WARNING: This video contains violent scenes of the US’ war on drugs.’
On this day in 1975, Sandinista guerilla fighters in Nicaragua uncovered a covert US operation to arm Contra (US-funded anti-communist) guerillas after they shot down former US Marine Eugene Hasenfus’ plane while he was on a CIA-funded arms supply drop. Documents found on the men k*lled in the 5 October 1975 plane crash indicated the US government used proceeds from the illegal sale of weapons to Iran to support the rebel groups.
Join African Stream as we unravel the real-life drama of the Iran-Contra scandal and its devastating impact on African communities in the United States. We explore how the webs of covert US operations in Nicaragua and Iran, as well as cocaine smuggling, pummelled Black communities in the United States. Africans have yet to recover from the resulting drug addictions and incarcerations of the 1980s and 1990s.
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The capture of Eugene
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/iran-contra-hasenfus/
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#1 lesson? Stop being dumb and using drugs. Sure the whole thing was engineered but show me a video of a government official or law enforcement agent FORCING a person to use crack. I’ll wait. That’s what I thought. The real problem is the naivety of Africans . THIS is a massive, massive problem that we see in every inch of the globe. From Africans seeking their education in India and the Ukraine where they are treated like crap. To African- Americans who salivate over attending top tier schools like Yale and Stanford where each day is an assault against their very being.
Once Africans everywhere realize that they are perceived as a threat or less than human, WISER CHOICES will follow.