Chasing Ghosts | Ep70: Bolivar's Revenge: The Venezuelan Tar Pit and American Ambition

We examine the emerging Venezuelan kerfuffle.

There are many currents and undercurrents in the latest incipient war debacle in America history. This will be a disaster for America if it clacks off and; expect the American government to make this a preamble to go kinetic on the drug war generally and the following catastrophes.

I covered this in detail in both parts of Ep 059 and 059 "The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End".

Gird your loins for the first war in American history that will lead to significant foreign-born bad actors making war on American soil.

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References:

US Treasury Sanctions Venezuelan Cartel Headed by Maduro

Marie Arana Bolivar: American Liberator

Carlos Lizarralde Venezuela's Collapse: The Long Story of How Things Fell Apart

Tom Wainwright Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

Benjamin T. Smith The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade

Anabel Hernandez Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers

Ioan Grillo El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

David F. Marley Mexican Cartels: An Encyclopedia of Mexico's Crime and Drug Wars

Carmen Boullosa A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the “Mexican Drug War”

Patrick Winn Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA

Jesse Fink Pure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels

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