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Fidel Castro responds to Forbes ranking him among the world's richest rulers: "I challenge them all. That little thief Bush, the CIA, the 33 US intelligence agencies. If they can prove I hold a single offshore account -- even one dollar -- I resign immediately."
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Evo Morales: "Three helicopters tried to detain me. Shots were fired in volleys. We barely escaped alive. The CIA piloted a helicopter as part of the operation to detain me. The youth must identify both the internal and external demons -- the internal enemies are the right-wing forces in every country; the external enemies are the agents of empire."
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A transnational Jewish-Italian mob network centered on Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante ran Cuba as a privatized extraction arm of US empire: gambling, laundering, narcotics, prostitution, political bribery. What the US could not openly run on its own border, the syndicate ran for it in Havana. Batista was on a $ 1.28-million-a-month retainer, delivered every Monday at noon. His development bank bankrolled half of every new mob casino. And this was not just gambling. Havana was a key node in the postwar heroin pipeline: Turkish opium, Marseille labs, Havana transshipment, New York distribution. By the late 1960s, that French Connection network supplied most of America’s heroin. Then Castro won. In January 1959 the casinos were smashed, the bosses fled or were detained, and Batista escaped with a fortune estimated around $300 million. The national lottery, once a graft channel, was converted into a housing fund. But the mob did not disappear. It was redeployed. Lansky’s lieutenant Doc Stacher later said Lansky offered to finance Castro’s assassination as early as 1959. By September 1960, the CIA was running the operation directly. The Agency hired Johnny Rosselli, Sam Giancana, and Santo Trafficante. The opening offer was $150,000. The weapon: poison pills from the CIA’s Technical Services Division. The 1975 Church Committee found concrete evidence of at least eight CIA plots against Castro between 1960 and 1965. The same Havana-Miami underworld that lost Cuba in 1959 became useful again as the deniable violence arm of US policy. Of the three mob figures the CIA hired, Giancana was murdered before he could testify to Congress. Rosselli was murdered after he did. Trafficante survived. The continuity is structural, not anecdotal: Tampa, Havana, Miami. Casinos became exile paramilitaries. Exile paramilitaries became lobby infrastructure. Jorge Mas Canosa, a Bay of Pigs veteran and CIA-radio figure, founded the Cuban American National Foundation in 1981 at the suggestion of Reagan's advisors. It was modeled on AIPAC and built to harden Cuba policy permanently. The lobby's most famous operative was Luis Posada Carriles: CIA-trained, Bay of Pigs veteran, Iran-Contra contractor under Oliver North, perpetrator of the 1976 mid-air bombing of Cubana Flight 455 (73 dead) and the 1997 Havana hotel bombings. By 1998, he had publicly named Mas Canosa as his financier. He died free in Miami in 2018. They did not just lobby. They wrote the laws. 1992: Cuban Democracy Act. 1996: Helms-Burton. 2019: Trump activates Title III, letting US claimants sue foreign firms using confiscated Cuban property. Today the legal afterlife of Batista’s Cuba runs through federal court: hotel chains, expropriation claims, embargo law, and Miami political power. Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State, is a product of that machine. When he says “freedom in Cuba,” hear the history underneath it: the old casino mobster class wants its island back
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🇲🇽 Mexico’s President Claudia argues that if cartels are terrorists, then those supplying their weapons—over 74% of which come from the U.S.—should be held accountable for aiding terrorism. In response, Mexico will expand its lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers. She also proposed a constitutional reform to impose the harshest possible punishment on foreigners involved in arms trafficking or any form of interventionism in Mexico, reinforcing national sovereignty against external interference.
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: "If you have a US military base, you're not a sovereign country."
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Lula Da Silva: "The world spends $2.7 trillion a year on weapons while people starve." "With every war Israel starts, somehow the last shot always has to land in Lebanon." "They talk about Cuba being socialist, while Haiti starves next door -- and nobody says a word."
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Bill Burr refuses the media bait: "You journalists need to get your balls back"
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Yemen leader al-Houthi: "If surrender were the right choice, the Quran would have said: 'When the Jews attack you -- surrender" "Even animals can tell enemy from friend by instinct. Yet Arab leaders still see their worst enemies as friends... utter FOOLISHNESS."
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Somehow even the Mexican puppy K9 unit parade looks fiercer than the U.S. parade
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