El Parece
@elparece.bsky.social
OS drug war research, opinions / theories / speculation / conjecture solely my own
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Beyond China: How Other Countries Provide Precursor Chemicals to Mexico
China cracked down on precursor chemicals but regulations in other chemical-producing countries are less strict and have gaps in enforcement.
insightcrime.org
"Between 2016 and 2020, Punjab Chemicals conducted six other transactions with Pro Chemie New York, shipping a total of 154 tons of oxalic acid to the ports of Veracruz and Manzanillo, according to shipping data."
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28 years in prison for the brother of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, himself a known member of the Medellín cartel according to declassified DIA documents, for supporting the drug trafficking, designated FTO death squad known as the AUC
www.proceso.com.mx/internaciona...
www.proceso.com.mx/internaciona...
Condenan a 28 años de prisión a hermano del expresidente Álvaro Uribe por apoyar a paramilitares
El fallo se produce apenas unas semanas después de que un tribunal de Bogotá anuló una sentencia de 12 años de prisión contra Álvaro Uribe, expresidente de Colombia.
www.proceso.com.mx
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
28 years in prison for the brother of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, himself a known member of the Medellín cartel according to declassified DIA documents, for supporting the drug trafficking, designated FTO death squad known as the AUC
www.proceso.com.mx/internaciona...
www.proceso.com.mx/internaciona...
Totally unprofessional, reckless, dangerous, and sadistic behavior that makes every other law enforcement officer's job harder and their interactions with the public much more dangerous both for them and the communities they serve. Idiotic.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Totally unprofessional, reckless, dangerous, and sadistic behavior that makes every other law enforcement officer's job harder and their interactions with the public much more dangerous both for them and the communities they serve. Idiotic.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Throwback from February: Nigeria sued Binance for $79.5 billion in economic losses and $2 billion in back taxes from its Nigerian operations
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Throwback from February: Nigeria sued Binance for $79.5 billion in economic losses and $2 billion in back taxes from its Nigerian operations
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
For every ton of meth seized by CBP, there are approximately 19 more that make it through (literally true). Crazy that they're killing people hired to ferry cocaine to Trinidad while it's business as usual for America's exclusive suppliers of fentanyl and meth.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Officials at US-Mexico border seize $10.3m in meth hidden in lettuce shipment
CBP press release calls seized drugs and lettuce ‘a salad unfit for this year’s Thanksgiving table’
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
For every ton of meth seized by CBP, there are approximately 19 more that make it through (literally true). Crazy that they're killing people hired to ferry cocaine to Trinidad while it's business as usual for America's exclusive suppliers of fentanyl and meth.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Why aren't the Democrats making Trump's pardon of a Chinese-Canadian money launderer for Al Qaeda, Hamas, and the Sinaloa cartel—seemingly in exchange for a bribe through his family's World Liberty Financial crypto fund—into a bigger scandal than Iran-Contra?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
Hamas Victims’ Families Sue Binance, Accusing It of Aiding Terrorism
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Why aren't the Democrats making Trump's pardon of a Chinese-Canadian money launderer for Al Qaeda, Hamas, and the Sinaloa cartel—seemingly in exchange for a bribe through his family's World Liberty Financial crypto fund—into a bigger scandal than Iran-Contra?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
I don't understand why the Democrats aren't making a bigger deal out of this. Every other area of federal LE is being neglected because the Trump administration decided policing cartel fentanyl and arms traffickers is not as important as Home Depot parking lot patrol.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I don't understand why the Democrats aren't making a bigger deal out of this. Every other area of federal LE is being neglected because the Trump administration decided policing cartel fentanyl and arms traffickers is not as important as Home Depot parking lot patrol.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
National syncretism
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
$10 Billion and Counting: Trump Administration Snaps Up Stakes in Private Firms
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
National syncretism
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Tidbit in the reporting about Congressman Dan Crenshaw's boozy, boorish behavior in Mexico, the HPSCI cartel task force, which formally announced in early June, has apparently since been disbanded. Strong indicator that military force in Mexico politically impossible.
punchbowl.news/article/hous...
punchbowl.news/article/hous...
CIA in Mexico raised concerns about Crenshaw to Langley
CIA officials in Mexico sent a cable to the agency’s headquarters, alarmed at Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s behavior during a congressional delegation meeting.
punchbowl.news
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Tidbit in the reporting about Congressman Dan Crenshaw's boozy, boorish behavior in Mexico, the HPSCI cartel task force, which formally announced in early June, has apparently since been disbanded. Strong indicator that military force in Mexico politically impossible.
punchbowl.news/article/hous...
punchbowl.news/article/hous...
How industrial-scale crypto laundering sustains Mexico's industrial-scale fentanyl and methamphetamine production
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insightcrime.org/news/us-cour...
How Industrial-Scale Crypto Laundering Sustains Mexico's Synthetic Drug Trade
US court cases and blockchain data reveal an industrial-scale crypto-laundering pipeline moving dirty cash through digital networks.
insightcrime.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
How industrial-scale crypto laundering sustains Mexico's industrial-scale fentanyl and methamphetamine production
insightcrime.org/news/us-cour...
insightcrime.org/news/us-cour...
