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Red Path is a new series on Mammboh Rhythms exploring encounters between artists across territories and their respective folk traditions. Each edition brings together different paths within a shared sonic landscape. The first edition introduces Maoh and Are:gone, tracing a line between distant geographies shaped by deep cultural memory. From the ancient grounds of Tikal to the living rhythms of Cuba, both converge within Red Path.

From selling candy in school as a kid in Medellin and getting robbed by his business partner, to riding the South Florida real estate boom and losing everything in the crash before he was twenty, Alex Lopez, CPA built his understanding of deals through lived experience long before he picked up an accounting textbook. Alex runs a CPA firm specializing in CFO services and tax minimization strategy, with over 12 years of experience at global accounting and consulting firms and in corporate America. He works with entrepreneurs in professional services, tech, and real estate, focused on helping them scale from six to seven to eight figures while keeping more of their profits out of the IRS's hands. His years as a financial auditor trained him to assess a business quickly, corroborate what owners claim, and identify which direction a company is actually trending. In this episode he walks through two contrasting deals: one where understanding why a buyer was willing to stretch above market multiples revealed hidden strategic value that let his client hold firm on price, and another where a single off-ratio insurance figure that nobody fully investigated masked a multi-million dollar misrepresentation that killed the deal entirely. He also shares the story of a seller whose insistence on cash over a higher leveraged offer turned out to have nothing to do with preference and everything to do with a pending white collar conviction. On tax planning, Alex is direct: by the time a deal is under letter of intent, several of the most powerful strategies are already gone. He walks through qualified small business stock, which can allow eligible founders to exit with little to zero federal tax on the capital gain from a business sale, but only if the company was structured as a C corporation and the stock held for at least five years. He described a young tech founder who called his firm last year with the deal locked and loaded to close, and paid a seven-figure tax bill because nobody had ever told him this option existed. The conversation also covers how S corporation elections that make sense for self-employment tax purposes can create complications in deals that include rollover equity, why founders who avoided C corp status to preserve early pass-through losses often give up far more in QSBS savings than they ever gained, and how structuring payouts over time can both spread the tax bill across lower-bracket years and give sellers leverage to negotiate a higher total price. For anyone building a business with any intention of eventually selling, this episode makes one thing clear: the time to think about these questions is years before you have a buyer at the table. FOR MORE ON ALEX LOPEZ, CPA: Website: AlexLopezCPA.com FOR MORE ON COREY KUPFER: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreykupfer/ https://www.coreykupfer.com/ Corey Kupfer is an expert strategist, negotiator, and dealmaker. He has more than 35 years of professional deal-making and negotiating experience. Corey is a successful entrepreneur, attorney, consultant, author, and professional speaker. He is deeply passionate about deal-driven growth. He is also the creator and host of the DealQuest Podcast. Get deal-ready with the DealQuest Podcast with Corey Kupfer, where like-minded entrepreneurs and business leaders converge, share insights and challenges, and success stories. Equip yourself with the tools, resources, and support necessary to navigate the complex yet rewarding world of dealmaking. Dive into the world of deal-driven growth today! Episode Highlights with Timestamps [00:00] - Introduction: Alex Lopez's background in CFO services and tax minimization [02:54] - First deal: selling candy in school and the partner who stole everything [13:48] - Using ratios and anecdotes to spot market exuberance before it corrects [21:31] - Finding hidden value and why a buyer's motivation is negotiating leverage [28:45] - Why tax planning needs to start before there is a deal on the table [32:13] - Structuring payouts over time to spread the tax bill and negotiate better terms [44:13] - The seller whose insistence on cash pointed to a white collar conviction[49:37] - What freedom means: being oneself and at peace with one's surroundings Guest Bio: Alex Lopez, CPA is passionate about helping business owners scale, increase profits, and minimize taxes. With over 12 years of experience working at global accounting and consulting firms and in corporate America, Alex runs a CPA firm specializing in CFO services and tax minimization strategy. He works primarily with entrepreneurs in professional services, tech, and real estate. Alex grew up in Medellin, Colombia and came to the United States in 1999, getting his real estate license straight out of high school before the 2008 financial crisis redirected him toward accounting. That combination of early deal experience and deep technical expertise informs how he advises clients on both the financial and structural dimensions of their transactions. Related Episodes:Episode 350 - Tom Dillon: Business Valuation and Exit Planning Realities: Understand how valuation works in practice and what drives the gap between what owners expect and what the market will pay.Episode 330 - Pete Mohr: Building Enterprise Value and Exit Readiness: Learn how operational decisions made years before a sale determine what a business is actually worth when it goes to market.Episode 339 - Solocast 74: Equitizing Key Employees and Succession Planning Strategies: Explore how entity structure and equity decisions made early shape your options when it is time to exit.

At the peak of their power in the early 1990s, Pablo Escobar and the Cali Cartel were not content controlling cocaine routes, politicians, and police, they moved into professional soccer and used Colombia's World Cup ambitions as a vehicle for laundering cartel billions, buying influence, and projecting the kind of cultural legitimacy that no amount of bribery could otherwise purchase. The 1994 World Cup became the most visible and most dangerous expression of that infiltration, with narco gambling syndicates placing enormous bets on match outcomes and cartel enforcers treating a deflected ball in a group stage game as a financial grievance that demanded a fatal response. This episode breaks down how the Medellin and Cali Cartels built their parallel empire inside Colombian football, what the business model of narco club ownership actually looked like, and how the execution of Andrés Escobar ten days after Colombia's World Cup elimination exposed just how deeply cartel infrastructure had penetrated the sport and the nation behind it.

