The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2

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0:00 All right. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Colonel's Corner. And I have over on Rumble. Let's get this going live. Yeah, turn that volume up. We're still figuring this out. Bridget and I have never done a show together actually together. Oh, there's SR71. Let's bring him up. So she's sitting here next to me.

0:36 If you guys want to see the craziness. Is it on there? Do you have it Bluetooth? No. Okay. That's a good idea. We're trying to figure out the logistics of doing this together. Because we've never done it. All right. So, Bridget drove in all the way from Missouri this morning. And we've already been downtown. We went to the Redneck Riviera.

1:13 and Kid Rock place, bar. But Kid Rock was not there. Well, none of them were there. And we went to Luke Bryan's bar and listened to great music at all three venues, had a bite to eat, and came home, and here we are. So, weird.

1:39 We're just having a conversation again. You guys know I've been looking forward to this for as long as we've had it planned. Bridget and I have never met each other in person and we are having a blast hanging out. So we hope to share some of that with you guys during the time that we're together over the next couple of days. So I have to tell them and again, apologize. Okay.

2:09 A tornado just so happened to hit my house last night and wiped out the cantaloupe. I did not get any cantaloupe. And I'm pissed. I sent her pictures of flattened trees in my yard. He did. I mean, you wouldn't believe 70 mile an hour winds hit it. And honestly, so I had to bring deer sausage instead. So she brought me deer sausage, which is a close second, but not cantaloupe.

2:37 And her husband wasn't able to come because he had to clean up the mess. And they have a neighbor that they take care of. So he's helping this elderly lady as well. So we're going to excuse him for not being here. And I'm very, very disappointed. I had been looking forward to that cantaloupe again. However, Bridget had her bets and sent them to me overnight. So I've already tasted this year's crop. So it's not a total loss for me.

3:07 However, it is noted, and I wanted to share with you guys, that I did not get my cantaloupe. But Bridget is safe, and that's the most important part of the story. And we have been joking about the storms in Bridget's area in Missouri, that they are honing in on her location. And it just so happens that yesterday they hit her location.

3:35 They finally got it. So we are going to continue our series and the book Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror. And someone asked yesterday in the chat, I had put on the title, I think over on Rumble GWAT, which is the Global War on Terror, just so I could get online faster. So whoever asked yesterday.

4:05 G-W-O-T is the Global War on Terror. It's just an abbreviation. Okay, so chapter one. And these are very long chapters. So I'm not sure we'll get through the whole thing today, but we're going to try. It's called From Coca to Cocaine. And hi, Major Tharge over there on Rumble. I see you. I do want to say this.

4:37 Because it's something that I learned in this book and it doesn't cover it until later. But for those of you who don't know, coca leaf, coca the plant for the indigenous people in Latin America has been around for hundreds of years. It is not cocaine. It is used in tea. It's used in medicine, natural medicine for the indigenous people.

5:09 And it was not until much later that it was discovered that you can make cocaine out of coca leaf. And the process to make cocaine out of coca leaf is a very laborious process requiring lots and lots of chemicals.

5:35 And you guys heard me talk about that on the Apple Warrior Show last week, that at any time in this process, the chemicals needed to do that conversion could have been cut off if they were legitimately worried about a war on drugs. That didn't happen until much later. And it only happened in a half.

6:06 Ask, what are you doing? And they knew that they were going to be shipping those same chemicals through Brazil into the location to do that conversion. So, again, at any time and keep in mind, we trained the entire Brazilian military and their national police because we've covered it with the Office of Public Safety. We have people throughout all of Brazil. Any time overnight, this literally could have been shut down.

6:36 But it wasn't. So with that, let's get to the material. According to Ivo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president. And again, that's a that's a phenomenon that's amazing to me. Ivo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia.

7:05 That's like having presidents of America that weren't American. Because, I mean, there was Obama. Okay. Good point. Good point. Good point. You're right. You're right. So having a president from a colonial power for all of those years is very different than having one of your own people that.

7:33 ethnically is from your country being president. He had been a coca farmer. His motto for his presidential campaign was coca is not cocaine. This is a view shared by many Latin Americans, including Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, who has publicly stated that he chews coca every morning for its health benefits.

8:04 Morales argues that it is a mistake to link the livelihood of what they refer to as coca laros. Those are the farmers that grow coca for its medicinal purposes with drug trafficking because they are fundamentally different. Time magazine, and we know Time magazine is a CIA front, has reported that Evo phenomenon.

8:32 is partly a result of what Latin American critics call America's anti-COCA fundamentalism, a heavy-handed way that seems to blame the remote coca-laris, or cocoa farmers, more than the addictive appetites of Americans. Significant cultural, historical, and economic differences exist between coca and cocaine. Colombia's cocaine trade

9:03 is largely a product of the nation's history. The legacy of Spanish colonialism and the pattern of land ownership in Colombia have ensured that coca continues to be cultivated. The ongoing civil conflict in Colombia since 1964, too, has played a major role in enabling cocaine trade to flourish. And notice that it was not began.

9:32 until Arrayo 1964. And why is that important? Because what happened in 1963? Do you remember? We overthrew Brazil's government. A coup. Another coup. Another coup. Okay. I lose track. There's so many. Right. So it is important to understand what was going on in that area. And 10 years before that, we had overthrown Guatemala.

10:04 It's very, very important contextually to understand what is going on in Latin America. Before Colombian quote-unquote narco-capitalism, the Spanish conquistadors established feudal systems to regulate labor and mining. Under Spanish colonialism, landowners and merchants were dominant in the Colombian economic life.

10:32 Their power based greatly on commercial exploitation of the coca plant, which was widely used by Europeans as medicine. Let me say that again. Widely used by Europeans for medicine. The Spanish chronicler Pedro Cisa de Leon recorded, quote,

11:02 There has never been in the world a plant or root of any growing thing that bears and yields every year as this does, or that is so highly valued. It was the equivalent of gold for Latin America. Indians were forced from their highland villages to work in steamy lowlands, coca plantations for the Spaniards. The Spaniards fed them coca leaves.

11:32 to nullify the need for food, sleep, and water, and to reduce resistance to their living conditions. To supply great quantities of coca leaf, coca plantations were established, just like we did in other countries with rubber and coffee and several other, not we as in America, but the Western colonial power.

12:02 Long hours of brutal slave labor produced high death rates. The coca slaves died in large numbers due to poor nutrition, exhaustion, and European diseases that were brought over by the Spaniards. By 1650, the Inca population had fallen to 4 million from 10 million, 6 million dead due to cultivation of coca plantations.

12:33 Yeah. In the 16th century, another Spaniard, Hernando de Santillan, wrote, quote, down there in the coca plantations, there is one disease worse than all the rest, the unrestrained greed of Spaniards, unquote. Another system of colonial exploitation, the hacienda.

12:59 introduced a rural class structure consisting of Spanish landlords and landless peasants. The peasantry, you know, the indigenous people, resisted the colonialization of their land by private landowners. Some of them, along with Afro-Colombians escaping slavery, rural workers escaping haciendas, and poor settlers seeking a better life, led to the slopes and plains of the

13:31 Andes Mountains, becoming landless workers. For the exploited classes, land meant freedom. However, the landlords had no use for freedom. And when the bourgeois revolution inspired by Simone Bobilaire swept Latin America, the landlords of Colombia pledged their allegiance to Spain. The agrarian class.

