Watching the Freeway documentary about crack in the US on Netflix

[William Gaatjes]

It sure is amazing and disgusting to see that important parts of the republican government in the 1980's at the time secretly supported cocaine traffic into the US through the CIA. Supporting the contra's in Nicaragua and giving us citizen ship to drugs and arms dealers from Nicaragua. Facilitating the crack epidemic because the US dealers like Rick Ross had an ample supply of cocaine and weapons supplied.
Reagan, Bush Sr, Oliver North and many more were all in it.
They first supported the contra's but that was stopped in 1985 by the congres. The contra's then were financed by drug smugglers who smuggled drugs into the US. And the drugs smuggler were supported by the CIA.Oscar Danilo Blandón was supported by the CIA.
He found an ideal way to sell drugs in the black neighbourhoods because there was hardly any police and he did not care what happened to the people in the neighbourhoods.

Crack is also known as pichicata. and is mentioned as something that was smoked in Bolivia and cheap to produce and highly addictive.

Because of all the layoffs, there were a lot of people without work. Lot's of poverty and no hope for a proper future helped to create gangs that wanted to make some money by selling drugs , introduced to the game by Rick Ross and crew. And these guys were very imported to the crack epidemic. Making a billion dollars. Amagine how may 25 dollars rocks were sold each day... How many lives destroyed.

Really good documentary as it also shows how the captured drug money was sent back to the local police force and corruption soon kicked in because the policemen only have so much salary but having a very dangerous profession. Some went dirty by taking some of the drug money for themselves.

 

[William Gaatjes]

What is really weird is that people applaude for a drug dealer doing his story. Weird western world view we have these days. Charisma is everything...

 

[William Gaatjes]

Sad that Gary Webb , the investigator who unraveled this all in the media had commited suicide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb

It is possible, the two gunshots. There have been people who survived after attempting commiting suicide and half their face shot off while only shooting once.
So a second attempt is possible.

 

[BD231]

These documentary's don't know the half of it. Dealers are selling knock out agents that put people to sleep and get the addict robbed, unfortunately the people doing the stealing are people close to those buying the stuff.

Death toll is skyrocketing right now.

 

[William Gaatjes]

It is an awful mess.
I just watched another documentary about Pablo Escobar and it is amazing how the Columbian government was so easy on him, knowing what he had done.
It is also amazing that "popeye" is still alive today, knowing how many deaths he made.
When there is enough money, everyone can be bought it seems. Especially when that money is combined with terror.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jairo_Velásquez

 

[William Gaatjes]

If we look at the global drug trade like heroine and cocaine now, i am sure lot of that money goes to fund terrorist groups.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Interesting story :

https://edlatimore.com/what-i-learned-living-next-to-crack-dealers/

 

[William Gaatjes]

What is really not unexpected is that Oscar Danilo Blandón is a free man and a succesful entrepreneur.
It seems the CIA had/has many ties with drug lords / dictators.

Noriega, Bush Sr, Escobar. All have ties.

 

[William Gaatjes]

This site seems to host the articles from Gary Webb.

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/shock/start.htm

Shortly before Blandon -- who had been the drug ring's Southern California distributor -- took the stand in San Diego as a witness for the U.S. Department of Justice, federal prosecutors obtained a court order preventing defense lawyers from delving into his ties to the CIA.
Blandon, one of the FDN's founders in California, "will admit that he was a large-scale dealer in cocaine, and there is no additional benefit to any defendant to inquire as to the Central Intelligence Agency,'' Assistant U.S. Attorney L.J. O'Neale argued in his motion shortly before Ross' trial on cocaine trafficking charges in March.


Motion to preclude reference to CIA involvement
The most Blandon would say in court about who called the shots when he sold cocaine for the FDN was that "we received orders from the -- from other people.''
The 5,000-man FDN, records show, was created in mid-1981 when the CIA combined several existing groups of anti-communist exiles into a unified force it hoped would topple the new socialist government of Nicaragua.

From 1982 to 1988, the FDN -- run by both American and Nicaraguan CIA agents -- waged a losing war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government, the Cuban-supported socialists who'd overthrown U.S.-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979.

Blandon, who began working for the FDN's drug operation in late 1981, testified that the drug ring sold almost a ton of cocaine in the United States that year -- $54 million worth at prevailing wholesale prices. It was not clear how much of the money found its way back to the CIA's army, but Blandon testified that "whatever we were running in L.A., the profit was going to the Contra revolution.''

Blandon's testimony



At the time of that testimony, Blandon was a full-time informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration, a job the U.S. Department of Justice got him after releasing him from prison in 1994.
Though Blandon admitted to crimes that have sent others away for life, the Justice Department turned him loose on unsupervised probation after only 28 months behind bars and has paid him more than $166,000 since, court records show.

A known dealer since '74 has stayed out of U.S. jails

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Blandon's boss in the FDN's cocaine operation, Juan Norwin Meneses Cantarero, has never spent a day in a U.S. prison, even though the federal government has been aware of his cocaine dealings since at least 1974, records show.
Meneses -- who ran the drug ring from his homes in the San Francisco Bay Area -- is listed in the DEA's computers as a major international drug smuggler and was implicated in 45 separate federal investigations. Yet he and his cocaine-dealing relatives lived quite openly in the Bay Area for years, buying homes in Pacifica and Burlingame, along with bars, restaurants, car lots and factories in San Francisco, Hayward and Oakland.


Biographical information on Norwin Meneses

More photos of Norwin Meneses

"I even drove my own cars, registered in my name,'' Meneses said during a recent interview in Nicaragua.
Meneses' organization was "the target of unsuccessful investigative attempts for many years,'' prosecutor O'Neale acknowledged in a 1994 affidavit. But records and interviews revealed that a number of those probes were stymied not by the elusive Meneses but by agencies of the U.S. government.

Agents from four organizations -- the DEA, U.S. Customs, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement -- have complained that investigations were hampered by the CIA or unnamed "national security'' interests.

 

[William Gaatjes]

It is obvious that the CIA supported the drug traffickers who supported the contra's. But i do not believe the CIA caused the crack epidemic. It is more a fall out effect of typical CIA meddling.
Just like Afghanistan, mujahideen, Taliban, Al qaeda, 9-11 and more. People in the US and outside pay a high price for the way the CIA operates.

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