War on Drugs, Money Laundry and Plan (Destroy) Mexico

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http://www.madcowprod.com/2019/01/13/th ... po-guzman/

Government, Gangsters, & the Trial of El Chapo Guzman

BY DANIEL HOPSICKER · PUBLISHED JANUARY 13, 2019 · UPDATED JANUARY 13, 2019

The trial of El Chapo Guzman is as disappointing to criminologists trying to understand the deep structure of the drug trade as a rained-out series between The Yankees and Red Sox is to baseball fans waiting to place bets on who’s going to win the American League.

This week in El Chapo’s trial was like watching an alternative reality TV show,  like the one about what if the Nazis had won World War II. Federal prosecutors pretended that we live in a world where neither the NSA nor the company once housed in the building below, which sits on a headquarters campus in Clearwater-St. Pete Florida,  ever existed.

The deliberate omissions by prosecutors exposed what they attempted to conceal: a global drug cartel composed of governments and gangsters.




Nothing to see here. Move along.

From a secrecy-obsessed proceeding filled with whispered sidebars between attorneys and a Judge determined that the less the public knows the better, the trial in recent days devolved even further. Instead of a courtroom in Brooklyn, observers might have felt they’d been transported to a science fiction and comic book convention like Comic-Con.

Prosecutors presented a story line straight out of a celebrity news and gossip talkfest like Entertainment Tonight or Page 6 TV.

A man on trial for allegedly being the market leader in a $500 billion dollar a year industry in the U.S. alone was forced to “suck it up,” in the New York Post’s felicitous phrase, while prosecutors revealed hundreds of text messages he sent—not to fellow titans of cocaine, or government and law enforcement officials— but to his wife and mistresses.

The horror. The horror.

New revelation

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140 Days After the Perfect Crime

From Watergate to Russiagate… Le plus ca change?

Already at this early stage in the investigation, one fact sticks out. The 20-ton drug move was an act of desperation.It’s like pushing all your chips onto the table and betting on red. It was not a wise, not a particularly rational play.


“Businessman” and national security asset Barry Seal

Somebody needed a lot of money, and fast. Which reminded me of something that happened during Watergate.

On July 1, 1972, ten days after the arrest of the burglars in the Watergate Complex, the TV series Bewitched aired its final episode, Attorney General John Mitchell resigned as chairman of Richard Nixon’s re-election committee, and lifelong CIA pilot Barry Seal was arrested in New Orleans for conspiracy to illegally export enough C4 plastic explosive to Mexico to blow the island of Cuba halfway up the Florida Keys.

Reporters called it the Mexican Connection. It was how Richard Nixon raised the several millions of dollars needed to buy the silence of the burglars sitting in jail in the District of Colombia. Barry Seal was involved in the operation.

It’s early days yet in the 20-ton Containergate investigation. But we already know there was Russian involvement in the 20-ton drug move.

We know two Mafia factions in Kotor, Montenegro—where Second Mate Ivan Durasevic and several other implicated seamen are from— have been at war across Europe.

And we know that Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska— no stranger to drug trafficking—has an outsized presence in Kotor, where he built a $500 million dollar resort and lavish billionaire’s yacht club on the Adriatic.

Read more: https://www.madcowprod.com/2019/11/05/1 ... ect-crime/

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Mexico's attempt to focus on social programs instead of the drug war is under heavy fire after the events of recent months.

Americans may 'have to take matters into our own hands' after Mexican cartel murders US nationals: Sen. Tom Cotton

https://www.foxnews.com/media/americans ... tom-cotton