What’s the link between a plane crash landing in Mexico, the CIA and 3.3 tons of cocaine?, asks Jeff Sparrow.
Once you set up a covert operation to supply arms and money, it’s very difficult to separate it from the kind of people who are involved in other forms of trade, and especially drugs. There is a limited number of planes, pilots and landing strips.
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. James Madison, Political Observations (20 April 1795)
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Reaper Man (Wikipedia) Reaper Man is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. Published in 1991, it is the 11th Discworld novel and the second to focus on Death. The title is a reference to Alex Cox’s movie Repo Man.