14:00 that began in the early 19th century has persisted till today. The Hacienda system created its own grave diggers as poor peasants struggled for land. A complex class conflict in the early 20th century created small holdings in the highlands, mixed patterns of production along the slope.

14:28 From 1875 to 1930, 450 major confrontations between the peasants and landlords occurred in Colombia. So again, as early as the early 1900s, this conflict, thanks to Spain, imperialism was born.

15:01 violent eruption when the oligarchy split among political, ideological, and regional lines in the struggle against the landless workers and peasants. From the late 1940s, the power struggle within Colombia's ruling class determined the fate of Colombian politics. Old rivalries between the two major political parties in parliament, the liberals and conservatives, was consolidated.

15:30 Among the parliamentary infighting, a liberal presidential candidate, Jorge Elisir Gayton, made a populist appeal against the oligarchy, pitting the real country, the indigenous people, against the political country. Gayton sought the support of the shopkeepers and professionals of the

16:01 kind of like the small elite, kind of like the small business owners, as well as the landless workers and peasantry. For the oligarchy, populism in any form was tantamount to communist subversion and was seen as a direct threat to their interests. This, guys, is exactly what's happening in America today. Populism and a president that is for the people is a direct...

16:32 threat to the oligarchy, right? Is that not what we're going through? This nationalist expression was demonstrated through conflict between industrialists and unions. It reached a climax when Dayton was gunned down in Bogota, April 9, 1948. And keep in mind, this is in the immediate aftermath of World War II. His assassination was the first covert action by the CIA.

17:02 In Colombia and spurred a major uprising among the peasants. So now, again, it's very important because most people this in 1948, 1948 is the election in Italy. 1948 is the CIA's infamous first interference in a national election. And again, we were told.

17:30 that that election was all about keeping the communists out of control of Italy. And we are reading yet another example where it had absolutely zero to do with communists and everything to do with keeping oligarchy in power. So while they are overthrowing the election system in Italy in 1948, they are assassinating a presidential candidate in...

17:59 Bogota, Colombia. Now, one of the things that might have, you know, we've seen the industry is so linked with the CIA. Guess what he also tried to do? What? Overthrow Coke. He was going to make a cola beverage to rival Coke back during the cola wars with cocoa. Yeah. And it was like painting a giant target on his back. Yeah.

18:32 Because you can't compete with them. Right. Yeah. Whether it's, you know, like we saw with Chiquita Banana. And we found PepsiCo in Chile. Right. In the 70s. 10 years. Right. Yeah. All right. 20 years. 30 years later. Right. Liberals and leftists blamed the conservative government for Gaten's murder. Workers and the political class.

19:07 Excuse me. Workers in the middle class and small traders stormed the city, attacking police stations, government offices, and symbols of political system that excluded them. Landowners urged the military to fire into the crowd. Immediately, they began making lists of people that were referred to as death lists. The country was convulsed by the chaos.

19:41 The liberal landowners organized campesinos into guerrilla armies. Paramilitary groups of civilians and police together were organized and basically trained to be assassins and carry out military operations against the peasants. In the struggle over land trade unions,

20:12 Excuse me. In the struggle over land, trade unions retaliated against state violence by organizing armed self-defense groups in the mountains. There was a small and I'm going to say this again, a very small communist party that had began forming that represented labor unions.

20:40 And again, I'm just going to remind everybody, when you read that they're quote unquote communists, that's the label that the oligarchs gave any organized union effort of indigenous people. So without any documentation that they had any connection with the Soviet Union or not, and I didn't find any and I looked, I can't tell you whether or not they were actually real communists.

21:08 or if they were just, as we found in so many of these stories, organized labor unions to fight back against the coca plantations and the starvation and the murder of over 6 million indigenous people, or whether they were actually aligned with the Soviet Union. With the support of the U.S., the Colombian military responded by attempting to systematically destroy

21:37 everyone that was fighting back. The survivors fled and regrouped into the mountainous jungle area. With U.S. guidance and aid, the quote-unquote counterinsurgency campaign against these campesinos began on May 18, 1964, when the Colombian armed forces surrounded and attacked one of the areas.

22:05 That was the rebel known to be one of their major hideout. Labeling the autonomous communities independent republic, the Colombian government sent 16,000 troops, which was one-third of its current army, accompanied by tanks, helicopters, and warplanes to carry out bombing campaigns against this area. Most of this equipment

22:34 was provided by the United States. The Colombian peasants, rebels, retreated into agricultural frontiers along the Amazon, where the state had no presence. Modeled on the Phoenix program used in Vietnam, Plan Lazo, L-A-Z-O, sent hunter-killer units to assassinate the peasants.

23:06 whether they were armed or unarmed, which is exactly what we did in Vietnam. Between 1963 and 66, the Colombian state forces used U.S.-supplied helicopters, vehicles, communication equipment, and weapons to destroy rebel communities throughout the area. The first military air assault on Martellella was a U.S. helicopter piloted by

23:35 a Colombian and accompanied by an Air Force instructor. This effort ensured that the land ownership by the oligarchy remained unchanged in Colombia. The landless remained landless, and the power of the oligarchs continued to dominate the nation's politics. The urban elite, particularly the industrialists, this violent war was an economic success.

24:06 Accumulation was so great that the new president, Alberto Larris Camargo, who was president from 58 to 62, concluded that the blood and capital accumulation went together. Blood of the indigenous people and capital accumulation for the landed oligarchs went hand in hand.

24:36 Political opposition was outlawed and repressed. Rewarded by the U.S. with investments and loans, Colombia saw a huge expansion in commercial agriculture and dominant landowners became highly represented in the government. Colombia became a showcase for the new U.S. program called Alliance for Progress. They got USAID money and

25:09 They were rewarded as U.S. allies in Latin America, and it was touted that this was necessary to counteract the Cuban Revolution. Castro to the rescue again. The U.S. moved along two Latin American tracks in the early 1960s. Overthrow Cuba and neutralize revolutionary movements throughout Latin America.

25:37 And I'm going to say they weren't revolutionary. They were indigenous people wanting the autonomy to run their own country. And keep their own resources. And keep their own resources or benefit from the resources. The Alliance for Progress was promoted as an economic solution to poverty. But its ultimate purpose was to deepen U.S. economic penetration into Latin America because it was sold to us.

26:08 in America as helping to alleviate poverty in these countries. Just like USAID. Correct. But it was never meant to prevent poverty because what they were doing was actually creating the poverty. It was to aid and equip the landowners and the oligarchs to exploit the land that they were taking from the people.

26:37 McModern pointed out, notice this, war on drugs, more war, more drugs, war on poverty, more war, more poverty. Correct. Every single one of them. Right. War on terror, more terror. Right. Colombian initiative conformed to the alliance emphasis on self-help, and both U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rust

27:07 And the U.S. ambassador, Adelaide Stevenson, singled out the Colombian programs for praise in spite of growing corruption and mismanagement. Kind of like Ukraine and Iraq and Vietnam and every place we went. Right. Okay. Stevenson noted that Colombia continued to face problems associated with communist infiltration. No, no, no communists.

