Togo's zero tolerance towards drugs - 6 Jul 08

For the second time in the past 10 days, Colombian police say they have arrested a kingpin of a major cocaine cartel.

According to the police, Oscar Veral Carcia commanded a "group of hired assassins" working for the infamous Norte del Valle cartel.

'Capachivo' - as he is also known - is on Washington's most wanted list of cocaine traffickers.

Drug trafficking is also a problem across the Atlantic Ocean in West Africa.

Police in the west African state of Togo, are cracking down on drug traffickers and implementing a policy of zero tolerance when it comes to this growing problem.

Last month, 24 million dollars worth of narcotics were seized by the Togolese security forces and destroyed.

Drug trafficking through Africa is not a new phenomenon; however West Africa is increasingly becoming a hub for smuggling narcotics because of lax policing.

The small nation of Togo is battling a rise in drug-related crimes as Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros reports.

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[LouisianaGatorGirl]

It is not enough that officials in Togo hunt down illegal drug traffickers and destroy the drugs. The Togolese people need to be given viable alternative sources of income so that they won't revert back to selling drugs.

[aquamammal]

The only way to beat them is to legalize drugs and tax/regulate.

XVX for life, R.A.S.H. 'til death.

[aquamammal]

Haha, because the creation of cartels/gangs/mules is so much better for kid's lives.

You use your fucking head. Have you been to the Netherlands. One reason they have so little violent crime is because of their progressive drug policies.

I'm fucking vegan straight-edge, still say legalize all drugs and regulate that shitte. You get a lot less crime, prisons, AIDS, and ODs. Prohibition is drug cartels and the prison industrial complex's best friend.

XVX for life, R.A.S.H. 'til death.

[inderneil]

anglodutch living in england calling himself x11115 but specializes in child porn or whores you pimp ha ha ha if i catch u you dumbanglodutch and that too in your profile a cap with a swastika on it ooooh! you have no idea what will become of you eat the englanders shit forever u mongrel

[inderneil]

x11115 KEEP on Wanking our countrys economy is still better then yours ha ha ha wanker u sissy u must be a confirmed faggot yourself it seems and u must be a child molester thats why u have ideas about child porn got caught in your own words u perverse pig

[hajqbvii]

....you're absolutely correct, our 'War on Drugs' have been a total failure in the USA, but I find it ironic that our pharmaceutical

companies have made billions in the 40 yrs. of our failed drug policy...

[x11115]

lowlife. go sell your sister into a porn ring you stupid pig. people like you need to be gassed.

[x11115]

bull shit you have sex rings.  total fucking lowlifes and child porn. i think if one section of Europe could disconnect it would be the red light districts. anyway your trash. look how classy areas of Germany are and they are drug free. you have no work ethic so your country is just full of lowlife whores.

[x11115]

nah no one wants to live in one of your red light harlems. how stupid. i don't want people to legally have meth or cocaine stupid ass. kids lifes are destroyed from it. use your fucking head.

[nickvanzetti]

weebles wobble but they dont fall down!

[inderneil]

aquamammal is correct , we have nederland near to our country there certain drugs like cannabis is legal and that country has no violence or any sort of crime ir mafias pushing drugs around legalize it & the problem will vanish actuall those countries that dont legalize drugs shakes hands under the table with drugs mafias and that help the corrupt police & politicians so to thrive & manipulate