{"id":91238,"date":"2026-06-04T05:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/?p=91238"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:22:49","slug":"narcotrafic-un-changement-dechelle-ou-un-changement-de-discours-le-regard-de-gdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/narcotrafic-un-changement-dechelle-ou-un-changement-de-discours-le-regard-de-gdc\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Trafficking: A Shift in Scale or a Shift in Rhetoric? Gdc's Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The government now characterizes drug trafficking as a full-fledged \u00abnational crisis\u00bb that justifies the mobilization of all government agencies. This shift reflects a genuine awareness of the scale of the problem, but it raises several questions.<\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><strong>First, the rhetoric being used increasingly resembles that of the war on terror<\/strong> : a threat to sovereignty, a general mobilization, and enhanced coordination. Yet experience shows that declared \u00abwars\u00bb on drugs rarely produce the desired results. The United States, Mexico, and Colombia have devoted considerable resources to law enforcement without succeeding in eradicating drug trafficking.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><strong>Furthermore, drug trafficking thrives primarily on economic and social vulnerabilities.<\/strong> Unemployment, dropping out of school, poverty, and a lack of prospects provide criminal networks with a constant source of recruits. The government talks about prevention, but its response remains primarily focused on security.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><strong>This reality is particularly evident in the overseas territories<\/strong>. In Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana, drug trafficking cannot be separated from the structural challenges facing these territories. The risk is that we will address the consequences without tackling the root causes.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">Finally, the increasing centralization of policy coordination at Matignon could improve coordination, but it will never replace the expertise of those on the ground, local governments, educators, and nonprofit organizations.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><strong>The fight against drug trafficking is necessary<\/strong>. But the real shift in scale will not come solely from increasing police resources. It will depend above all on the government\u2019s ability to reduce the inequalities and social divides that sustain the drug economy over the long term.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>G\u00e9rard Dorwling-Carter<\/strong><\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le gouvernement pr\u00e9sente d\u00e9sormais le narcotrafic comme une v\u00e9ritable \u00ab crise d\u2019\u00c9tat \u00bb justifiant la mobilisation de l\u2019ensemble des administrations. Cette \u00e9volution traduit une prise de conscience r\u00e9elle de l\u2019ampleur du ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne, mais elle soul\u00e8ve plusieurs interrogations. D\u2019abord, la rh\u00e9torique employ\u00e9e s\u2019apparente de plus en plus \u00e0 celle de la lutte antiterroriste : menace pour<\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":91239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":""},"categories":[922],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-le-regard-de-gdc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91266,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91238\/revisions\/91266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}