This is a great podcast focused on my book, The Great Pretense. The interviewer, NYTs best-selling author Ralph Pezzulla, knows the turf well.
Check it out.
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This bill makes sense.
"The U.S. Senate passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. ...The bill ... limits certain large institutional investors from crowding out families in residential markets." — Senate Banking Committee
For more on that....
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"The [drug] cartels would buy intelligence [often on rivals] from the CIA, and the CIA was getting emeralds in exchange." -- former DEA agent Cele Castillo
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@FrancescaDnunz@jlosc9 With this update, I'm curious if the spy Tower will be turned on Texas too. No warrant required to spy. Texas state cops can take advantage of that. No US law enforcement agency has arrest powers in Mexico, but they also don't need court warrants to tap US coms from Mexico.
This week at @DropSiteNews we published an investigation revealing that U.S. government agencies will have "representatives" working inside a massive surveillance tower in Ciudad Juárez, which is run by the Chihuahua state government.
As part of that story, we identified at least six separate operations in recent years that involved intelligence sharing between Chihuahua state officials and U.S. government agencies. Those operations targeted organized crime leaders or involved immigration enforcement.
In this video, the Chihuahua governor Maru Campos confirms our reporting.
Full story: https://t.co/BcL8jHRCo1
@SinEmbargoMX@alvaro_delgado That is a good read. But none of this is inevitable. CIA covert ops get exposed/compromised when they screw up — as happened in Chihuahua.
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@azucenau@jlosc9@DropSiteNews Those are all US law enforcement agencies slated to man the surveillance tower.. CIA is not a law enforcement. It's a covert spy agency. When CIA is present, the target country is kept in the dark. CIA supports the White House.
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🚨NEW🚨 U.S. agencies will operate from a massive surveillance tower in Chihuahua, despite recent unauthorized CIA presence in the Mexican state.
For years US & Chihuahua authorities have coordinated for years on sensitive cross-border operations, primarily in intelligence sharing, based on two separate agreements approved by the Mexican federal government.
We identified at least six separate operations in recent years that involved intelligence sharing between local SSPE officials and U.S. government agencies.
In Feb 2025, Chihuahua SSPE authorities facilitated the arrest of Humberto Rivera, alias “El Chato,” a 51-year-old alleged high-ranking drug trafficker running the Juárez plaza for the Sinaloa Cartel.
In that operation, officials at the Centinela command center said they used drones equipped with facial-recognition software to surveil El Chato’s movements. The Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office and the National Guard then tracked his car, pulled him over, and arrested him.
Following the operation, the FBI recognized the Mexican intelligence analysts with an award, commending them on the arrest operation.
My latest for @DropSiteNews:
https://t.co/BcL8jHRCo1
What caused their vehicle to drive off a mountain road into a ravine, and where are the "accident" scene forensics?
According to one veteran CIA operator, they exist. But they reveal an uncomfortable truth for both sides of the border.
https://t.co/jaEtQA9gQC