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Tag: drug money

  • 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.”

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • We Get Letters: An Irregular Feature

    While working on a story about HSBC BANK'S admission to laundering drug money this morning, I received a note from an Internet correspondent: G'day Daniel, this morning I came upon this in a Google search about you: "HOPSICKER IS A DAMAGE CONTROL MOLE MESSIAH FOR THE GOVERNMENT."

  • How to become an American “non-person”

    Psst. Don’t tell anyone. Here’s the biggest open secret of the 21st Century: The drug trade—the raging river of illicit drugs flowing into the U.S.—provides corrupt officials and the elite deviants who run America’s national security state a slush fund bigger than The Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch. Just don’t tell the truth about it……

  • 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…