Category: Drug Trafficking

  • The Mystery in Medellin: Why was ‘American Made’ there?

    The Mystery in Medellin: Why was ‘American Made’ there?

    This is a story about a plane crash. Start here: Everybody in-country was tired, or sweaty, or both. “Swelter” is a word that acquires new meaning in a South American jungle. It was the last day of filming. Tom Cruise has been in-country for 20 sweaty days in a row. Everyone was anxious to get…

  • ‘American Made’ turns Seal story into “madcap ’80’s romp”

    ‘American Made’ turns Seal story into “madcap ’80’s romp”

      A new movie coming out in four weeks attempts to pull off a feat no other biopic from a major Hollywood studio ever has…   Called “American Made” and starring Tom Cruise as drug smuggler Barry Seal, the upcoming release has airbrushed out the very things that made its main character famous to begin…

  • 2016 election decides who controls the drug trade

    2016 election decides who controls the drug trade

    In the Presidential Election of 2016, Republican and Democratic insiders are wrestling like two dogs over a bone over who controls the illegal drug trade. To the victor go the spoils. Who wins the election wins control of America’s vast drug bazaar, largest in the world, whose proceeds prop up lucky bankers and politicians lapping at…

  • TROJAN HORSE IN NEW ZEALAND

    TROJAN HORSE IN NEW ZEALAND

    Beware of Mexicans bearing gifts…

  • The Three Amigos, a total dreamboat, and an elephant

    The Three Amigos, a total dreamboat, and an elephant

    The Three Amigos met in Ottawa Wednesday, and no one knows why.

  • Frank Sinatra, Pablo Escobar… and Meyer Lansky

    Frank Sinatra, Pablo Escobar… and Meyer Lansky

    “Two kilos of heroin for a little walking around money” A  ‘friend’ on Facebook found a link I posted there to a DailyMail story about Frank Sinatra’s purported ties to Pablo Escobar, (Frank Sinatra was ‘a better cocaine dealer than singer), based on interviews with dead Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s son where he claims singer Frank…

  • Free press in U.S. vs Mexico: Que es mas macho?

    Free press in U.S. vs Mexico: Que es mas macho?

      Three Mexican journalists—each a woman who has spent years living with the real possibility that the death threats she regularly receives will one day result in a slow, gruesome death—heroically continue to report the truth about the drug war in their country that no mainstream American journalist has the balls to report about the drug war in ours:…

  • The “Zapruder Film” of the “War on Drugs”

    The “Zapruder Film” of the “War on Drugs”

    Most people have already heard something about the assassination of Barry Seal, gunned down in cold blood in Baton Rouge Louisiana in 1986, supposedly for ratting out the head of the Medellin Cartel, Pablo Escobar.   But that’s not what happened. And it’s one place where the big lies of the war on drugs lie exposed…

  • True Detective III: “The Cowles’ Identity”

    True Detective III: “The Cowles’ Identity”

    According to the DEA—which, caveat emptor, lies like a dog when it suits its purposes—El Chapo Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel  “supplies 80% of the heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine, with a street value of $3 billion, that floods Chicago each year.” Though it seldom comes up, that flood flows both ways. And since the money from…