I'm absolutely sickened by this. I had a research trip planned to Colombia in February and I decided to cancel it. I'm not risking my life over the ego of a wannabe dictator. Perhaps he never considered what would happen with trade and commerce if he attacked a major non-NATO ally like Colombia?
Well that likely has more to do with this.
The president of a foreign nation comes to your nation and exhorts their military to disobey its current president.
What would we call something like this years ago.
Or that President Petro has also been linked to the cartels.
The son of Colombia’s president has been charged with money laundering and illicit enrichment. Prosecutors at a hearing Tuesday said he took tens of thousands of dollar from drug traffickers and used the money to buy luxurious homes and expensive cars.
apnews.com
Or that numerous people on Petro’s orbit have been linked to the cartels and appointed to his government.
Petro was a member of M-19 which was responsible for the 1985 seizing of the ministry of justice which resulted in 100 dead including 11 justices.
The victory of Gustavo Petro in the elections this Sunday is not only a milestone because for the first time there will be a left-wing president in Colombia,
latin-american.news
Recently there was also an increasing level of calls for violence directed at Uribe from supporters of Petro on social media (sound familiar)
Although Petro has not been tied to Uribe’s assassination he was a major opponent of Petro.
Presidential candidate Miguel Uribe was the victim of an assassination attempt, and in the last hours several terrorist attacks have plunged the country into a violence not seen for decades. Meanwhile, the president, by decree, pushes forward his agenda.
voz.us
The cartel of the suns is a distribution network in Venezuela ran mostly by military officials and high ranking members of Gov which is responsible for increasing flow of cocaine out of Columbia.
So we shouldn’t be surprised that Columbia has been an outspoken opponent of Trump and his Latin American policies. Because that is exactly what he has been. Nor I think should we be surprised that Petro has become the focus of US drug interdiction because in Latin American terms the fact that Petro is linked to the cartels just as Maduro has been linked is a done deal.
On a completely other topic of Tren de Aragua gangs in the US. We’re told today that TdA is of no real impact to US criminal activity.
Yet last year before Trump won the elections TdA was a significant growing concern in the US with drugs and human trafficking.
Cases linked to Tren de Aragua, including sex trafficking and a shooting, show how hard it is for border agents to vet migrants from nations that won't provide criminal background info.
www.nbcnews.com
Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan gang that has sparked national headlines, will likely remain in the U.S. for decades, according to a new report being released this week.
www.foxnews.com
The gang has exploded into the presidential campaign amid a spree of kidnappings, extortion and other crimes.
www.bostonherald.com
Was Venezuela complicit in sending TdA members to the US? That’s tough to prove at this point.
But TdA so controled the prison in Venezuela that was home to TdA the leader of TdA was the defacto warden of the prison. And when Venezuelan forces to took the prison the leader of TdA who was a prisoner there was “out on self leave” WETF that means.
The Venezuelan government claims to have dismantled the Tren de Aragua gang, but its leaders have escaped and its operations seem untouched.
insightcrime.org
The Venezuelan government claims to have dismantled the Tren de Aragua gang, but its leaders have escaped and its operations seem untouched.
insightcrime.org
I’m sorry about your trip, truly I am.
What I don’t understand is why would we highlight Trump as a wannabe dictator when there are genuine dictators and past terrorist members facilitating the flow of drugs to our nation.
Are illegal hard drugs now no longer a concern for the US that we do nothing but ineffective boarder interdictions.
Is human trafficking so in important to us that we ignore it as well?
In other words, that tail basically drags Venezuela into our nuclear threat scope whether we like it or not.
like oil. But we have too protect our energy sources and just as importantly our allies energy sources.
