Banana Wars - After the invention of the refrigerator, American companies started bribing Latin American leaders in exchange for tax breaks and land grants to farm and export fruit from their countries. US conflicts with those which threw off this yoke were part of what became known as the Banana wars. (1839-1934)
Tropical Trading and Transport Company was founded by Minor Cooper Kieth, who set up rail roads in Costa Rica and Colombia. His company was merged with the Boston Fruit Company, becoming United Fruit.
In 1929, (((Sam ''the Banana Man" Zemurray))) sold his rapidly growing Cuyamel Fruit Company to United Fruit for $31.5M in stock. After a brief retirement, he orchestrated a hostile takeover in 1933. United Fruit's stock had crashed by 90% during the Great Depression; Zemurray ousted the board and took over as managing director.
In 1970, United Fruit merged with a milk bottling company called AMK (father of rapist and Epstein donor, Leon Black) started by Eli Black, creating United Brands which then became Chaqita Banana. Eli Black killed himself in 1975 because United Fruit couldn't traffic drugs anymore and at that point it wasn't really a fruit company. After failing to bribe the president of Honduras to lower export taxes, he threw himself off of the Pan Am building, which is ironic because the Pan Am is what Epstein and Towers Financial were trying to take over.
Cold War - According to Latin American expert John Henry Coatsworth, between 1948 and 1990, the US overthrew 24 Latin American countries as part of an initiative including but not limited to Operation Condor, which was drafted in Chile in 1975. With the help of the CIA, the intelligence agencies of Latin American countries would be connected, allowing for surveillance, tracking, arrests, detention, and assassinations.
Honduras
Banana Wars - (((Sam ''the Banana Man" Zemurray))) owned Cuyamel Fruit, which primarily relied on produce from Honduras.
At the time, Honduras was buried in massive sovereign debt owed to British creditors. To prevent British intervention, US Secretary of State, Philander Knox brokered a treaty (Knox-Paredes Treaty) forcing Honduras to accept a loan from J.P. Morgan & Co. to refinance the debt; US customs agents were to be installed at all Honduran ports to collect a new national tax on all imports and exports.
Cuyamel Fruit Company relied entirely on slim margins protected by corrupt custom concessions, secret deals that allowed Zemurray to import railroad supplies and export bananas 100% tax-free; the new US-managed customs houses meant that all of Zemurray’s tax exemptions would be permanently stripped, so Zemurray hired a mercenary army, which he gave to former Honduran President, Manuel Bonilla, engineering a coup that overthrew President Miguel Dávila in 1912.
TACA - Transportes Aéreos del Continente Americano (TACA) was a cargo airliner owned by Lowell Yerex from New Zealand and managed by Raymond J. Kenner.
They used a furniture company in Louisiana as a front, Star Furniture, run by Isidore Slobroski, himself involved in narcotics trade in Europe. They were getting drugs from Honduras and selling them to the New Orleans Mob Syndicate, whose boss was Sam Carolla, predecessor of Carlos Marcello.
The Carola Syndicate sold the drugs to supply arms to Jose Marina Julian Vales to support a rebellion in Honduras. However, President Tiburcio Carías Andino, who Julian opposed, also turned to selling drugs and also was using the TACA for transport.
Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent, Maurice Halbrant stumbled over this international arms for drugs ordeal between Julian and the Louisiana mob and TACA, only to discover that they had US government protection. Using an informant, Halbrant caught a middleman, Goindad Aguilera, selling heroin. Upon searching his house, he uncovered $100,000 worth of heroin and a list of guns to buy with the money. The trial led to the TACA manager Ray J. Kennett, who had also been arrested selling heroin in the past. However, Kennett got a reduced sentence, and then the New Orleans Chief of Police, Guy Maloney, coincidentally took a job offer in Honduras as their arsenal inspector. It was a payoff. The State Department ordered that all surveillance of TACA curtailed, and in 1936, Carreas won the election and continued smuggling drugs with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics intentionally looking the other way. The TACA then opened cargo services in Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. The drug operation was left alone as the US government and its corporate backers preferred the political policies of Correos and Honduras. Honduras would later serve as the US launching pad into Central America. Sam Carolla was convicted of murder after he killed a Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent, Cecil Moore, but after two years served, Carolla got a pardon from the Louisiana governor, O.K. Allen, whom he had bribed with the heroin money, which was protected. His heroin racket was protected since his supplier was the TACA, who was in league with the US corporately backed president of Honduras. As a consequence, the New Orleans mob was able to funnel its drug money profits into more legit and illegit businesses, including casinos in the US and Cuba, shared with the New York mafia. (Costello, Lansky, Luciano, and Louis "Lepke" Pickelter of Murder Inc)
TACA went on to procure contracts from Douglas, then Boeing and Lokheed Martin.
