We examine the emerging Venezuelan kerfuffle.

There are many currents and undercurrents in the latest incipient war debacle in America history. This will be a disaster for America if it clacks off and; expect the American government to make this a preamble to go kinetic on the drug war generally and the following catastrophes.

I covered this in detail in both parts of Ep 059 and 059 "The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End".

Gird your loins for the first war in American history that will lead to significant foreign-born bad actors making war on American soil.

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References:

US Treasury Sanctions Venezuelan Cartel Headed by Maduro

Marie Arana Bolivar: American Liberator

Carlos Lizarralde Venezuela's Collapse: The Long Story of How Things Fell Apart

Tom Wainwright Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

Benjamin T. Smith The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade

Anabel Hernandez Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers

Ioan Grillo El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

David F. Marley Mexican Cartels: An Encyclopedia of Mexico's Crime and Drug Wars

Carmen Boullosa A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the “Mexican Drug War”

Patrick Winn Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA

Jesse Fink Pure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels

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