27:37 They remarked on the bandit-like violence in the countryside, which was the actual people of the country wanting their country back. And he emphasized the economic dislocation. But he expressed optimism that Colombia, with American aid, was going to be just fine. And by just fine, he doesn't mean just fine for the people of Colombia. He means just fine for the Holocaust.

28:05 The political repression experienced in Colombia and other Latin American countries during the Cold War led intellectuals to seek revolutionary alternatives to capitalism. Rebels, air quotes. Well, what's interesting about that is you can imagine if you're the guy who has a small farm in Colombia.

28:36 And you're just producing coca. Right. And you're selling it locally. And all of a sudden, you have this massive invasion from the United States of war weapons that is given to your national police. And they're trained to be basically death squads. And you ran off your land. That you're going to see, because they're told they're doing this under capitalism. That would make me grab a gun. It would.

29:06 Or make you angry enough to. But if you don't know what capitalism is. Right. And this is the face of capitalism to the peasant. Right. Are you going to like capitalism? No. And then they scratch their head and say, well, why aren't you supporting capitalism? Well, because it's killing me. Right. Okay. And destroying everything. That I hold dear. Right.

29:34 You assassinated my parents with your death squads, and I'm living in a mountainous area holding on to some little tin hut. That's the face of capitalism. And that's the very thing that JFK talked about, that when you try to implement capitalism with a club, you are going to create more enemies than if you do nothing at all.

30:05 Okay. Political movements arose across Latin America, turning to the success of the Cuban Revolution for inspiration. Because again, Cuba now is the only one that defeated the United States. So they are creating, this is the chaos. This is the strategy of tension. This is exactly how they manipulate. The prod. Yeah. This is what they're using as the sharp pointy stick. Yeah, the cattle prod.

30:37 to poke people and move them in that direction. In Colombia, these political developments culminated in the founding of the FARC in 1964. By the resistance to the violence, veteran Jacobo Arenas and Manuel Marilanda Velez, then Chief Commandant of the Central High Command, and other groups such as the ELN,

31:07 the Popular Liberation Army, EPL, and M19, soon after. So the very creation of the FARC is to represent the people that have been displayed by the oligarchs. That's where the FARC came from. And the FARC, we're told, is like the devil reincarnated. They have to be eliminated.

31:33 And they kept using the communist label for the FARC when you can clearly see what I just read to you. The creation of the FARC had absolutely nothing to do with communism. It had everything to do with trying to get the people who were stealing all of their shit out of their country. The pointy stick. The pointy stick. Between 1970 and 82, the FARC expanded from the 500 or so people who had survived the earlier wave of terror.

32:03 of the death squads that we helped create, to an army of 3,000. The cappuccinos stood at the forefront of the Colombian struggle, the emerging cocaine phenomenon provided by Colombia's poorest cappuccinos, cappuccinos, sorry, cappuccino, whatever, with an opportunity to grow a cash crop in the form of a cocoa plant.

32:34 In the areas pacified by the state, the campesinos faced repression and ruin, forced off of their land to make room for agricultural exports, and confined mainly to the lowland region, southeast of Bogota. They helped colonize... Sorry. She's allergic to me.

33:08 To be honest, she's been amazing ever since I got here. What cologne are you wearing? None. Okay. All right. Their agricultural subsistence grew increasingly precarious. Displaced and ignored by the state, the peasant gorillas were left with no option but to cultivate coca. No legal crop like coffee, sugar, or bananas offered the advantage of growing and selling coca.

33:48 which required neither fertilizers or pesticides. Not only did coca find a ready market locally with a fixed price, but the constant demand made it an ideal cash crop for peasants. At the FARC's seventh conference in 1982, the gorillas outlined the emergence of a revolutionary situation in Colombia. For the first time since the gorilla movement in

34:20 the area, this FARC conference proposed a clear strategic and operational concept for insurgency and changed its mechanism of leadership and command. The conference announced, from now on, we officially call ourselves the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia, People's Army, or FARC-EP. That was the first formal designation of the FARC. From the beginning of this era of violence,

34:52 The U.S. political and economic support for Colombia created a form of Colombian dependency on the U.S., which is exactly what they want. Colombia's political dependency on the U.S. deepened the four-decade war against the FARC and continued into the U.S. war on drugs and the war on terror. These campaigns provided the U.S. with the pretext to condemn the FARC as narco-terrorists and the main threat to Colombia. Now, what you're going to see,

35:25 That was great for them to use as the talking point while the real narco-terrorist was being cultivated by the CIA. 48% of Colombian land is owned by wealthy absentee landlords who make up 1.3% of the population. That's crazy. Half of the land was owned by absentee landlords. Again, kind of like a present nut.

35:55 A president not from your country representing you? Yeah, like that. Poor peasants who accounted for 68% of the population owned approximately 5% of the land. Wealth and influence are concentrated in the hands of the compradors with a 1998 study estimating that 42% of the heritable land is owned by the drug cartels.

36:23 integrating drug trafficking into Colombian agribusiness, military defense, and politics. That's almost half of the link. At the end of the 90s, the FARC's power and influence extended over 60% of Colombia. In less than three years, over 93% of all regions of recent settlement in Colombia had seen guerrilla activity. In the area that surrounded Bogota,

36:55 FARC was active in 83 of the 116 municipalities. Some areas are formally organized by the FARC with schools, medical facilities, grassroots judicial structures, and social projects. Field work conducted by sociologist James Britton.

37:17 indicated that, quote, the FARC, unlike many recent revolutionary movements and struggles in Central and South America, was peasant based, organized and maintained a revolutionary organization. The revolutionaries were not formed within classrooms or churches. They were not a movement led by lawyers, students, doctors or priests. Rather, FARC leadership, support based and membership comes from the very soil.

37:45 from which it provides its substance. For the insurgents largely consist of peasants from rural Colombia who account for approximately 65% of the members. And again, I'm pointing out the use of words. These were not insurgents. These were the people of the country. The insurgents into the country to take the country away from the people who actually owned it,

38:17 To me, those are the insurgents. And those are all the people that were created by the U.S. government, trained and equipped by us. And the absentee landowners, as you're going to see, are U.S. oligarchs for the most part. There's some Canadian minds involved. But for the most part, they're U.S. people controlling basically all of Colombia.

38:45 The current consistency of the FARC organization has grown from its base in the peasantry to include indigenous people, Afro-Colombians, landless rural laborers, intellectuals, unionist teachers, and sectors of the urban workforce. 45% of its members are women. What became...

39:08 What began as a primarily peasant-led, rule-based land struggle in the 1960s has been transformed into a political movement, attempting an alternative development to that control by the U.S. By constructing a substantial support base with extensive geographical distribution and developing a political line grounded, the FARC has with...

