Narcos a brilliant, but covert, analysis of CIA operations in South America

The TV series Narcos is ostensibly about the capture of Pablo Escobar by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). It is very good and watchable but is shot through with so many obvious holes. At the end they point out that the capture of Escobar made no difference to drug exports and his drug cartel was simply taken over by his rivals and in fact drug exports to the US increased. It seems if the DEA really wanted to keep drugs down they should have left Escobar in place.

It was also pointed out by the South Americans many times in the show, that the problem was not in South America but rather the money coming in from America that was funding criminality in South America and leading to the deaths of 100,000s of people. If the DEA wanted to end the drugs trade they need to do it in US and catch the people selling it in the US. The demand was causing the supply, not the other way around. This is a classic way in which a country like US goes and destroys another country rather than deal with their problems at home. And that is a general karmic issue that you can't change the world but you can change yourself. US needs to deal with its spiralling drug problem where 1 in 3 Americans are now hooked on some type of drug. You can't blame Escobar for that, particularly since the problem continues worse after his emprisonment.

So if Drugs was not the point of the capture of Escobar then what was? Well I annoyed all those present when we watched the first episode by pointing out the obvious. What do we really know about South America? We know it is full of "Commies" and the CIA has been hugely active in South America to destroy Communism there. Indeed the drug issue turns out to be quite the other way around. The CIA were selling drugs to fund their activities in South America and the reason to end the drugs trade was not to protect Americans from drug abuse, but to cut the funding to Communist and Socialist organisation in South America. When we understand how the US works the whole world makes sense!

Afghanistan was the same. How on earth did Afghanistan manage to recently defeat the world's only super-power? How can a load of goat herders in the mountains defeat a country with 1000x the GDP? The answer is simply opium. Interesting the Islamic world is aggressively opposed to drugs (look at the execution rate in Iran which is facing a huge drugs problem - is this CIA backed? Look at Opium Wars with China to see how Imperialists use drugs to collapse countries). But despite being ideologically opposed to opium and banning its production originally, once the US invaded the Taleban used Opium to fund the war.

To the TV series' credit it did leak this all out over the course of the series. But I guess they knew they were making a show for a completely brainwashed US viewing population and so had to go easy with the Truth so as to not blow the minds of the US public. Towards the end of the final series Javier Peña (played by Pedro Pascal) finds himself in a meeting with a CIA operative who explains that the DEA has just been used as a pawn in the huge game of CIA operations in Colombia and across South America. Every single person and thing that has happened to Peña has all been set up by the CIA to get him to take down Escobar. Very X-Factor. But undoubtedly true: it is no exaggeration that the Global Secret Police aka CIA operates everywhere.

Now why did the CIA hate Escobar so much, and not other drug boss (many who they actually worked with)? Its clearly because Escobar had huge popular support and was a serious threat to the politics of Colombia. No other drugs boss cares for politics, they just want the money. If Escobar had indeed become president of Colombia he would have crashed international Capitalism and switched the country to a Socialist agenda seeking to end poverty and increase the welfare of ordinary people. Doesn't that sound like a good idea? Well it is if you are the ordinary people, but its a disaster for Capitalists cos that money going to the masses is money you want and the only way to get it is to have the corporations take over that you can buy shares in and have dividend wealth diverted to you. Once a Socialist country takes over and Nationalises then no more free payouts to the rich capitalists!

But why does the US care about what happens in Colombia? Well imagine if Socialism ever made it to the US!!!!!! That would pull the rug from the wealthy elites who own America and cut their incomes streams and show the American people that they do not need to live as second class citizens in their own country, and they can have a full share in the nations wealth, not having to take the scraps left over once the Capitalists have had their feed. It would completely change US forever and that cannot happen if you are a rich capitalist American. As a result the amount of propaganda generated in US to denounce Socialism is utterly overwhelming and the US has employed the world's leading brainwashers from Nazi Germany and beyond to brainwash and pacify the US population.

Generally its very interesting. Which system of economics would you select. The one that gives money to the rich, or the one that distributes it amongst everyone. Only the rich would vote for the first one, and that is less than 5% of the population. Most people would vote for the second... until they hear that the first one is called Capitalism and the second is called Socialism. When they hear the name they have been programmed to hate it like the plague, despite it actually sounding good. That is usually called brainwashing.

So Narcos is actually a very interesting TV show. Watch if not done.