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https://insightcrime.org/es/noticias/analisis/documentos-revelan-vinculos-entre-la-cia-y-guadalajara-no-complot/

https://lasillarota.com/nacion/2018/3/16/como-la-cia-fortalecio-al-cartel-de-guadalajara-financio-la-contra-nicaragense-154335.html

The CIA as Organized Crime by Douglas Valentine (not about the mexican cartels specifically but about how they utilized the very same blueprint down to a t in Operation Phoenix in Vietnam and exported that model pretty much everywhere the US had its hands in)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

US: Funds cartels which increases the illegal drug trade in their own country

Also US: Hands out ridiculously heavy sentences for simple possession and use of drugs

Also US: Uses the private prison system to profit off prisoners by essentially selling them as slave labour

Also US: Actively makes the lives of ex cons hell with little prospect for reintegration into society which only makes them more likely to turn back to crime and end up right back in a private prison

Pretty genius if you ask me /s

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

To quote System of A Down - "They're tryin' to build a prison for you and me to live in"

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