Colombia arrived at the 1994 World Cup as one of the most hyped teams on the planet, but behind the national dream was a criminal ecosystem in which Pablo Escobar and narco gambling networks had staked millions on outcomes, turning every match into a transaction where losing carried consequences no coach could prepare a player for. When Andrés Escobar deflected a cross into his own net during a group stage loss to the United States, he unknowingly triggered a debt inside a system that settled accounts with bullets, and ten days after Colombia was eliminated he was shot twelve times outside a Medellin nightclub. This episode traces the full criminal architecture behind Colombia's World Cup campaign, from cartel club ownership to the gambling syndicates that made the tournament's results a matter of life and death for the men playing in it.

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On January 26th, 1977, twenty-four year old Melanie Flynn walked out from her Lexington, Kentucky job, climbed into her red, Ford Elite and drove off into the unknown.  She has never been seen again.  Immediately in the aftermath of her disappearance her father, former state senator Bobby Flynn, reached out a friend and police officer for help.  He didn't expect the response he received.The Police weren't all that interested or concerned.  They brushed aside the family's worries and assured them that Melanie had likely gone off with friends and would come back sometime soon.  It wasn't until ten days later, when the missing woman's car was found, that a detective was finally assigned to the case.  The initial investigation was described as poorly conducted and carried out by detectives who seemed indifferent to the plight of the Flynn's.  When they received tips that the missing woman was seen in Florida they took that statements at face value and announced the case was closed.It remained that way until a cop, the very one Bobby had reached out to, sat for a controversial interview where he blasted the victim, called her a slew of insults and then issued his belief that she'd run off on her own and didn't need to be found.  This interview would unlock a door that revealed the dark indications of a grander conspiracy in which Melanie may have found herself caught.Part 2 will be releasing Friday, June 5th, 2026.FollowTEPod.comFollow Trace Evidence on Social MediaTwitter --- Instagram --- TikTok --- YouTube --- Like Facebook Page --- Join Facebook Group --- Threads --- Like MeWe Page --- Join MeWe Group --- BlueskySuppport Trace EvidencePatreon --- Paypal --- Cash App --- Buy Me A CoffeeTrace Evidence Merch ShopsTeePublic --- ShopTEPod --- SpreadshopAll Other LinksOfficial Trace Evidence Website --- LinkTreeMusic Courtesy of:"Lost Time"  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Chasing Time" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Galactic Rap" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#truecrimepodcast #unsolvedmysteries #coldcase #coldcaseinvestigation #murder #murdermystery #missingperson #missingpersons #truecrimecommunity #mysterypodcast #truecrime #coldcasefiles #truecrimestories #crimelovers #truecrimeaddict #truecrimejunkie #crimescene #justiceforall #missing #crimesquad #podcastcommunity #sleuthsunite #darkhistories #criminalmindset #detective #detectivediaries #forensics #forensicfiles #crimestories #crimepodcast #traceevidence #traceevidencepodcast #criminalinvestigation #justiceforvictims #detectivework #truecrimediscussion #podcastfamily #listenandsolve #crimefans #listentotraceevidence #uncoverthetruth #podcastrecommendations #podcastlove #podcastlife #truecrimeobsessed #followtheclues #cluefinders #podcastaddict #unsolvedmurders #unsolveddisappearances #detectiveatheart #jointheinvestigation #disappearance #vanishing #abduction #gonemissing #upandvanished #pacheco #stevenpacheco #podcasting #crimetalk #crimeanalysis #theories #melanieflynn #bobbyflynn #dougflynn #billcanan #henryvance #drewthornton #cocainebear #cocaine #trafficking #escobar #medellin #lexington #kentucky #kentuckyunsolvedBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/trace-evidence--3207798/support.

In part 2 we examine the greater conspiracy surrounding the Vanishing of Melanie Flynn.  Lexington Police Officer Bill Canan, who claimed to be using Melanie as a confidential informant for his undercover work in the drug scene is fired from his job for a multitude of reasons related to insubordination.  Canan denies any involvement in Melanie's disappearance or in any illegal activities.  However, his partner, Drew Thornton, dies while flying a plane carrying two hundred pounds of cocaine into the United States from Columbia.In the early 1990's, former reporter Sally Denton releases a book entitled “The Bluegrass Conspiracy.” The book goes on to expose a massive drug and arm trafficking operation being carried out between South America and the US with local police as well as several federal agents working hand-in-hand with Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel.  In addition to trafficking, there are cases of witness intimidation, theft, assault and even murder.  Canan is eventually arrested, charged and convicted of cocaine trafficking.  During his trial, several witnesses claim he was directly responsible for Melanie's disappearance and murder.FollowTEPod.comFollow Trace Evidence on Social MediaTwitter --- Instagram --- TikTok --- YouTube --- Like Facebook Page --- Join Facebook Group --- Threads --- Like MeWe Page --- Join MeWe Group --- BlueskySuppport Trace EvidencePatreon --- Paypal --- Cash App --- Buy Me A CoffeeTrace Evidence Merch ShopsTeePublic --- ShopTEPod --- SpreadshopAll Other LinksOfficial Trace Evidence Website --- LinkTreeMusic Courtesy of:"Lost Time"  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Chasing Time" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Galactic Rap" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#truecrimepodcast #unsolvedmysteries #coldcase #coldcaseinvestigation #murder #murdermystery #missingperson #missingpersons #truecrimecommunity #mysterypodcast #truecrime #coldcasefiles #truecrimestories #crimelovers #truecrimeaddict #truecrimejunkie #crimescene #justiceforall #missing #crimesquad #podcastcommunity #sleuthsunite #darkhistories #criminalmindset #detective #detectivediaries #forensics #forensicfiles #crimestories #crimepodcast #traceevidence #traceevidencepodcast #criminalinvestigation #justiceforvictims #detectivework #truecrimediscussion #podcastfamily #listenandsolve #crimefans #listentotraceevidence #uncoverthetruth #podcastrecommendations #podcastlove #podcastlife #truecrimeobsessed #followtheclues #cluefinders #podcastaddict #unsolvedmurders #unsolveddisappearances #detectiveatheart #jointheinvestigation #disappearance #vanishing #abduction #gonemissing #upandvanished #pacheco #stevenpacheco #podcasting #crimetalk #crimeanalysis #theories #melanieflynn #bobbyflynn #dougflynn #billcanan #henryvance #drewthornton #cocainebear #cocaine #trafficking #escobar #medellin #lexington #kentucky #kentuckyunsolvedBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/trace-evidence--3207798/support.

