El bombardeo de laboratorios de heroína en Afganistán: el último acto en el escenario de la lucha antinarcóticos

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El bombardeo de laboratorios de heroína en Afganistán: el último acto en el escenario de la lucha antinarcóticos

31 enero 2018
London School of Economics

David Mansfield, de la Escuela de Economía de Londres (LSE), cuestiona la eficacia de la estrategia estadounidense y analiza sus repercusiones, que podrían resultar letales. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

The US Department of Defence (DoD) has relented. After 16 years of refusing to bend to the pressure of those driving the counternarcotics effort in Afghanistan and destroy the 'labs' where opium is processed, DoD finally issued the authorities that allowed these buildings to be destroyed. On the first night of the campaign on 19 November 2017, 10 buildings were levelled. It was claimed that each was a drugs lab funding the Taliban. With the onset of this campaign, those working or residing in these labs were no longer viewed as civilians involved in a criminal activity but as enemy combatants and subject to lethal force. These labs and those operating them now represent in the words of General Nicholson, Commander of both US Forces in Afghanistan (USFOR-A) and the North Atlantic Council Organization (NATO) Resolute Support Mission, the 'Taliban’s narcotics financing'.

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