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`Caro Quintero is Protected by the White House`: Former CIA pilot

If it were not for these few documents that I managed to get, some still classified until 2020, the statements of three former agents might seem to be more of a conspiracy theory.

(SAN JUAN, Coast Rica Vice) - Hours after Rafael Caro Quintero, alleged murderer of DEA agent Enrique Camarena Kiki, was released on 9 August, the governments of Mexico and the United States announced a manhunt.

But in reality it is a fake show. Caro Quintero did not murder Kiki Camarena, and it is possible that the Mexican drug don is now living under a new identity as a protected secret agenda of the White House.

27 Years Later, CIA Pilot Tells of Using Secret Costa Rican Airstrip to Traffic Guns, Cocaine

They seemed like isolated events unfolding in the chaos of Central America in the 1980s. But now, the pieces of the puzzle are fitting together.

(SAN JUAN Tico Times) - Costa Rica’s Santa Elena Peninsula in the northwestern province of Guanacaste was the site of a smoking gun in the 1980s Iran-Contra affair, the scandal that rocked the administration of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

Santa Elena also was the site of extensive drug trafficking back then, according to pilot who now says he trafficked cocaine and guns to a secret airstrip on the peninsula.

Abby Martin on the Iran Contra & the CIA Cocaine Conspiracy

Our writer Tosh Plumlee is one of the CIA pilots who blew the whistle on the whole thing.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - In this video, RTV's Abby Martin calls out an article from New York Magazine that suggests the CIA's connection to cocaine trafficking is a mere conspiracy theory.

This is a subject covered regularly on Salem-News.com, and also in the book co-authored by Robert O'Dowd and Tim King, Betrayal: Toxic Exposure of U.S. Marines, Murder and Government Cover-up.

State Department Offers $5 Million Reward in Enrique `Kiki` Camarena Murder

Two retired DEA agents say Kiki uncovered the connection between the cocaine and the crack epidemic and the CIA operation to support the Contra rebels fighting to overthrow the Nicaragua's govt.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - The AP reported today that the State Department is “offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of freed Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero.”

The timing of the reward and the breaking news story in early October 2013 from two Mexican reporters that Kiki’s death was ordered by the CIA and not done by Rafael Quintero may not be just a coincidence.

Boland Amendment Redux

Boland had the right idea. It's again deja vu. Ron Paul is today's Boland. This time it's with little congressional backing.

(CHICAGO) - In 1982, the House passed the Boland Amendment. It was attached as a rider to the 1983 Defense Appropriations Act.

It cut off CIA and other covert Contra funding. Washington backed them against Daniel Ortega's Sandinista National Liberation Front.

Campaign Launched for Central Americans with Temporary Protected Status in the U.S.

Groups say Permanent Residency is the only solution...

(HOUSTON) - In 1998, Hurricane Mitch ravaged Honduras and Nicaragua and resulted in the loss and displacement of hundreds of thousands of families who established roots in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

Community organizations have formed a coalition and are launching a campaign to promote Permanent Residency for TPS beneficiaries from Central America.

The Shadow Government

What is different today, is the Internet, and the crimes committed in those shadowy halls are all being clearly exposed.

(SALEM) - Independent experts question the ‘official suicide death’ of decorated Marine Corps Colonel James E. Sabow at MCAS El Toro, California.

A number of unsolved ‘suicides’ and more likely outright murders followed the violent death of this straight arrow Marine.

Iran Contra At 25: Reagan and Bush `Criminal Liability` Evaluations

Presidential ‘Exposure’ and roles detailed in Special Prosecutor Reports - Reagan Briefed In Advance on Each Group of Missiles Sold to Iran.

(SOMERDALE, N.J.) - President Ronald Reagan was briefed in advance about every weapons shipment in the Iran arms-for-hostages deals in 1985-86, and Vice President George H. W. Bush chaired a committee that recommended the mining of the harbors of Nicaragua in 1983.

This, according to previously secret Independent Counsel assessments of “criminal liability” on the part of the two former leaders posted today by the National Security Archive.

Intimidation and the Colonel Sabow Murder in Southern California

Today, I experienced the kind of intimidation that the Sabow family has lived under for over 20 years.

(SOMERDALE, N.J.) - I’ve been working with Dr. David Sabow, the brother of Marine Colonel James Sabow who was murdered in his quarters at MCAS El Toro, California, in 1991.

A few weeks ago Dr. Sabow asked me to help him in writing a book about his brother’s murder and his 20 year investigation to bring the guilty to trial.

Fake Venezuelan Money Financing Nicaraguan Protests in Honduras

Apparently, it is only permissible for Nicaraguans to infiltrate Honduran territory in order to perpetrate U.S.-directed wars against leftist Nicaraguan governments.

(ISTANBUL) - In response to the ongoing teachers’ strike in Honduras, the demands of which include an end to the privatization of public education, the illegitimate Honduran government that came to power following the 2009 coup against President Mel Zelaya has declared the strike illegal, threatened to fire striking teachers and to possibly dissolve teachers’ unions.