Hillary Clinton's leaked emails reveal that during the coup in 2008, her State Department actively worked behind the scenes to prevent ousted President Manuel Zelaya from returning to power.
Colombia
The Banana Massacre - Employees of United Fruit in Colombia worked 8 hour a day, six days a week and didn't even get paid with cash, but food coupons, so they went on strike.
In response to this, United Fruit got the Colombian government to order the army ''not to spare bullets,'' firing into crowds of strikers, killing between 1000 to 2000.
Cold War - In 1962 Kennedy sent Special Forces General William Yarborough to secretly train Colombians.
COLOMBIAN SURVEY REPORT: ''execute paramilitary, sabotage, and/or terrorist activities. It should be backed by the United States.'' An institutionalized culture of violence ensued in the Colombian military, and with the introduction of the 3398 edict, in which weapons were furnished to civilians for national defense, the situation spiraled. In the 1970s, there were over 1,000 political killings in Colombia; in the 80s, there were over 12,000. In 2007, El Tiempo would publish a front-page story titled Colombia Searches for 10,000 Bodies, referring to those massacred who had been thrown into mass graves and never found, though the figure could be as high as 30,000.
A militant from right-wing terror group, AUC explained in an interview that to train recruits in execution and dismemberment, they would practice on live victims who were kept imprisoned. Franciasco Villalba, AUC: ''The instructions were to remove their arms, their heads, to dismember them alive.'' The violence would continue through the 1990s, and in 2000, the Colombian Commission of Jurists would conclude that 80% of the killings were perpetrated by the military and their paramilitaries.
Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola Co. - In the 90s, Coca-Cola hired AUC to take out 8 to 9 trade union leaders.
AUC was designated as a terrorist group in 2001, known to have committed torture and murder. Unlike Coca-Cola, who got away with it, Chiquita was ordered to pay $38.3M in damages to the families of men killed by the group.
Guatemala
United Fruit was owned by (((Sam ''the Banana Man" Zemurray))) and was cliqued up with the CIA. CIA Director Allen Dulles and his brother John Foster Dulles both held stock in United Fruit (Allen also being on the board of trustees) and previously represented it as partners at Sullivan & Cromwell.
They controlled the export of Bananas from Guatemala, buying up additional land just so peasant farmers would resort to working for them, and so their competitors couldn't grow their own produce. They also owned the country's only Atlantic harbor; as well as telephone and telegraph facilities; a subsidiary of the company owned almost all the railroads.
This changed when Jacobo Árbenz took over with Decree 900, which nationalized the land and gave it back to the peasant farmers; he raised agricultural wages; legalized labor unions; and legalized free speech; they made United Fruit pay export duties, repair its docks, and reduce rail shipping rates. He offered to compensated United Fruit for the land seized using the Company's own tax valuation, coming out to $1,185,000, which they rejected.
The CIA launched Operation BP Success, hiring (((Edward Bernays,))) the father of modern advertising, who normalized smoking, to lead a media campaign. painting Árbenz as a communist, even though he had introduced elections and turned Guatamala from a semi-feudal dictatorship into a liberal capitalist democracy. United Fruit even spread photos of gored unidentified corpses, claiming they were victims of Árbenz' regime.
A Study of Assassination - In 1953, the CIA was at work publishing a killing manual called A Study of Assassination, which would be handed over to the Guatemalan military. The manual provided a list of techniques, beginning with ''manual'': ''A hammer, axe, wrench, screwdriver, fire poker, kitchen knife, lamp stand, or anything hard, heavy, and handy will suffice. Followed by accidents, the most efficient accident is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface.'' Then ''drugs'': ''If the subject drinks heavily, morphine can be injected at the passing out stage. The cause of death will often be held to be acute alcoholism.'' There is also ''edge weapons'' or knives and axes: ''Absolute reliability is obtained by severing the spinal cord in the cervical region.''
