by General Manuel Antonio Noriega
October 1973
📺YouTube
🎙️Spotify
🍎Apple
Speech in Vienna, Austria
by General Manuel Antonio Noriega
October 1973
Speaking before the International Conference on Narcotic Drugs, held in Vienna, Austria on October 8-12, 1973. Lt. Col. Manuel Antonio Noriega, then head of the National Guard's G-2, outlined his view of the philosophy and doctrine required in the battle against narcotics. Excerpts follow:
Intoxication is a form of collective and individual suicide, that in our time has acquired an increasingly catastrophic character.
Humanity has had a painful existence over the millennia. Hunger, plagues, wars, have decimated cities and natural disasters have plunged whole civilizations into the deep. But never have we seen disasters like those that confront us in our times.
As hunger, the plague, war, and death are the first four horsemen, drugs could well be the fifth horseman of the apocalypse foretold by the prophet. The characteristics of this tragedy produced by the use and abuse of drugs are its universality and its recent fabulous increase.
Today, no area in the world is immune to the damage done by the abuse of drugs. Such is the universality of the problem. The fact that the users tend to get younger by the day, demonstrates the nature of the problem.