39:34 the exception of Cuba, become the largest and most powerful revolutionary force politically and militarily in the Western Hemisphere. Narco-terrorism was a term first used by the Reagan administration during the Cold War to condemn the left-wing, and I'm going to use air quotes on left-wing, Sandinista government in Nicaragua, which the administration argued had become a base of Soviet influence and the center of drug trafficking and narco-terrorism.

40:04 When, of course, we found out later, based on Iran-Contra, that it was actually the Contras that were primarily the drug traffickers. Narco-terrorism encompassed a variety of phenomenon. Guerrilla movements financed by drugs or taxes on drug traffickers, drug syndicates using terrorist methods to counter the state's law enforcement apparatus, and state-sponsored terrorism associated with drug crimes.

40:33 A member of the American Center for Democracy advanced this of the narco-terrorists in three books in which Latin American guerrilla movements described as narco-terrorists were linked to Cuba and the Soviet Union, when in fact, they're not linked to them. The U.S. government organizations, the White House, State Department, and National Security Council, and agencies like the CIA, DEA, and FBI,

41:01 have used the narco-terrorism paradigm as a political weapon to both criminalize and wage war against the FARC. The U.S. paradigm has been promoted by the Colombian government through policies and activities to combat, incarcerate, or extradite FARC members for drug trafficking and terrorism. The simplistic labeling of FARC as narco-terrorist is, in part, based on the peasant's role in the complex.

41:31 involving manufacturing and trafficking of cocaine. Unlike other drugs, the transformation of coca into cocaine requires chemicals and specialized equipment that generally must be imported. The dynamics of the Colombian cocaine trade must be examined in historical context of the global drug trade, which existed long before cocaine appeared in the world market, and its economic relationships to Spain, Britain, and the U.S.

42:00 American missionaries documented how in the early opium trade, one Chinaman had both produced and consumed, was both the producer and consumer, and worth two Indians and four Malayans in the value to the state. They condemned the moral and social degradation wrought by the British colonial opium trade.

42:27 commenting on Indian finances in 1871 when the British colonial government in India amassed nine million pounds of opium. The colonial overlord at the time, Sir Cecil Eden, said this, Indian finances are in this position that in the majority of years you have very serious deficits. You are

42:56 constantly borrowing? Shall we sacrifice the whole or any portion of the opium duty? And it seems to me that the present state of Indian finances is such as to prevent us giving any answer but one to that question, that we cannot give up any opium revenue. We cannot afford to do so. So it's better to traffic opium into China and make India rich because it's a British colony.

43:27 Carl Trachy argues that the decline of the British Empire might have begun when British left the opium business. Since the time of the conquistadors, the Colombian economy had been shaped by the demands of foreign markets. From coca, silver, and gold in the Spanish era to rubber, cotton, tin, and sugar booms in the past century, the rise and fall of world demand for primary commodities had determined the fate of the Colombian people.

43:56 Cocaine, however, had resulted in the greatest degree of integration and incorporation of Colombia into the world market than any previous export. Alonso Lopez-Michelson, the president of Colombia between 74 and 78, maintained that all Colombian presidents have achieved that office due to drug trafficking money. The former president of Peru, Alan Garcia, dated during his first term in office in 1985.

44:25 that the only successful transnational enterprise originating in our countries is narcotic trafficking. The most successful effort to achieve integration has been made by drug traffickers. In this context, cocaine can be considered a 20th century manifestation of historical phenomenon of the Colombians' dependence on the production of an export commodity for foreign consumption.

44:54 and imperialist conquest for profit. During the final decade of the Cold War, the protection or promotion of major drug traffickers by senior CIA and National Security Council officials became intrinsically linked to the U.S. imperial adventures in the war on drugs. In South America, covert activities coexisted alongside the debt crisis in the 70s and 80s, which incurred drastic

45:21 balance of trade payments, and external crises, a sharp increase in unemployment, and a decline in national income. Within the cocoa growing zone called the Crystal Triangle, Colombia succeeded in developing sophisticated drug cartels and international marketing networks. The manufacture of cocaine fundamentally relies on chemicals and equipment imported from America and Western Europe. The cocoa leaf must undergo...

45:52 chemical processing before it can be transformed into cocaine hydrochloride, HCL. First, their narcotic must be extracted from the coca leaf. The leaves are dried to remove as much moisture as possible, then soaked in a solution of sulfuric acid and water. The liquid is drained off from the large soaking bath, mixed with alkaline solution and calcium oxide and sodium.

46:22 leaving a thick, whitish fluid. This fluid is mixed with kerosene to remove impurity. It's poisoned on top of poison. That makes it so appealing. Doesn't it? And as it settles, the kerosene separates from the top of the mixture. In the next stage of processing, the mixture is placed into another solution of water and sulfuric acid, producing a clear liquid.

46:52 Sodium carbonate is again added to the liquid and the dirty white substance that forms from this process is called coca paste. The coca paste is placed in fine mesh cloth and allow the liquid to dry off. So they're like straining it. Coca leaves are run through this process two or three times to ensure the maximum amount of coca paste is produced. This raw material from which cocaine is distilled.

47:22 The processing labs in controlled areas are no more than in tin sheds, described as kitchens by the media. They are located in rainforests equipped with portable diesel power generators protected by plastic sheeting. In contrast, the massive secret state laboratories, described as plants or complexes, are protected as private property with guards.

47:50 The second step in the production of cocaine is dominated by the Colombian state. In areas under control by the state, particularly in northern Colombia, private paramilitary operate freely to protect cocaine operations. They collect. They collect. But you're not in the picture. I'll be right there.

48:19 Try to find a more comfortable, you know. They collect the cocoa paste and deliver it to state facilities under high level of protection by the Colombian military. You know, the ones we trade, we train. So again, even if you have cocaine kitchens controlled by the FARC, 90% of them are actually under state as like they pass them off as pharmaceutical.

48:49 complexes in Colombia, and they're under the guard of the state. But even the ones that are under the FARC control, so to speak, that's all they do. They sell that then to these narco-traffickers, which are all part of the CIA apparatus set up in Colombia. So no matter how bad you hate the FARC, they have such a limited role in narco-terrorism.

49:20 that it becomes ridiculous. Just the fall guy. Which is why I have to explain all of these details to you guys so you can understand how farcical the lies that we've been fed about Columbia and the FARC is. Because without these details, it makes no sense. All right. So, it is the Colombian military and their national police that is protecting Step 2. They created...

49:53 The United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, called the AUC, which I talked about last week, which is a paramilitary umbrella organization, renamed the Black Eagles. In what is known as the shell game strategy, business elites from the chemical industry provide the essential chemicals for processing cocaine through third and fourth level distributors in order to conceal the identity.

50:22 of the companies involved in the chemical manufacturing process. In areas under guerrilla control, the paramilitaries, the Army, and their U.S. advisors are military targets. The traffickers must approach the campesinos directly and pay the price demanded. The guerrillas provide the security and enforce a drug tax, as they do with all products under their control.

50:50 By protecting the campesino base, the FARC accepts the cash crop as a supplementary income for the campesino's subsistence. According to U.S. intelligence estimates, the FARC tax on agricultural production, which include the coca leaf, is worth between $30 million and $100 million a year. A major study in 1999, and again, they control such a small piece of this, but they're...