The CIA and United Fruit, respectively, funded right wing officers in Guatemala's military and picked exile, Carlos Castillo Armas to lead the coup, funding his rebel army in Honduras, which would be assisted by rebels from Nicaragua, which Samosa was letting the Americans use as an air base. During the coup, American planes dropped bombs in Guatemala and machine gunned infrastructure. When Armas took over, he arrested thousands of people suspected of being communists, torturing and murdering many of them. Even after his death, the junta killed 20,000 by 1976.
The Maya, peasant class by virtue of their poverty, were deemed to be communists, so the government massacred them wherever they were found. In what's been referred to as the Maya Genocide, by 1983, the government had exterminated as many as 200,000 people, the vast majority of the Maya.
Dominican Republic
Rafael Trujillo came to power in August 1930 after winning a fraudulent presidential election following a revolt against President Horacio Vásquez.
John Joseph Frank was involved in the murder of Trujillo critic, Jesús Galíndez. Frank rented the airplane that an Oregon man named Gerald L. Murphy used to fly a kidnapped Galíndez to the Dominican republic. Neither were ever seen again.
Frank was charged by a federal prosecutor for involvement, but was let off upon CIA intervention. When asked by the Church Committee if he had employed John Frank during 1954, FBI spymaster Robert Maheu refused to answer under the 5th amendment.
Cuba (The one that got away)
Cuba - In 1898, Spain had been fighting to put down a revolt in its province of Cuba, which it had held for almost 500 years. The US government used the opportunity to launch the Spanish-American War, justifying it through exaggerated stories of Spanish atrocities against the Cubans. The explosion of the USS Maine was also blamed on the Spanish, even though later investigations confirmed the ship sunk from an internal explosion, not an external one. The war ended with America seizing Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
One of the incentives for later regime change was reopening the mafia run casinos shut down by Castro. Of course, the Bay of Pigs invasion failed, not because Kennedy didn't give air support, (he did) but because there wasn't any ground support due to communications problems, ship and aircraft losses, and air dropped weapons sinking into swamps; the Cuban people themselves didn't rise up in support of the exiles, as the CIA had predicted, kind of like what happened in Iran; Plus a lot of the weapons meant for the exiles may have been diverted to Israel: In 1961, the munitions depot of the Schlumberger Well Drilling Corp in Louisiana was burgled by David Ferrie, Sergio Arcacha Smith, Gordon Novel and Layton Martens, who would eventually be charged by Jim Garrison years later. A CIA internal memo re Garrison's investigation revealed that the New Orleans office of the DCS had a contact with Charles A. Doh, manager of the Schlumberger office in New Orleans. Novel stated that the burglary itself was done at the behest of the CIA, to funnel the weapons and ammo to anti-Castro Cubans, however the burglary took place in august, after the Bay of Pigs. If Cuba was an alibi, then where were the weapons actually headed? Well, Novel implied that the arms were sold to Inter-Armco. Inter-Armco was an agent for Samuel Cummings, who besides being an acknowledged CIA agent, was a also the owner of Adams Consolidated. Adams Consolidated was the weapons company which imported the Carcano rifle located in the Texas School Book Depository on the day of JFK's death. Cummings also had a close associate named Enrico Frittoli, who sat on the board of directors of Permindex. Schlumberger itself was run by Jean de Menil, who was also on the board of Pemindex, and a close associate of Oswald's FBI handler, George de Mohrenschildt. Permindex was a CIA front company used by (((Meyer Lansky))), the primary share holder of which was Banque de Credit international, founded by (((Tibor Rosenbaum))), a money launderer and arms procurement officer for the Mossad. Lansky was also moving weapons to Israel through ZIM Shipping.
Panama
Manuel Noriega amassed a fortune trafficking drugs from Panama since the late 50s.
He was also the CIA's most valued asset in Latin america for decades as he not only provided intelligence, but facilitated the delivery of weapons, cash and equipment throughout the region. When the DEA tried to indict Noriega in 1971 the CIA blocked them.
