Marxists Are Killing Each Other to Control America’s Cocaine Market
The deadliest Marxist guerrilla force is fighting the biggest socialist regime.
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
“Socialism, this is the path to save the planet, I don’t have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell," Venezuela's Hugo Chavez told the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference.
Rhetoric like that won the socialist dictator the admiration of socialists from Barack Obama to Noam Chomsky. But the dirty little secret of the socialist revolution in Venezuela was that it was a front for a massive drug smuggling operation. Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, gutted Venezuela's rich oil resources and turned the country into a socialist drug cartel.
“Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of vice president Maduro,” Sean Penn promised. The population has fled or is starving, but the revolution endures.
In 2020, Maduro and top officials of his regime were indicted in the United States as leaders of the Cartel de los Soles for conspiring with FARC to smuggle tons of cocaine to the United States. Venezuela’s biggest asset was its border with Colombia. Cuba, which had backed FARC and other narcoterrorists in Colombia, scored a big win with the socialist takeover in Venezuela.
FARC, a Marxist-Leninist narcoterrorist group, coordinated with Venezuela’s government to smuggle drugs to Cuba and from there to the United States. Every day planes take off from Venezuela delivering hundreds of tons of Colombian cocaine each year meant for America.
Hugo Chavez once claimed that capitalism destroyed Mars. There’s no word on that, but his brand of socialism certainly destroyed Venezuela taking it from prosperity to starvation.
And it’s destroying the rest of the region.
Marxists smuggling cocaine aren’t exactly showcasing an ideal alternative socialist economic system to free enterprise. The Colombian-Venezuelan drug route is being threatened, not by Colombia which was pressured by Obama into giving in to FARC, but by two groups of Marxist-Leninist coke fiends who are fighting it out over the drug trade like filthy capitalists.
The National Liberation Army (ELN), a Marxist-Leninist terror group set up by the Cubans, has been fighting a FARC splinter group known as the 10th Front or the Eastern Bloc. Both leftist terror groups are Marxist-Leninist in orientation, although ELN has a lot more liberation theology in the mix, and both make their money from drugs and the occasional kidnapping.
ELN and the 10th Front aren’t fighting over ideological differences, but over drugs and money.
A fawning article in Jacobin magazine describes ELN as a "group of students" who were "inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara, and Liberation Theology". The four page article never mentions cocaine even though that's what ELN actually does. Last year, Colombia seized $300 million in cocaine from the Marxist-Leninist narcoterrorist organization.
Che would be proud.
After FARC’s implosion as a viable force, Venezuela’s government formed a drug smuggling alliance with ELN. That drew it into a conflict with the 10th Front which is now conducting a guerrilla war against Venezuela. After a long alliance, FARC and Venezuela are fighting each other with the most fearsome Marxist guerrilla force in the region fighting the leading Socialist regime. The same forces that had terrorized Colombia for so long have turned on each other.
Venezuelan soldiers are dying in border clashes, and invading Colombia to terrorize local villagers in the hopes of shutting down the ELN’s Marxist drug rivals. They’re getting blown up, ambushed, and shot up when they’re not being hit with human rights violations complaints.
It’s socialism at its finest.
The 10th Front is allied with Brazil's Red Command which was born as a prison pact between Communists and criminals under the slogan, “Peace, Justice and Freedom”. Red Command is involved in Brazil's drug trafficking at every level from slum dealing to club parties for the children of the elite. The Red Command helps the 10th Front remain in the field even though Cuba is on the side of Venezuela and the ELN narcoterrorists that it had originally set up.
Neither side is even bothering to pretend that this is about any kind of ideological differences.
What’s at stake here is a simple matter of market economics. Americans spend about $25 billion on coke every year. Moving drugs through Central America to the Caribbean provides a piece of not only the American, but the European cocaine market. The rival Marxist drug smugglers are competing to be the exclusive suppliers of Colombian cocaine to that huge market.
Think of it as the cola wars, but with actual cocaine. The glorious Marxist revolution is down to two groups of Marxist-Leninists killing each other to make a killing on cocaine in California.
It’s like Coke vs. Pepsi if both companies were run by Marxist druglord terrorists.