51:20 cut could be as high as $30 million or $100 million. That's billions compared to the other state sanctioned functions. Which is funny because this was in 2019 they were called the wealthiest terrorist organization in the world. There you go. So in 1999 a study was done and it was estimated that both the FARC and the ELN earned twice as much from kidnapping and robbery.

51:52 as they did from any drug trafficking. And keep in mind, we'll get into it a little bit more in the book, but their kidnapping target was the wealthy landowners and the absentee landowners. When they came to visit, they would kidnap them and hold them for ransom and collect a ransom from them and release them. When chemists turned the cocoa paste into cocaine hydrochloride,

52:19 In the secret state laboratories, sophisticated techniques were used, and the industrial volumes of etheracetone and hydrochloric acid are required. According to DEA intelligence, the essential chemicals required for cocaine processing have become available in vast quantities throughout South America. In Colombia alone, there were 4,500 companies.

52:49 registered to import and distribute these chemicals. However, many Colombian chemical companies had lost their permits for trafficking controlled substance for their involvement in the purchase and distribution of potassium, erminate, and acetate, diverted for use in cocaine processing. Most of these chemicals must enter Colombia by sea from the U.S.

53:19 Europe, or China. Most chemicals destined for drug laboratories enter legally through the seaports. Some come from Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. The highway between Venezuela and Colombia is a major chemical transportation route into Colombia. They also enter Colombia from Venezuela via river and from Brazil via the river.

53:50 This final process of refining is extremely corrosive. High-quality containers and expensive processing equipment are needed. Glass or porcelain containers have been the common equipment to process the cocoa paste, but high-tech equipment for the sheer volume of cocaine produced must be anticipated. The paste is dissolved in acetone and then heated to evaporate the acetone and hydrochloric acid.

54:19 From this process, a whited sludge appears, which is then heated by placing light bulbs above the mixture. When dried, the semi-processed material becomes crystalline white salt, cocaine hydrochloride, ready for packaging and transport to international markets, primarily destined to the United States.

54:45 Available evidence for the price of a gram of cocaine, depending on its quality, has remained in a band between $20 and $150 since the late 1990s with a spike in 2008 during the global finance crisis, where it shot up to almost $200. The amount of land under coca cultivation in South America has also remained.

55:11 on average between 150,000 and 200,000 hectares, with dynamic trends concentrated in Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru, which is referred to as the Crystal Triangle. Cocaine is exported to the U.S. by air from remote airstrips and by sea from Colombia's northern and western coast.

55:41 Paramilitary helicopters fly to Army garrisons, Army garrisons, state-owned Army garrisons where U.S. military people train. They pick up the cocaine and transport it to the coast, you know, in the helicopters that we sold them. Transport routes change depending on the policy. According to former head of DEA in Columbia, Jeff Bruner,

56:13 Over the years, the AUC, which is the state-sanctioned traffickers, have worked to control the coast, knowing that's where all the dope has got to leave from. They have their hands in every bit of dope. It has to, at a minimum, be authorized and taxed by them and at a maximum, controlled by them. The Tampa Tribune reported the U.S. government court filings indicated that the AUC controls the manufacturing.

56:42 as well as transportation of tons of cocaine from the Pacific coast of Southwest Columbia to Mexico for distribution in the U.S. Leaders may change, but traffickers described as pro-American by U.S. authorities are rarely extradited. The only people that are extradited are the ones that they can't control, the competitors. That's information that came from a DEA agent.

57:12 They all knew what was going on. So that's chapter one. We did get through it. Guess what happened earlier this year? What? Well, Evo Morales, he was plotting a comeback. So you guys saw on the chart that I did for Alpha's show, Evo Morales, when he got elected, basically converted the Bolivian.

57:45 economy back to using coca the way it was traditionally um and in the un chart that i found their export of cocaine went to zero because he went back and embraced the traditional use of coca and virtually eliminated its um now to be fair some of the

58:11 border areas of Bolivia was still selling coca leaf over to the traffickers. But as a country, he eliminated the cocaine trafficking and production in his country. And he did it by kicking all of the U.S. aid organizations, the DEA, all of them, because they're the ones behind the scenes that is making all of this happen.

58:42 So, that's it. Yeah, I thought that was... I mean, the guy's got... He knows... Anyway, they tried to pin him with pedophilia. They're going to take it down, everybody. Yeah. They're going to frame him. If he's doing something good for the indigenous people... You're out. Absolutely. Every time. Yep. All right. I see Illini. Hey, Colonel. Hey. Good to see you again.

59:18 I was listening to some of this space. I've also been working on a bunch of projects recently. But one thing that got mentioned here is, I mean, it seems like the author is, I think the author, the facts seem to support the argument that both sides are bad. But the author seems to be trying to defend Fark here.

59:47 The facts that they're entering into evidence are that FARC, you know, they don't make most of their money from drug trafficking. They make most of it from kidnapping, you know, people. And they argue that, you know, it's wealthy foreign landowners. But it's – the federal – the Colombian government and the U.S. government still seem to be well within their rights to say that this is an issue. Yeah, so –

1:00:17 I don't want anybody to misunderstand me. I'm not saying the FARC is good. What I am saying is that we've been lied to about the FARC. We were told unequivocally that the FARC is a communist organization. We were told that the FARC, in large part, not in a small part, we have been told, and I went back and looked at articles that had been sent out from Southcom, Southcom blames the FARC for all of the narco-trafficking.

1:00:47 They basically make it very clear that the Colombian government is working with the U.S. government, DEA, SOUTHCOM to eradicate drugs. That's a lie. So I'm not in any way saying the FARC is good. What I am saying is that the FARC is the only entity in Colombia.

1:01:17 that represents a large portion of landless people that have been displaced, and we will find out more about that in upcoming chapters, in some of the most brutal ways to include spraying entire areas that they want to buy and mine and all of this other stuff. They did a Phoenix program. They basically sprayed everything and contaminated people.

1:01:44 in order to get them off the land so that they could then cheaply buy the land and issue the state and issue mining concessions to foreigners. And the only organization inside of Colombia that is representing the people of Colombia, the masses, not the bourgeois that lives in the cities around Bogota and some of the more...

1:02:12 The port cities and stuff like that was the FARC. I'm not making excuses for them. They're not good guys. They killed a lot of people. But their perspective is that they were killing people that had taken land from the indigenous people of Colombia that were not part of this in crowd that was involved in the narco trafficking. Does that make sense?

1:02:43 Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's, I mean, it makes a lot of sense that actually, you know, we're going after the wrong people for the narco trafficking and, and we're basically doing it as, as finding something to claim, claim that the DEA is doing something when in reality it's, it's all part of the strategy. Where, where I'm curious about is, are we going to run into John Kelly?

1:03:14 Trump's chief of staff and all this, because he was his last station was in Guatemala, where he was supposed to be in charge of drug interdiction. And he kept getting reports about, you know, drug trafficking, and he never found anything. But he got along really well with the locals, according to a number of articles. Yeah. Isn't that weird? Yeah. I mean, it all seems to start making sense now. Everybody who seems to hate Trump seems to have other liabilities going on, too. Oh, well.