Fin octobre 2025, l'ouragan Melissa frappait Haïti. Petit Goâve, au sud de la zone métropolitaine de Port-au-Prince, a fait partie des communes les plus endeuillées. Mais plus de huit mois après l'ouragan, les mesures n'ont pas été prises pour curer la rivière qui avait emporté certains habitants ni pour encourager les riverains à ne pas s'installer trop près des berges, alors que la saison cyclonique approche. « Le gouvernement n'a toujours effectué aucune intervention sur la rivière La Digue », constate ainsi le site d'investigation haïtien Ayibopost. Wilder Sylvain, l'un des auteurs du reportage, répond aux questions d'Anne Cantener.   Des kilomètres pour avoir de l'eau en Colombie Un étudiant colombien, Mateo Lopez (Université d'Antioquia), vient de remporter le prix de la rédaction de RFI en espagnol pour son reportage sur l'accès à l'eau en périphérie de Medellin. À lire aussiCharbon, eau, soleil : la Colombie face à sa transition énergétique Honduras : le combat des femmes contre les violences numériques En Amérique latine, face aux violences sexistes en ligne, depuis 2018, une loi dite « Ley Olimpia » permet de condamner ce type de d'action. Née au Mexique, elle a été adoptée depuis par d'autres pays latino-américains : le Panama, le Guatemala et le Paraguay. Aujourd'hui, plusieurs associations féministes continuent de se battre pour la porter au Parlement, comme au Honduras où, ces dernières années, plusieurs centaines de femmes ont été victimes de violences en ligne. Reportage de Marie Griffon. À lire aussiViolence politique: au Honduras, les femmes en première ligne Dans le journal de La 1ère... Interdit depuis plus de 30 ans, le chlordécone est pourtant toujours bel et bien présent dans l'alimentation des Antillais, explique Benoît Ferrand, d'Outre-Mer La 1ère

It's time for our weekly travel segment 'Heading Off' where we explore the world via your adventures and all without having to leave the house. Today we're off to Medellin, Colombia's second largest city. Louise Amey lived in the city for 5 months, and joins Jesse to tell us all about it

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Send us Fan Mail--- Take a trip down memory lane with DJ Dove! This week's episode of F.C.H.V Radio (#025) is a special tribute to the golden era of dance music, packed with the best early-to-mid 2000s classic house tracks, club anthems, and nostalgic electronic vibes.SUPPORT DJ DOVE:* Instagram: @DJDOVE33#ChocolatePuma #DeepDish #BorisDlugosch #RogerSanchez #JuniorJackPowered by the Club Sabroso Radio NetworkFollow IG/FB: @CLUBSABROSORADIO24/7 Live Stream at: WWW.CLUBSABROSORADIO.COM

Send us Fan Mail--- Welcome to a brand new episode of Cadência Electrónica, hosted and curated by Portuguese powerhouse Sylva Drums—broadcasting globally on the Club Sabroso Radio Network.Sylva Drums delivers a seamless, continuous mix bridging the gap between soulful Afro House textures and underground Tech House driving beats.Powered by the Club Sabroso Radio NetworkFollow IG/FB: @CLUBSABROSORADIO24/7 Live Stream at: WWW.CLUBSABROSORADIO.COM

