Tag: DEA

  • Colombian Drug Lord Vanishes After Conviction… in the US!

    A major Colombian drug trafficker who willingly sought extradition to the United States—even offering a $40 million bribe to officials in Brazil to send him to the US—apparently knew what he was doing. After being extradited and convicted in Federal Court in New York of felony drug charges that could have put him in jail…

  • Narco-jet in Costa Rica scandal tied to Iran Contra figure

    A key employee in Bogotá of the Canadian oil company owners of the drug plane flown by Costa Rica’s President Laura Chinchilla was at the heart of the Contra Cocaine pipeline profiled by the late author Gary Webb in his 1996 best-seller “Dark Alliance.” David Scott Weekly was both a CIA agent and drug trafficker, according to Webb’s book. His nickname was "Dr. Death." …

  • DC-9 ‘Cocaine One’ kingpin’s secret conviction

    It was the biggest drug seizure on an airplane in Mexican history. It led directly to the forced sale of Wachovia, then America's 4th largest bank. And it threatened to become America’s most notorious drug scandal since Iran Contra. Yet when a leader of the drug smuggling organization responsible for the flight of the DC-9…

  • Source: Rudi Dekkers drug case “will never go to trial”

    The upcoming trial in Houston of Rudi Dekkers for drug trafficking  has been pushed back and may now never happen, according to a lawyer close to the case. “The case has been continued, and a plea agreement is in the works,” said the attorney, who asked for anonymity.  “The case will never go to trial.…

  • Report: Launch of CIA ‘cocaine coup’ turned on Romney win

    For more than a year the CIA has been trafficking 300 kilos of cocaine a month from Ecuador to Chile for export on to Europe, according to recent credible media reports from Santiago, the Chilean capital. Proceeds from the 300 kilo-a-month business have been used to create a war-chest to finance a Cocaine Coup in…

  • Source: Drug cartels control Mexican airports

    A high-level attorney for the Beltran Leyva faction of the Sinaloa Cartel has revealed that two of Mexico's busiest international airports, in Cancun and Toluca, are controlled by Mexican drug cartels. His disclosures shed new light on the mystery which still—more than five years later—surrounds the two planes from St. Petersburg Florida caught carrying almost…

  • Mitt Romney’s “Pinochet Moment”

    America's eyes are currently riveted on the twisted steel strewn around the site of the train wreck of plutocrat-turned politician Mitt Romney's campaign. But other news this week points up the fact that—while inept politicians representing the parasitic rich come and go—the one constant in our national civic life remains America's endless drug war. Like…

  • Honduran jet fighter shot down DEA drug plane

    A jet fighter from Honduras shot down a plane carrying cocaine last month over Guanaja, part of the Bay Islands chain in the Caribbean, killing a DEA agent onboard. According to El Herald newspaper in the capital city of Tegucigalpa, which broke the story, the shoot-down of the DEA-approved drug flight was behind the U.S.…

  • Mexico’s new President owes election to “Narco-Televisa”

    In the Drug War, where producing confusion is as important as churning out ‘product,’ there are more versions of the truth than in the Japanese film classic Rashomon. Even so, the shocking new scandal breaking in Nicaragua makes it clear that the most accurate way to describe Mexico’s new President-elect is as  “Senor Narco-Presidente.”