Getting to terms with the business of drugs and its consequences

American banker psycho

What does "bankers on Cocaine" and an "American psycho" (banker) in Hong Kong  have to do with the murder of 46 innocent students September 26, 2014 in and around the city of Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico? I guess many of us in the prominent countries of the west wouldn't make the connection or even give it a thought. I hope I will be able to explain, so while the stories about the bankers written about in my previous blog post are sort of over, the story in Iguala is still unfolding as the charred remains of 43 students are scraped up by forensics at a garbage dump, some other pieces searched for on a river bank and by divers.

It all started when 46 students were arriving at the town of Iguala to make a protest over the situation at their school. The mayor known to be affiliated with one of the drug cartels is alerted that there is ruckus outside of the town hall where the mayors wife was going to hold a speech so he alerts the local police to "remove" the students from the streets. The police arrives resulting in 3 students shot dead, 3 others unrelated, musicians from a band gets shot too by mistake and the remaining 43 students are aprehended. The 43 is later in the night transported to the local police force in a nearby municipality, Cocula, a city known to harbor the criminal gang -  "Guerreros Unidos" involved in the bigger cartels drug business but also in cahoots with the mayor from Iguala. With the 43 students aprehended the Cocula police contacts the leader of the criminal gang, telling him that they were holding a group of people belonging to a competing criminal band. In the middle of the night the students are picked up by the criminals, driven to a secluded garbage dump and executed. The corpses of the 43 young men are piled up over car tires and firewood and the whole thing is set on fire burning from about midnight to 4 o'clock pm the next day. The remains from the fire are scooped up and put into eight large plastic garbage bags and later disposed of into a river from a bridge.

It took about 6 weeks to get this far in the investigation about a mass murder but anyhow, this is what we know as of yesterday November 7, told by the federal attorney of Mexico, after about 100 arrests and 3 narratives from criminals directly involved in the killings. So what is the relation to the Hong Kong Cocaine bankers? Telling any story regarding atrocities made in relation to narcotics in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru (there are other countries in the list outside of Latin America) would make most of us from the US, Central Europe or European Scandinavia just shoot from the reptile brain saying, those are failed states. We live in market economies and the rule for business (making money) in a market economy is - demand and supply, meaning no demand, no supply. It is that simple. I have a life-time behind myself working with development in a large global corporation and the constant question from the sales people deciding about and holding the money for investments was to us market and development people - were is the demand? If we could not answer that question, that is not being able to prove that there was demand, a customer, we would not get any money and hence no supply and there would be no development.

Do you start to read me now? I am saying that we all are responsible for this horrible and inhumane situation, for atrocities, mass murders in what we call failed states. We are the consumers, we are the demand and without us, no narcotics business.

We have to take responsibility for what is happening globally and stop consuming narcotics. As long as we continue  to consume narcotics and pointing fingers at those "failed states" even intervening in those countries, our own police force will also fail, continue to fail. The police will never eradicate drug abuse by their own, we have to kill the demand.

One way of doing this is continuous drug screening in schools, in businesses, government, in sport clubs where no one is excluded from screening, not even the president, this together with teaching so to increase knowledge about where drug abuse leads, that is to suffering and hell. Thoughtful consequences have to be implemented when one individual fails a test (so to not create a outcast or another criminal problem).

This is what I see as a solution to problem that is growing upon us. You have to consider that demand and consumers of drugs like Cocaine are the most prominent ones of our society as they are the ones having life styles and money to sustain demand. We are not demanding a responsible management of our resources, funds and money, our planet when we let this go on and guess what I think about now? The bankers of Hong Kong, New York, London, Berlin, Stockholm and other financial centers.

We can stop this madness, we can remedy failed states, we can save lives, save our own children from perishing but only if we stop demand, stop using those drugs ourselves and in our own countries.

Implement screening of drugs all-over. I would be satisfied if we would implement it here in Sweden serving as an example for the entire world. As I have one foot here in Sweden and another one in Mexico I suffer daily from hearing my loved ones over there being in constant fear of kidnappings and deaths. They suffer a lot being afraid that the next one to die will be one of their children.