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Spiegel, & reporting from The New Arab lay out in detail the drug smuggling cartel headed by The Butcher #Assad's crime family, & links to General Khalifa #Haftar the de-facto ruler of the eastern half of the civil war-torn #Libya.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/assad-s-criminal-conglomerate-syrian-economy-continues-to-spiral-toward-collapse-a-4a40506d-ec0e-46ae-90c8-6d069659eda4#ref=rss
"The booming business with the production and export of Captagon brings in several billion euros in profit every year and has long since exceeded Syria’s legal exports"
"Assad’s regime now feels empowered to resume its war and to allow the population in those areas under its control to sink further into poverty. Only those who are linked to or loyal to the ruling family are allowed to participate in the economy.
For a brief moment, it looked as though the protests in Suwayda might spread to Homs, Aleppo and Damascus. But.. "Anyone who might demonstrate in the country has long since fled, been killed, been locked up or is too afraid"
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/assad-s-criminal-conglomerate-syrian-economy-continues-to-spiral-toward-collapse-a-4a40506d-ec0e-46ae-90c8-6d069659eda4