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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...
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Trump sees himself in Juan Orlando Hernández
November 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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
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
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...
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Lol
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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
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
dirty tricks to discredit the other protestors, fake as a $3 bill
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
How does no one else see this?? It's literally right out in the fucking open
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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
one of my favorite QOTSA riffs
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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
Incredibly damning.
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 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.
November 16, 2025 at 6:47 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
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 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.
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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
Can't imagine why they'd feel the need to do that...
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Not to be culturally insensitive but BBC Pidgin is always good for a chuckle
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
lmao
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Months after bombing Iran, Trump open to considering easing sanctions.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 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"
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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...
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Nothing like it since the Nixon era
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM