Much like capital grows until its own contradictions push it outward to the imperial periphery, it seems the war on drugs met a critical point where it could only survive by expanding to LatAm and transforming into the avatars of neoliberalism like Bukele. But also the recent excursion against Venezuela was justified using "war on drugs" rhetoric.

The punitive justice programs of dead generation weigh on the brains of the living like nightmares.