How Things Really Work
There are the tall tales and fantasies that we are taught in school about how the world works, and then there are the sober observations that become clear to any serious, thinking person, as the years and decades roll by.
Here in Ecuador, over the past 15 years, the country has gotten incrementally more and more violent and criminal, each year more and more. Depending on what source you read, the small country of Ecuador is now either the first, second or third major cocaine exporting country in the world. In truth, it’s impossible to know the relative national rankings with any degree of precision, seeing as the narco-export industry operates in the violently criminal, illegal shadows.
But there are nevertheless, regular, eye-opening reports in the newspapers that provide a revealing peek at the scale of the narco-traffic from Ecuador to European and North American ports. It’s crucial to understand - - and it needs to be emphasized - - that the burgeoning, horrifically violent organized crime in Ecuador is a secondary effect of the huge narco-markets in Europe and the U$$A, Inc. That doesn’t excuse the rampant, violent crime, industrial scale narco-trafficking, and associated official corruption, drug addiction and abuse in Ecuador, but it does provide necessary context. Remove the booming drug addiction problem overseas, and the very serious narco-crime problem that is ravaging Ecuador will greatly diminish as a consequence.
Five days ago a notice appeared in the Ecuadorean news media, having to do with a major drug bust by Spanish police, on a ship headed for the southern Spanish port city of Algeciras. The Spanish police were alerted in advance by the National Police in Ecuador about a suspicious refrigerated container of bananas sailing on a ship departing from the port city of Machala, in the province of El Oro, Ecuador.
The Spanish police intercepted the container and discovered 9.4 tons of cocaine bricks hidden in 1,080 boxes of bananas. It is reportedly the largest drug bust in Spanish history. Here are a few pictures. Click here, here, here and here.
Here is the link to the article for those who read Spanish.
First of all, notice that the photos depict many thousands of one-kilo bricks of cocaine with the logos of 30 different criminal organizations operating in Europe, among which are HITLER and the NAZI swastika. What do you know - - it appears that there are neo-NAZI criminal organizations in Europe trading in cocaine. What a surprise, right? There are others, such as two, well-known automobile companies: TESLA and Chevrolet. There are also many bricks of cocaine with the well-known brand name of the Swiss company, Victorinox, known for its production of a wide range of knives, and also travel luggage and watches, which products it exports to 100 countries worldwide.
There are other logos visible with which I am not familiar, but maybe some readers who are more knowledgeable than I will recognize them.
The article states that the Spanish police consider the confiscation of the cocaine to be a blow to one of the most important narco-trafficking networks on a global scale. But note well: neither the news media, nor the Spanish or Ecuadorean National Police name or identify this major, global, narco-trafficking ring.
The article further states that police and prosecutors in both Spain and Ecuador know the name of the company that sent the container of bananas in which the 9.4 tons of cocaine were concealed. However the name of the company is not mentioned in the news article, and has not yet been publicly revealed by the police in Spain and Ecuador.
You can bet this goes all the way to the top of the real power structure in Europe and South America, and the police know it. The police and prosecutors in both countries are legally tiptoeing, at least so far. I’ve checked the price for cocaine. I did a quick keyword search, and a one-kilo brick could go for anywhere from $10,000 to as high as $200,000 or more, depending on the quality and purity, and the country of sale. Let’s say a brick of good quality, pure, South American cocaine is selling for $50,000. My back of the envelope calculation suggests that this one shipment would have a value of about $430 million, based on that value.
But you see, the article quotes the police in Ecuador as saying that it’s only possible to check about 25% to 30% of the cargo leaving Ecuadorean ports. That means that 70%. or more, of the shipping containers sail uninspected. The volume of cargo greatly outstrips the ability of the port authorities to inspect their contents.
And the narco-traffickers know that. It’s a numbers game. While the cops are spending time and resources on one container - - only one - - two or three others escape their attention. So the anti-narcotics police confiscate 9.4 tons of cocaine, while 20 or 25 more tons get offloaded onto waiting trucks, hidden in the big, refrigerated containers loaded with thousands of boxes of bananas destined for Lisbon, Madrid, etc.
The article mentions that this “criminal organization” - - which the police do not name - - is capable of sending 40 containers to Europe monthly. Let’s say that the cops catch 10 of the containers, and the other 30 get through. A big container ship comes in, a big refrigerated banana boat from Ecuador, with scads of refrigerated containers loaded with bananas. The port inspectors simply cannot inspect every single container. It’s just not possible. So 30 containers get through, each with 5 tons of cocaine bricks. That’s 150 tons of cocaine, at $50, 000 per one-kilo brick. That comes out to about $6.8 billion monthly, or about $82 billion annually. Over a decade, that would pencil out to $820 billion, almost a trillion dollars. Of course, these are rough calculations, guesstimates based on available data online.
You can see that the profits are extraordinary - - and completely off the books. Corporations, politicians and political parties, royal houses, banks and bankers, oceangoing shipping lines, over the road trucking lines, banana producers/packers/shippers/exporters, criminal mafias and narco-cartels, dirty cops and crooked port police, etc. are all involved. This is a non-stop, 24/7, global conveyor belt of thousands of tons of cocaine flowing out of Ecuador over the course of a year — and also out of Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, etc.
Forget what governments say! They’re lying. They’re in on it. The criminal corruption is massive and deep.
In the 1980s, something like $700 billion in dirty narco-dollars were annually getting laundered through the banks and investment firms on Wall Street, at houses like JP Morgan-Chase. The numbers are far higher today. Multiple trillions of dirty narco-dollars are being annually laundered through the banks, investment funds, and stock and bond markets on Wall Street, in the City of London, Mexico City, Miami, Frankfurt, etc. Narco-trafficking is a huge industry, and major force in the global economy.
The article further explains that the criminal network behind this 9.4 ton cocaine shipment to Spain, has a company in Machala-Ecuador (which is a well known banana port), dedicated to the international banana trade, and the shipping of bananas to different companies in Spain controlled by the same criminal network.
I won’t mention the names of the companies and the multi-billionaire individuals, families and houses behind this extremely lucrative trade, though anyone who intelligently reads the press in Spain and Latin America can probably make a couple of reasonably accurate guesses. Not to put too fine a point on it, these people do employ bodyguards and hitmen, and keep their thumb on the public information flow. They have a lot of clout, in South America, Europe and North America. Money talks, especially the hundreds of billions and even trillions of dollars that these individuals/families/houses control. The Forbes list of the wealthiest people in the world is wildly inaccurate. The wealth that these narco-people/entities control is incomprehensible. They live and move in a hyper-wealthy realm that is far beyond the understanding and experience of 99.9999% of Humanity.
They are ruthless.
Mind you, this article is just speaking of one seaport in Ecuador. There are other ports in Ecuador from which banana refrigerated container ships also sail, carrying many tons of bananas to New York City, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Mobile-AL, Marseille-France, Naples-Italy, Lisbon-Portugal, Antwerp-Belgium, etc. And in many of the refrigerated banana containers tons of cocaine are concealed.
Like George Carlin said: “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
Thank God Almighty! What sane person wants to get mixed up in that vile, violent, underhanded business?
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