Panama's later revolutionary leader, Omar Torrijo, was in negotiations with Japan regarding a new sea-level canal. In 1981, he died when his plane crashed. Former Panamanian official, Roberto Díaz Herrera and author John Perkins allege that a bomb was planted on the plane by operatives connected to the CIA or US commercial interests.
Brazil
In 1964, Brazil's armed forces moved to remove João Goulart, who fled to Uruguay, with a US backed military junta taking power. Declassified records show the US provided funding to opposition politicians, maintained contact with military leaders, and readied naval forces offshore just in case US military support was needed. Over the next two decades, Brazil remained under military rule.
Uruguay
Dan Mitrione was Chief of Police in Richmond, Indiana.
He joined USAID branch, the Office of Public Safety, where he was assigned to Montevideo, Uruguay, where he trained police officers in torture, both physical and psychological. His methods included playing audio of screams next door, telling prisoners it was their families; electroshock torture and ball torture.
Mitrione went rogue, building a sound-proof room in his cellar to torture and ultimately murder kidnapped female beggars, demonstrating the effects to other officers. The OPS provided training for 1 million policemen throughout the developing world.
Argentina (The Dirty War)
Disappearing - 30,000 people who were disappeared under the US backed military dictatorship of General Jorge Rafael Videla in Argentina.
Those deemed to be subversives were kidnapped, imprisoned, tortured, and killed. 'Subversives' included women wearing pants, men with long hair or beards, economists, artists, psychologists, union members, nuns and priests. The secret police would cordon off the block of the person's home or workplace, smash the door down, stuff the person into a car, and drive away. Oftentimes, the victim would shout their name before disappearing, in hope that their family would know what happened to them. Victims would be pushed out of a plane over the Rio de la Plata, causing dozens of bodies to wash ashore, or be dumped in mass graves.
In the early days, the junta had their soldiers tie a man to the Obelisco de Buenos Aires, a large national monument in the middle of the city, and machine gun him in plain view of the public.
In 1977, Argentine journalist Rodolfo Walsh went to meet with the family of a colleague who had disappeared. The day before, on March 24th, he had written a searing expose of the Argentinian military dictatorship. Upon arriving, rather than seeing the family he was in contact with, he was met by ten armed men. Admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera: ''Bring that fucking bastard back alive. He's mine.'' Unwilling to die without a fight, he pulled his concealed pistol and fired, wounding one of the officers before being gunned down. He was later burned and disposed of in a river.
Prisons - Since ordinary jails were filled to the brim, concentration camps were created which judges, lawyers, journalists, and international observers were forbidden to enter. Prisoners would be taken to one of over 300 detention camps in the country, where they were tortured. In the interrogation rooms, prisoners were laid down on a metal bed called a parilla, (barbecue) and shot with a picanha. (modified cattle prod) According to one survivor: ''They keep you in a blindfold and a hood with your hands and legs in chains, lying down on a foam mattress all day long. When the guards would bring food, it was the only time we were allowed to sit up. Otherwise, we had to lie down all the time.'' As many as 150,000 people were sent to the torture camps, including Fort Buenos Aires, which housed a detention facility on the grounds of a Ford Motor factory, where, Union Deligate Pedro Troiani testified that one morning in April 1976, more than a dozen armed men kidnapped him and took him to a soccer field on the grounds of the factory compound, where he was held for eight hours, being beaten and bound with wire. Others at the factory were held there and subjected to electroshock torture.
Poverty - In Rodolfo Walsh's final letter, he reports numerous figures to show the state of the economy and the people of Argentina under the Junta. According to Walsh, in the first year of the Junta, wages lost 40% of their value, food consumption decreased by 40%, and the inflation rate was 400%. More than half the population would be pushed below the poverty line over the course of the dictatorship.
The primary beneficiaries of the new economic order were, of course, the multinationals operating in Buenos Aires, chief among them, Citibank and Ford Motor Company. The Junta immediately implemented policies favorable to the multinationals, including privatizing major industries, freezing wages, and abolishing price controls. Companies such as Mercedes-Benz and Ford enjoyed comfortable contracts with the military. Mercedes would make trucks for the regime, and Ford made the notorious Ford Falcon, which the junta used to kidnap thousands of people, becoming a symbol of the dictatorship.