1:03:44 And you know way more than anybody else in this space about Chile. Isn't that the same thing that happened with the Tupomoros? The Tupomoros were the people that banded together after the overthrow of their elected president, Salvador Allende. And everything that you read in the United States was they are the terrorists.

1:04:12 When, in fact, the Office of Public Safety and people like, you know, although it was a different country, Dan Mederone, but his counterparts in Chile were training the actual terrorists were the national police and the DINA. And any time that you have and I think, oh, excuse me, that was the Tupomaro's was in Uruguay. But every time we have these labels of.

1:04:39 these organizations that we were told in America were the terrorists, they actually happened to be the people rebelling against the CIA-installed dictator. And as we just saw, the CIA was involved in the assassination of the president that was trying to unite the country. And that assassination is what radicalized people to create the FARC.

1:05:07 If we hadn't been down there assassinating presidents, we may have never even had a FARC. Good point. And if it wasn't for CIA intervention, a lot of countries, we probably wouldn't have a drug problem. Or at least it wouldn't be that serious. I agree with that. To back you up on Chile, I don't know about the two Pomoros. I do know that. That was my mistake. That was Uruguay.

1:05:34 Chile's intelligence service did get involved in terrorism, and it wound up culminating with the Orlando Letelier assassination in Washington, D.C., where their intelligence agents basically came and took out a diplomat from the Allende era. And that finally forced Kissinger to write all these memos to Pinochet, saying this is totally unacceptable.

1:06:04 And I'm not sure we'll ever know if this was CYA or if you really meant it. Right. Yeah. Interesting stuff. Yeah. I'm just flabbergasted as I read these books. And, you know, the part that anybody that's in the military can appreciate what I'm about to say. Again, at my Air War College seminar.

1:06:32 I had a special ops helicopter pilot in my seminar. So Airborne College has like 250 people and there's like 20 to 25 people in each of the seminars. So you have, you know, from 10 to 15 seminars. And the group that you have in your seminar, other than like when we have a guest speaker, you spend your day. It's like a classroom.

1:06:56 You spend your day with this. You have parties. You all have cookouts and stuff like that. So you get to know you're there for a year. You get to know your classmates really well. The special operator helicopter guy, gunship guy was in my seminar. And he also went to Vietnam with me. So I spent my entire year with this guy and his family. And he talked about and this is why this is also weird for me.

1:07:24 He talked about his squadron from Hurlburt Field going down to Columbia and participating in activities against the FARC. And he also, we had an Army guy in our seminar that went on to be the brigade commander at Fort Rucker, which is just south of Montgomery, Alabama.

1:07:49 And the two of them would get in these conversations. And me, I'm just like a thigh on the wall. You know, I didn't fly. I didn't do any of that crap. But I love it's like growing up with my dad and his truck driver stories. I love listening to that kind of stuff. And so I would listen to them get into conversations and collectively, because they were both helicopter pilots, one in the Army and one in the Air Force, talking about all of their friends that had retired and were all flying.

1:08:18 for private military contractors in Colombia against the FARC. And they were talking about how much they were making, like, $200,000, $300,000 a year flying helicopter missions down there. And so you can imagine me. You're going, oh, no. Right. I would love, love, love to be able to talk to some of them.

1:08:48 They probably wouldn't talk to us. I would love to talk to them about some of this information. Because I know what they were doing. No, but I know what they were briefed their missions were. I listened to them talk about their missions. And they, honest to God, thought what they were doing was the right thing to do.

1:09:18 Some measure of what they were doing was was actually fighting the drugs. When in fact, we were taking out the less bad guy because the park again was not good. We were taking out the less bad guy while aiding the significantly worse guy in production of cocaine and the transportation of it into the United States.

1:09:49 That's the part that just is crazy to me. SR-71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel, and thank everyone for attending here on Spaces and on Rumble. It's a pleasure and really great to see both you and Bridget together in the same room, actually sitting together, and it looks amazing. But what I get out of all of this concerning the FARC and concerning what's really going on,

1:10:20 is we're talking about a question of control. Who gets to control it? FARC wants to control it, and so does the CIA and everybody else involved. The other thing that really puzzles me, and I just can't figure this out, how someone could devise a way to take all of these lethal chemicals and make crack out of it.

1:10:48 Because that's what we're talking about. Crystal cocaine is crack. Yeah. It just blows my mind who would come up with something like that. Well, we're going to find out a lot more about the details of the production of it and the companies that were involved in a couple of chapters from now. But the FARC was not interested in controlling the cocaine.

1:11:18 They weren't even really interested in manufacturing the cocaine. They had been pushed out of any opportunity because of their resistance to the U.S., the CIA, and the DEA. They had been pushed into the mountainous area where their only means of survival at this point

1:11:48 this trait. That is not what they did. If you go back and you look at the history of some of the people that were involved in the FARC, those that did cultivate coca did it for export for medicinal purposes. They did not, they had no capability of processing it into cocaine. They taxed

1:12:16 FARC, once they became like this dual government control mechanism, they taxed the coca leaves that were sold to the people that were manufacturing the cocaine. What we're going to find out later on is most of the historical information that showed up in the New York Times, in the Washington Post of the DEA.

1:12:46 busting or the Colombian government busting, and I'm going to use that in air quotes, a FARC lab was a hoax. What the DEA would do and what the Colombian government, this AUC organization, the real, the Cali cartel and the Medellin cartel, what they would do is they would

1:13:13 have a kind of one of the preliminary chemical processing areas and they would go in and plant like a hat or a fatigue coat that had like a FARC emblem on it and they would raid the lab, take pictures and then say it was a FARC lab when

1:13:44 Local news and reports would report that the busting of that lab was basically a fake and it was done for propaganda so that they had material that they could publish in American newspapers. Because at this point, they're sending billions of dollars of aid to Colombia and they want some.

1:14:13 propaganda piece to be able to put in newspapers in order to say that hey we're doing something with your money look at us we're we're taking out this lab or that lab or whatever when in fact it was not a FARC lab at all and as I just demonstrated the majority of the um cocaine was being manufactured in facilities that look like pharmaceutical labs it was not being done in some hut

1:14:42 And at the base of a mountain, it was being done in mass quantities and very sophisticated facilities guarded by the state. When you described how they sprayed the fields, they're eliminating their competition, but not just that. They're also destroying their livelihood because whenever you the cocoa plants, from what I understand, it's not an annual thing. It is.

1:15:15 So you're wiping out like everything they've planned, everything they've planted. Breadmaker 62. Yeah. Breadmaker, thank you for those five gifted subscriptions. I really, really appreciate that. God bless you for being here. Great to see you in the chat. And but when you talk about that and then they come in and they buy it up because now at this point, they're penniless. They've just lost.

1:15:46 It's not just like a one-year investment, like you're planting corn and you go in and you plant the corn and, okay, if you have a bad crop you've got next year, you can go. The cocoa plants, from what I understand, this is like a mature aging, like a bush, like a grow. So when they're wiping it out with Roundup, Solicifate, they're wiping out years of labor and investment.

