{"id":287,"date":"2026-05-29T22:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2026-05-29T22:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:18:15","slug":"trumps-war-on-cocaine-exposed-as-blowing-up-in-his-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s War on Cocaine Exposed as Blowing Up In His Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s $4.7 billion war on cocaine smugglers has claimed the lives of nearly 200 people yet hasn\u2019t made the drug meaningfully harder to buy in the United States, according to experts. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=285\">Trump\u2019s Deadly Virus Plan Suffers Major Setback<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly nine months after the Trump administration began launching strikes on small boats off the coast of South America, experts say cocaine prices, purity levels, overdose patterns, and border seizure data all suggest the flow of drugs into the U.S. is largely unchanged.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>That is despite the operation ballooning into one of the largest U.S. military deployments in Latin America in decades, with heavy equipment such as guided-missile destroyers and roughly 15,000 American troops now involved. The campaign has stretched from the Caribbean into the eastern Pacific, alongside ground strikes in Ecuador and the capture of Venezuela\u2019s former leader on U.S. drug trafficking charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has insisted the strikes are \u201chighly effective,\u201d pointing to Coast Guard seizures of 511,000 pounds of cocaine in 2025, more than triple the agency\u2019s annual average.<\/p>\n<p>But addiction scientists and epidemiologists say the cocaine market inside the U.S. looks remarkably unchanged, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Street prices in many American cities still hover between $60 and $100 per gram, roughly where they stood before the strikes began. Researchers also say cocaine purity levels have remained steady, undermining the idea that traffickers are struggling to replace lost shipments or dilute shrinking supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the United Nations estimates Colombia alone now produces roughly 5.7 million pounds of cocaine annually, around 11 times the amount seized by the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=283\">Trump Humiliated as Leak Reveals Military Is Recruiting UFC Fight Attendees<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experts say traffickers are simply adapting by shifting shipments onto container ships and overland smuggling routes through Central America while absorbing occasional losses at sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clearly not going in the expected direction,\u201d University of North Carolina addiction scientist Nabarun Dasgupta told the Times.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America was even blunter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not moving the needle at all,\u201d he told the paper. \u201cIs that worth killing all these people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCocaine remains highly available, highly prevalent and relatively inexpensive,\u201d said Carl Latkin, a professor of public health at Johns Hopkins University. <\/p>\n<p>He also rolled out a damning analogy to the Times. \u201cIn addition to being morally abhorrent, this method is as likely to succeed as much as would bombing a handful of McDonald\u2019s in Dallas, Texas, and claiming that you\u2019ve made America healthy again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=281\">Judge Humiliates Trump Over Tacky Kennedy Center Takeover<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s $4.7 billion war on cocaine smugglers has claimed the lives of nearly 200 people yet hasn\u2019t made the drug meaningfully harder to buy in the United States, according to experts. 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