En Colombie, 48 personnes ont été tuées hier (jeudi 28 mai 2026) dans des affrontements entre deux groupes rebelles issus de la guérilla des FARC, à San José del Guaviare, petit village du centre du pays pris entre les tirs de chaque camp. Ces nouvelles violences interviennent à quelques jours du premier tour de la présidentielle. Le candidat de la gauche, Ivan Cepeda, est toujours en tête des sondages, et pourrait permettre à son camp de conserver le pouvoir. Il y a quatre ans, les jeunes avaient été essentiels à la victoire de la gauche. Cette fois-ci encore, le vote des moins de 25 ans qui représentent un quart des électeurs colombiens sera crucial. Reportage de notre correspondante à Medellin, Najet Benrabaa.   Haïti : l'Électricité d'Haïti ne contrôle plus aucune centrale Comme chaque semaine, Anne Cantener s'entretient avec Frantz Duval, rédacteur en chef du quotidien haïtien Le Nouvelliste (lenouvelliste.com). Le journal nous apprend que le gang de Krisla a pris hier (28 mai) le contrôle de la centrale électrique de Carrefour, grande commune de la banlieue de Port-au-Prince, ce qui fait qu'aujourd'hui L'Électricité d'Haïti, l'EDH, se retrouve privée de toutes ses centrales. « Pour le moment, ils n'ont rien cassé. Ils veulent juste obtenir la garantie d'avoir huit heures d'électricité par jour pendant la coupe du Monde », précise Frantz Duval qui rappelle que ce gang gère quasiment seul la ville de Carrefour. Dans ce contexte, le gouvernement appelle les communautés de foi à devenir des partenaires de paix. « On se demande quelle est la stratégie du gouvernement qui multiplie ces derniers temps les échanges avec des leaders religieux. Le Premier ministre a même été voir le Pape », détaille Frantz Duval. Enfin, il n'existe pas de chiffres officiels du chômage en Haïti. Le ministre du Commerce le reconnaît lui-même, peut-on lire dans Le Nouvelliste. « L'emploi n'a jamais été un sujet de préoccupation des autorités. En Haïti, il n'y a ni statistiques, ni politique de l'emploi », relève Frantz Duval.   Venezuela : l'impact des crises sur le corps des femmes Florencia Valdes de la rédaction en espagnol de RFI, s'est entretenue avec Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, professeure au Centre d'innovation globale de l'Université de Huron au Canada. Entre 2013 et 2021, elle a étudié comment les femmes subissent de plein fouet la crise humanitaire et politique dans le pays : la faim, les coupures d'électricité, le manque de soins, la répression, qui ont poussé plus de 7 millions de personnes à quitter le pays. Mais surtout, elle montre comment le chavisme a renvoyé les Vénézuéliennes à la maison. La situation actuelle des femmes est préoccupante alors même que ce sont deux d'entre elles qui sont actuellement en train d'écrire un nouveau chapitre de la crise vénézuélienne : Delcy Rodriguez, présidente par intérim et première présidente femme du pays sans avoir été élue, et l'opposante Maria Corina Machado, dans les starting-blocks d'un hypothétique processus électoral. Pour autant, est-ce que les Vénézuéliennes seront reconnues dans cette transition qui tarde à venir, ou seront-elles une fois de plus les grandes perdantes ? Un entretien à retrouver sur le site de RFI en espagnol.   Le journal de la 1ère Réunis ce jeudi 28 mai 2026 en assemblée plénière, les conseillers départementaux de la Guadeloupe ont adopté un « Schéma de l'enfance ».

Lunes 25 de Mayo de 2026 Ya esta disponible MEDELLIN TECHNO PODCAST 3201 Presentado por DERAOUT Invitada: Aleja Vargas (Bogota - Colombia) Playlist: Change with me - Aleja Vargas At the door - Earwax Corteza - Aleja Vargas Hamon - Kulgage Overextension - Axel Karakasis Cornetas - A. Paul Hipnotika - A. Paul Lockstep - Axel Karakasis Reverie - Dj Balu Torsion - Begez & DJ Balu Hyper - Dj Ghetto Man Backlash - Axel Karakasis Plutonium ( Chris Liebing remix) The Human - The Advent Dont Do It - The Advent Zwart - Speedy Chris Liebing Wormal Distortin - D.A.V.E The Drummer Earth Work - Jamie Bissmire Camargue 2019 ( CJ Bolland Remix) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alejavargas_dj/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/alejandravargasdj Info Deraout: www.deraout.com _____ Design: www.boldbravestudio.com __ #medellintechnopodcast #medellin #techno #podcast #djset #deraout Mostrar menos

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Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes poet/writer Olive Sullivan and Vince Medellin freelance Character Designer/ Comic Artist. OLIVE SULLIVAN- Poet, playwright, and bookbinder--the common denominator is books. Olive L. Sullivan invites you to come celebrate the world of paper and ink with her at her brick-and-mortar bookbinding studio in Pittsburg, Kan. Sullivan Book Arts is celebrating its one-year anniversary on Sunday, June 21, 2026, with a reception on the lawn. The event will feature food, music, an open mic, and crafts for everyone.  Sullivan, from Pittsburg, Kan., is a Kansas Touring Artist through the Kansas Arts Commission. A former teacher, Sullivan has led writing workshops for various groups, including the Tar Creek Conference in Oklahoma, where participants wrote about environmental action. As the recipient of a kidney transplant, cancer survivor, and widow, she writes about place, grief, and surviving hard times. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections, a play, and several poems, short stories, and essays in a variety of journals and anthologies.  She is inspired by the natural world around her. She loves traveling for inspiration, and spends her free time singing to her dog, Balthazar. Visit the website at sullivanbookarts.com or check out Sullivan Book Arts on Facebook and Olive L. Sullivan on Facebook and Instagram. VINCE MEDELLIN- Hola! My name is Vincent Medellin. In this case, when referencing my illustration practice, I prefer my penname, Vinny “Zigzag” Medellin. Why Zigzag? The art style that I have cultivated over the years has incorporated a loose, gestural style. Also, it is fun for kids and the “kids at heart” to say! I work both digitally (using my iPad) and with traditional mediums. The materials I use range from cardboard and grocery bags to masking tape, colored pencils and crayons. The idea is to encourage kids to use materials that are readily available to them. This stems from a cultural motivation for sustainability. A philosophy that can best be described as “rasquache” among Mexican American communities. Essentially, rasquache means, “use what you have.” By referencing this philosophy, I hope that my art can be viewed as unique, welcoming, and approachable. The artwork I create (both in my fine art and illustrative practice) is community focused. I have partnered with organizations such as The Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art, Mattie Rhodes, and Johnson County Library to reach thepublic. In addition to working as an artist, I have worked in bookstores and libraries. A trend that I have noticed among non-white, underrepresented groups, is an interest in manga storytelling. Watching kids race to these sections, checking out manga in droves, inspired me to look deeper into the intersection between this style of graphic storytelling and the lived experiences of non-white youth in America. Naturally, this led me to analyze my own experience with manga/anime in hopes of developing and publishing, through a major publishing house, a graphic novel inspired by manga styling. I want to tell the stories of my ancestors, and validate the communities who desire to see more of themselves within comic book storytelling. I identify as Chicano and, like most who identify as such, I feel caught between the margins of society. “Chicano” is a term used by Mexican Americans to describe themselves as being, “not from here, not from there.” Representation of Mexicans and/or Mexican Americans was limited in the United States during the 1990s. Mexicans existed in the media, but as a stereotype or a parody conceived by a dominant white class. Even so, I took what I could get. This is why characters such as Speedy Gonzalez, and his cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez still connect to the roots of millennial Chicano experiences. This was all we had. There was nothing that expressed our lived experiences as Chicano. Nothing that validated our feelings of being marginalized and forced to assimilate. The cartoons we watched told us that Mexicans were a joke. I felt desperate to access the ethnic roots I was being denied. In short, I wanted over the wall that the media had created. Today, I use my artistic practice to not only lift myself above this wall, but to also help empower others to free themselves from the arbitrary parameters developed by colonial conquest.

