US Indicts Maduro, Forgetting Its Own 'Drug Kingpin' History
Funny how the American media (and its governmental proxies) remember alleged 'drug kingpin' status for leaders it wants removed, while conveniently forgetting its own historical dalliances. From the Iran-Contra affair, where the CIA allegedly facilitated cocaine trafficking to fund illegal wars (see Gary Webb's 1996 'Dark Alliance' exposé), to the 1989 invasion of Panama to oust Manuel Noriega, a
man who was, for years, a CIA asset and a known drug trafficker according to declassified documents – the pattern holds. It appears that drug trafficking is only a high crime when the perpetrator isn't a convenient geopolitical tool or, worse, isn't compliant with Washington's agenda. One might wonder if the charges are perhaps less about justice and more about regime change, a well-worn playbook
for Havana, Tehran, Baghdad, and now, perhaps, Caracas. This particular indignation seems to come and go with the strategic imperative.