in a statement on Tuesday night, saying he had been informed of the airman’s arrest by the defence minister.

“I immediately ordered the defence minister to cooperate with Spanish police to establish the facts and cooperate with every stage of the investigation, and to launch an investigation by the military police,” he said.

“There are around 300,000 men and women in the armed forces who are trained to uphold the highest principles of ethics and morality. If the airman is found to have committed a crime, he will be tried and convicted according to the law.”

Leaders are due to gather in Osaka on Friday and Saturday as Japan hosts its first G20 summit. As well as the main gathering, there will be meetings between finance ministers, central bank governors and foreign ministers.
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Producing cocaine at home by Jason Koebler and Toby Muse

Jason Koebler wrote the article "I Went on a 'Make Your Own Cocaine' Tour in Colombia" describing his encounter with a man that teaches people to do cocaine and this video Toby Muse shows how to produce cocaine using a microwave.
Toby explains:

Published on 14 Jan 2014
Cocaine exports account for roughly 2.5% of Colombia's GDP. It is the equivalent of the mining industry's share of the American economy—Exports of the drug are down—but it's still an $8 billion a year business for Colombian traffickers. That's plenty of incentive to keep production going no matter how hard the government cracks down.

Over the last decade, America has given billions to the Colombian military to fight the narco traffickers*. In some ways it looks like the U.S. is getting bang for its bucks—Colombian authorities destroyed 2,356 labs in 2012, a serious dent in Colombia's cocaine industry. But producers and traffickers of the drug are finding ever more creative ways to keep this lucrative business thriving. It's like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole, just when authorities think they've got the cartels on the run, their methods evolve and adapt.

As a British journalist living in the region, our reporter Toby Muse was curious about the current 'state of the art' for Colombia's processors, traffickers and dealers—what are the latest tricks to outsmarting the authorities? He made a few calls and obtained rare, and potentially dangerous access to a processing laboratory. It's not in the jungle as you might expect, but in an urban center of a Colombian city, which we agreed not to name. It turns out that the latest trend in Colombia's cocaine trade is to move processing out of the huge plants found in the jungle to small, mobile and disposable urban labs. In this new, decentralized world of cocaine production, two men with some buckets, a handful of microwave ovens and only the most basic knowledge of chemistry can take naturally growing coco leaves and turn them into 100% pure cocaine powder. And here's the craziest part...they show us how they do it.
Source: Vocativ.
*At the same time they arm the traffickers who uses US banks to laundry the money. Toby forgot to mention  some facts.

The finished cocaine, before it's whitened by Jason Koebler

Don't forget that it is illegal to make cocaine.

Rio de Janeiro's street children disappear: cleaning up the city for the Olympiads

Cleaning the city to the Olympiads is making poor people, especially children. disappear.
We are used to meet at least three homeless children when we get out in Rio de Janeiro. I've noticed that they disappeared,
In the streets of Copacabana they were everywhere. Not anymore. I don't know what has happened?
I don't know but it I wouldn't be surprised if these children are being given drugs so that they become
"police case". But it's just a speculation. Facts:



Officials Consider Radical Measures against Brazil's "Crackland"

"Rio de Janeiro city officials are considering passing a law which would make the compulsory treatment of crack cocaine users legal as the nation's infamous "cracklands" grow.

In Rio de Janeiro, crack users were driven out to outlying favelas after a 2008 initiative saw police take over the city's main shantytowns, or favelas.

Now, in an effort to "clean-up" the city ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, officials are pushing for the compulsory treatment of crack-cocaine addicts living in the streets.

Health officials, assisted by armed police, would try to convince crack-cocaine users into getting treatment - or take them away forcibly if they resist.

The measure is hugely polarizing.

Some don’t believe in the one size fits all solution.

[Leonardo Pecoraro Costa, President of Drug Policy Council of Rio de Janeiro]:
"We don't support the treatment, either compulsory or involuntary, as a model to be applied to all drug addicts. In specific cases, properly followed by health professionals, that can be an option, but it has to be part of a bigger plan.”

An addict, who declined to give his name, also disagreed.

[Anonymous, Cocaine Addict]:
"I decide if want to go or not (to get treatment). I have gone many times."

But according to Silvia Tedesco, a Psychologist Professor at the Federal Fluminense University, in Rio de Janeiro, the country's politicians are trying to find a short-term solution for a very complex issue.

[Silvia Tedesco, Psychologist Professor, Federal Fluminense University]:
"(Compulsory treatment) doesn't work, what happens is that they will go into treatment for months, then they will come out and after a few months, sometimes even weeks, they will be back using it. The number of success stories is very small and insignificant to justify the use of compulsory treatment.”

Tedesco would like to see the problem tackled from a public health perspective rather than from a public safety standpoint.

Since March 2011, more than 5,000 crack-cocaine users have been taken off the streets of Rio de Janeiro by city authorities. Only 10 percent have accepted treatment."

Source: NTD.

US stimulating illegal drug trade is unreported

The money that US government, and other countries, make with the illegal drug traffic is unknown and the support given to the trade is covered up.

"Here we have the biggest drug story of the day. Imagine the screaming headlines: "U.S. Government The World's Leading Drug Peddler." It would surely sell papers. But the story passed virtually unreported, and with not a hint of the obvious conclusions.

Another aspect of the drug problem, which also received little attention, is the leading role of the US government in stimulating drug trafficking since World War II. This happened in part when the US began its postwar task of undermining the anti-fascist resistance and the labor movement became an important target." Noam Chomsky - What Uncle Sam Really Wants”

Do you really believe that they would leave all the money of the traffic in the hands of others? 

I'm writing this post because there are many Brazilians who live in slums that have a terrible life because they work for the drug traffic and they die at a very early age.

US, it is getting harder and harder to be insensitive to all the harms you are doing to people.
Image: These are the poorest Brazilian people and what they have is not crack. It is a drug made of the most deadly and cheap materials. There are more images here . They are black. The vast majority of drug dealers at slums are black.