BBC report:

Jamaican police say they have arrested suspected drug lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke on the outskirts of Kingston.

He was detained at a roadblock on Tuesday accompanied by Rev Al Miller, a preacher who said Mr Coke was going to the US embassy to hand himself in.

The government wants to extradite him to face US drug and gun trafficking charges. His case has shed light on the links between politicians and gangs.

Attempts to capture him in May led to clashes in which scores of people died.

He insists he is a legitimate businessman and enjoys the support of many impoverished Kingston residents who see him as a benefactor.

Now that Coke is gone, the formal state can return to what it does best: utterly nothing. Indeed, the American government removes the informal state, run by the gangster, and also forces the formal state to minimize its social investments—hospitals, firemen, police officers, civil servants. The people are left without formal or informal resources.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

4 replies on “Jamaican Drug Lord Is Captured”

  2. Charles,
    I am glad that prick was finally apprehended. Something like 50 + people were killed while authorities were looking for and trying to capture him, Coke. Bloody sad.

  4. …because without a formal state for legal recourse or an informal state for extra-legal recourse, all that is left is the commercial state, for recourse purchasable either by capital or labor. That the United States of Commerce views any power structure which it does not control as a threat should come as no surprise to anyone.

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