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Cuba exposed as the culprit in making Venezuela a narcostate
americanthinker.com ^ | 6/2/2018 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 06/03/2018 9:58:18 AM PDT by rktman

How does a hellhole with no money like Venezuela stay afloat? Obviously, because of the cocaine trade.

And that's been going around for years, given that dozens of top Venezuelan rulers have been sanctioned or put on Treasury Department watchlists. The very rulers at the heart of Venezuela's socialist hellhole, so admired by Bernie Sanders and Sean Penn, are nothing but Pablo-Escobar-style drug dealers. Imagine how repulsive it is: All of the legal businesses have been put out of business by socialist diktats, while all of the illegal businesses, such as drug dealing, have flourished - and the money floats only upward to the party elite, keeping their lives lives of vulgar luxury, while the rest of the country starves.

Who created this situation? Venezuela's communist master, Cuba. That's the verdict of a long investigative report, from the Daily Beast, titled "How Cuba Helped Make Venezuela A Mafia State," by respected reporter Christopher Dickey.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: bigmoney; cokeheads
Hmmm. So I suppose this info is being put out by the CIA/FBI to misdirect folks thinking about the drug trade. After all, wasn't it the CIA/FBI that was behind introducing this menace into the AA community to keep them enslaved? Do I need /S?
1 posted on 06/03/2018 9:58:18 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Who cares. Blame it on Sean Penn.


2 posted on 06/03/2018 10:01:03 AM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: EnglishOnly

I thought he had an alibi. You know, rescuing bush’s ‘planned’ Katrina victims in NOLA.


3 posted on 06/03/2018 10:06:54 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

-—another side effect of the drug trade-—(I lived in El Callao Mar-Sept ‘81—peaceful and quiet then)

https://arcominero.infoamazonia.org/story/gold-mining


4 posted on 06/03/2018 10:26:03 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: rellimpank

Interesting. Thanks.


5 posted on 06/03/2018 10:32:32 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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