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Cracktoberfest Part Two: How The CIA Became Drug Dealers

Behind the Bastards

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Nicaragua and the Samosas

Nicaragua is run by a family called the samosas who are one of these dictatorship families it's essentially like royalty. They're right wing they exist to help foreign companies extract Nicaraguan wealth and hand some of it to them while none of it goes to the people. Samosa assassinated political rivals which included newspaper editors and people who attempted to engage in Nicaragua's free and open elections in a way that he didn't like. The machinery of government was essentially geared to building up and ensuring the perpetuation of the family's wealth and power as a result the samosas not only control much of the Nicaraguan economy with interest in construction shipping airlines television and newspapers farming fishing breweries and

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