Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
So yeah, they have tremendous power.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
I likened it to Costco, right?
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
So they buy from all these other sources, but they run the whole network, right?
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
And yeah, it's very powerful.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
It's not known because it's very shadowy.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
But they, like for example, they say, oh, they don't run, but they run, for example, they own, they're the ones who hire the growers.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
They buy from the growers in Bolivia and in Peru, right?
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
They have control of the processing plants.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
So they run the whole network.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
Now, they use the Mexican cartels to get the cocaine across the border into the United States.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
I know some cartel leaders and they'll like, you know, well, the Mexican cartels right now, their main business is fentanyl.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
But cocaine is something that they rely on the Cartel del Sol to help them distribute.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
Yes, they are.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
It's not, well, when you talk about the CIA, it's important to make a distinction.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
Like there's the official CIA, which is a, you know, an agency of the government, which has a structure and a policy.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
you know, rules and personnel charts and so on and so forth.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
And everything has to be approved by the president or the Congress.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
Right.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
And then there is a shadowy organization, um, which is, uh, often confused with the CIA.
Danny Jones Podcast
#395 - “I Watched Them Rig Elections In Real Time” Venezuelan Spy Breaks Silence | Ralph Pezzullo
And I don't know what we would call that.