As aforementioned, Ford's subsidiary in Buenos Aires maintained a factory outfitted with its own military security detail, with a hundred soldiers permanently stationed at the factory, along with military vehicles and helicopters patrolling the complex. Troiani: ''It looked like we were at war with Ford, and it was all directed at us, the workers.''
In the first year after military rule, Ford published newspaper advertisements celebrating the new regime: ''New year of faith and hope for all Argentines of goodwill. Ford Motor of Argentina and its people commit themselves to the struggle to bring about the great destiny of the fatherland.''
Bolivia
In 1971, General Hugo Banzer seized power in a military coup. Declassified CIA files confirmed the US had prior contact with Banzer and provided military support for his bid to remove Torres. After taking control, Banzer banned leftist parties, arrested political opponents, and aligned Bolivia more closely with US and Brazilian interests. He remained in power until 1978 and returned again through elections in the 1990s. Torres fled the country but was later assassinated in Argentina under Operation Condor.
Although technically private, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was created in 1983 by an initiative of the US government, from which it gets its core funding. In a 2026 congressional hearing, NED leader, Damon Wilson took credit for the election of a right-wing government in Bolivia, and that NED did so to ensure US control over the country’s mineral wealth: “In Bolivia, our partners prevented lithium from falling under Moscow’s control.”
El Salvador
During the Reagan years, military aid to El Salvador increased precipitously to $6 billion from 1981 to 1989. swelling the number of security forces from 12,000 to 53,000.
Roberto D'Aubuisson's covertly US funded ARENA party was responsible for numerous atrocities during the Salvadoran Civil War. Places like El Playón, a volcanic lava field outside the capital, were actively used to dump the bodies of civilian dissidents.
They public ally assassinated Archbishop Óscar Romero, a vocal champion of the poor and critic of military violence.
Members of the El Salvador National Guard raped and executed humanitarian missionaries Jean Donovan, Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel, and Ita Ford.
On December 11th, 1981, the military conducted the largest massacre in modern Latin American history at the village of El Muzote, where between 800-1,000 were slaughtered including children. Captain Walter Oswaldo Salazar: "If we don't kill them now, they'll just grow up to be guerrillas." In total, roughly 75,000 were executed and disappeared by death squads.
Nicaragua
Banana Wars
An extensive conflict began in 1909 when the US government, angered by President José Santos Zelaya's anti-American policies and his granting of transport monopolies to a rival British company, supported a rebellion to overthrow him. After this succeeded, political instability persisted, prompting the US to send Marines in 1912 to protect American financial assets and the Corinto-Granada Railway.
The US occupied Nicaragua again in 1927 in a counterinsurgency campaign against the Sandino Rebellion, led by rebel general Augusto César Sandino. Nicaraguan farmer, Silvino Herrera was beheaded by US marines on suspicion of being a Sandinista.
Sandino won, but later in 1934 he was ambushed and assassinated by the US-trained National Guard under the orders of General Anastasio Somoza García.
Cold War
The Contras - Between 1979 and the early 90s, the US backed rebels known as the Contras against the Communist Sandinistas who had taken over Nicaragua. In 1984, a CIA war manual was leaked to the public, written specifically for the Contras, containing instructions on how to assassinate judges and police officers, and even suggested targeting civilians. ''Explain that if that citizen had managed to escape, he would have alerted the enemy.'' In his affidavit to the World Court, former Contra, Edgar Chamarro said the CIA told him that: ''the only way to defeat the Sandinistas was to kill, kidnap, rob, and torture.''
The Contras had a particular interest in sabotaging the coffee harvest, terrorizing coffee plantations, and massacring coffee pickers. They also destroyed clinics and schools, and killed nurses and teachers.
Testimonies from the House Committee on Foreign Affairs report on US support for the Contras...
Attorney Greg Laverty, 1985: ''I spoke with Ephraim today, a nurse in the hospital. He had a terrible day. An 18-year-old had been castrated and his genitals stuffed in his throat. His eyes had been burned with battery acid, most of his teeth were removed by a bayonet, and his tongue cut out. They left him that way to die.''
