Hal Hodson
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137 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
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And we've seen that in Colombia over the past four years, the amount of territory that they control has increased, the amount of cocaine they produce has increased, the amount of extortions and robberies and gang-related violence has all increased.
And so
There is no question in my mind that more aggression is warranted.
The open question is what comes after that?
Do you try and just throw these bad guys in jail, and that's the end of it?
Maybe you have some mass trials, which is what has been done in El Salvador, but deeply questioned by human rights lawyers.
The problem is if you just do the authoritarian aggressive crackdown and you
I don't know.
keep up rule of law, then you end up in a very authoritarian place where people's rights kind of rely on whether or not the president likes them.
And that's what's kind of happened in El Salvador.
And that is the risk.
I won't say it's looking like a very huge risk.
I there's no reason to think that Abelardo won't follow due process and won't combine aggression with rule of law, but that is the risk.
Well, security is a huge reason.
It's the first time in twenty years now that right wing governments have been in control of what's known as the cocaine belt.
The group of countries Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador too, if you wanted to count that, where almost all of the cocaine in the world is produced.
Those countries have not been politically aligned for twenty years.
And so this is a huge opportunity for
For Donald Trump's anti-gang agenda.
He now has cooperative, friendly governments in all of the places that matter.
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