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Our pal Leonard Raskin just returned from Ireland and Italy while Nestor hadn't even told him about his South American cultural journey back in March. The financial advisor pitching the American Dream tells us about his Roman experience with Irish stout while the sports radio kid from Dundalk talks about walking the streets of Montevideo, the hills of Medellin and scaling Machu Picchu in the Andes. Non sports, although sports is always involved... The post Leonard Raskin returns after European odyssey to compare South America notes with Nestor as American Dream remains alive to see the world first appeared on Baltimore Positive WNST.

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 183 by debunking a viral fake Obama housekeeper death story making the rounds on X, using it as a springboard to talk about clickbait disinfo accounts and the broken incentive structures that make them profitable. Then Jon takes the show deep into one of the stranger corners of the Pizzagate universe: Cheesy Bay. It starts with a 2016 Reddit post from a thong-sandal-wearing Hawaiian distillery worker who discovered 30 constantly rotating Wi-Fi signals coming from an underground concrete pad, strange heat sources, and buckets of dissolved organic matter on his employer's farm in Oahu. That employer, a man named Dave Flintstone, was linked to an eBay account called "Cheesy Bay" selling broken hard drives, and to hacked emails connecting him directly to the Comet Ping Pong booker and Obama's EPA Director Lisa P. Jackson, who was operating under a fake government alias. Jackson also sat on the Clinton Foundation board. The episode closes with the bombshell that in 2025, a man named David Flintstone was arrested in Medellin for sexual exploitation of a minor and later escaped from prison.

Lunes 4 de Mayo de 2026 Ya esta disponible MEDELLIN TECHNO PODCAST 318 Presentado por DERAOUT Invitado: Jhonatan Ospina Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/jhonatanospina_official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jhonatanospina_official Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/artist/jhonatan-ospina/1067971 _____ Design: www.boldbravestudio.com _____ #medellintechnopodcast #medellin #techno #podcast #djset #deraout

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New-York, Montréal, Penang, Berlin, Barcelone, Amsterdam... Partout dans le monde, les villes durcissent leurs réglementations pour freiner la prolifération des locations touristiques de courte durée. Principale cible : Airbnb.   En moins de 20 ans, la plateforme est devenue un acteur majeur du tourisme mondial avec une offre dans plus de 150 000 villes, plus de 8 millions d'annonces actives pour un chiffre d'affaires de 11 milliards de dollars en 2024. Au départ, alternative moins chère aux hôtels, permettant une expérience d'hébergement plus authentique pour les voyageurs et un complément de revenu pour les propriétaires, Airbnb s'est petit à petit métamorphosé et avec, les villes visitées. Pour beaucoup de propriétaires, la location courte durée est devenue une aubaine bien plus rentable que la longue durée.   Conséquences pour les habitants, une offre de logements disponibles qui s'amenuise, une hausse des loyers et une cohabitation de plus en plus tendue avec les touristes et les fameux « digital nomads ».   Les capitales ne sont pas les seules concernées. En France, par exemple, des communes de taille moyenne comme La Rochelle, Biarritz ou Nice ont vu leur centre-ville se transformer avec Airbnb. Les épiceries, les cordonneries, les magasins d'optique ou autres quincailleries laissent place à des coffee shops, des commerces de restauration rapide ou des magasins de souvenirs. Néanmoins, pour d'autres communes, l'arrivée d'Airbnb a permis d'améliorer l'offre d'hébergement touristique et de redynamiser la vie locale. Alors quelles sont réellement les conséquences d'Airbnb sur les villes ? Et comment elles s'organisent face à l'explosion du tourisme de plateforme ?   Cette émission est une rediffusion du 15 décembre 2025. Avec : • Chloé Tegny, cheffe de groupe au Département opinion de l'Ifop. Co-autrice avec Jérôme Fourquet et Sylvain Manternach d'une étude pour l'Institut Teram Tourisme 2.0 : anatomie de la France Airbnb parue en octobre 2025   • Francesca Artioli, politiste et urbaniste, maîtresse de conférences à l'École d'urbanisme de Paris de l'Université de Paris-Est Créteil. Co-autrice avec Thomas Aguilera et Claire Colomb de Housing Under Platform Capitalism : The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities (Editions de l'Université de Californie, 2025). Un entretien avec Najet Benrabaa, correspondante de RFI à Medellin en Colombie, où l'expansion de la plateforme Airbnb a transformé le visage de la ville.  En fin d'émission, la chronique Voisins connectés d'Estelle Ndjandjo, sur l'évolution des sociétés africaines mondialisées à travers les écrans, les réseaux sociaux et la technologie. Aujourd'hui, elle s'intéresse aux filtres qui permettent aux utilisateurs noirs d'éclaircir leur peau. Une nouvelle forme de dépigmentation mais virtuelle.  Programmation musicale :   ►Trafic locaux - Limsa d'Aulnay & ISHA ►Perdon - Ruta Calavera.  

