The Cover-Up: How Was Movement from Phase I to Phase II Justified?

[Cliff Varnell]

And Varnell would like us to believe, by implication, the US has never been involved [at the Governmental Level and ABOVE] in drug dealing?!?!? :loco: There is no evidence Cuba has at the Governmental level - nor Castro - except in the planted stories by the CIA and their ilk; anti-Castro Cubans et al. Same game was played with Nicaragua under the Sandinistas, when there is ample documentation that is was 'The Enterprise' of North, Poindexter, Bush et al. who were running drugs and arms - while blaming it on the Sandanistas. Nice try Cliff......that bullshit won't be stepped in here.

Hi Peter

After giving this issue a couple days clear thought, I think a nuanced response is needed.

If Castro didn't start smuggling cocaine and marijuana thru Cuba by 1961 he was a fucking idiot.

I don't think Castro was a fucking idiot.

Look, it's not as if he were bringing heroin into his own country and then busting all the dealers and users. That has always been an American thing.

No, he took over the best smuggling real estate on the planet then had his economy embargoed and was totally dependent on Soviet Bloc/Red Chinese aid. If your northern giant of a neighbor won't do business with you -- what do you do? Smuggle contraband 90 miles away and reap as much hard currency as you need to keep your Revolution afloat.