Raul Castro: Cocaine Connection? (Slick's Connection Too)

ABC News ^ | 08-14-2006 | Brian Ross and Vic Walter Report

[TexasCajun]

U.S. prosecutors were prepared to indict Raul Castro, Cuba's current leader, as head of a cocaine smuggling ring in 1993, but the Clinton administration overruled them, ABC News has learned..

[Enterprise]

" but the Clinton administration overruled them"

That's what friends are for.

[Ticonderoga34]

I'm not surprised. I have long thought that the Cuban government was involved in smuggling drugs to the U.S.

[texas_mrs]

Maybe they were doing business with brother Roger.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

Clinton couldn't risk exposing his supplier. Remember, Roger said Bill had a nose like a hoover vacuum (or like a Dyson in today's lingo).

[TexasCajun]

Roger did get some drug buddies pardoned, didn't he?

Or was that Hillary's brother?

[TexasCajun]

The draft indictment, as described by a former Justice Department official who saw it, listed Raul Castro as the leader of a conspiracy involved in smuggling seven and a half tons of cocaine into the United States over a 10-year period.

That would make one big rock of cocaine.

[TexasCajun]

Hillary, "Why did your co-administration pull the rug out from under the prosecutors of Raul Castro?"

[Veto!]

Cuba smuggling drugs is news? Forbes Magazine listed Fidel as the "wealthiest Latin American Dictator" with a billion stashed in accounts in Switzerland and other safe cash havens. He didn't make the money on sugar.

Also during the Clintonista era, Hillary and Chelsea made at least one trip to the Dominican Republic, another country with fuzzy banking rules. Some of us believed that Hillary and Chelsea's trunks were always stuffed with cash, unsearchable and untouchable. First, a visit to business moguls in India, for instance, then a quick stop on an island with notoriously loose banking rules on the way home -- Easy as one-two-three: The Clintonista Cha Cha Cha.

[cloud8]

From Colombia to Haiti (Aristide is another of slick's pals) to Cuba to clinton.

[Enterprise]

Back in those days I was aware of the "wall" that was erected between intelligence agencies and the FBI. My sardonic view was that this was done to protect Bill Clinton. Who knows how much he was involved in that the CIA would come across? The easy way to make sure that the CIA couldn't talk to the FBI was to tell they they couldn't!

My other sardonic view in those days was Clinton's motive for sending meals on wheels to Haiti. My opinion was that Clinton was trying to guarantee the free flow of cocaine at market prices. (A take off of President Bush's 1991 action against Saddam Hussein to maintain the free flow of oil at market prices when Hussein invaded Kuwait).

The White House under the Clinton's control was a vast criminal enterprise. They made Mafia Don's, con artists, grifters, and gypsies weep with envy.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

I still say legalize all drugs and tax them. Make something legal and the allure of using it will go down. The cost base analysis of fighting the war on drugs shows it to be a huge waste of money. And when you legalize it, you then take the criminal nature out of it and you take out all the cartels. We just don't have the guts or common sense to do it.

And no, I don't use drugs, never have. I am just a severe chocoholic.

[bmwcyle]

ping

[geezerwheezer]

Your idea makes complete sense...that's why the powers-to-be will never go for it. Like they say, "follow the money", and it does lead to some very interesting places, even here in the good ol' USA !

[ReleaseTheHounds]

I'm sure some Freepers (and Prodigy Whitewater BB lurkers) will be reminded of Mena Airport doings with this report... Any connection? Just wondering.

[okie01]

U.S. prosecutors were prepared to indict Raul Castro, Cuba's current leader, as head of a cocaine smuggling ring in 1993, but the Clinton administration overruled them, ABC News has learned..

And, in a related story, it should be recalled that, in its very first budget, the free-spending Clinton administration actually proposed some spending cuts!

Accordingly, the U.S. spent less money on the Border Patrol and the Customs Department in FYE 1994 than in FYE 1993.

What a coincidence, huh...???

[JohnBovenmyer]

Those with long memories will recall the backstory of this being put to music by Paul Silhan in "Copacabana 97" on his Spinball Wizard album. I haven't found the music online, but have often enjoyed my copy.

[Sonny M]

This isn't exactly new news, rumors going back years and years have suggested that Raul Castro was involved in the drug trade.

Ironically, he was the one Fidel used since he was "scarier" then Fidel himself when talking to the cartels.

[TexasCajun]

Convicted Colombian drug boss Carlos Lehder of the Medellin cartel testified in a 1991...

The period before Lehder's arrest, the Clintonistas ran the Arkansas Cartel and Roger's "friends" were supplying NoseLikeVaccum his powdered candy.

Didn't know Slick has an Indian name?

[Know your rights]

I still say legalize all drugs and tax them. Make something legal and the allure of using it will go down. The cost base analysis of fighting the war on drugs shows it to be a huge waste of money. And when you legalize it, you then take the criminal nature out of it and you take out all the cartels. We just don't have the guts or common sense to do it.

What are you, a conservative or something?

Seriously, I think you're absolutely correct.