Posted on 02/18/2017 5:38:50 AM PST by HomerBohn
Juan Pablo Escobar Henao, son of notorious Medellín cartel drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar, now says his father “worked for the CIA.”
In a new book, “Pablo Escobar In Fraganti,” Escobar, who lives under the pseudonym, Juan Sebastián Marroquín, explains his “father worked for the CIA selling cocaine to finance the fight against Communism in Central America.”
“The drug business is very different than what we dreamed,” he continues. “What the CIA was doing was buying the controls to get the drug into their country and getting a wonderful deal.”
“He did not make the money alone,” Marroquín elaborated in an interview, “but with US agencies that allowed him access to this money. He had direct relations with the CIA.”
Notably, Marroquín added, “the person who sold the most drugs to the CIA was Pablo Escobar.”
Where his first book primarily covered Escobar, the man as a father, Marroquín’s second — which has just been released in Argentina — delves into the kingpin’s “international ties of corruption in which my father had an active participation, among them with the American CIA,” he said in a recent interview.
Those government associates “were practically his partners,” which allowed Escobar to defy the law, and gave him nearly the same power as a government.
Predictably, this information is conveniently absent from media headlines in America.
If the CIA trafficking cocaine into the United States sounds like some tin foil conspiracy theory, think again. Their alleged role in the drug trade was exposed in 1996 in an explosive investigative series “Dark Alliance” by Gary Webb for the San Jose Mercury News. The investigation, headed up by Webb revealed ties between the CIA, Nicaraguan contras and the crack cocaine trade ravaging African-American communities.
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The investigation provoked massive protests and congressional hearings, as well as overt backlash from the mainstream media to discredit Webb’s reporting. However, decades later, officials would come forward to back Webb’s original investigation up.
Then-senator John Kerry even released a detailed report claiming that not only was there “considerable evidence” linking the Contra effort to trafficking of drugs and weapons — but that the U.S. government knew about it.
El Patron, as Escobar came to be known, amassed more wealth than almost any drug dealer in history — at one point raking in around $420 million a week in revenue — and reportedly supplied about 80 percent of the world’s cocaine. Escobar landed on Forbes’ list of international billionaires for seven straight years, and — though the nature of the business makes acquiring solid numbers impossible — his estimated worth was around $30 billion.
Escobar and the Medellín cartel smuggled 15 tons of cocaine into the U.S. — every day — and left a trail of thousands of dead bodies to do so.
“It was a nine-hundred-mile run from the north coast of Colombia and was simply wide-open,” journalist Ioan Grillo wrote in the book, “El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency.” “The Colombians and their American counterparts would airdrop loads of blow out to sea, from where it would be rushed ashore in speedboats, or even fly it right onto the Florida mainland and let it crash down in the countryside.”
If what Marroquín reveals in the new book is, indeed, true, it would mean the CIA played a major role in ensuring Americans had access to boundless quantities of cocaine — while the U.S. government sanctimoniously railed against drugs to promote the drug war.
In fact, as Marroquín keenly observes, drug prohibition makes for the best pro-drug propaganda — the nature of something being illegal naturally gives it greater appeal.
That prohibition guaranteed Escobar’s bloody reign would be all the more violent. Marroquín now believes “his path of healing is reconciliation with the relatives of those whom his father ordered to kill.”
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While Escobar certainly used violence, or ordered others to use violence, to effectively foment and maintain power, he wasn’t without a charitable bone in his body. As Business Insider notes, “He was nicknamed ‘Robin Hood’ after handing out cash to the poor, building housing for the homeless, constructing 70 community soccer fields, and building a zoo.”
El Patron met his fate in 1993 — by gunshot as he attempted to flee after his house was surrounded. However, the circumstances surrounding his death are still being debated today. Marroquín insists his father committed suicide rather than be shot or captured by police forces sent to hunt him down; while others believe Escobar was absolutely slain by police.
Either way, Escobar’s accumulation of wealth could be viewed as incidental to the role he played for the CIA and the war on drugs — a massive hypocrisy serving to keep people hooked on a substance deemed illegal by the State, so the State can then reap the profits generated by courts, prisons, and police work ‘necessary’ to ‘fight’ the ‘war on drugs.’
“My father was a cog in a big business of universal drug trafficking,” Marroquín explains, and when he no longer served a purpose for those using him that way, killers were sent to do away with the problem — the problem so many had a hand in creating.
Marroquín, who only revealed himself as Escobar’s son in 2009, says he’s had to forgive members of his family for their involvement in the drug business and betrayal of his father — but notes that forgiveness doesn’t mean forgetting what happened.
But he has measured perspective about the man who brutally ruled the cocaine industry.
“Pablo Escobar is by no means a role model,” he asserts.
“I admire Pablo, my father, who educated me. Not Escobar, the mafioso.”
Marroquín noted drug lords like his father might appear to have everything as their status and name garner attention, but these material gains, in actuality, take control in the end.
Truman faced an intelligence community opposing his policies. He replaced the organization entirely.
