Mike Benz

military and CIA activities.

This is the same reason that the CIA allowed drug running.

Not just that, but actually built up drug running in Afghanistan, in Colombia, in Venezuela.

This is now seeing the blowback of this right now.

Frankly, in the charges against Maduro, the original 2020 indictment was listed the cartel of the sons 32 times and framed Nicolas Maduro, president of Venezuela, as being the leader of the cartel of the sons.

Well, in the revised indictment issued just six days ago,

They've eliminated the references.

There's only two references in the superseding indictment, and they don't mention him as a leader of it at all.

A big part of this is because the Cartel of the Sons was created by the CIA in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

It was created by –

General Ramon, who was the head of the Venezuelan military intelligence, who was a sanctioned CIA asset, a paid on the literal on the CIA payroll.

And the CIA was busted.

In fact, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the DEA chief, actually resigned when the CIA authorized, through the head of the Cartel of the Sons, this General Ramon, the shipment of 1,500 kilograms of cocaine

to the streets of Miami to be sold for the proceeds to support U.S.-backed, to buy U.S.-backed arms in the neighboring conflict zones in Latin America.

But this was a case where you had, at the very least, the CIA greenlighting it, greenlighting what is an international crime, the very crime they're charging Maduro with,

But I suspect that many of these NGOs are training the Somali immigrant population on how to do these scams, how to exploit the system for doing it.

Many of these NGOs are directly on US State Department payroll, the very State Department that the CIA serves.

And so I think that the more scam money is produced,

the more money you have for the American war in Somalia.

And so it's very difficult to tamp down on this fraud without running into weird corners of the blob of the bureaucracy within the U.S.