This blog basically just serves as a way to follow stories that grab me, stories I'd like to follow, learn more about. The last post still intrigues me. I've set a number of google alerts to follow the story, but information is hard to come by. Guinea Bissau, a small country in west Africa, has been overrun by the drug trade (South American coke to Europe by way of West Africa), and it's supposedly become a narco-state. The country suffered an attempted coup, supposedly with the drug trade as its source. It's not the only country where the highest echelon of society is wrapped up in drugs.
The prime minister of the British Virgin Islands' was arrested in Miami back in April on drug charges. He had flown to Miami to allegedly meet with Mexican drug traffickers from the Sinaloa cartel (that was el Chapo's outfit) to hash out a deal to let them use his country's ports. The thing is, he walked into a sting. He had really been corresponding with undercover DEA agents and informants.
The prime minister, Andrew Fahie, asked for 500 large upfront and for the Sinoloa people to settle a debt on his behalf with someone in Senegal (there's the West African connection again). If the deal went through, Fahie and his people would receive cuts of future sales. According to the court documents, Fahie even asked the people he was dealing with if they were cops, apparently falling for the common if fantastical belief that undercover cops have to fess up if you just ask them.
What the hell is going on in the British Virgin Islands?