El Parece
@elparece.bsky.social
OS drug war research, opinions / theories / speculation / conjecture solely my own
I suspect the ultimate reason for the pardon is related to Adam Boehler's work during the first term, which might have been what the feds were investigating Bukele for re: diverted aid.
web.archive.org/web/20231212...
www.propublica.org/article/buke...
www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/D...
web.archive.org/web/20231212...
www.propublica.org/article/buke...
www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/D...
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I suspect the ultimate reason for the pardon is related to Adam Boehler's work during the first term, which might have been what the feds were investigating Bukele for re: diverted aid.
web.archive.org/web/20231212...
www.propublica.org/article/buke...
www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/D...
web.archive.org/web/20231212...
www.propublica.org/article/buke...
www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/D...
Trump sees himself in Juan Orlando Hernández
November 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Trump sees himself in Juan Orlando Hernández
If you try doing this in Michoacán, a guy will show to your house every other week demanding $100
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
If you try doing this in Michoacán, a guy will show to your house every other week demanding $100
Kristi Noem, with advice from Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, defied a judicial order to exfiltrate high-ranking MS-13 leaders / protected witnesses that helped Nayib Bukele get elected in exchange for favors (as well as working with various Mexican drug cartels in Guanajuato and Baja California).
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Kristi Noem, with advice from Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, defied a judicial order to exfiltrate high-ranking MS-13 leaders / protected witnesses that helped Nayib Bukele get elected in exchange for favors (as well as working with various Mexican drug cartels in Guanajuato and Baja California).
Throwback from February: Nigeria sued Binance for $79.5 billion in economic losses and $2 billion in back taxes from its Nigerian operations
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Throwback from February: Nigeria sued Binance for $79.5 billion in economic losses and $2 billion in back taxes from its Nigerian operations
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Threatening or imposing pain until the victim gives you what you want is called extortion. Mafia occupied government.
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Threatening or imposing pain until the victim gives you what you want is called extortion. Mafia occupied government.
Believing in your own bullshit so hard that you move to Shanghai to teach ByteDance employees how to make people kill themselves through the computer and using a VPN to post through the Great Firewall
November 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Believing in your own bullshit so hard that you move to Shanghai to teach ByteDance employees how to make people kill themselves through the computer and using a VPN to post through the Great Firewall
dirty tricks to discredit the other protestors, fake as a $3 bill
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
dirty tricks to discredit the other protestors, fake as a $3 bill
How does no one else see this?? It's literally right out in the fucking open
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
How does no one else see this?? It's literally right out in the fucking open
Impossible to ignore the fact that Elon Musk's Starlink enables a sprawling global web of illicit economies and non-state armed groups including terrorist organizations, drug cartels, and industrial-scale scam compounds operated by Chinese organized crime
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Impossible to ignore the fact that Elon Musk's Starlink enables a sprawling global web of illicit economies and non-state armed groups including terrorist organizations, drug cartels, and industrial-scale scam compounds operated by Chinese organized crime
one of my favorite QOTSA riffs
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
one of my favorite QOTSA riffs
The yearbook at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, where some Nazi families in the U.S. via Operation Paperclip settled and where Anwar Al-Awlaki was born while his father attended NMSU on a Fulbright scholarship, was called 'Swastika' and featured variations of the symbol.
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The yearbook at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, where some Nazi families in the U.S. via Operation Paperclip settled and where Anwar Al-Awlaki was born while his father attended NMSU on a Fulbright scholarship, was called 'Swastika' and featured variations of the symbol.
Incredibly damning.
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Incredibly damning.
There's a crystal clear and incredibly damning story in these data if you hypothesize that there's a relationship between dirty money and public utilities that begins after reforms that followed Watergate and the Church Committee.
November 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
There's a crystal clear and incredibly damning story in these data if you hypothesize that there's a relationship between dirty money and public utilities that begins after reforms that followed Watergate and the Church Committee.
Things Trump has done since taking office:
✅Administratively dissolved the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
✅Demanded a list of names of FBI agents that investigated Hamas
✅Pardoned a Chinese crypto billionaire laundering money for Hamas
✅Established a communication channel with Hamas
✅Administratively dissolved the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
✅Demanded a list of names of FBI agents that investigated Hamas
✅Pardoned a Chinese crypto billionaire laundering money for Hamas
✅Established a communication channel with Hamas
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Things Trump has done since taking office:
✅Administratively dissolved the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
✅Demanded a list of names of FBI agents that investigated Hamas
✅Pardoned a Chinese crypto billionaire laundering money for Hamas
✅Established a communication channel with Hamas
✅Administratively dissolved the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
✅Demanded a list of names of FBI agents that investigated Hamas
✅Pardoned a Chinese crypto billionaire laundering money for Hamas
✅Established a communication channel with Hamas
Not nearly as big of a story as the FBI Director secretly flying to China for a one-on-unknown-number-of-Chinese-government-officials meeting in my humble opinion.
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Not nearly as big of a story as the FBI Director secretly flying to China for a one-on-unknown-number-of-Chinese-government-officials meeting in my humble opinion.
This plays right into the Trump administration's hands and will ultimately hurt Colombia more than it will influence the U.S. to change their approach.
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This plays right into the Trump administration's hands and will ultimately hurt Colombia more than it will influence the U.S. to change their approach.
Can't imagine why they'd feel the need to do that...
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Can't imagine why they'd feel the need to do that...
Not to be culturally insensitive but BBC Pidgin is always good for a chuckle
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Not to be culturally insensitive but BBC Pidgin is always good for a chuckle
Months after bombing Iran, Trump open to considering easing sanctions.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Months after bombing Iran, Trump open to considering easing sanctions.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
The opposition could set the bar a little higher than politely suggesting that the administration should offer proof that the unarmed civilians they're executing without a legal basis were actually transporting drugs or were "bad guys"
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The opposition could set the bar a little higher than politely suggesting that the administration should offer proof that the unarmed civilians they're executing without a legal basis were actually transporting drugs or were "bad guys"
Fun fact about Chevron: about a month after the September 11th attacks they finalized a merger with Texaco, which previously worked with the Medellín cartel to form the drug trafficking paramilitary death squad Muerte a Secuestradores (MAS) in Colombia.
www.hrw.org/reports/1996...
www.hrw.org/reports/1996...
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Fun fact about Chevron: about a month after the September 11th attacks they finalized a merger with Texaco, which previously worked with the Medellín cartel to form the drug trafficking paramilitary death squad Muerte a Secuestradores (MAS) in Colombia.
www.hrw.org/reports/1996...
www.hrw.org/reports/1996...
Nothing like it since the Nixon era
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Nothing like it since the Nixon era