Carlos Castano person
also: Castano, Carlos Constano, Carlos Castano, Carlos Castano's, Carlos Canstado, Carlos Pesce
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Claims (18)
Carlos Castano laundered_money_for
AUC book_quoted
“The failed effort to recruit Castano is of interest because the Kent memo alleges that one of the corrupt agents from the Bogota DEA office was caught sometime in 2004 on a wiretap talking about money laundering for that same organization, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 56:16
Israel trained
Carlos Castano host_asserted
“basically attached to the Colombian president and coordinated all of the training of sending the leaders in this effort back to Israel for a one year in residence course on how to manage this entire network. And one of the graduates of this…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 41:14
Carlos Castano headed
AUC documented
“Colombia's chief paramilitary leader whose family was major drug traffickers. In a rare television interview, Castano stated that 70% of the income for his group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, the AUC, came from drugs. In July…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 26:11
Carlos Castano linked_to
Montoya Drug Trafficking Network documented
“has linked Castano closely to the powerful Montoya Drug Trafficking Network. And this is a quote. The Hena Montoya Organization is the most powerful of the various independent trafficking groups that comprise the North Valley Drug Mafia. Th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 27:09
Carlos Castano founded
Los Pepes host_asserted
“The investigation conducted by Amnesty International in 2001 led to a lawsuit to obtain CIA records of Las Pepas peoples persecuted by Pablo Escobar, a vigilante group set up by Carlos Castano and backed by the Cali cartel. So again, the co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 47:07
United States covered_up
Carlos Castano host_asserted
“Its findings pointed to, quote, an extremely suspect relationship between the U.S. government and the Castano family at a time when the U.S. government was well aware that the family's involvement in paramilitary violence, i.e. death squads…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 47:31
Carlos Castano member_of
Cali Cartel host_asserted
“Castano was instrumental in bringing down Escobar by collaborating with the CIA while working directly as the leader of the Cali cartel. By 1989, the Cali cartel had become the principal source of information to all of the Colombian securit…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 47:59
Carlos Castano member_of
MAS book_quoted
“The traffickers put up the money and the generals contracted for Israeli and British mercenaries to come to Colombia to run the death squad school. A leading graduate was Carlos Castano. And we talked about him. We will talk about him in de…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 14:08
Carlos Castano founded
AUC book_quoted
“The traffickers put up the money and the generals contracted for Israeli and British mercenaries to come to Colombia to run the death squad school. A leading graduate was Carlos Castano. And we talked about him. We will talk about him in de…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 14:08
Carlos Castano recruited
Ivan Ramirez Quintero host_asserted
“FARC supporters, people that they thought were their supporters, from General Van Martinez of the Colombian Army in the 1990s. Castano worked closely with another Colombian general, Ivan Ramirez Quintero, who had been a key intelligence sou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 5:03
Borgonzoli recruited
Carlos Castano book_quoted
“the CIA's trained paramilitary group. Sometime between 98 and early 2000, using his connections to the CIA-trained paramilitary forces, Borgonzali attempted to set up a meeting between one of Tinsley's agents, Castillo, and AUC leader, Carl…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 54:24
Carlos Castano assassinated
Gavraria book_quoted
“including killing a Colombian presidential candidate. Mr. Borgonzoli acknowledges he delivered a letter and a copy of an email message to Castillo on behalf of Mr. Castano, which expressed his willingness to meet with a DEA agent.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 55:22
Vicente Castano assassinated
Carlos Castano book_quoted
“apparently the DEA. A third Castano brother, Vicente, allegedly murdered his brother, Carlos, and took over the entire operation. I guess that's one of the cases where blood is not thicker than water. Also, from a DEA report, DEA Miami Divi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 1:01:40
Carlos Castano member_of
Castaño family host_asserted
“the leaders of the AUC. The Castanos were from an upper-middle-class land-owning family, the narco-elite. Offered their services, particularly in the area of intelligence, to the military battalion, Bombona, that operated in Segovia. Anothe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 34:45
