The island of Jamaica is in a state of emergency after supporters of the “country’s biggest drug dealer” Christoper “Dudus” “Short Man” “The President” Coke set fire to buildings including the police station and put up barricades to prevent the government from extraditing the person some say is the most powerful in Jamaica.
Thanks to ties to the ruling Labor Party that run deep and strong, Coke is still attending weekly dance parties in the western Kingston neighborhood he controls. He’s not in New York, facing the U.S. court that seeks to try him on charges of running cocaine, marijuana and weapons up the eastern seaboard.
After admitting that he played a role in hiring a Los Angeles law firm to lobby the U.S. government on Coke’s behalf, Golding [the Jamaican Prime Minister] hunkered down with advisors late Friday as cries for his resignation grew louder. Coke “is the most powerful criminal in Jamaica,” said Desmond Richards, editor of the Sunday Herald newspaper, which has investigated Coke’s government construction contracts. “He is like a vampire — these people do not do well under light.”
Coke, 41, is believed to be the leader of the Shower Posse, one of the most notorious criminal gangs in the hemisphere. He was indicted by a New York grand jury last year on conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana and traffic weapons. But Golding cited illegally obtained wiretap evidence and other irregularities and refused to extradite him. Experts describe Coke as Jamaica’s answer to Pablo Escobar, the late Colombian drug trafficker whose benevolence in the community afforded him absolute control — and respect.
According to a recent article in the Jamaica Gleaner Christoper is “the man who holds a nation hostage”. Sounds like a movie, call Hype Williams. See what’s going on in Jamaica after the jump…
Miami Herald
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Rahtid gahrge dem nah play down a yawd
top shoota!
He might as well surrender because the US will get him or Jamaica will be fucked. It’s jus sad that many lives will probably be lost in the process.
Why doesn’t the Miami Herald comment how the US ILLEGALLY obtained information to secure the indictment. How when Jamaica refused to extradite how they started canceling people’s Visas in retaliation.
keep sticking up for cocaine dealers…
yes i 2 stick up for the dealers an dem..fuck the system and fuck who don’t like wut i’m sayin..SUCK YUH MADDA!
I’m not sticking up for a cocaine dealer…If they got the information legally then by all means take him….US is used to bullying small countries to get what they want…how do you think the shower posse got their power?? CIA funneled guns into Jamaica because they did not want Manley as PM at the time….STFU if you don’t know shit
thats what u call power!
fuck it!
kill dem all!!
kill who all??
u, the dea the whatever is the big government man over there!
all of u!
ah dat mi ah seh!
*shrugs* he looks like a nice guy.
that last name cant be a coinsedence right?
actually, this has been going on for a while.
a lot of innocent civilians have been caught in pretty compromising positions, but then again….its government.
&since when have they given a damn about….people?
they got the information illegally but the dont give a shit either , they assisted the set up of the showa posse . all they want to do is take the man to jail , or to kill him when him de ya , cos they know he know too much of their dealins .
if i was him id go to a country that has no connection wid the usa ..no extradition treaty and the id fight the government using international lawers..