1:16:13 And probably generations. And then coming in and buying it for pennies on the dollar. In a way, it kind of reminds me of, and I could be wrong, burning all of California, high state areas, then putting up a bunch of, well, you can't start building or even rehabbing until we've checked it to make sure there's no toxic material. And we're going to make you wait two years for any building permits.

1:16:44 That you're going to have to sit on an empty line. Maybe a better analogy would be the... We'll buy it for low-income housing. Putting solar farms on our farmland. There you go. There's another one. Because it almost permanently destroys the soil. Or shutting the water off on the farmland. Yeah. I mean, that's what I'm saying. You can see the same strategy. I mean, they're using the same playbook over and over. It's like, God, you've got to get a new stick. Okay? Yeah. No. They want us all dead.

1:17:15 SR-71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. You were talking 200,000 hectares of land that was used for cocoa production. And just to compare that to acres, we're talking over 500,000 acres, which is roughly the size of Jacksonville, Florida. Yeah, and Jacksonville, Florida is its own county. Right, right.

1:17:46 It's so big. Good analogy. Yeah, it's big. And I guarantee you guys, this book is going to put a lot of pieces together for us in this kind of model that we've been developing as far as this informational, psychological.

1:18:18 attack on the people of America, as well as our governments enabling this drug trafficking. And as was pointed out earlier, anything that they declare war on, we now know that they're involved in creating, 100%. Candy, go ahead.

1:18:47 Hi, Colonel. I haven't listened to you for a while because I only retired a little over a year ago. And man, I get so upset about things that I have to recover and I come back. And today you're doing this topic and it's unbelievable. So I was, you know, on SEER teams when somebody's captured by the enemy and we get them back and the SEER team goes in and there's like...

1:19:13 four to ten different specialties depending on who gets put on a team. So I was one of a very specialized member trained to be able to do those missions. And when those three quote-unquote contractors went down in Columbia and the FARC killed them for five years, when we got them back, I was in the running to be able to go do that CRD briefing. I was so disappointed. Fast forward, I started waking up a few years after that.

1:19:42 And now I have no classified information about it, but obviously I think they were probably CIA assets or something. But they were pilots in spraying or doing stuff like that is what I remember just from open source. And anyways, this just is blowing my mind because what I'm resentful about is I never looked up back in the day.

1:20:10 About the FARC, I just believed what I was told that they were the, I mean, the animals of the animals. And now these guys, I do believe, were treated badly. I saw them give a briefing. I saw like chain marks on their body and stuff like that. But still, it's unbelievable how much we've been lied to. So with that, I yield. So thank you for adding that, Candy.

1:20:40 And let me just put this in perspective for everybody. You are right. They were likely CIA. They could have been. We now know that U.S. military dress in civilian clothes and conduct these training missions. So it could have been special forces. It could have been CIA and it could have been private military contractors.

1:21:10 They were all involved, as we're going to find out, in flying missions. And when the specific incident that you're talking about, one of the planes went down and they captured the pilots. That's what you're talking about, right, Candy? That's right. And I want everybody to understand when something like that happens.

1:21:36 There's then going to be a mission plan, possibly multiple missions, to try to rescue them. That puts everybody in danger that is on the rescue teams. And as well as the people that once they ransom them or whatever, and they get to the point where they're going to turn them back over, you are, again, putting more people in danger to go do that.

1:22:06 I want to be perfectly clear here. I'm not saying that the FARC is good. What I am saying is that the FARC is made up of not just a leadership element. The 99% of what was labeled as FARC were peasants who had been pushed off their land.

1:22:34 and wanted to be part of an organization to fight back against the ex-appropriation of their land. They were not killers. They were not terrorists. They were indigenous people that were trying to survive primarily on small coca plots of land that they sold.

1:23:03 commercially coca leaf for medicinal purposes they were not drug traffickers and when this when it was decided after we left and that's basically when the explosion down there happened when we left afghanistan after the russian conflict and the taliban took over and started drawing down all of the opium production you see the direct correlation to the increase

1:23:32 of activity in Latin America. And the more expansive the narco production in Colombia happened, the more land they wanted to grow coca on, not for medicinal purposes, for cocaine manufacturing as a new source of revenue. And every one of these operations, as Americans who are lying to,

1:24:01 in the military, go down and conduct these missions and train these people, we put every single one of them at risk. And the intelligence, 100% of the time, is coming from the CIA, who we now know is behind a lot of the, if not all, of the narco-trafficking to begin with. And so it's this self-licking ice cream cone from their perspective.

1:24:30 Because they're getting cuts off of this narco trade to conduct further covert operations, which we have demonstrated repeatedly through this series of exposures. It's really a crazy story for those of us who have been in the military and understand the type of intelligence.

1:24:58 that we got to go on missions as opposed to what the real truth is. And I'm not saying that it would have, if our government told us that at some point in the military, you have to make a decision, but we're making decisions based on false intelligence.

1:25:27 Or twisted truths. Yeah, I don't even think they're twisted truth. I think they're bold faced lies. And that really is kind of the crux of this. If if at any time in any of these operations, they would have been honest and said, you know, hey, we just want to exploit this country's resources. You obviously can see when you transfer to an all volunteer force that if you know that you're going in to make.

1:25:56 oligarchs rich and you're not doing it under national security or some threat of communism or anything else, you're not going to have the people to do these operations with. And if those operations were 100% CIA and they knew what they were doing, that's one thing. But none of these operations are 100% CIA. They dragged the military and JSOC primarily and the special operator.

1:26:24 operations people into almost every single one of these missions and they're doing it under false pretenses. That's my big beef of all of this. Good point. Okay. So thank you for sharing that candy. Yeah. And thank you for helping saying what you just said. It is a hundred percent true. I can't believe the things that we didn't know, but it's helpful. And it's.

1:26:56 You know, this will be a healing process. So I probably won't listen to you for a month again while I just soak this up. But also, I don't know if you saw it the other day on Tucker. He had a guy that's been researching the Fort Bragg. Yeah. And I had followed him a while on Twitter. So I was reading his articles. And anyways, that interview, some of my friends who have no idea what's going on.

1:27:25 You know, you can't talk to those kind of people because it would just freak them out. They're not military and stuff. Well, they saw that interview and they're asking me because they know I go down there and stuff. And I'm I just it's a rough interview to listen to if you have no idea what's happening in the world. It is. And I would love to be able to talk to that guy so that he understands the broader.

1:27:52 gladio kind of um operation because i don't think i mean he's he's obviously um well researched but my takeaway from that interview was that he thinks it's isolated to um a bunch of jsoc guys um getting into um the drug business that's

1:28:21 a drop in the bucket. Yeah, I would love to see you reach out to him. Like I said, I followed him for several years. I know he's actually pretty good about answering any DMs and stuff, but you're absolutely right. He used to, I think he did talk about it in an interview, but he was in Mexico for a while. So he's putting different pieces together, but he's not putting the whole picture together. Yeah. I'll try again. I did DM him, but I'll do it again. Because, yeah, I would love to talk to him.

