#counternarcotics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #counternarcotics, aggregated by home.social.
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EUA e Colômbia anunciam operações militares conjuntas contra o narcotráfico
EUA e Colômbia anunciam operações militares conjuntas contra o narcotráfico. Entenda o acordo, a estratégia de Trump e o impacto na geopolítica da América Latina. -
Last year, the FISA Court allowed the #NSA to use #PRISM and #Upstream collection for #counternarcotics operations. That makes a total of four topics for which these programs are used now:
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In #Ecuador — a govt closely aligned with Trump on #counternarcotics enforcement — the admin had a willing partner, eager to learn what the alleged trafficker could tell them about his employers.
Tufiño, then 41, stepped off the #US #military plane at the Quito airport on the morning of Oct 18 in shackles, cut & bruised from the attack but walking on his own, acc/to Col. Carlos Ortega, then the director of anti-narcotics for Ecuador’s national police.
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Video - Cuba and the US Drug War: The Story Washington Isn’t Telling You
[A video about #Cuba, hosted on #PeerTube.wtf, from the #news / #video collective #BellyOfTheBeast]
https://peertube.wtf/w/2ii94MbMzkFcZ233Rp1qEK
The #Trump administration seems to be careening toward war in the #Caribbean under the banner of stopping drug trafficking. It’s an open secret that its real objective is #oil and regime change in both #Venezuela and Cuba. It’s also been widely reported that Venezuela is not the real source of drug problems in the US.
But what few journalists are covering – and what nobody in the Trump administration dares acknowledge – is that for years Cuba has arguably been the US government’s most reliable regional ally in #counternarcotics efforts. We expose the uncomfortable (for Marco Rubio) truth about Cuba’s long track record of protecting #US borders from drug trafficking even as Washington tries to undermine its government.