New-York, Montréal, Penang, Berlin, Barcelone, Amsterdam... Partout dans le monde, les villes durcissent leurs réglementations pour freiner la prolifération des locations touristiques de courte durée. Principale cible : Airbnb.   En moins de 20 ans, la plateforme est devenue un acteur majeur du tourisme mondial avec une offre dans plus de 150 000 villes, plus de 8 millions d'annonces actives pour un chiffre d'affaires de 11 milliards de dollars en 2024. Au départ, alternative moins chère aux hôtels, permettant une expérience d'hébergement plus authentique pour les voyageurs et un complément de revenu pour les propriétaires, Airbnb s'est petit à petit métamorphosé et avec, les villes visitées. Pour beaucoup de propriétaires, la location courte durée est devenue une aubaine bien plus rentable que la longue durée.   Conséquences pour les habitants, une offre de logements disponibles qui s'amenuise, une hausse des loyers et une cohabitation de plus en plus tendue avec les touristes et les fameux « digital nomads ».   Les capitales ne sont pas les seules concernées. En France, par exemple, des communes de taille moyenne comme La Rochelle, Biarritz ou Nice ont vu leur centre-ville se transformer avec Airbnb. Les épiceries, les cordonneries, les magasins d'optique ou autres quincailleries laissent place à des coffee shops, des commerces de restauration rapide ou des magasins de souvenirs. Néanmoins, pour d'autres communes, l'arrivée d'Airbnb a permis d'améliorer l'offre d'hébergement touristique et de redynamiser la vie locale. Alors quelles sont réellement les conséquences d'Airbnb sur les villes ? Et comment elles s'organisent face à l'explosion du tourisme de plateforme ?   Cette émission est une rediffusion du 15 décembre 2025. Avec : • Chloé Tegny, cheffe de groupe au Département opinion de l'Ifop. Co-autrice avec Jérôme Fourquet et Sylvain Manternach d'une étude pour l'Institut Teram Tourisme 2.0 : anatomie de la France Airbnb parue en octobre 2025   • Francesca Artioli, politiste et urbaniste, maîtresse de conférences à l'École d'urbanisme de Paris de l'Université de Paris-Est Créteil. Co-autrice avec Thomas Aguilera et Claire Colomb de Housing Under Platform Capitalism : The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities (Editions de l'Université de Californie, 2025). Un entretien avec Najet Benrabaa, correspondante de RFI à Medellin en Colombie, où l'expansion de la plateforme Airbnb a transformé le visage de la ville.  En fin d'émission, la chronique Voisins connectés d'Estelle Ndjandjo, sur l'évolution des sociétés africaines mondialisées à travers les écrans, les réseaux sociaux et la technologie. Aujourd'hui, elle s'intéresse aux filtres qui permettent aux utilisateurs noirs d'éclaircir leur peau. Une nouvelle forme de dépigmentation mais virtuelle.  Programmation musicale :   ►Trafic locaux - Limsa d'Aulnay & ISHA ►Perdon - Ruta Calavera.  