On December 4, 1984, a Contra task force ambushed a truck carrying volunteer coffee pickers from the state communications company. 21 civilians, including a mother and her 5-year-old child, were killed. Four of the pickers piled into a Toyota Land Cruiser and the rest into a dump truck. A few miles outside of Talpeka, a Contra task force was waiting. It let the pickup truck pass and then opened fire on the dump truck with a machine gun, rockets, grenades, and rifle fire. The majority of the people were still in the truck, some alive, some dead, some merely wounded. Then the Contras climbed on and began to shoot the survivors and cut them up with their bayonets. A few nevertheless remained alive, at least for a while. Then the Contras took what they could from the truck, including backpacks, documents, and money. Next, they set the truck on fire with gasoline. From where Roger Briones lay, he: ''could hear the cries and laments of those who were burning alive.''
On April 1984, Durote Tanokco Valdivia, a survivor of an attack on a farming cooperative intega testifies: ''they had already destroyed all that was the cooperative. A coffee drying machine, the two dormitories for the coffee cutters, the electricity generators, seven cows, the plant, the food warehouse. There was one boy about 15 years old. He was and suffered from epilepsy. We had left him in a bomb shelter. When we returned, we saw that they had cut his throat. Then they cut open his stomach and left his intestines hanging out on the ground like a string. They did the same to Juan Corales who had already died from a bullet in the fighting. They opened him up and took out his intestines and cut off his testicles.''
Maria Bustio told of how in 1982, her husband, a lay-pastor, and her five children were taken from her home near Elhikaro. When she found them the next day: ''They were left all cut up, their ears were pulled off, their throats were cut, their noses and other parts were cut off.''
In April 1984, Inosente Peralta, a lay-pastor, went out looking for seven people taken in an attack on a Hinotega cooperative. He described the condition in which the bodies were found: ''We found one Perez assassinated in the mountains. They had tied his hands behind his back. They hung him on a wire fence. They opened up his throat and took out his tongue. Another bayonet had gone in through his stomach and come out his back. Finally, they cut off his testicles. It was horrible to see.''
Orlando Wayland, a Moskito teacher kidnapped by the Contras, testified to tortures applied to him and eight others in Honduras: ''In the evening, they tied me up in the water from 7:00 p.m. until 1:00 a.m. The next day at 7:00 a.m., they began to make me collect garbage in the creek in my underwear with the cold. The creek was really icy. I was in the creek for 4 hours. Then they threw me on the ant hill. Tied up, they put me chest down on the ant hill. The red ants bit my body. I squirmed to try to get them off my body, but there were too many. I was on the ant hill 10 minutes each day. They would beat me from head to heels. They would give me an injection to calm me a little, then they would beat me again.''
In October 1984, Maria Julia Ortiz was hiding under a bed when Contras broke into her house near Elhikara and killed her husband: ''They grabbed my husband and they beat him and broke his neck with a rifle. They took him out of the room by one of the doors which was destroyed and they bashed his head with a rifle and they took out his eye. Then they threw him on the floor and they tied his hands and they cut his throat with a bayonet. He screamed and fought and said he didn't do anything wrong, but they wouldn't let him speak and put a green cloth in his mouth.''
Paul Lvery was a human rights attorney who worked for a Nicaraguan NGO during the conflict; his job was to visit the scenes of atrocities and to corroborate witness testimony; these are notes from his field journal: ''In my first week in Nicaragua, the Contass assassinated seven children, all under the age of 11. In my last week in Aselli, a northern town, I counted 18 coffins lined up outside the church, all road and farm workers, three of whom had been decapitated.''
February 2nd, 1985: ''I chatted with Laura Sanchez, a daughter of one of the cooperative workers, who explained how her uncle, aunt, and four cousins were massacred. Each had their eyes pulled out, ears cut off, and intestines smeared against the walls of their farm.''
Witness testimony given to America Watch, which later became part of Human Rights Watch: ''Rosa had her breasts cut off. Then, they cut into her chest and took out her heart. The men had their arms broken, their testicles cut off. They were killed by slitting their throats and pulling the tongue out through the slit.''
The breaking point was when the Contras executed an American journalist, Bill Stewart, on film in broad daylight.
