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Sep 10, 2026
Stefania CoxHOST
Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with the Ecuadorian president.
Stefania CoxHOST
Rubio pushing a tougher fight against drug trafficking and transnational crime.
Kerry DunstHOST
The New York Fire Department remembering the 343 firefighters killed on 9-11.
Kerry DunstHOST
Firefighters and families gathering on Staten Island ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attacks.
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Stefania CoxHOST
And up ahead in our show, Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with the Ecuadorian president.
Kerry DunstHOST
That's right.
Kerry DunstHOST
He's speaking their language and he's praising Ecuador as a key partner in the fight against drug trafficking and transnational crime.
Stefania CoxHOST
And the FDNY is remembering hundreds of firefighters killed on 9-11 and thereafter.
Charlie RobinsonGUEST
those who have access to authentic information, um, can manipulate those who don't.
Charlie RobinsonGUEST
And, um, they can make it seem like they live in a different sort of world, you know, and, and get them to fight with one another and get them to, to waste their energy and their money on things that are useless and things that they control, like the drug trade.
Charlie RobinsonGUEST
I don't think people understand, like, what a diabolical trap the drug trade has always been.
Charlie RobinsonGUEST
I mean, I've talked to enough
Shayn JonesHOST
vets for them to say like the safest place during any war was on the drug boats.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
They would have two children, Juan and Manuela.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
It was in the mid-1970s, shortly before his marriage to Maria, that Pablo first became involved in the growing cocaine trade when he was brought into the business by another smuggler named Griselda Blanco.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
Cocaine had been something of a niche drug in the United States in the 1960s, with other narcotics such as marijuana, LSD, and heroin proliferating to a much greater extent.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
However, in the 1970s, the use of cocaine exploded across the country.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
Leda had ended up in Danbury Prison in Connecticut for smuggling marijuana and selling stolen cars.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
while Jung had been running an operation to bring marijuana to California from Mexico and then shipping it across the country to New England where it fetched an enormous price compared to what it had been bought for at source.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
However, at Danbury, they conceived of a plan to move into the now growing cocaine trade.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
Consequently, when they were released, they began smuggling cocaine from Colombia through the Caribbean and onwards into America principally through Florida and the city of Miami in particular.
Sean ThompsonHOST
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lamar cook who is governor healy's deputy director is now charged with drug trafficking along with illegal gun and ammo possession prosecutors say they first got wind of the scheme in october when federal agents intercepted suspicious packages headed to a massachusetts hotel where cook used to work Investigators later tracked similar deliveries to the hotel's loading dock, where Cook appeared on surveillance grabbing boxes of suspected cocaine.
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Caught on camera? More than once.
Sean ThompsonHOST
Scum of the earth! That's why they love the illegal aliens.
Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
Where was Robert Vesco hiding for years? Why was he there? What was he in Cuba? What was he doing? And I can give you many examples of the kind of contact and degree of collaboration between the Castro regime and criminal networks in Latin America, probably to this day.
Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
There's ongoing, the New York Times has been revealing the deep links between the Castro family and the Cuban mafia based in Mexico and human trafficking and drug trafficking.
Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
That's just a small part of the story.
Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
I mean, there's a lot more.
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Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
You know, people who defend the U.S., people like you have in your career who would dedicate their years of service to looking out for U.S. national interest.
Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
I've spoken to many of them over the years.
Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
There's an unofficial consensus about the degree the Castro regime has been involved in drug trafficking against the U.S. because they saw drug trafficking as a weapon.
Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
I've spoken to people in the Coast Guard and different intelligence services, and they're all convinced the regime has been deeply involved to this day in that.
Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
Where was Robert Vesco hiding for years? Why was he there? What was he in Cuba? What was he doing? And I can give you many examples of the kind of contact and degree of collaboration between the Castro regime and criminal networks in Latin America.
Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
Probably to this day, there's ongoing, the New York Times has been revealing the deep links between the Castro family and the Cuban mafia based in Mexico and human trafficking and drug trafficking.
Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
That's just a small part of the story.
Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
I mean, there's a lot more.
Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
There's no repress, no oversight, no congressional pressure, no organized society that can fight back.
Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
That is the best magnet for organized crime.
Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
And another thing, which... know people who defend the u.s people like you have in your career who would dedicate their years of service to to looking out for u.s national interest i've spoken to many of them over the years there's there's an unofficial consensus about the the degree the cash regime has been involved in drug trafficking against the us because they saw drug trafficking as a weapon I've spoken to people in the Coast Guard and different intelligence services, and they're all convinced the regime has been deeply involved to this day in that.
Orlando Gutiérrez-BoronatGUEST
There's even that indictment from 1983 against Raul Castro for participating in drug trafficking.
Cam CaponeHOST
So your brother knew all of them and everything.
Keffe DGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
Keffe DGUEST
They the same age and, uh, they was doing, they was doing, doing their little trades together, drug trades together.
Cam CaponeHOST
You never went with them? You never wanted to roll with them or anything?
Keffe DGUEST
Man, I ain't no fucking, uh ...
Ryan DaltonGUEST
It's, they're not really trying to stop it.
Ryan DaltonGUEST
The majority of the drug trade is pharmaceutical.
Ryan DaltonGUEST
It's le- it's legal-ish.
Ryan DaltonGUEST
It's not the cocaine and the, I mean, that's a little bit, but it's, it's pills.
Rickey Smiley Morning Show Podcast
Aug 19 · 1 Mention
Top 20%AlfredasCORRESPONDENT
Penn State is known for Greek life, but prosecutors say two frat houses may have been moving a little more than party favors, and it was dope, literally.
AlfredasCORRESPONDENT
More than a dozen people are now charged in an alleged cocaine trafficking operation tied to the Delta Epsilon and Sigma Chi houses.
AlfredasCORRESPONDENT
Authorities say the coke was brought in from Philly and distributed on campus.
AlfredasCORRESPONDENT
13 current and former students, plus one student's dad, they're all facing charges.
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