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In this episode of Gangland Wire, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence detective Gary Jenkins sits down with former drug trafficker Carlos Perez for a direct, unfiltered discussion about the evolution of the drug trade in America. Carlos has a new book out titled Pedro Pan: The Product of a Revolution Gone Bad The conversation opens with recent controversy surrounding the reported death of  the Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader El Mencho, and what that development signals for the balance of power among modern Mexican cartels. From there, Gary and Carlos trace the arc of the drug trade from the Caribbean smuggling routes of the 1970s and 1980s to the dominance of today's cartel-controlled corridors. Carlos reflects on the era of Ronald Reagan and the early “War on Drugs,” describing a time when enforcement was uneven and smugglers routinely exploited weak regulatory environments in places like the Bahamas. He explains how traffickers adapted faster than policymakers, using maritime routes, small aircraft, and coordinated pickup operations to move multi-ton quantities of narcotics. Gary and Carlos contrast those earlier days with modern interdiction efforts—advanced Coast Guard surveillance, satellite tracking, military-grade radar, and cross-border intelligence sharing. What was once opportunistic smuggling has evolved into highly structured cartel logistics supported by corrupt officials and narco-state dynamics. Carlos provides a candid account of his own rise in the trade. Starting as a construction laborer, he moved into pickup crews retrieving floating bales of drugs in open water. Over time, he became involved in larger-scale operations involving aircraft and organized distribution networks. He details the operational mechanics, the risks, and the constant calculation between profit and prison—or worse. The discussion also explores the blurred lines between political authority and cartel influence. Carlos explains how governments in certain regions became intertwined with trafficking operations, illustrating how power, money, and violence intersect across borders. In the second half of the episode, Carlos shifts to a personal reckoning. He discusses the moral compromises required in the drug trade and the toll it takes on family and identity. Ultimately, he chose to step away, prioritizing stability and long-term survival over fast money. Now living a legitimate life, Carlos has documented his journey in his book Pedro Pan: The Product of a Revolution Gone Bad, offering readers a firsthand account of smuggling culture, Cuban heritage, revolution-era influences, and the psychological weight of that world. His story reflects both personal accountability and a broader commentary on the human side of organized crime. This episode blends law enforcement perspective with insider testimony, giving listeners a rare dual lens: the cop who chased traffickers and the man who once outran them. Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Subscribe to the website for weekly notifications about updates and other Mob information. To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. Transcript [0:00] Hey, all you wiretappers, Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence [0:03] Unit detective. It’s great to be back here in the studio. It’s a cold day in Kansas City, Missouri, but we’re going to talk to a warm state and with a man that lives in that warm state, Carlos Perez. Welcome, Carlos. How are you doing, Gary? Doing good? Yeah, I’m doing good. A little cold, and I know it’s much warmer down there. We talked about that. Carlos was involved in the drug business, which is quite topical right now, especially today. Now, this won’t come out today, but as of over the weekend, the Mexican government arrested the El Mencho, the head of that, I can’t remember the name of that cartel. It was a Western Mexico, the state of Jalisco cartel. And somehow he got killed on the way to Mexico City as they’re transporting him. And his guys, the cartel members, are going crazy. Carlos, let’s talk about that a little bit, about this new war on drugs. When I was in Ronnie Reagan’s war on drugs, it was different than it is now. Now we have this new war on drugs with blowing drug boats out of the water. And this guy dies on the way to the bigger jail. Well, let’s talk about that a little bit. Carlos, how would you, as a former drug trafficker, how do you react to that? [1:18] The laws change. And the more that the smugglers change, the more that the system to catch them changes also. In fact, when you’re talking about Ronald Reagan’s war on drugs, there was quite a few things that allowed the smugglers to succeed. One was, most of it, and I’m talking Caribbean now, most of it was going through the Bahamas. The Bahamas had laws at that time where anything governmental was not allowed to land nor dock a boat anywhere in the Bahamas without the permission of the Bahamian government. Which, by the time they got to wherever, if they reacted, if they were advised of some drugs coming in, it would take them a long time to react. I think they had two boats for all the islands that had to travel back and forth. You never, you couldn’t, they couldn’t, the DEA, the Coast Guard, they couldn’t catch you. [2:12] And when you fly a plane in, you just land anywhere and say hello to the DEA as they’re flying by because they can’t land. And therefore, you score the load that you have. Nowadays, Jesus God Almighty, now you’ve got the Coast Guard out there. You’ve got the Coast Guard citation constantly flying, plus Navy. But you couldn’t get it done. And back in those days, that’s the way it was done. It was the Bahamas played a huge part. The prime minister of the Bahamas was so heavily, even though he never. [2:42] Did any time or anything he was heavily involved he took payoffs to left left and right the whole the situation is completely different now you got AWACS flying overhead that can hear you when you’re in the bathroom anybody here’s my opinion on that I want to know who in the hell was in charge of sending those boats out of Venezuela that after the first one got blown up who was telling them to keep sending boats over now if maduro this is my theory if maduro was smart he would have stopped that if he was really the one in charge he would have gone god you got to make me look better you can’t keep doing it that tells me he was not in charge of the shit okay so there’s someone behind that kept going send them we got to see if we can score keep the score, i don’t know how he kept doing that that was to me that was such a stupid move especially when you You see that you’ve got half of America’s Navy sitting on your doorstep, and you keep trying to send drugs. What are you, nuts? The Pacific, they should have gone over to the Pacific, where there’s less surveillance, and maybe run it up the Pacific coast by land. [3:53] Okay. Try to get it into Mexico by land. Because back in the day, Mexico was not really involved at all in that. It was the Caribbean. And then when the Colombian cartel, which was Medellin cartel, when they stopped losing so many loads, they started to go to Mexico. And through Mexico, they just flew small planes, landed in the woods somewhere in Mexico, and then they moved it up. That was not – you weren’t doing that in the Caribbean by that time. And talking about Reagan’s war on drugs, I had two – this is the sideline. I had two little boats coming in from the Bahamas that had marijuana on them. [4:35] I still got to laugh at this freaking idiot. One of them, they were coming in from – Bimney’s only 47 miles away. You can almost do it on the fumes of a gas tank. This guy forgot to gas up. Coming over, he gets stopped by the Marine Patrol, right? As they’re searching him, the other boat had gone through but was wondering where his partner was, and he goes back to see where the guy is. [5:01] How’s that for – anyway, they get them both. It was a total of about 1,200 pounds. That had come from Jamaica, that’s about –, And the vice president, who was Bush, was at the Coast Guard dock when they were unloading the boats. And I was sitting there watching, going, damn, they look like my boats. And when I investigated, it was a—but that was one little incident that had happened. But the difference between yesterday, yesteryear, and now is chronologically things change. They trump the other everybody that was a president or that that had