Operation Eagle Claw - Because of the aforementioned atrocities, Congress cut off funding to the Contras. To get around this, Reagan came up with two off the books solutions: Iran had their own conflict going on while under a weapons embargo, so between 1981 and 1986, the Reagan administration sold arms to them under the notion that it was doing so to free American hostages that in Lebanon, even though at the time of the first sale, the hostages hadn't even been taken yet; the proceeds of the trade were secretly diverted to the Contras by Lt. Col. Oliver North.
This was exposed when the Sandinista shot down a US cargo plane carrying weapons for the Contras, and the sole survivor, Eugene Hasenfus, who was captured, admitted at press conferences that the flights were directly supervised by the CIA; documents in the wreckage exposed the rest.
Oliver North took the fall for Reagan and his administration, received a three-year prison sentence, two years of probation, a $150,000 fine, and 1,200 hours of community service, though his convictions were later completely overturned on appeal.
During the Iran-Contra hearings, Rep. Jack Brooks asked North: ''Col. North, in your work at the NSC, were you not assigned at one time to work on plans for the continuity of government in the event of a major disaster.''
North's Counsel, Brendan Sullivan interjected: "Mr. Chairman?"
Then, Senate Select Committee's chairman, Daniel Inouye said: "I believe that question touches upon a highly sensitive and classified area, so may I request that you not touch upon that?" Reminder that the US government is illegitimate.
In later life, North would become a regular annalist on Fox News; he also appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops.
The other solution Reagan came up with was using proceeds from drug trafficking.
Gary Webb, a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News began to expose this before it was official.
He uncovered overwhelming evidence that in the early 80s the main supplier of Freeway Ricky Ross's cocaine distribution network was buying cocaine from the CIA backed Contras in Nicaragua, purchasing 10 to 15 kilos a week from them by 1983, and selling it through the LA Bloods, fanning out to cover most of the US.
Webb had his career ruined by the media; following death in a motel room was ruled a suicide, although both the coroner and his family disagreed. Later in 1989, the US senate issued the Carry Report, which admitted that: ''individuals who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking.''
Drug trafficking pilot, Barry Seal, who was trained in the Civil Air Patrol by David Ferrie, (helped kill JFK) moved cocaine to Mena Municipal Airport in Arkansas. There's evidence that two boys riding their bikes in Arkansas were disposed of after witnessing one of these drug transfers.
IRS investigator, Bill Duncan and Arkansas State Police investigator, Russell Welch reported that Seal had cut a runway, deep in the Arkansas' Woods near the airfield; automatic weapons fire was reported in the area; people of Latin American appearance and men in camo with automatic weapons were spotted by locals; on top of that aircraft drops began to occur frequently, along with twin-engine airplane traffic that didn't exist in the area before. Duncan Welche's careers were destroyed and their investigation went nowhere. A later report confirmed that the CIA had conducted a two week long joint-training operation with another federal agency at Mena airport, and that their personnel had limited contact with Barry Seal. Former CIA operative, Terry Red and former Arkansas state police trooper, L.D. Brown who had worked security for Bill Clinton, claimed that they knew of CIA involvement at Mena airport; Brown being taken on a trial run where he witnessed the CIA trading weapons to the Contras for cocaine. In 1985, Barry Seal admitted at a drug trial in Nevada that he worked for the CIA and the DEA; without witness protection, he was assassinated by the Medellín Cartel for turning informant.
According to Journalist Bob Fitrakis, Jeffrey Epstein negotiated a bailout with with tax incentives in which Southern Air Transport planes used in Iran-Contra were relocated from Miami to Colombus Ohio to be used for a major cargo contract tied to, his boss, Les Wexner's retail distribution network; they went form moving guns and drugs to Lingerie for Victoria Secret. After the relocation, the airline remained under figures drawn from its CIA era; its owner was a former CIA attorney and its president, William Langton, had overseen arms flights to Israel during Iran-Contra.
The middle man in Iran-Contra was Saudi arms dealer, Adnan Khashogi, also an Epstein client, himself know for creatively abusing Scandinavian hookers at lavish yacht parties. His nephew, Jamal, was chopped up and moved in suitcases out of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul for going against the Saudi government.
