The war against drugs is starting to reveal some of the perverse aspects which not even the most critical among antiprohibitionists could have foreseen. For example, the experts of the anti-drug war have been able to prove that the counter-move devised by the Colombian drug barons, a counter-move which is already in progress, simply consists in no longer exporting cocaine, but entire coca plantations to Southern Africa. Agronomists agree in stating that the conditions for the cultivation of coca are almost identical to those necessary for the cultivation of coffee. It is not difficult to imagine the enormous potential that can still be exploited there. This new strategy devised by the Colombian drug traffickers has a double advantage: on the one hand it contrasts the American offensive focused exclusively on coca plantations and cocaine manufacturing laboratories in the countries of the Andes (Peru, Bolivia and Colombia), and on the other hand it ensures a more effective and less expensive shipping from Afri

ca to Europe.