Your Daily “War on Drugs”

Michael Braun, the former chief of operations for the D.E.A., told me a story about the construction of a high-tech fence along a stretch of border in Arizona. “They erect this fence,” he said, “only to go out there a few days later and discover that these guys have a catapult, and they’re flinging hundred-pound bales of marijuana over to the other side.” He paused and looked at me for a second. “A catapult,” he repeated. “We’ve got the best fence money can buy, and they counter us with a 2,500-year-old technology.”

From “Cocaine Incorporated” by Patrick Radden Keefe [NYT Magazine]

Jun. 16 2012
Via The New York Times
#war on drugs #cartel #marijuana
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