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  • Up in Smoke? 24 Tons of Cocaine in “No Peek Burn Run”

      Its called a "burn run." When the government of Costa Rica asked for assistance in disposing of a huge stash of cocaine and other drugs they’d accumulated during the past two years worth of drug trafficking busts—in airports, in airplanes, and on the high seas—the US was only too willing to help. According to…

  • 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." …

  • Costa Rica’s President flew narco-jet to Hugo Chavez funeral

    An American-registered drug plane has been plying the airspace over Central and South America carrying cargoes of cocaine for a good long while (authorities admit they’ve been “investigating” it since 2011) without apparent incident, until recently, when a newspaper in Costa Rica reported that the President of Costa Rica had been seen using it to…

  • 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…

  • Rudi Dekkers and the American Oligarchy

    If you’re the kind of man who occasionally relinquishes the remote and “watches what she wants for a change,” you may already understand that there are strange and valuable truths which conjoin very different worlds.

  • 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.…

  • “Evil in Our Backyard:” The Rudi Dekkers Dossier

    When Rudi Dekkers, the man who ran the flight school where terrorists who crashed airliners into the Twin Towers learned to fly was arrested for drug trafficking in Houston last week, one of the first congratulatory calls I received, after covering his continuing criminal activity for the past ten years, was from his son. That’s…

  • FINALLY! Rudi Dekkers Behind Bars for Drug Trafficking

    The long run of Rudi Dekkers, 56, the Dutch national who first passed out bunks to Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi when they arrived in the United States to enroll at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida, ended last week when he was arrested for drug trafficking in Houston.(read the criminal complaint .pdf)

  • EXCLUSIVE: Drug Traffickers Own Jenni Rivera Death Plane

    The owner of the Learjet  whose crash in Mexico's Sierra Madre Mountains killed popular singer Jenni Rivera is from a prominent family in Monterrey which supplied drug planes during the 1990’s to drug baron Amador Carrillo, known as “The Lord of the Skies” for flying tons of cocaine, often on Boeing 727’s, into the U.S.