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Tag: American Drug Lords

  • 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…

  • Mexican Drug Lord linked to 5.5 ton-cocaine bust

    Six months ago, the LAPD was telling reporters the decapitated head found underneath the Hollywood Sign was the result of a "gay lovers triangle."  Six months later, they were still pursuing the gay "thing," only instead of a gay boyfriend in Hollywood, their chief suspect was the now-notorious Canadian Cannibal.  Their efforts at disinformation were…

  • The Real American Desperadoes

    Few events have exposed the secrets of America’s phony drug war like the 1986 assassination of the man the U.S. government called the biggest drug smuggler in American history, Barry Seal. Barry Seal was assassinated on a "Night of the Long Knives" that decimated the top ranks of the Medellin Cartel. One of the seminal…

  • The San Diego DEA’s Dirty Secret

    If the San Diego DEA is looking for suspects with more than a little bit of coke dust sticking to their lapels or a few marijuana seeds in a car ashtray, we’d like to help. Nine college students got together on a Friday night recently in an off-campus apartment in San Diego to commemorate a…

  • Fat Cops, Official Lackeys & The Parasitic Rich

    My beat is drug trafficking and the American Drugs Lords, but there will be occasional digressions, as the spirit moves me. Last week, it moved me a lot… Remember the pepper-spraying cop at that UC Davis Occupy Wall Street rally last November? The official government report was released last week, and it makes interesting reading.…