I wonder if it's Uribe's criminal organization that is trying to open a "market" in China.
And, given Uribe's protected status in the U.S., as a Bush Junta "made man," you gotta wonder if the CIA is ultimately behind this.
Remember the "Opium Wars"! The British forcing opium addiction on the Chinese!
In that case, it was a blatant, obvious British imperial policy to profit from the human wreckage of opium addiction. The poppy was a mere medicinal herb in China until Europeans arrived, mixed opium with tobacco and hugely escalated the IMPORT of this addictive product INTO China--in the 17th century, with the British warring on China to force them to accept this society-destroying trade.
Has any of this really changed? Is it merely accidental that, wherever the U.S. military and the U.S. "war on drugs" goes, production and traffic in hard drugs escalates, the "war," of course, never ends and becomes horribly bloody?
Colombia. Honduras. Mexico. Afghanistan. How many examples do we need?
I don't think it's merely accidental. But I do think that it's harder to see than the British opium trade in China. The imperial drug-pushers have gotten cleverer--so clever that they use the alleged "war on drugs" for the OPPOSITE purpose--as a means to eliminate rivals and smaller operations, and to consolidate the flow of MULTI-TRILLIONS in profits to certain, hard to see beneficiaries (Bush Cartel/CIA, favored banksters, corpo-fascist political causes, the Miami mafia?). I think that, if the truth were known, this dark economy is the underlying structure of western capitalism and its perpetrators are not just oblivious to the human carnage and society wreckage that an economy of illicit hard drugs inflicts, but this "war" and its protected traffic, are, indeed, a weapon used to produce social mayhem, all the better to subvert and ruin democracy and control governments.
That's what the British opium trade was all about. The British didn't bother to hide the trade or its purpose--to crush China's independence. It was explicit. What the U.S. and its corporate rulers and war profiteers have added is hypocrisy.
The Chinese have long memories. That era is called "the century of humiliation." The emperor tried to stop the importation of opium into China and was defeated by the British Navy. It wouldn't surprise me if their current death penalty for drug trafficking is a product of that old humiliation. It is extraordinarily harsh.
I do hope that these accused drug traffickers are returned to their country. Latin America is more civilized than both China and the U.S. Even Colombia--which suffers so many extrajudicial murders by rightwing death squads--does not abide the death penalty officially. I believe that the death penalty has been banned in all of Latin America.
Also, these accused are probably "mules" of one sort or another--low level operatives who are put at risk by whoever is running this "marketing" effort.
That's for posting this. It is certainly a story to be watched. The Colombian government may have many reasons for wanting to get its citizens back, but among those reasons may be a desire to cover up the massive hard drugs trafficking that underpins U.S./Colombia "free trade for the rich," the massive corruption of the "war on drugs" and the close connections between political and military leaders and their gangster economy.
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