January 1st, 2023

It all started bright and early on New Year's Day, anno 2023, ‘the year of our lord,’ with a high-profile, brazen prison break in which a crew of cartel sicarios came bailing out of trucks with submachineguns and baklavas over their face—clearly ready for a mortal gun battle, ‘playing for keeps,’ as one might say.

January 2nd, 2023

“A prison break in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez left 17 people dead and allowed 25 inmates to escape in a revival of the penitentiary-system violence that paralyzed the US bordering city last year…”

And for the next few days, there were reports coming out of fugitives were getting caught with varying degrees of resistance. But it wasn’t until four days later, on the sixth (6th) of January, that all hell broke loose not only in Culiacan, in the state of Sinaloa.

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January 6th

Not only did the Mexican security forces bag the legendary Juaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s son, Ovidio—sparking a vicious gunfight in the process, leaving over two-dozen dead (i.e. 27 total, 17 casualties from the prison break)—but the biggest drug kingpin involved in the prison break, “El Neto,” was tracked down by the Mexican military and lit up with thousands of rounds.

This was the aftermath of that little gun battle in Ciudad Juarez…

January 8th, 2023

Seemingly unrelated, another drug kingpin—perhaps middle-management, would be a better way of describing some of these guys—but back in Mexico, a man named "José Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez, known as ‘El Gato,’ was apprehended in an operation that involved the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and elements of the Nuevo León State Investigation Agency.”

“El Gato” had been implicated in a vendetta killing back in 2013, which was apparently supposed to settle a beef from a decade past. He’ll be extradited back to Texas so he can face conspiracy, capital murder, and I’d imagine some other plea-bargaining felonies.

January 11th, 2023

After the dust settles in Culiacan, the state where Ovidio Guzman was picked up, over 100 people—most of them civilians, innocent bystanders, or police and military fighting the scourge of drugs in their community—going on two weeks after the epic gun battle that ended the junior drug lord’s reign atop a strong faction of the Sinaloa Cartel,

January 17th, 2023

Then just when the violence couldn’t get any more ridiculously macabre and horrific, police in a small bedroom community in California happened across an entire family killed by a professional hit-team. The title of the article says enough—

“Deputies who responded to reports of gunfire after 3:30 a.m. Monday found six victims, including two who were in the street and one who was in the doorway of the home where the gunfire erupted, Sheriff Mike Boudreaux told reporters at the scene.

I can tell you, from almost twenty years dealing with cartel-connected drug runners, the exact kinds of people that would pull this hit off in the Central Valley of California, this kind of hit is very extraordinary for a syndicate of people who are content to be like ghosts in the background of the American zeitgeist. Killing an entire family—these people, I do believe, were Mexican nationals—anywhere in the United States…

That certainly deviates from the modus operandi, even for sicarios.

“The mother, who was 17, and the child were both shot in the head, he said. Among the other victims was at least one man who was taken to the hospital but later pronounced dead.”

Week of January 17th, 2023

And finally, to round out the first three weeks of anarchy along Mexico’s border with the United States, the trial of Genaro Garcia Luna kicked off in the same Brooklyn court where we’ve seen “El Chapo” go down behind closed doors proceedings; but it’s also where Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell faced the music, so to speak (i.e. clearly, the motivated spooks who take care of such business… they can get anywhere inside the MCC Brooklyn where Luna is being held).

Luna’s job, before his highly publicized fall in 2019, was the equivalent of “drug czar”—secretary for security, or something close to it in import and gravitas—but because this disgraced lawman was connected to the previous president, “… Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has welcomed the trial, which is expected to cast light on corruption in the administration of Calderón, whom the president accuses of robbing him of the presidency in 2006.”

With all of this going on, with Joe Biden’s visit come and gone, it’s clear that Mexico is a failing narco-state; and as the next few years pass by, we should unfortunately see conditions deteriorate… pushing more and more illegal immigrants to our borders so they can claim asylum.

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* Mexican military kills gang leader 'El Neto' in shoot-out following escape from prison | Washington Examiner

* Mex2ico Prison Break Near US Border Leaves 17 Dead, Gang Leader on Run (msn.com)

* 6 people, including a baby, were killed in a 'cartel-style execution,' California sheriff's office says (msn.com)

* Drug trial starts for Mexico's former top security official (sfgate.com)

This podcast is an analysis of the American Gulag Archipelago (i.e. Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet author and Nobel laureate in literature who wrote about Russian history in the context of incarceration); by and through this model, J.A. Krupka's podcast will follow the history of American incarceration as it pertains to a fair-minded view of our reckless interventionism, globalism, and exporting jobs to take advantage of a new kind of slavery both domestically and abroad.

The prison system is slavery, but people misunderstand how and why it has come about. Up until the 1970s, we nghad a thriving industrial sector that was slowly shipped away to China after Henry Kissinger and President Richard Nixon (i.e. the godfather of neoconservatism, or "neoliberalism with a gun") opened Sesame to the slave labor that the Chinese Communist Party could offer our elites. Rather than producing the products that are seen as our lifeblood -- embodiments of American enginuity, all of them reverse-engineered -- not to say that China or the Chinese people are inherently bad, or that they shouldn't have economic success. 

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On the evening of October 24th, 2017 --- right at the beginning of President Trump's tenure in office --- I was caught smuggling illegal aliens in Amado, Arizona; and now, four years later, I'm in a legal and moral position where I can talk about my brief but profound experience as a "human trafficker" in a small way... just big enough to realize how much of a monstrosity our border is, how harmful it is to the typical American person.

I say that as a heroin addict who's been shooting black-tar chiva from the highlands in southcentral Mexico since I was 15 years old; and every single one of my really good friends growing up have died of anoxia with a needle in their arm. I was homeless in Tucson, AZ, when all of this went down --- truly grateful for the gas station burritos they gave me in the sector office --- so I felt in some kind of karmic way, my path had intersected with these immigrants like ships passing in the night.

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Today we talk about Eric Eoin Marques, the biggest purveyor of child "abuse" materials, and a man who ran a website on the dark-web eight years ago. People need to understand what happens to these monsters when they go to jail...  "Now you're warned!"  

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Today on American Archipelago, we have another episode of the "Jailhouse Lawyer" (No. 2, to be exact), so we can discuss something that's near and dear to my heart: being a degenerate street-junkie, which happens to be one of my favorite pastimes (although I'm clean now).

Today we do the first edition of 'Jailhouse Lawyer,' where we discuss an ongoing legal case and assess how much time this person's going to get. The entire purpose of this show is to show the sometimes arbitrary or  nonsensical factors that go into decided somebody's prison sentence.   

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In this backlogged episode of American Archipelago, we have the project's thesis to analyze before we start to review the history of America's prison-industrial complex: "There will never be an empty penitentiary--," not in America, at least not with our current policing regime and drug policy.

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On this episode of American Archipelago, I basically introduce myself as your new favorite convict for our historical analysis of the prison-industrial complex. So as a form of commencement, I tell about getting busted with a whole bunch of heroin back in 2005—Omaha, Nebraska, to be exact—and this basically set the tone for the s**t-show that is my life. Me and my Pops, Jeff Krupka (rest in peace, dead in 2014), got popped with this 20-gram clavo of black-tar heroin.

Instead of trying to get help, getting his boy out jail, my Pops just got bail and hit the road driving on to Cleveland, Ohio, so he get a car he crashed while nodding out on hardcore narcotics. It was an interesting childhood—it’ll show you, the audience, who I am and how I grew up—so it’s a good place to start as any…

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