He didn’t replace J Edgar. Which tells me who knew his secrets and who didn’t.
Democrats found ways to enrich themselves and control their voters in their cities using drugs. They are still in office and need to be prosecuted - from the top the DNC membership in committies to street punks like Obama in the DNC city RICO organization.
It's time. -------------
"Doolittle wrote with an abandon-all-principles approach {report 1954} that conveyed the national fear that the United States faced the prospect of annihilation at the hands of the Soviet Union: “It is now clear that we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost,” Doolittle wrote. “There are no rules in such a game…"
With all the good intentions in the world - Doolittle ultimately took the CIA down the wrong path... there ARE rules in the game... and without those 'rules' a Police State mentality creeps in...that's what we're seeing with the CIA's treatment of President Trump.
I'm with you HomerBohn.
Tear it down - turn responsibility over to the FBI or to an new agency with rules... and ethics and boundaries and an awareness of the Constitution...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Report,_1954
Or who was willing to go in the same direction.
Is there a reason you believe Escobar’s son?
It appears to me that CIA is not a completely homogenous organization. There is CIA, and then there is CIA.
Yes, if you have burrowed into the Mena Arkansas lore, and into the funding of the Contras, Clinton’s role in laundering the money and running protection over the traffic, if you remember the LA sheriffs who worked for CIA running cocaine into LA...
I remember a case in Venezuela of a general who went on trial there for trafficking. His defense, he had permission to run a load with US DEA agents into Florida as part of an investigation. The problem was, it turned out he and DEA went on to run many loads into Florida... and no one was ever arrested as part of the “investigation”. Sound something like Fast and Furious?
Speaking of which, it seems those arms shipments went to a specific Cartel, who was aiding us with information on their rivals. And in return for this cooperation, we not only armed them but allowed their shipments to go through unmolested.
What I’ve seen is that often as not an investigation is cover for a criminal operation. Sometimes the investigators are in on it, sometimes they are not, but their information helps the perps to clean up loose ends.
I remember in Mexico DEA witnessed an ambush in which their Mexican soldiers were wiped out by another unit led by a Mexican general. They tried reporting it up the chain of command and were told by their bosses and by US State Department to shut up. So they went to the newspapers, were fired, and the whole thing just went down the memory hole anyway.
I read of an operation that used drug buys in the Bekaa Valley as cover for CIA operating there... after accumulating quantities of the drug, they made a deal with DEA to smuggle it into the US as part of DEA’s investigations... and then the whole thing took on a life of its own and became an end in itself.
I think the more someone digs into this the more bizarro-world stuff you will find.
I very much remember in three different interviews Noriega remarked, laughing, that Bush could not touch him, because he knew too much about him and his sons.
Within days of that last interview, he was captured and from that day on has never been allowed to speak to the press. He was imprisoned in isolation, and not allowed to speak to anyone other than his lawyer. Even after decades, he is still not allowed to speak to anyone publicly.
I always believed he was warned, take your medicine and we’ll leave your wife and daughter alone. Don’t play ball, we’ll go after them too. They were allowed to remain in the US.
I remember it all very well, like it happened this morning. But I don’t remember what music we blasted at him during the standoff.
The CIA has a long history of allowing dope runners to payee freely. It gives them access to easy black cash, and to people who will do bad things, like shoot jfk, or try to kill Castro.
The French connection gave them access to tree Corsican mafia,then there is the golden Triangle in Vietnam. Then the cartels today, we back sinaloa. Then Afghanistan where opium production has exploded under us.and Mena airport and the Contrast. Yes, the CIA smuggled dope, and always has.
Sure. All Mexicans are honorable, law-abiding people. And so is the CIA. (/sarc)
Very good points.
I do. Lets Dance, David Bowie. Like it was yesterday... :)
If you can’t trust the word of the son of a drug kingpin who can you? Why don’t you be quiet homer
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His story dovetails perfectly with the known drug involvement of Bush1 , !jeb! and their “son” WJC ,, maybe you should try to recall how the contra/sandinista battle was fought or how “rite rail” under WJC brought cocaine in by the railcar load. The CIA has abused their discretion and anonymity for many decades to run a shadow government unaccountable to anyone. Just because it was the crackheads in L.A. that eventually lead to breaking the story nationally doesn’t mean that they weren’t 100% on target.
I hadn’t considered the drug angle in the establishments vehement opposition to Trump. Another case of follow the money.
Today I believe anything sinister about the CIA and the DC swamp.
Damned autocorrect, old eyes, too early. Hopefully you guys can translate my last post!
Anyone who knows the story of Poppy Bush knows this is damn true.
And this was the one part of the Bush workings where Jeb actually did a lot of the work. For real.
And this was the one craaaaaazy thing slipping out of Maxine Waters’s mouth that was real. Who didn’t think she was blaming wrongly when she called out the CIA for bringing crack into south central LA? But she was actually correct. It actually was like the cigarette companies in the 1950s giving free cigarettes to the college fraternities and sororities.
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