WI: Pablo Escobar launched a coup?
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The US probably quickly invades possibly with UN authorization. In the process anyone even vaguely leftist gets caught in the crossfire.
Could turn out like Panama with Escobar killed or captured (probably killed) or if Escobar goes to ground could turn out like Nam.
Yes but in eighties, memory of Vietnam was still strong. Wouldn't be until Bush Sr. that the US could pull off something like that, and it'd have to be short. Colombia is bigger than Panama, and Bogota is very far inland with difficult terrain. It'd be another Iraq, FARC would come in the aftermath.
CaptainRex
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Why? He was so filthy rich you can't really believe it. He spent $2,500 dollars a month just on rubber bands to bundle his wads of cash.
He spent more on schools, hospitals, sport stadiums then the government. His private army was stronger then Colombia's.
He had more private planes and helicopters then Colombia's air force. He Econ had his own submarine fleet to smuggle drugs(which the government had none).
He had traders, dealers, sellers and contacts from LA to Russia. He had more then all of Colombia's embassies
The entire government was in his pocket including the government. He controlled and ruled Columbia
There was never a need to stage a coup. It was a US special force team that took him out. Without US support, he would still rule the country as one if the worlds most powerful and wealthiest men.
He spent more on schools, hospitals, sport stadiums then the government. His private army was stronger then Colombia's.
He had more private planes and helicopters then Colombia's air force. He Econ had his own submarine fleet to smuggle drugs(which the government had none).
He had traders, dealers, sellers and contacts from LA to Russia. He had more then all of Colombia's embassies
The entire government was in his pocket including the government. He controlled and ruled Columbia
There was never a need to stage a coup. It was a US special force team that took him out. Without US support, he would still rule the country as one if the worlds most powerful and wealthiest men.
Pablo Escobar would not have attempted...
Pablo Escobar would not have attempted a coup because he always was convinced he could buy his way to the presidency of Colombia, underestimating the resistance of the political establisment to lose its power to allow access by an outsider to that position.
United States would not have contemplated a military intervention if it occurs
to take over power legally or illegally in Colombia for some faction even if it had been the case of Pablo Escobar.
Have any source for his claim that the indispensable help of the US Special Forces to Colombians?
Beyond the possible training and training in general members of the Armed Forces of Colombia, which was part of the US government policy toward Latin America, exemplified in the infamous School of the Americas.
USA had indirect and more effective ways of control and influence their southern neighbors much more effective than a costly military intervention, materially and politically, not to mention the inevitable loss of human life for little gain from the perspective of policy makers in Washington....
"The US Army School of the Americas is a school That has run more dictators than any other school in the history of the world."
-Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II.
Pablo Escobar would not have attempted a coup because he always was convinced he could buy his way to the presidency of Colombia, underestimating the resistance of the political establisment to lose its power to allow access by an outsider to that position.
United States would not have contemplated a military intervention if it occurs
to take over power legally or illegally in Colombia for some faction even if it had been the case of Pablo Escobar.
Have any source for his claim that the indispensable help of the US Special Forces to Colombians?
Beyond the possible training and training in general members of the Armed Forces of Colombia, which was part of the US government policy toward Latin America, exemplified in the infamous School of the Americas.
USA had indirect and more effective ways of control and influence their southern neighbors much more effective than a costly military intervention, materially and politically, not to mention the inevitable loss of human life for little gain from the perspective of policy makers in Washington....
"The US Army School of the Americas is a school That has run more dictators than any other school in the history of the world."
-Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II.