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peppertree

(23,008 posts)
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 08:48 PM 16 hrs ago

Trump's Latin America policy, in a nutshell:

Threatens a Bush-style regime-change invasion of Venezuela over alleged "domination" of drug trafficking - which the CIA itself has repeatedly contradicted (Colombia has, since the 1980s, been the source of most U.S. bound narcotics).

But pledges a US$40 billion taxpayer-funded bailout of Argentina - whose elites not only offshore every dollar made available to them; but whose President shares a lawyer with the country's top convicted drug trafficker.



Cocaine Connection: Argentine lawyer Francisco Oneto and his two top clients: President Javier Milei, and convicted Argentine-American cocaine trafficker Fred Machado.
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