Still, a lot of the defeat of Communism occured in Latin America- in the Southern Cone and Central America. Communists there weren’t debated, weren’t opposed, weren’t even fought, no, they were gutted like fish. A few fellow travelers went with them but I can’t muster any tears for them. Rough business but you have to deal with rough people roughly.

Pablo Escobar went from the Saddam Hussein of Colombia to a man completely alone, shot to death on a rooftop in a slum, under an even rougher program. Medellin is now a very pleasant city, with a murder rate lower than Baltimore.