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Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said security forces intercepted a speedboat in the waters off Falcón state on September 14, carrying 100 sacks of cocaine and 2,400 liters of fuel. The operation, which Cabello described as “clean,” ended with five arrests. The detainees were identified as Joel Luis Rodríguez Ramos, Jesús Antonio Quilarte Carreño, Jhonny José Salazar Gutiérrez, Carlos Alberto Bravo Lemus, and Levi Enrique López, who Cabello alleged is linked to the DEA.
According to Cabello, the detainees confessed the shipment was part of a “false flag operation” designed to incriminate Venezuela in international drug trafficking and justify external aggression. “The four detainees are saying they work for the DEA,” Cabello told state television, calling the alleged plan a “maneuver for destabilization.”
The US has a history of disrupting communist leaning countries in Latin America since the 1920s or so. The Contras sure as fuck weren’t the US’s last incursion into wholesale drug smuggling.
Aren’t we also seeming to be gunning for opium from Afghanistan again?
The actions in Nicaragua with the Contras got the US convicted of terrorism (unlawful use of force) in the World Court.
It didn’t change anything but at least it’s on paper.
It’s not just on paper,it’s on CSPAN!
Sleepy Joe Biden back when he was spry and I guess less sleepy, interviewed one of the crucial people necessary to make the Iran/Contra affair into what it was; Danilo Blandon. It’s on CSPAN somewhere.
Danilo Blandon was Freeway Rick Ross’ connection in the whole ready rock/crack cocaine debacle.
I’ve wasted a boatload of my life reading about Iran/Contra, the ready rock explosion in California. The US’ history is replete with nasty shit but the I/C affair is one of the nastier ones IMO.