AT: According to many, drug-trafficking is Maduro’s extra source of cash and keeping him floating. This is the report from Fox:
While there an array of factors to blame, analysts are pointing to illicit trafficking rings as a fundamental Maduro lifeline.
“The Venezuelan military forces has become a narco-criminal, armed organization. Most of the top and mid-commanders are deeply involved in corruption, drug operations, and serious human rights abuses,” Johan Obdola, president of Latin America-focused global intelligence and security firm IOSI, told Fox News, noting that cartel-led, massive drug operations continue to spawn the country keeping the top echelon well-fed and financed.
“Small pro-regime policing agencies and military units across the nation conduct these criminal operations centered on drug trafficking, kidnapping, and robbery to survive the crisis.” more
I believe that Manuel Noriega AKA Pizza Face is still in a Federal prison for life. Maduro should be there as well or executed for crimes against humanity.
I thought Noriega was “pineapple face”, hence the apt teaser art.
Break out the Van Halen and AC/DC!
I say we stay out of Venezuela and let them solve their own self created problems by themselves.
No good will come from our involvement there, at least not for us.
Maybe it was a pineapple pizza. You could also play a continuous loop of I Fought The Law And The Law Won by The Bobby Fuller Four.
Noriega was called ‘La Pina’. The pineapple.
I lived in Panama for 3 years while he was dictating. He was taken out maybe a year or 2 after we left.
Fun guy.
Alas, poor Manuel…..he’s room temp and has been for a couple of years.
If US Intelligence has the names of the civilians and military men involved in drug and human smuggling and living the high life while the people starve then why not create flyers with their pictures, addresses, money they have in country and more importantly stashed outside the country for when the day comes they have to run, laws they’ve broken, if possible the name of people they’ve killed etc etc. Drop these flyers from planes over the countryside and hack the government approved websites to put flyers online. Go from the highest general to the lowest sergeant (especially from captains on down). Start roiling up the countryside people and let it spread to the cities. Show the Cubans living the good life in Venezuela protecting Madura and his billions stolen from the wrath of the starving millions.