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Europe's drug mafia (1/2) - How drugs made the Netherlands rich | DW Documentary

 

Europe's drug mafia (1/2) - How drugs made the Netherlands rich | DW Documentary

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May 21, 2026  

For centuries, Dutch prosperity has been based on global trade. But this has always had a dark side. Drugs, like opium and cocaine, are traded too. | 

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The first part of this documentary shows how the Netherlands became the European hub for narcotics.

As early as the 17th century, Dutch colonialism laid the foundation for a lucrative drug trade. Opium from Indonesia financed the rise of the trading empire. This was followed by the cultivation of coca plants on Java - which formed the basis for Amsterdam's early cocaine production. Even when international bans officially ended the trade during World War I, the system survived, underground. In the interwar period, an illegal market emerged and continues to have an impact today.

After the Second World War, drug trafficking initially seemed to be a thing of the past. But the 1960s brought radical change: with the rise of counterculture, demand grew for hashish from Morocco and heroin from the Indian subcontinent. The Netherlands responded with a unique strategy - the separation of so-called hard and soft drugs. Coffee shops were aimed at regulating consumption. But criminal structures became entrenched. Figures such as Klaas Bruinsma, the "Dutch Al Capone,” became powerful drug lords.

In the 1990s, the country became the epicenter of synthetic drugs: ecstasy pills flooded Europe, and the profits flowed into real estate and the real economy. When the old underworld generation disappeared, young criminals from working-class neighborhoods took over. Their focus was on cocaine, the ‘new’ profitable drug. The documentary shows how colonial trade routes gave rise to a modern network that continues to shape Europe's drug market to this day.

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CIA, Iran-Contra, Cocaine, Guns & Epstein - Inside the Clintons’ deep-state web - Barry Seal - WSJ, 1994

 

Cynthia's Pursuit of Truth

Cocaine, guns and Epstein: Inside the Clintons’ deep-state web

(Current Clinton news added at bottom, about not testifying in Congress, after video description as found...) - Cynthia

📌 As Hillary and Bill Clinton dodge Congressional subpoenas for the Jeffrey Epstein probe, the couple are still linked to drug smuggling and the CIA.

Let’s break it down:

🌏 In 1994, The Wall Street Journal published an investigation alleging that in the early 1980s, Mena International Regional Airport in Arkansas was the base of cocaine smuggler Barry Seal – while Bill Clinton was governor

🌏 The article claimed that sites near the Airport were used by the CIA to train Contra guerillas to overthrow the Nicaraguan Sandinista government

🌏 Seal smuggled cocaine into the US and flew newly-trained Contras and arms out to Central America

🌏 Clinton, members of his entourage and the CIA were deeply entangled in the operation, with funds laundered through Arkansas banks, the Wall Street Journal reported

🌏 The case was closely linked to the Iran-Contra scandal and figures later tied to Jeffrey Epstein, including Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi (https://t.me/geopolitics_prime/59837), British media mogul Robert Maxwell and former assistant attorney-general Stanley Pottinger. Some have also speculated that Epstein was involved

🌏 In late 1985, Seal told federal and state investigators under oath that network of airstrips, front companies and Arkansas firms and banks were used to smuggle drugs and launder profits. Three months later, in February 1986, he was murdered on a street in Baton Rouge. After his death, a key lead to the Contra resupply operation in Arkansas went cold, website CounterPunch wrote.

🌏 In 1988, Polk County prosecutor Charles Black, whose jurisdiction covered Mena airport, asked Clinton for help with a for a state investigation. Clinton reportedly said he would “get a man on it” but never followed up, Black told CBS News in 1994

🌏 In 1991, Arkansas Attorney-General Winston Bryant provided Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh with ‘credible evidence’ of gun-running, drug-trafficking, money-laundering and a government cover-up at Mena. But 17 months later the investigation was closed without explanation, the WSJ reported

🌏 The case remains poorly investigated and is often cited as a possible link between Bill Clinton, Iran-Contra figures, the CIA and individuals later associated with Jeffrey Epstein

Adding, more on Clinton's from today:

Epstein probe showdown: Clintons refuse to testify and taunt Congress

Bill and Hillary Clinton have refused to testify in the US House of Representatives inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein.

👉The former president and secretary of state dismissed their subpoenas as “invalid” and dared Oversight Committee chairman James Comer to follow through on his threat of contempt of court charges.

👉The Clintons claim they have already provided sworn statements and accuse Comer of politically-driven hearings to embarrass and punish them, and are gearing up for a long legal fight.

👉Comer left an empty chair at the deposition table and is moving toward contempt proceedings.

📌The Clintons aren’t showing up — and they’re betting Congress blinks first.

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Mexico has expelled 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the Trump administration as American authorities ratchet up pressure on criminal networks sending drugs across the border, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The cartel leaders and other prominent figures were being flown from Mexico to the US on Tuesday, the person said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the operation that was still ongoing.

Those being handed over to US custody include Abigael González Valencia, a leader of “Los Cuinis,” a group closely aligned with notorious cartel Jalisco New Generation or CJNG. Another person, Roberto Salazar, is accused of participating in the 2008 killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy, the person said.

Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office and Security ministry confirmed the transfers, which were carried out after a promise from the US Justice Department that prosecutors would not seek the death penalty in any of the cases.

It’s the second time in months Mexico has expelled cartel figures accused of narcotics smuggling, murder and other crimes amid mounting pressure from the Trump administration to curb the flow of drugs across the border. In February, Mexico handed over to American authorities 29 cartel figures, including drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a US DEA agent in 1985.

Those transfers came days before 25% tariffs on Mexican imports were to take effect. Late last month, President Donald Trump spoke with Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum and agreed to put off threatened 30% tariffs for another 90 days to allow for negotiations.

Sheinbaum has shown a willingness to cooperate more on security than her predecessor, specifically being more aggressive in pursuit of Mexico’s cartels. But she has drawn a clear line when it comes to Mexico’s sovereignty, rejecting suggestions by Trump and others of intervention by the US military.

The Trump administration made dismantling dangerous drug cartels a key priority, designating CJNG and seven other Latin American organized crime groups foreign terrorist organizations.

Abigael González Valencia is the brother-in-law of CJNG leader Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, a top target of the the US government. He was arrested in February 2015 in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco and had been fighting extradition to the United States since then.

Alongside his two brothers, he led “Los Cuinis,” which financed the the founding and growth of the CJNG, one of the most powerful and dangerous cartels in Mexico. CJNG traffics hundreds of tons of cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl into the United States and other countries and is known for extreme violence, murders, torture, and corruption.

One of his brothers, José González Valencia, was sentenced in Washington’s federal court in June to 30 years in a US prison after pleading guilty to international cocaine trafficking. Jose González Valencia was arrested in 2017 under the first Trump administration at a beach resort in Brazil while vacationing with his family under a fake name.


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Painting: "Opium Ships at Lintin, China" by William John Huggins, 1824

TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2024 AT 10:58AM

Today's Show: THE DRUG WAR, CHINA & ECUMENISM - 4.2.2024

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Chris discusses the relationship between China and the mass importation of the drug fentanyl into the United States. Are we watching a modern version of the Opium War? We consider the relationship that certain Marxist oriented groups in America have had with China since the early twentieth century. Is China controlled by the American deep state? Also discussed is the role of global ecumenism (the un-Biblical concept that all religions are essentially the same) and its danger to the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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