Alliance for Global Justice -- yes, the same one I wrote about yesteday as the lowest-hanging fruit to crack down on paid protesters -- is one of the biggest amplifiers of the "Cartel of the Suns does not exist" narratives. https://x.com/DataRepublican/s...

Remember, Alliance for Global Justice is a powerful financial NGO openly backing sanctioned terrorist groups and pro-protest groups founded by Bill Ayers. As well as having a role in ANSWER Coalition, also behind many of the nastier anti-Israel protests in the USA.

AfGJ calls Cartel of the Suns as mythical as the "Loch Ness Monster." But did you know that AfGJ served as Venezuela's election observers, sending a 17-person delegate there? (Credit @lamps_apple )

@lamps_apple This is unusual, because Maduro's regime cracked down on election observers. Only state pre-approved observers are allowed to attend. AfGJ was personally invited by the Venezuelan state. While they were there, they met with Alex Saab, Venezuela's Investment Head.

@lamps_apple Maduro himself received them along with other international groups and, yes, it does appear that the state government itself paid at least part of the arrangement.

@lamps_apple AFGJ is not the only one who is conveniently denying that Cartel of the Suns exist. Former UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) director, Pino Arlacchi, recently penned an article saying it doesn't exist. Even though he admits he's never visited Venezuela in an

@lamps_apple Phil Gunson of the International Crisis Group says it doesn't exist. ICG is a powerful globalist NGO with many ex-UN officials, and both George and Alex Soros on their boards.

@lamps_apple William Camacaro with Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), a powerful NGO focused on Latin America relations, insists it doesn't exist.

@lamps_apple Politicians join in the cover-up. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum also says that there's no evidence that Nicolas Maduro has ties to cartels. Her father was a Communist.

@lamps_apple You get the idea. Powerful globalists and leftist groups all have colluded to deny the Cartel of the Suns exist -- and that it is a figment of Trump's imagination. This is straight-up gaslighting. For one, Cliver Alcalá, former Venezuela general, pled guilty to it.

@lamps_apple Now, I must backtrack and explain *what* the Cartel of the Suns is. It's not a traditional cartel. The name "Suns" comes from the sun insignia used to designate military ranks. It's a shorthand for accusing the entire Venezuelan military-state apparatus, from Maduro down, is

@lamps_apple The allegation is that Venezuelan military resources are used to help FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) transport drugs across Venezuela. If you look at a map, it's obvious why Venezuela is an attractive drug corridor for Coloumbia.

@lamps_apple Maduro's own nephews were arrested in drug trafficking -- and found guilty of using the money to help the Maduro family. Despite what leftists allege, this is not a Trump-only accusation. The Biden administration was the one who announced the charges against Maduro in March 2020.

@lamps_apple The Cartel de los Soles predates Hugo Chávez’s rise to power. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Venezuelan generals and National Guard officers were repeatedly implicated in drug-trafficking cases, with several facing indictments abroad. In 2004, journalist Mauro Marcano, who had

@lamps_apple The US Treasury Department has been sanctioning various Venezuelan generals. Former Venezuelan Supreme Court judge testified how he was pressurized by military to drop charges or release officers to drop charges for military members caught with drug shipments.

@lamps_apple Walid Makled, a Venezuelan businessman and accused drug trafficker, claimed in interviews that he had 40 generals from the Venezuelan Armed Forces on his payroll. He explained that because the military controls all ports and airports, nothing could move through facilities like

@lamps_apple A laptop captured in 2011 showed explicit communications between Columbia's FARC and Venezuelan officials over cocaine shipments.

@lamps_apple The Biden administration obtained communications suggesting that the Maduro family has used Tren de Aragua, the same gang whose boat was destroyed last week, as a crew of contract killers. Meanwhile, the Maduros insist Tren de Aragua no longer exists, and groups like the

@lamps_apple So, why are there so many powerful interests denying Venezuela's drug complicity? This is where it gets wild.

@lamps_apple The short version is: - Hezbollah is not just a Lebanese party, but a paramilitary and financial arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. - Hezbollah is embedded within FARC. Ayman Joumaa, Colombian druglord of Lebanese descent, worked with Mexico’s Los Zetas cartel to move multi-ton

@lamps_apple What this adds up to is: Venezuela, allied with both Iran and Hezbollah, became a launchpad for Colombian cocaine toward West Africa, Europe, and the U.S. The Iranian state itself is implicated in the drug trafficking, and the Obama administration suppressed protests to make

@lamps_apple Before I wrap up the thread, I need to mention the role of the CIA in this. Two CIA officers in Venezuela were implicated in smuggling many tons of cocaine in the 1990s and was responsible for flooding America with drugs. However, Venezuela has shut itself off from DEA for two

@lamps_apple Maduro has consistently protrayed himself as a victim of CIA, even as he looks to expel CIA and DEA officials.

@lamps_apple 🚨 Cap-Off: The Price of Denial 🚨 For nearly two decades, Venezuela's regime and its allies have perfected the art of denial: "There is no Cartel de los Soles... Tren de Aragua doesn't exist... Trump imagined it all." Each denial buys them more time. Each myth, echoed by

@lamps_apple I was telling @wasatchdotco about this thread. Me: “It’s so weird how so many people deny Venezuela works with cartels.” Him: “It’s so weird how so many people make so much money.” Yeah…

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@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco The taxpayers finance it all?

@ChrisandOla @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco That’s the next step, now that we have a better idea of how tightly Maduro and his forces control the state… figuring out what all those dollars poured into Venezuela have been doing.

@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco It’s very, very strange - politicians at all levels - local and national - all seem to become extremely wealthy….. 🤔

@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco It’s all about plausible deniability, we want to manipulate the situation to our benefit but don’t want anyone to know about what we’re doing or how much we’re making off of it.

@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco The rest of the world grows and sells poison while chanting Death To America.

@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco I’m curious, are members of Congress making money from the cartels?

@AnnieOldenough @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco I'd be surprised if any were making money directly from cartels. Most likely, political officials turn a blind eye for other reasons (e.g., not intervening with Venezuela causes mass migration from Venezuela, which enriches their NGOs and erodes supranational powers).

@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco Now do we know why Garcia was scared to go to some African countries? 🐸🍿

@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco Here I thought Ukraine was the most corrupt country in the world. Venezula is out to steal the top rank.

@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco Yeah but even more weird is how long this trash existed.

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@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco How do we stop this … revamp the money laundering US healthcare system the Obamacare started( at the expense of US citizens health) and stop all NGO’s and govt grants. Our country’s survival depends on it!

@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco @CIADirector 👀

@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco Thanks

@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco This entire post sounds like something out of Tin Tin. Crazy. Thanks for sharing.

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@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco Yes. Weird.

@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco Here’s the numbers

@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco Look at the state of Peru, and the other countries in south America, look at what Maduro has done. There is no money to eat, yet there is money to protest and shut down Macchu Picchu?

@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco Former CIA operative Gary Berntsen has some things to say about Venezuela and Cartel de los Soles... CIA Operative Gives 27-Year Timeline On Stolen Elections: Connects Smartmatic, Dominion, Software Softer (Bizta) with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez https://mountaintoptimes.subst...

@DataRepublican @lamps_apple @wasatchdotco Venezuela has made an awful lot of powerful people unhappy.

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