When Obama pushed Colombia to cut a peace deal with FARC and then cut off the flow of Cuban refugees, he also helped restart the flow of cocaine to America from Cuba. The subsequent collapse of Venezuela’s economy and its oil industry has left it few options. Smuggling cocaine takes a lot less skill than refining crude or running a country. And Venezuela’s military makes it the best armed drug cartel in the hemisphere, if not the planet.
Which other drug cartel in the region has its own attack helicopters to deploy in the field?
But Venezuelan soldiers are paid with food and worthless scrip. FARC and ELN recruits are often local peasants who are kidnapped and drafted into the fight. The real money goes to the elites on both sides of a drug war that is now a cocaine civil war between narcosocialists.
Karl Marx claimed that capitalism was destined to destroy itself. Instead, Marxist regimes and movements hold the world record for self-destruction. South of the border the Marxists who once won the hearts of the American Left have become drug dealers shooting it out in the jungle over who gets a cut of the cocaine that ends up in the noses of their Yankee comrades.
Marx had metaphorically called religion the opiate of the masses. Marxism has become the actual cocaine of the masses. Just ask the Marxist-Leninists kidnapping, torturing and killing each other to socialize the cocaine market.
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I don’t really care if they kill themselves but they kill a lot of innocent people along the way. Socialists, communists, marxists, fascists, leftists, progressives, liberals whatever you want to call them are criminals and commit heinous crimes against humanity. The criminal elites (aka the ruling class) use low level criminals and the ignorant sheeple to further their agenda. Lawlessness is a tool they use.
People who do drugs are not innocent. If they are innocent, get out of the way!
Broad brush much?
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And here I thought cocaine had gone the way of break dancing in CA. Some people never give up their old habits, I guess, no matter how stupid.
And those scummy Marxists in Venezuela and Colombia killing each other for capitalism would be funny if it weren't for the innocent victims.
Who needs election fraud when you can funnel coke, although Venezuela has both? How soon until the Alzheimer Joe administration backs this pipeline? It might even put some pep in his step And get him to speed up those idiotic speeches he reads to the fake news media. You just know those Dirtbagocrat sycophants would secretly enjoy the brevity. That would mean more time for the scripted Q and A show, too.
That is so monstrous. It’s just like what Mexico has always done. Mexico’s government has allowed a parallel system of narco-terrorism whose product and actions have destroyed lives and everything around it. And now - thanks to Daniel Greenfield - we realize that the governments of three countries - Cuba, Columbia and Venezuela. - are fronts for narco-terrorism. Just like parasites who’ve become bloated by feasting on America and her wealth until she succumbs to their relentless assault. The homeless devastation destroying American cities from the deluge of cocaine, fentanyl, heroin and meth is testament to that.
Whole narco-terrorist countries wielding death and terror and destruction at every turn - while proclaiming socialism and Marxism-Communism are the cures for peoples suffering. It’s horrifying to know this - especially since our government enables it with open borders. But I’d rather know.
I sometimes wonder what would happen if cocaine was made legal, say available in the "New Coke" soft drink, in order to take the profits away from the narco-terrorists and such.
Kids would be more hyper than ever and adults would have more heart attacks than ever?
lol, I never thought about kids using it. They had it in the original 1800s formula I think, I suppose kids back then drank it.
They used to be able to get formulas with opium in it also, back then. Parents used it to quiet the kids down.
All true. I've always wanted to try real absinthe but never seem to get around to it. I read that the real stuff is made somewhere in some country and can be ordered online. France, hopefully, because they originated it, I believe.
That stuff would make for a trippy cocktail party, I bet.
I never tried it. I tried to look it up but the legal situation is so complex it gave me a headache :)
You might be able to buy it in USA, but it might be under another name. A BevMo location popped up on those little maps that show up when I do an internet search :)
Interesting about "BevMo." Stupid name, by the way. I drove by those places for years and years without having any idea what they sold. I always thought "how stupid are these assholes to give their business a name which doesn't let people know what they sell?" Like "Kohl's." (Never shop there, it sucks and has the worst return policy in America. You can always judge a retailer by its return policy.) When I finally found out by accident I realized the company had lost years of my business because I would've shopped there regularly if I knew what it was a big wine, beer, liquor and spirits retailer. "Total Wine and More" stores make it clear what they sell.
