More than 200 people have been killed in Trump-Hegseth extrajudicial strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, with no measurable impact on US cocaine availability or street price.
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Colombian voters sent the race to a runoff between left-wing Senator Iván Cepeda — who helped negotiate the 2016 FARC peace deal and wants to continue President Petro's policies — and right-winger Abelardo 'El Tigre' de la Espriella, who has Trump's backing and wants to build Bukele-style mega-prisons to crush cartel violence. The security situation in Colombia has genuinely deteriorated: politicians shot on the campaign trail, armed drone attacks by criminal organizations, thousands displaced. But Ben warns that a US-backed right-wing bloc across Latin America, propped up by private security forces or direct military support, is a pattern with a uniformly bad historical record — the very conflicts in Colombia, he notes, were partly an outgrowth of the last time Washington tried this. With a major Brazil election coming, this is a bellwether moment. [1] — Tommy Vietor "Colombia heads to a June 21st runoff between left-wing Senator Iván Cepeda and Trump-backed right-winger Abelardo de la Espriella, who call…" 59:50
Colombia heads to a June 21st runoff between left-wing Senator Iván Cepeda and Trump-backed right-winger Abelardo de la Espriella, who calls himself 'El Tigre' and wants to replicate El Salvador's mass-detention model. Ben Rhodes warns this is part of a broader US effort to build a bloc of right-wing Latin American leaders, a strategy that has historically ended badly for the region and for US interests.
A total of 8 states have filed lawsuits against social media platforms, including an ongoing case in Tennessee, using product liability and public nuisance theories to seek accountability.
France built 56 nuclear plants in the 1970s and now has the cheapest energy in Europe, making it independent of Russian or Middle Eastern energy geopolitics.
Estonia has a single tax form, a law preventing the government from asking citizens for the same information twice, and a flat rate of tax — enabling competitive taxation.
Portugal's Lisbon, once a city with a major heroin problem, legalised drugs and redirected enforcement spending into rehabilitation and housing, dramatically reducing crime.
The first Boland Amendment banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras passed the House unanimously — yet the Reagan administration ignored it.
Over just two years, Saudi Arabia alone donated $32 million to the Contra rebels, giving loosely affiliated factions millions they had no way to spend on arms.
The National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty raised $6.3 million for the Contras but only $3.3 million reached them — a shockingly low 52% program expense rate.
Richard Secord and Albert Hakim marked up their arms shipments to the Contras by as much as 300%, making enormous personal profits from the covert operation.
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, tapped to run the entire covert Contra support operation, had no prior experience in covert operations whatsoever — he was learning as he went.
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