The suspension of the drug war was not an act of hypocrisy, or of hypocrisy alone. Here were senior antidrug cops who had believed they could kill a wealthy foreign national inside the national police headquarters after demanding millions from his wife, and here was the president, who, like everyone, had been witness to impunity on the streets, announcing his shock. To tell cops they were trusted while telling cops they were corrupt; to guarantee their protection while pledging to kill them; to rage daily against the inconvenience of human rights while railing in outrage when human rights were
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So the murder of a rich foreign businessman is ultimately what it took to stop the killings… after 7,080 were already dead.