Threatening or imposing pain until the victim gives you what you want is called extortion. Mafia occupied government.
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Threatening or imposing pain until the victim gives you what you want is called extortion. Mafia occupied government.
There's a hell of a lot more to Russia's perception and cognitive outreach in Mexico and Latin America than RT and Sputnik and the main vectors are WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube, TikTok, and of course Telegram
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/w...
Russian Disinformation Comes to Mexico, Seeking to Rupture U.S. Ties
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
There's a hell of a lot more to Russia's perception and cognitive outreach in Mexico and Latin America than RT and Sputnik and the main vectors are WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube, TikTok, and of course Telegram
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/w...
Believing in your own bullshit so hard that you move to Shanghai to teach ByteDance employees how to make people kill themselves through the computer and using a VPN to post through the Great Firewall
November 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Believing in your own bullshit so hard that you move to Shanghai to teach ByteDance employees how to make people kill themselves through the computer and using a VPN to post through the Great Firewall
dirty tricks to discredit the other protestors, fake as a $3 bill
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
dirty tricks to discredit the other protestors, fake as a $3 bill
possible contributing factor that led to the arrest
Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro last night and plans to meet with him soon
November 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
possible contributing factor that led to the arrest
Horrifying that the deputy director of the CIA is a gooner straight out of a JD Vance group chat
2/ CIA Acting General Counsel, a career lawyer, "was among those who had raised questions about the legality of the agency’s use of lethal force."
What happened next?
CIA Deputy Director Ellis stepped in to become acting General Counsel and still hold his policy position. He then approved the ops.
What happened next?
CIA Deputy Director Ellis stepped in to become acting General Counsel and still hold his policy position. He then approved the ops.
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Horrifying that the deputy director of the CIA is a gooner straight out of a JD Vance group chat
Reposted by El Parece
On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
Reposted by El Parece
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested a few days before he is due to begin serving a 27-year prison sentence.
Brazil's former President Bolsonaro arrested days before starting his 27-year prison sentence
Brazil’s federal police have arrested former President Jair Bolsonaro preemptively, days before he was set to begin his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested a few days before he is due to begin serving a 27-year prison sentence.
Extremely strong indicator that authorized crime will never be the same in Florida
apnews.com/article/flor...
apnews.com/article/flor...
Millions of Floridians' utility bills will soon go up. Here's what to know
Millions of Floridians will continue to see their electricity bills rise. That's after a state regulatory board approved what environmental advocates say is one of the largest utility rate increases i...
apnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Extremely strong indicator that authorized crime will never be the same in Florida
apnews.com/article/flor...
apnews.com/article/flor...
How does no one else see this?? It's literally right out in the fucking open
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
How does no one else see this?? It's literally right out in the fucking open
The generations of experience that have previously made the FBI a disciplined and professionalized bureaucracy known for adherence to protocol are gone and they're behaving like an agency learning from trial and error: DHS
BIG: FBI spied on Signal group chat of immigration activists CourtWatch, classifying them as violent terrorist extremists for quietly sitting in on court cases, as revealed in intel bulletin we obtained & shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The generations of experience that have previously made the FBI a disciplined and professionalized bureaucracy known for adherence to protocol are gone and they're behaving like an agency learning from trial and error: DHS
"The stories [...] call into question both the constitutionality and the morality of how the Trump administration is directing immigration policy. That immorality, once unleashed, may ultimately be aimed at others in this country, regardless of immigration status."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | ‘The System Is Meant to Break You’: What ICE Is Doing to People Here Legally
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"The stories [...] call into question both the constitutionality and the morality of how the Trump administration is directing immigration policy. That immorality, once unleashed, may ultimately be aimed at others in this country, regardless of immigration status."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Impossible to ignore the fact that Elon Musk's Starlink enables a sprawling global web of illicit economies and non-state armed groups including terrorist organizations, drug cartels, and industrial-scale scam compounds operated by Chinese organized crime
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Impossible to ignore the fact that Elon Musk's Starlink enables a sprawling global web of illicit economies and non-state armed groups including terrorist organizations, drug cartels, and industrial-scale scam compounds operated by Chinese organized crime
Chinese Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer that sold several hundred million dollars worth of equipment to the Trump family's crypto venture was the target of a
U.S. national security investigation that began about two years ago but appears to have stalled
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
U.S. national security investigation that began about two years ago but appears to have stalled
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Chinese Maker Behind Most of World’s Bitcoin Miners Has Been Focus of US National Security Probe
Investigators have sought to assess whether Bitmain Technologies’ products pose risks of espionage or sabotage, according to people familiar with the matter. The company says they don’t.
www.bloomberg.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Chinese Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer that sold several hundred million dollars worth of equipment to the Trump family's crypto venture was the target of a
U.S. national security investigation that began about two years ago but appears to have stalled
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
U.S. national security investigation that began about two years ago but appears to have stalled
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Pretty good episode of Frontline on the state violence in Ecuador
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fFQy...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fFQy...
Drug War in Ecuador (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Pretty good episode of Frontline on the state violence in Ecuador
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fFQy...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fFQy...