The democratically elected President of Guinea-Bissau, Joao Bernardo Vieira, was killed by renegade soldiers. Both him and the chief of the Armed Forces, General Tagmé Na Waie, who died after a bomb attack, had been accused of complicity in cocaine smuggling.From Semana International:
At the beginning of the week, when the President of the Western African country of Guinea-Bissau, Joao Bernardo Vieira, and the army chief, Batista Tagmé Na Wai, were killed in a gangland style, two questions quickly arose: Do the murders in this failed state have any relationship with the fact that Guinea-Bissau has become the first narco-state in the world? And second: Are the Colombian drug cartels, very present in Guinea-Bissau, related in any way to the assassinations?
The answer to the first question seems, at first glance, clear: Yes. The tiny African country, a former Portuguese colony, is permeated to such an extent by the drug traffickers and their organizations that it is facing a crisis of enormous proportions. Whereas the country, the world’s fifth poorest nation, has a bad infrastructure, a massive foreign debt and people struggling to earn a decent living, the Spanish-speaking drug traffickers use Mercedes and Porsche cars or four-wheel drive vehicles and live in fancy estates on the outskirts of the main cities.
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My Comment: As Africa deteriorates further .... expect the worse to come to Africa. Drugs is just the tip of the iceberg.
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