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What happens to all of the government employees who have been given extensive experience in combat against the coca industry? Will they suddenly end up unemploy
by Mountain_Skies 6y ago
What happens to all of the government employees who have been given extensive experience in combat against the coca industry? Will they suddenly end up unemployed with a skillset that is primarily based on violence and imposing control? Even if they have used those skill for what they believed to have been positive goals, when they need to feed their families, who is going to be the buyer for those skills? Hopefully the government has considered this and has some sort of plan for easing these people into other lines of work.
- tehjoker 6y agoAmazingly, the USG never asked those questions about disbanding the Iraqi army and we got ISIS.
- Ericson2314 6y agoThe other cartels disappear, and "goon vets" will probably form their own if they aren't already double-dealing, but they will all be a lot less extremely as faking domestic consumption opens a legal grey area. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/23/how-organised-crime-took-over-russia-vory-super-mafia https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/23/how-organised-c... would end up like this if everything averaged out, but while the USSR was basically turned into neoliberal hell, the trajectory in Colombia is much much more optimistic so I suspect the outcome will be far better. It's Mexico and Central America I'm more worried about than Colombia.