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Assad’s Captagon Wager
The Assad regime’s manipulation of the Captagon trade, combining industrial-scale production with carefully crafted counternarcotics rhetoric, staged seizures and inflated statistics, gave the illusion of a crackdown. But the regime’s reliance on Captagon to reinforce its hold on power prompted a backlash from neighboring states and hastened its collapse.
Captagon Empire
In Douma, near Damascus, a once-thriving “Captain Corn” chips factory has been revealed as a vast Captagon production hub — one of many that fueled a multibillion-dollar illicit trade that helped sustain Bashar al-Assad’s regime for years.