Carlos Castano collaborated with
CIA book_quoted
“Castano collaborated with the CIA and the Colombian police to bring down the fugitive drug baron Pablo Escobar. Carlos Castano and his brother were leaders of a death squad called Los Pepes that tracked down and killed members of Escobar's …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 26:53
Carlos Castano recruited
Bombona Battalion host_asserted
“the leaders of the AUC. The Castanos were from an upper-middle-class land-owning family, the narco-elite. Offered their services, particularly in the area of intelligence, to the military battalion, Bombona, that operated in Segovia. Anothe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 34:45
Carlos Castano headed
AUC guest_asserted
“corrupt national police officer as Colonel Danielo Gonzalez. That also included alleged alliance with the paramilitary forces ran by Carlos Castano under the AUC, which was working hand in hand with the CIA. The intelligence arm of the devi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 15:06
Carlos Castano trafficked
Colombia host_asserted
“and other areas close to the border with Panama, a major transshipment route placed him in a favorable position to shape and ultimately inherit a drug trafficking network with contacts in the interior of the country as well as international…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 36:45
Mentions (33)
▶ 19:03
Many drug traffickers like Carlos Constano and Victor Carranza of Bell Helicopter Case became wealthy by initiating a narco elite with vast land holdings throughout Colombia. By the late 90s, this institutionalization process continued in o…
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So one, Michael Tunsing argues that creating a political atmosphere of fear and terror sustains the war machine in Colombia. An anonymous Bogota journalist that Tossing interviewed said, when I wrote anything, I asked myself how Castano, th…
▶ 14:08
The traffickers put up the money and the generals contracted for Israeli and British mercenaries to come to Colombia to run the death squad school. A leading graduate was Carlos Castano. And we talked about him. We will talk about him in de…
▶ 23:14
In the resulting symbiosis between the military assistance, the FARC, and a flourishing narco economy, the CIA became more and more directly involved in drug trafficking. For example, it is not disputed that in 1993, while working for the C…
▶ 23:44
drug baron Pablo Escobar. Carlos Castano and his brother were leaders of a death squad, Los Pepes, that tracked and killed members of Escobar's organization. And again, remember me telling you on Alpha's show, Escobar wasn't playing the CIA…
▶ 24:15
He just wasn't their drug trafficker. Okay. They did so on the basis of information that they received from the CIA. So the CIA is telling Castano who to kill and who not to kill. It was transmitted via a special squad of Colombian National…
▶ 45:08
where Carlos Castano, the future leader of the AUS, Moss's successor organization, so Moss, the paramilitary organization, turns into the AUC, and the AUC is led by Castano. And that's the Cali cartel, eventually. Okay? And the Israeli and …
▶ 34:16
and military-enforced relocation, not unlike we saw in Operation Phoenix or the Phoenix program in Vietnam. Active and reserve Army officers played a leading role in emerging narco-state. One paramilitary group was formed in Segovia. It was…
▶ 36:15
the paramilitary groups. They were basically leading the paramilitary groups under the guise of them being in the military, but because they were death squads, they wanted to keep the appearance of them being separate. In that area, the Cas…
▶ 47:07
The investigation conducted by Amnesty International in 2001 led to a lawsuit to obtain CIA records of Las Pepas peoples persecuted by Pablo Escobar, a vigilante group set up by Carlos Castano and backed by the Cali cartel. So again, the co…
▶ 47:31
Its findings pointed to, quote, an extremely suspect relationship between the U.S. government and the Castano family at a time when the U.S. government was well aware that the family's involvement in paramilitary violence, i.e. death squads…
▶ 47:59
Castano was instrumental in bringing down Escobar by collaborating with the CIA while working directly as the leader of the Cali cartel. By 1989, the Cali cartel had become the principal source of information to all of the Colombian securit…
▶ 54:28
The cartels was able to permeate all sections of the Colombian economy with the assistance of Castano's paramilitary militias. The narco military network was groomed to perform its task of defending the narco class interest without compromi…
▶ 4:30