1:28:52 That would be a conversation I think that we could have. That would be an amazing conversation. I agree. But yeah. All right, everyone. That's it for today. We are going to I don't know what our schedule. We're going to go boating tomorrow. We're going to wing it. Yeah. And so we will try to do four o'clock tomorrow because we're going to be on the boat from.

1:29:22 early morning until the afternoon. And you have the Alpha Warrior show tomorrow night. And I have the Alpha Warrior show tomorrow night. And I am going to be on a new show. On Thursday. On Thursday. And I will get you a link to the new show. But let me pull it up here and give you the name. It's going to be on Twitter and Rumble under William Ramsey.

1:29:52 Investigates. So. If you guys aren't following him. You can go over and follow him. William Ramsey. Investigates. He reached out to me. I think after the redacted show. And asked me to come on his. So I will. Be appearing. At. Thursday. Let me get the right time zone. It's. Central.

1:30:25 It's 4 p.m. Central, 5 p.m. East Coast time. So anyway, it'll be a first time appearance on his show. So you're going to have to do math in your head. Oh, my God. So let me just tell you also, Apple, I thought, was really good at being able to put things on time zones and then automatically transfer to your calendar.

1:30:52 Can I tell you how many appointments that I made for when I got home on the road when I was in Texas and not a damn one of them came up East Coast time properly, even though I said that I was in Central Time Zone when I was making them? Well, my iPhone right now is 630 and my iPad says it's 730. I'm telling you, it's so screwed up. So for like the first week I was back home after the last trip, I didn't make a single appointment on time.

1:31:20 I'm just saying. That would just be, yeah, that would be a nightmare. All right. So yeah, I have to do math in my head and you guys know I don't do math in public. So that's never a good thing. All right. So that's it. Thanks for being here, everyone. We will talk to you tomorrow and we are shooting for four o'clock tomorrow. All right. That's the plan. All right. Say goodbye. Bye. Bye, everybody.

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Evo Morales headed Bolivia book_quoted ▶ 6:36

“But it wasn't. So with that, let's get to the material. According to Ivo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president. And again, that's a that's a phenomenon that's amazing to me. Ivo Morales was th…”

Hugo Chavez headed Venezuela book_quoted ▶ 7:33

“ethnically is from your country being president. He had been a coca farmer. His motto for his presidential campaign was coca is not cocaine. This is a view shared by many Latin Americans, including Ve…”

Spain founded Colombia book_quoted ▶ 10:04

“It's very, very important contextually to understand what is going on in Latin America. Before Colombian quote-unquote narco-capitalism, the Spanish conquistadors established feudal systems to regulat…”

Pedro Cieza de León spied_on Colombia book_quoted ▶ 11:02

“There has never been in the world a plant or root of any growing thing that bears and yields every year as this does, or that is so highly valued. It was the equivalent of gold for Latin America. Indi…”

Simón Bolívar founded Colombia book_quoted ▶ 13:31

“Andes Mountains, becoming landless workers. For the exploited classes, land meant freedom. However, the landlords had no use for freedom. And when the bourgeois revolution inspired by Simone Bobilaire…”

Plan Lazo trained Colombia book_quoted ▶ 22:34

“was provided by the United States. The Colombian peasants, rebels, retreated into agricultural frontiers along the Amazon, where the state had no presence. Modeled on the Phoenix program used in Vietn…”

Colombia carried_out_attack Marquetalia book_quoted ▶ 23:06

“whether they were armed or unarmed, which is exactly what we did in Vietnam. Between 1963 and 66, the Colombian state forces used U.S.-supplied helicopters, vehicles, communication equipment, and weap…”

Alberto Lleras Camargo headed Colombia book_quoted ▶ 24:06

“Accumulation was so great that the new president, Alberto Larris Camargo, who was president from 58 to 62, concluded that the blood and capital accumulation went together. Blood of the indigenous peop…”

Jacobo Arenas founded FARC book_quoted ▶ 30:37

“to poke people and move them in that direction. In Colombia, these political developments culminated in the founding of the FARC in 1964. By the resistance to the violence, veteran Jacobo Arenas and M…”

Manuel Marulanda Vélez founded FARC book_quoted ▶ 30:37

FARC carried_out_attack Colombia host_asserted ▶ 36:23

“integrating drug trafficking into Colombian agribusiness, military defense, and politics. That's almost half of the link. At the end of the 90s, the FARC's power and influence extended over 60% of Col…”

FARC member_of Colombia host_asserted ▶ 36:55

“FARC was active in 83 of the 116 municipalities. Some areas are formally organized by the FARC with schools, medical facilities, grassroots judicial structures, and social projects. Field work conduct…”

United States funded FARC host_asserted ▶ 38:17

“To me, those are the insurgents. And those are all the people that were created by the U.S. government, trained and equipped by us. And the absentee landowners, as you're going to see, are U.S. oligar…”

United States trained FARC host_asserted ▶ 38:17

Contras trafficked Nicaragua host_asserted ▶ 40:04

“When, of course, we found out later, based on Iran-Contra, that it was actually the Contras that were primarily the drug traffickers. Narco-terrorism encompassed a variety of phenomenon. Guerrilla mov…”

Center for Democracy framed FARC host_asserted ▶ 40:33

“A member of the American Center for Democracy advanced this of the narco-terrorists in three books in which Latin American guerrilla movements described as narco-terrorists were linked to Cuba and the…”

United States covered_up FARC host_asserted ▶ 41:01

“have used the narco-terrorism paradigm as a political weapon to both criminalize and wage war against the FARC. The U.S. paradigm has been promoted by the Colombian government through policies and act…”

Colombia trafficked United States host_asserted ▶ 55:11

“on average between 150,000 and 200,000 hectares, with dynamic trends concentrated in Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru, which is referred to as the Crystal Triangle. Cocaine is exported to the U.S. by air f…”

Evo Morales removed_from_power Bolivia host_asserted ▶ 58:11

“border areas of Bolivia was still selling coca leaf over to the traffickers. But as a country, he eliminated the cocaine trafficking and production in his country. And he did it by kicking all of the …”

DINA assassinated Orlando Letelier documented ▶ 1:05:34

“Chile's intelligence service did get involved in terrorism, and it wound up culminating with the Orlando Letelier assassination in Washington, D.C., where their intelligence agents basically came and …”

Henry Kissinger covered_up Augusto Pinochet host_asserted ▶ 1:05:34

FARC taxed Colombia host_asserted ▶ 1:12:16

“FARC, once they became like this dual government control mechanism, they taxed the coca leaves that were sold to the people that were manufacturing the cocaine. What we're going to find out later on i…”

AUC covered_up FARC host_asserted ▶ 1:12:46

“busting or the Colombian government busting, and I'm going to use that in air quotes, a FARC lab was a hoax. What the DEA would do and what the Colombian government, this AUC organization, the real, t…”

Cali Cartel covered_up FARC host_asserted ▶ 1:12:46

Medellin Cartel covered_up FARC host_asserted ▶ 1:12:46

JSOC member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:27:52

“gladio kind of um operation because i don't think i mean he's he's obviously um well researched but my takeaway from that interview was that he thinks it's isolated to um a bunch of jsoc guys um getti…”