The US ban against absinthe was dropped in 2007. Apparently it isn't really a psychedelic like laudanum and probably tastes awful because of its super high alcohol content, often 140 or 150 proof. No wonder high society used those ornate little rim spoons to prop up sugar cubes and dissolve them with water into the spirit. There was a societal elegance to the practice that wasn't prim and proper, like tea time etiquette. It was naughtier. Although thujone, the chemical present in the wormwood used to distill it seems to be the only thing different from liquors with high alcohol contents, like moonshine and "Everclear," which taste like rubbing alcohol if you ask me. (Once in awhile I grab my bottle of rubbing alcohol next to the bottle of hydrogen peroxide by mistake when I go to rinse my mouth out in the morning. Ugh. My aloe rubbing alcohol is even green like absinthe.) Moonshine is bottled and sold in North Carolina's state sanctioned liquor stores, which are the only places you can buy booze. There are a hundred years worth of stories about a Green Fairy psychedelic effect from from absinthe but not moonshine, which only has a storied tradition of making people shit faced drunk, so it makes me wonder if there's something the chemists missed when they proclaimed the Green Fairy stories bunkum.
"The drink , Coca Cola, was invented in 1885 by John Pemberton, a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia, who made the original formula in his backyard. Pemberton’s recipe contained cocaine in the form of an extract of the coca leaf, which inspired the “Coca” part of the beverage’s name. The “Cola” comes from the kola nut (which contains caffeine, another stimulant)." -NIH National Institute of drug abuse.
Cocaine was legal in 1885. They took cocaine out after mothers complained that the only way they could get their toddlers to stop crying was to give them more Coke. They realized the cocaine was addictive.
They die, we win
I wondered what was up with the bug eyed look of leftists in DC ….I guess its the cocaine they use. I, too. thought it wasn't a trendy thing anymore.
I think Alejoto Mayorkis and Schifty Adam Quiff must be the most amped of all. I bet our tax dollars are paying for their lines, too.
Blatant hypocrisy has always been part and parcel of the Left. It's glorious to watch them kill each other, even though innocent people get caught in the crossfire.
But when DOESN'T that happen?
I'd venture a guess that a significant portion of the noncombatants in this situation - as in the Middle East - passively support Marxism until its adherents roll through, killing and kidnapping as they go. With the overdose deaths at home, as well our domestic drug/gang violence, it's hard for a heart to bleed for those support the progenitors of the violence overseas. If they had a problem with FARC/ELN/Chavistas, they can stop supporting and profiting from their behavior.
Communism, fanatics continue to claim, has never really been tried, thus, their insane thinking goes, how can it have failed? Communists are convinced they will be vindicated when all competing systems are destroyed - these fanatics are using all means necessary to achieve that goal. The war being waged against the West is not about making the world better, it's about destroying everything that makes life worth living.
ELITIST AMERICAN coke addicts should be arrested and marched through the streets wearing orange jumpsuits and leg chains. That would help to take down the cocaine culture.
I wish them all the best of luck - death to the criminals! All of them!
Marxism has become the actual cocaine of the masses.
Didn't read the whole article yet, but that line is a classic.
The conflict is intellectual, not physical. Socialism, National Socialism and the extreme form of Socialism, i.e., Communism, are ethical systems with corollary political systems. They resemble religious systems in that they are promoted and supported by faith and emotions. They defy reason. Their leaders are often hypocrites, although sometimes you will find a real idiot (true believer) on the podium, a front for others who are more sophisticated. The forms of socialism are popular (successful) to the extent that they can promote a caring and sharing philosophy that reflects the literal forms of traditional religions.
They all promise Heaven on Earth, but somehow, they are always defeated by evil. They then demand radical justice, promote resentment for inequality and apparent injustice and demand uniform welfare and reparations for the injured. Democracy is always an intolerant rule of the majorities' alleged philosophy, i.e., of positive law, but not a rule of reason or natural law.
We were a constitutional republic in the past; we were never a Democracy, --- until now. The Democrats are almost there, with 50 Senators and a Vice President.