The CIA Didn’t Just “Tolerate” the Drug Trade – They Built It, Protected It, and Presidents Signed Off on It
For decades the Central Intelligence Agency has treated Latin American, and Asian narcotics networks as strategic assets, not enemies, that of which funds a lot of the darkness in this world.
From the Golden Triangle heroin pipelines that funded anti-communist guerrillas in Laos and Vietnam, to Air America planes moving opium in the 1960s and 70s, to the Contras in the 1980s openly trafficking cocaine into the United States with DEA whistle-blowers later confirmed the Agency blocked investigations to protect the cash flow that kept Nicaraguan rebels armed.
The pattern never stops; it just changes geography.
When the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the Taliban had reduced opium production to almost zero. Within two years of the American occupation, poppy cultivation exploded by more than 4,000 %. U.S. and NATO troops were literally assigned to guard those fields.
Marines openly joked about “poppy patrols.” Pilots reported seeing CIA contractors on the ground coordinating with warlords who controlled the harvest.
By 2017 Afghanistan was supplying 90 % of the WORLD’s heroine, and the profits helped fund the very insurgents our soldiers were fighting.
Every president from Reagan through Obama to Biden has been briefed on these arrangements. They don’t get “surprised” by drug-running partners; they inherit them, expand them, and protect them.
🔻 Which brings us to Juan Orlando Hernández, former president of Honduras.
Hernández wasn’t some random narco Trump suddenly decided to pardon…. Oooooh no. He is just a PUPPET.
He was a multi-administration U.S. intelligence asset who ran cocaine routes for over fifteen years while the DEA, State Department, and CIA all classified him as a “COOPERATIVE PARTNER”
His New York trial proved U.S. officials knew he was taking millions in cartel bribes—yet kept him in power because he handed them control of Honduras’ cocaine routes.
If a fully exposed asset like Hernández started naming the American officials and agencies that armed, funded, and protected his operation, the fallout would reach the highest levels of multiple administrations.
Trump’s pardon wasn’t a favor to a drug lord; it is a negotiation tactic to get an American-created monster that every president since at least Reagan has quietly fed to start naming names.
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