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Alvaro Uribe appointed
Medellín host_asserted
“Alvaro Uribe's wealth and connections to the underworld through his father practically assured him a place in the new narco state. During Alvaro Uribe's four-month tenure as mayor of the local Medellin area in 1982, the city was known as th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 41:38
Alvaro Uribe removed_from_power
Medellín host_asserted
“That was available, and it began providing known traffickers such as Escobar and the Ocas and the Castanos access to the cocoa. When Alvaro Uribe's attendance at a Medellin cartel meeting at Escobar's ranch, Napoleon, another one of the dru…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 42:39
Mentions (24)
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It was described in Fortune magazine in 1988 that the cocaine industry was probably the fastest growing and unquestionably the most profitable industry in the world. As Plan Colombia targeted the FARC, the narco elite concentrated within th…
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Local police, explosive experts, and dog squads arrive. Then a much larger bomb explodes, killing them all. The Colombian media adopted the official version of these events from military sources, which blamed the FARC, of course. Some varia…
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Alvaro Uribe's wealth and connections to the underworld through his father practically assured him a place in the new narco state. During Alvaro Uribe's four-month tenure as mayor of the local Medellin area in 1982, the city was known as th…
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That was available, and it began providing known traffickers such as Escobar and the Ocas and the Castanos access to the cocoa. When Alvaro Uribe's attendance at a Medellin cartel meeting at Escobar's ranch, Napoleon, another one of the dru…
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When forces allied to Escobar blew up an airliner in Colombia, his war with the Colombian narco state in Washington intensified. And that aircraft that was targeted is very suspicious. The CIA and the Bush family had their own reasons for t…
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telephone and radio calls, which was covertly sent to Colombian intelligence. The sophistication involved in Escobar's surveillance forced him into hiding and a life on the run. He surrendered to Colombian authorities in 1991 after negotiat…
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and gave one of them a gold watch. Escobar's last stand was on December 3, 1993, on a rooftop in the home city of Medellin. Gun blazing, Escobar was easily outnumbered. He was shot by a train of bullets and plummeted from the rooftop onto t…
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Not misguided evil network that has been set up that propagandize us and ends up using our own money against us because these drugs flow in here and kill our loved ones. Exactly, Colonel. And what I don't think a lot of people look at at th…
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My ex-wife is Colombian. My kids are half Colombian. My current wife is Colombian and Venezuelan. I have followed Venezuela and Colombia for years. I worked the Colombian target for a couple of years. And I'm currently located in Medellin, …
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Absolutely, because my primary target as an intelligence officer was Iran. It was not Colombia. I worked that target for two years. That was it back in 2003 to 2005. So it's been a very long time that I've even worked on this target. But I'…
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Hold on just a second. I wanted to let L. Corey. Sorry, the internet is wonderful here in Medellin, so I ended up getting dropped out. Okay. Okay, so you started talking and telling me that you had issues with CIA back and all this stuff, a…
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from Iranians on those faces. They were not happy with me for bringing it up, and I was stupid, and I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm like, okay, I worked at Target for 21 years, but I speak Farsi. But I feel it's the same way with V…
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of the last election, my wife was in Santa Marta, we were waiting for her visa, and she sent me a video of armored military vehicles coming from Venezuela into Santa Marta to suppress the vote for Fico Gutierrez, who was running against Pet…
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Do you mind if I just kind of vent briefly on something that's really been bothering me? No, go ahead. So we moved here the end of July of this year. And one of the biggest changes I've seen in Columbia, especially in Medellin over the year…
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is it used to be Americans that came here. Sure, they were, especially Medellin, accused of coming down here for drugs and prostitution. But I have seen a huge shift in the people here turning against Americans. And to all credit to Fico Gu…
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arrested every day down here, just in Medellin for solicitation of sex with minors. We have had a huge issue down here with American pedophiles coming down here to molest. I mean, you saw it on the Sound of Freedom, kidnapping Colombian kid…
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And Medellin is pretty secure. I mean, of all the years I've been coming to Colombia, I have no problem going out for a walk in the neighborhood I live in, which is not the top. It's not poblado. But I'll go for a walk at 2 in the morning w…
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But some of the efforts, they tend to be local governments or department governments like Antioquia and on a limited basis where it's like, hey, you turn in criminals, we'll give you money. Wow. Wow. Okay. We're way over time, but Corey, th…
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Furr probably thought it necessary to add his testament to his credibility in light of what the report was going to say next. The Medellin cartel reportedly had made a deal with Vice President George H.W. Bush to supply American weapons to …
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into the United States. Rudd told the officials that in the spring of 1987, he'd met in Medellin, Colombia, with cartel boss Pablo Escobar to arrange a drug deal in the course of their conversation at Escobar's home. Rudd said the cocaine l…
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Because I asked him if he knew about Operation Gladio and the Gray Wolves when he brought up Turkey and he did not. Right. And then, of course, Central and South America, I asked him to start naming countries and he said pretty much every o…
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He says it is not to be ignored in the case of the Gulfstream 2 jet crash in Mexico that the flight allegedly left Rio Negro, Colombia, just outside Medellin, where it managed to avoid the nation's customs and law enforcement scrutiny. How …
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which helped piece together a long-running DEA, ICE, and CIA operation that involved Panama, Colombia, and Mexico. Urega was a notorious narco-trafficker, according to the DEA's own records. He had been doing work for major Colombian drug o…
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That would go up to 40 feet tall. It also had 15 to 20 computers networked to servers and a small mainframe computer. The same kind of state-of-the-art setup existed in communication centers at Eureka's Ranch in Medellin, at the island reso…