The Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) is using drug money to fund Rafael Correa’s opposition
in the coming 2013 Ecuadorian elections, intelligence sources have revealed to
Chilean independent media.
The accusations
do not stand alone. In October, former UK diplomat Craig Murray said that the
CIA had tripled its budget to destabilize the government of
Ecuador.
The allegations
were made public by President Rafael Correa on November 3rd on national
television, just days after his official visit to Chile to meet with President
Sebastian Pinera.
Correa
reaffirmed information that appeared in an article written by Chilean
independent media outlet Panoramas News, revealing that the CIA and DEA stations
in Chile were running a narcotics trafficking network through that country with
the full knowledge of Chilean authorities and police.
One of the
sources quoted by Chilean media, a former police officer in the Policia de
Investigaciones (PDI) by the name of Fernando Ulloa, said that 300 kilograms of
cocaine were entering Chile monthly under the escort of members of his own
institution, the Carabineros, and the Chilean Army. In May 2011, Fernando Ulloa
met with then Chilean Minister of Interior Rodrigo Hinzpeter in La Moneda to
inform him about the drug network. After more than one year, the Pinera’s
government had done nothing to investigate the case.
The scandal
resurfaced again after 10 Chilean cops were detained with links to a minor drug
smuggling ring, not connected to the one Ulloa was exposing. Although Chilean
television was more open to talk about police corruption, Ulloa was only
interviewed by two TV networks, where he accused Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter of
covering up the larger narcotics ring he was investigating before being kicked
out of his job as PDI inspector.
The links to
U.S. intelligence emerged after an anonymous source from the Agencia Nacional de
Inteligencia (ANI) told Panoramas News that the smuggling of 300 kilos of
cocaine was in fact a highly sensitive CIA/DEA operation that would help to
raise money to topple the government of Ecuador.
The director of
Panoramas News, journalist Patricio Mery Bell, was planning to hand over the
information to Rafael Correa while the Ecuadorian President was visiting Chile,
but he was strangely accused of beating a woman after she stole his cell-phone.
The cell-phone memory contained a video testimony of Mery’s intelligence source,
destined to be passed to Correa, but it ended up in the hands of the police
after the mysterious incident.
Once he was in
Ecuador, President Rafael Correa connected the dots and decided to go public
with the information. He quoted Murray’s early warnings about the CIA’s intent
to “fund, bribe or blackmail media and officials”, originally written in the
former diplomat’s own blog, adding that the Agency was dealing drugs just as
Oliver North had done during the Contra support effort.
In an interview
with NTN24, journalist Patricio Mery added more details to the case, relating
the cover-up of the CIA drug dealing operation to the deaths of two different
people in the last seven years: former soldier Fabian Vega, who was found hung
in the northern city of Calama in 2005, and young citizen Nestor Madariaga
Juantok, found dead with two bullets in the port of Valparaiso in 2006. Both
were ruled as suicides.
Mery also gave
the name of the alleged CIA liaison with the Chilean Navy, former captain Jesus
Saez Luna, who is now being held in a penitentiary after he mysteriously escaped
from Navy custody. Saez Luna was described in his arrest as the biggest drug
dealer of the coastal city of Vina del Mar, with networks in Santiago de Chile
and the Bio-Bio southern region of the country. Known as “El Marino”, the former
captain utilized “military intelligence” tactics to avoid detection by police,
according to the Chilean newspaper La Segunda.
This is just
another example of how drug money is used to fund covert operations, such as the
ones we have seen in Syria, with whole guerrilla armies and opposition forces
being financed to overthrow countries that aren’t part of the Anglo-American
establishment and don’t bow to American corporate interests.
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