President Pablo Escobar

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Escobar had always plans to obtain the Colombian presidency. Suppose he lives long enough to win (or buy) an election.

How would a president Pablo Escobar be for Colombia? What policies would he embark on, both domestically and abroad? And what does this mean for his massive drug empire?
 
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I think he might run into trouble with Los Yanquis, for the simple reason that he's a drug kingpin running a major Latin American country. Then again, if he's reliably non-leftist or pro-American, maybe a less idealist administration (H.W?) could overlook that fact.
 
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More seriously: he won't stay president long enough to do anything. A battalion of US Marines will come for his ass, like they did for Noriega in Panama.
 

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I think he might run into trouble with Los Yanquis, for the simple reason that he's a drug kingpin running a major Latin American country. Then again, if he's reliably non-leftist or pro-American, maybe a less idealist administration (H.W?) could overlook that fact.

Well he did have problems with the FARC (IIRC)...
 
Leaving aside the astronomical odds against something to happen so are almost an impossibility ASB level ... He would be closer to their actions as President model, given his character and used to exercise his will without moral restrictions or of any other serious guy like Mussolini and violently politically ruthless and charismatic as Hitler but without any of his organizational qualities and shrewdness politics.

...More seriously: he won't stay president long enough to do anything. A battalion of US Marines will come for his ass, like they did for Noriega in Panama.

For reasons that I explained in a similar thread I doubt very much that even the idea of a military intervention is contemplated to depose a Latin American president although this is Pablo Escobar Gaviria.

USA had and still has more effective and indirect methods to intervene and influence in Latin America in addition to whatever happens in Colombia could hardly be a threat to US national security of such magnitude that requires mobilizing the US Army to start a war against Colombia.

Finally, it is not underestimating as fighting force that are the US. Marines, but only one battalion? ... Must remember before to post, that Colombia isn't a small, almost helpless, State governed by a cowardly and inept little dictator as was the case of Panama nor the Marines are not all-powerful supermen-style Warhamer Space Marines !!!
 
For reasons that I explained in a similar thread I doubt very much that even the idea of a military intervention is contemplated to depose a Latin American president although this is Pablo Escobar Gaviria.

The US government not willing to overthrow a shady ruler from a third world country? That's new.


Finally, it is not underestimating as fighting force that are the US. Marines, but only one battalion? ... Must remember before to post, that Colombia isn't a small, almost helpless, State governed by a cowardly and inept little dictator as was the case of Panama nor the Marines are not all-powerful supermen-style Warhamer Space Marines !!!

Duh. It was a manner of speaking...
 
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The US government not willing to overthrow a shady ruler from a third world country? That's new...

That's part of the problem: Colombia is not a small third world country, easy to invade with little or no risk to the invaders as the island of Granada or Panama or a favorable ground for armored warfare as Iraq and who are willing to face USA in a conventional war ...
with its guaranteed destruction as an organized fighting force after the first battles. But the point here is not that the US has not attempted or carried out the deposing a president of a Nation hostile to their interests ...

Its the cost-benefit relation of an armed intervention when the US government has in its indirect means disposal and more effective to try to achieve their goals, but aqun if these media are seen to be ineffective... not contemplate a military solution for the same reason for not contemplated to resolve the Cuban problem.
 
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