drugs, really the whole informal economy, is a sticky issue for impoverished states because while yeah it's illegal and bad and all that it's also a source of hard currency flowing into a country and employment that they might not be able to readily replace. I mean what do you do when your most lucrative export is cocaine?Shanghai industrial complex wrote:Nekostan-e Gharbi wrote:
Well ultimately it was but here is an important distinction: most Latin American govs aren’t that weak. So your claim doesn’t really apply. South Vietnam was indeed weak though its weakness looked Sinic (e.g. lots of soldiers and their family members ran away in 1975, causing a rout) as opposed to be from any kind of French legacy. I can sort of see a variant of Chiang’s ROC in South Vietnam.
So why can't they solve the problem of drug dealers?Drug dealers are not afraid of the government, but the government is afraid of drug dealers