Business as usual in Colombia

Colombian authorities busted an underground storage facility in the jungle, netting 13.5 tons of cocaine.

We believe this is the biggest storage area of cocaine in the world," navy Capt. Jairo Pena said Friday.

The seizure - one of the largest in recent years - represents more than 3 percent of what the U.S. government says is Colombia's annual potential cocaine output of 430 tons.

Big whoop. Price of doing business in the drug trade. This is unlikely to be even felt on the street is my guess but here's the interesting part of the story.

Gen. Jorge Daniel Castro, chief of the Colombian National Police, said the cocaine belonged to right-wing paramilitary forces and leftist rebels. The groups are bitter enemies but have been known to occasionally cooperate in drug trafficking to earn huge profits.

It sounds like a bad sitcom doesn't it and goes to show you what a sham Plan Colombia really is. I mean can't you sort of picture the scene? The guys are all sitting around having a beer and someone comes running into HQ shouting the Americans are coming, quick everybody pick up your guns and start fighting. Nobody wants to solve the problem because then the US aid money would dry up and you can be sure everybody gets in on the take, including the rebels and the paramilitary. It's all a game and the real victims are the indigenous people who get caught in the middle of it.