Author: Daniel Hopsicker

  • American agents wounded in Mexico linked to CIA drug planes

    In a violent incident whose explanation daily grows more murky the two "U.S. embassy officials" wounded by Mexican Federal Police officers in an attack outside Cuernavaca were revealed to be CIA agents by major Mexican news organizations earlier this week. What has remained undisclosed —until now —is ths: one of the agents is linked to…

  • “Hatto’s” List

    Trolls are everywhere this election season. But one, under a link I posted recently on Facebook, under the heading "WikiLeaks stands under threat,” can teach us something about how things came to the current un-pretty pass.

  • “I AM JULIAN ASSANGE!”

    And so are you, if you believe in democracy. Because there can be no democracy without an informed citizenry, and if there is one thing all sides of the Julian Assange-Wikileaks issue can agree on, it is that through Wikileaks and Assange we have learned details—vital details—about the world we live in that we would…

  • Drug Lords, Drug ‘Ladies,’ & Alvaro Uribe’s sister-in-law

    In the noise and confusion attending the extradition to the US  on the same day last week of three women involved in cocaine trafficking from South America,  questions raised by the family connection of one to the former President of Colombia went unanswered. Did Alvaro Uribe okay the loading of 3.6 tons of cocaine at…

  • Spain Drug Bust Links Chapo Guzman, Mexico’s new President

    When a lieutenant for the Sinaloa Cartel was arrested this week in Spain for drug trafficking, it became a major scandal in Mexico for a curious reason. Until several days ago no one had ever heard of someone from a drug cartel posting pictures of a drug trafficking operation-in-progress on Facebook. Yet that’s just what…

  • Pics of new Mexican President with Sinaloa cartel lieutenant

    He hasn’t even taken office yet, but Mexico’s new President Enrique Peña Nieto has already got some ‘splainin’ to do. Mexico City newspapers today reported the discovery of pictures of the not-yet-inaugarated new President in which he appears chummy with a man  arrested yesterday in Madrid and charged with importing 337 kilos of cocaine into…

  • Arrest of 4 Mexican Generals linked to downed CIA drug plane

    The investigation and recent arrest of four prominent Generals in the Mexican Army on charges of  protecting cocaine flights for Mexican drug cartels began with a series of seismic shifts in the drug trade that were set in motion more than five years ago by two American-registered planes from St Petersburg Florida —a DC9 airliner…

  • Former Mexican Governor Pleads Guilty

    Madrid ran Cancun & the state of Quintano Roo from 1993-99 for the Juarez Cartel,  with money laundered through Lehman Bros. Who's running the state–and the money laundering–today?? A former Mexican state governor pleaded guilty in a federal court in Manhattan on Thursday to conspiring to launder millions of dollars in narcotics bribe payments that…

  • HSBC Narco-Bank: Too big to fail, too big to go to jail

    The big news in the US Senate’s Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigation’s 340-page report released last week on drug money-laundering by London’s HSBC Bank, the world’s 4th largest, is the answer to the question: Is there a bigger Drug Lord in the world than Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel Honcho Shorty (El Chapo) Guzman? Perhaps surprisingly, the answer…