the people in the rural area. Others targeted in urban areas included trade unions, university lecturers, and students, human rights workers, they killed Catholic priests, and anyone supporting or even thought to sympathize with the FARC. C…
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of the paramilitary organizations. With the successor, paramilitary groups like the Black Eagles increased internal warfare for territorial control between the emerging factions, plus the mysterious death of Mancuso's predecessor, Carlos Ca…
▶ 25:41
who worked hand in hand with the Colombian military and who every year accounted for 70, 80 percent of the non-combat killings in the country. A recent Colombian government investigation collected compelling evidence through the years of 19…
▶ 26:11
Colombia's chief paramilitary leader whose family was major drug traffickers. In a rare television interview, Castano stated that 70% of the income for his group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, the AUC, came from drugs. In July…
▶ 27:09
has linked Castano closely to the powerful Montoya Drug Trafficking Network. And this is a quote. The Hena Montoya Organization is the most powerful of the various independent trafficking groups that comprise the North Valley Drug Mafia. Th…
▶ 41:14
basically attached to the Colombian president and coordinated all of the training of sending the leaders in this effort back to Israel for a one year in residence course on how to manage this entire network. And one of the graduates of this…
▶ 26:17
That was what the U.S. military was being used for. Okay. Although the new U.S. interagency presence bought the latest technique in the pursuit of targeted drug traffickers, it continued to play a key role with the Carly cartel. It is not d…
▶ 26:53
Castano collaborated with the CIA and the Colombian police to bring down the fugitive drug baron Pablo Escobar. Carlos Castano and his brother were leaders of a death squad called Los Pepes that tracked down and killed members of Escobar's …
▶ 29:47
Carlos Castano, is a partner in. Some in the United States may be unhappy at this Mexican shift. Twice in the last decade, Mexico has threatened to default on U.S. repayments to the U.S. banks, crisis averted only by the issuance of emergen…
▶ 22:58
Spark is insisting as a condition for negotiations that the defense forces be brought under government control. Though Pastrana lacks the power to do that and the army lacks the will to do it, that's Spark's position and it's understandable…
▶ 53:56
in Cali Man, that operation, as a cooperating source in order to assure a reduced sentence for himself. Borgonzoli also was a close associate of Carlos Castano, an accused narco trafficker and at the time the leader of the Colombian murdero…
▶ 54:24
the CIA's trained paramilitary group. Sometime between 98 and early 2000, using his connections to the CIA-trained paramilitary forces, Borgonzali attempted to set up a meeting between one of Tinsley's agents, Castillo, and AUC leader, Carl…
▶ 54:52
He is a close associate of Castano, and because of the relationship, Castano requested Borgonzoli's assistance in arranging a meeting with Mr. Castano. Note that Mr. Castano is the leader of a paramilitary group identified as the UAUC. Mr. …
▶ 55:22
including killing a Colombian presidential candidate. Mr. Borgonzoli acknowledges he delivered a letter and a copy of an email message to Castillo on behalf of Mr. Castano, which expressed his willingness to meet with a DEA agent.…
▶ 55:43
The attempt to set up the meeting with Castano, who apparently was seeking to cut a deal with DEA in exchange for cooperating with the Cali Man narco investigation, didn't pan out for reasons that were not clear. For his part, Tinsley confi…
▶ 56:16
The failed effort to recruit Castano is of interest because the Kent memo alleges that one of the corrupt agents from the Bogota DEA office was caught sometime in 2004 on a wiretap talking about money laundering for that same organization, …
▶ 56:44
His body was later found in 2006 in a shallow grave. His death ended the dark dealings that he had cultivated with the Colombian underground. Ruthless paramilitary killers, narcos, and even the CIA. In fact, it appears the CIA, Bogota DEA a…
▶ 1:00:40
on Los Pepes, an extra legal means. It's an assassination squad trained by the CIA looking to assassinate Pablo Escobar. I'm going to say, by very definition, that's extra legal. The warnings were accurate. While Fidel Castano disappeared i…
▶ 1:01:11
Fidel's disappearance took over after his disappearance, uniting and strengthening Colombians paramilitary armies under the banner of AUC, a killing machine that vied with guerrilla groups for control of the country's drug trade and which f…
▶ 14:32
This so-called Devil's Cartel was an alliance of the North Valley cartel traffickers, many of them former Colombian national police officers. You know, the ones I saw on the steps at Fort Benning? Yeah, those guys. Along with some of people…