cartels - Video - Gangsters Inc. - www.gangstersinc.org2024-03-28T18:28:20Zhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/feed/tag/cartelsHow the CIA Created a Cocaine Dictatorhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/how-the-cia-created-a-cocaine-dictator2022-04-29T06:08:17.000Z2022-04-29T06:08:17.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10447326861?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">In December 1989, 25,00 US troops invaded the small, Central American republic of Panama. But this was not a war against some communist regime or terrorist group – this was a drugs bust, aimed at arresting Manuel Noriega, the dictator of Panama, who was wanted on trafficking charges in Miami. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Awkwardly for the US, Noriega had been a major CIA asset for decades – even as they knew he was becoming massively embedded with the cartels flooding the streets of the US with coke. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">This is how US intelligence shielded Noriega, even as he trafficked cocaine and laundered cartel millions – and also how the War on Drugs came to replace the Cold War as the central feature of US foreign policy. </span></p>
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