By the end of the civil war in 1989, the conflict and economic embargo had taken the lives of over 30,000 people, and rendered Nicaragua the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
In a 2026 congressional hearing, National Endowment for Democracy leader, Damon Wilson revealed that NED is funding and training media in Nicaragua with an eye on undermining the country’s socialist-oriented Sandinista government: “We have an incredible suite of Nicaraguan journalists with coverage networks inside the country.”
Venezuela
In 2005, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez provided discounted and heavily subsidized heating oil to low-income American communities. The initiative was launched through Citgo Petroleum, the US subsidiary of PDVSA, Venezuela's state-owned oil company, and managed in the US by the nonprofit, Citizens Energy Corporation.
In 2002, Chávez was briefly removed from office by military leaders after days of mass protests and violent clashes. A business executive, Pedro Carmona, briefly took power, but Chávez returned two days later after loyalist forces and supporters reversed the coup. Records show that American officials had met with opposition leaders before the event. A 2002 State Department memo acknowledged that the US knew of plans for a possible coup and did not warn Chávez.
Maduro capture
In 2026, 81 to 83 people were officially confirmed killed during the raid to capture Nicolás Maduro, including multiple generals and two civilians; Venezuela's Interior Ministry separately claimed the overall death toll reached as high as 100.
Why not - Why did the US do regime change in Venezuela? Was is because of Drugs? No; drugs come from Mexico, not Venezuela. Maduro was captured one day after AP reported that Venezuela is open to negotiating an agreement with the US to combat drug trafficking. Maduro, said in a pre-taped interview aired Thursday on state television: "What are they seeking? It is clear that they seek to impose themselves through threats, intimidation, and force." He later added that it's time for both nations to: "start talking seriously with data in hand... The US government knows because we've told many of their spokespeople that if they want to seriously discuss an agreement to combat drug trafficking, we're ready. Besides, the CIA were the ones who recruited Venezuelan General, Ramón Guillén Davila in the 70s to create a drug cartel to ship blow to US cities after their CIA paid asset Carlos Andrés Pérez was President. 998lb of cocaine were shipped to Miami.
Was it for oil? No, at least not for the US. Medoru went on to say: ''If they want oil, Venezuela is ready for US investment like with Chevron whenever they want it, wherever they want it, and however they want it.'' America was already importing hundreds of thousands of barrels a day from Venezuela. at one point it was as much as 3.5% of their america's total imports; then Trump ramped up sanctions and that went down. Exports to america since Maduro's capture are significantly lower than what they were before Trump imposed sanctions on Venezuela during his first term.
Why - After Maduro's capture, Venezuela shipped its first crude cargo to Israel since 2020. The only American to benefit was (((Paul Singer))), who's hedge fund (Elliott Management) emerged victorious in an auction for US oil refiner Citgo Petroleum while it was cheap during the sanctions, despite being out-bid by over $2B, because a judge forced the sale in his favor. The judge in question was, (((Robert Pincus))), the former President of the Jewish Federation in Delaware, also on the board of directors of AIPAC. With sanctions lifted, Singer became the beneficiary of a $100B windfall. Beforehand, Maduro had tried to work out a deal through Richard Grenell, but on October 2 Trump ordered Grenell to stop all diplomatic outreach, guaranteeing conflict.
Venezuela isn't a signatory to Israel's Isaac Accords, nor did Maduro's government recognize Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist groups. Through the Petro-Palestine initiative, Maduro’s administration signed energy agreements to supply the Palestinian Authority with hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil and diesel at preferential prices. During a state visit to Caracas, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas explicitly thanked Venezuela for these fuel supplies, noting they helped break the total monopoly Israel held over the Palestinian economy. The two nations established double taxation avoidance agreements to streamline economic exchanges and build independent fiscal operations.
María Corina Machado, the opposition leader to the PSUV in Venevuela, is a Zionist who holds an agreement with Likud to recognize Israel. In 2018 she wrote a letter to Netenyahu, begging Israel to invade Venezuela and coup Maduro.
In 2024, the US declared her the winner of Venezuela’s election, even though Maduro won.
During a television interview on US military intervention in Venezuela, retired US General, Jack Keane suffered a Freudian slip, starting to say that the implications were great for the "Israeli" people before quickly correcting himself to say the "Venezuelan" people.
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By: GDF, Ryan Dawson, Overzealots...
Raped by: Otto Heckel
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