something to do with stopping the trade with drugs never really stuck their foot in deep to stop it it makes me feel like yeah you’re not really you’re talking a lot but you’re not really doing much because if i was a cop my god i usually i’d have had all kinds of medals from stopping these people because it’s an easy thing but no one really had the interest who was involved economically up the top god and only In the Bahamas, I knew who it was. It was the prime minister. Knew his people real well. In the States, everything changes every couple of years. And you don’t know what they’re thinking, what their process of thought is to try to stop this. You know what it was? None. They didn’t try. Okay, they did not try. [6:22] There used to be, oh God, probably about two or three DC-3s a night landing in Bimini, 47 miles away. Okay? Each one of them had 10,000 pounds on it. The boats were running up the river, the Miami River. Once you get inside on a river, inside land, you pretty much already scored. That changed. Then it went to freighters, fast boats going out, picking up, coming in. Then when the United States stopped that, when they declared, we’re going to be able to stop any boat anywhere in international waters. You couldn’t do it back then. [7:02] When that ended then you began with the airplanes the airplanes would take it this is still back when you when the US or any governmental agency could not, set foot in the Bahamian territory, Bahamian waters, without the prime minister’s knowledge. The prime minister’s involved. You’re not going to get it. It’s not going to happen. So that change, and it went to small airplanes. Fly it in anywhere you want in the Bahamas, and then get your boats, and from there on in, try to see what you’re thinking, your process of thought is going to be to get it from the Bahamas, some of the shorter points to the States and to Miami at that point. One of them for me was easy. And that was because I had information on the Miami tower and where in the hell everything was at any point in time. So I would sit and wait for my messenger to get back to me, to tell me where the smoker was, which was the big Coast Guard boat and where the citation was. Once I knew that, I knew I could come across. And the only thing I was going to run into was fishermen. [8:10] So things changed. And then they allowed things change after that. And obviously they were allowed to go into the Bahamas and do whatever they wanted. But that was when Pinland was finally out. I don’t know who the prime minister became after that, but it changed. And now it became, this is why I think that the cartels were stupid. They, instead of doing as much as you could without getting noticed, they started bringing in loads of 10,000 and 20,000 kilos. I was like, God, what the hell do they get all that? I know where they get it, but since I know how the situation goes, I want to know how they amass it and get it onto one boat or one container or whatever and not have it noticed. That’s just way too much to not notice at one point or another. People get edgy around shit like that. In other words, I could take two people and put them in front of a container and separate them and tell one of them, that’s full of drugs, and then tell the other one, no, that’s full of furniture. And then stand both of them there and see who gets nervous. [9:16] It’s human nature. It’s human nature. If you know something bad is going on, to feel it and to react. Why they did that, I don’t know. I was one of the ones, if not the only one, that was sent to Mexico to teach them how to put airstrips in the middle of the jungle, how to protect them, what to do with them, where to put potholes with certain rocks, get them out when they play in the stomach, put them back in when he’s done so if anyone else tries to land, they’re gone. But how it got so deep, I’ll never understand that. And I was pretty much in the beginning of smuggling as to notice chronologically how everything’s seen because I stayed for quite a while. Yeah. Now, Carlos, you’ve written a book about this. What’s the name of that book? The book is called Heisting the Beard. I just need the beard. The beard with a D, meaning Fidel Castro. Ah, interesting. Yeah, he’s just in Cubans when they go like this to their chin or they mention him and they mention him as the beard. He was heavily involved in the decision-making of Cuba running drones. [10:27] That book is about, oh, I ran into a guy. This is how this happens, which is really fun. I ran into a guy who I used to call him by the name of Banco. And he came and told me that he knew where there was a big load of drugs, jewels that they had pilfered from the ocean where they knew that shipwrecks have gone down. Because no one can dive around Cuba. And Cuba is a country that held all the gold before it went to Spain. Everything stopped there and went on. So he told me he knew where there was a warehouse that was holding that plus a lot of coke. And I had ways to get in. I have a friend who’s Bahamian, who was actually one of my partners, who’s from Ragged Island in the Bahamas. Ragged Island is maybe… [11:17] 20 miles off the Cuban coast, down on the eastern end of Cuba. So it was easy for me to sneak in. Everyone thinks of Cuba as this military power, Russia’s buddy. They didn’t have shit. They couldn’t put a plane in the air. They didn’t have patrol boats. They had patrol boats, but I swear I could out-swim them. It was ridiculous to see at what point they were developed as far as a country. And it was like, everything is going downhill as today, and it keeps going downhill. So I would sneak in on a Zodiac. [11:53] And I’d hit the coast, middle of the night. No one would see me. I speak perfect Spanish. I speak a Cuban dialect. So I wasn’t going to get caught by it because I looked like a black bean in a pot of white rice. It wasn’t going to be like that. So we figured out where everything was, and we went in and took a little look. And got awake after a lot of headaches, but we were able to do that. There’s other instances where there’s an airport right next to Havana called the Varadero Airport, and it’s a military airport. And I know that they were holding a lot of cocaine that was going in there. The reason I know that is because hearsay in the streets in Miami, you go drink a little Cuban coffee somewhere, you hear assholes talking garbage, and they would say that they were getting boats ready to go to Cuba to bring in whatever they had. So it’s not really why they make it a mystery as to why they were involved. If you think logically, let’s say you leave Colombia and you’re doing business with Cuba. Wouldn’t it be safe to just, oh, you’re chasing me, let me land in Cuba and I got no problem, not because they don’t want you here, but they want me here. That’s logically speaking. So why that… [13:11] That mystery among people that they weren’t involved. What are you, crazy? Not only that, recently, you might have seen it, they’ve had a Carlos Leder Riva. Okay. [13:27] Carlos, can you say that over again? It just zeroed out to say that over again. After you said Carlos Leder. Leder Rivas. Yeah. Now, whatever you said after that, say that over again. [13:45] Carlos Lerder Rivas recently has done some interviews on the drug trade. He did a lot of time in the States over the Norman’s Key transporting point where all the coke would go there. And then, like I told you before, they fly it into the Bahamas and then over into the States. He recently has been on saying how he was personally involved with Raul Castro. I have no doubt about that. I knew him personally. i flew a couple times into that island where it was transported out so i know what he was told the reason i also know that is everybody has this pablo escobar myth in their head he was neither the boss and he was neither the money man the money people were the ochoas the military his might and his force did not come from him and his mouth that he could do this and that it comes from rodriguez gacha who had a 2 000 man private army and he was one of the members of the cartel and they never tell you who started it all and it was carlos letter rivas he was the one that started the cartel he’s the one that wanted to be on in the colombian parliament and was looking for votes escobar is he was a he was a late comer into all that stuff the only reason they put him out there that I can understand is because they just wanted to figure out that they could knock the hell out of later on. [15:09] Okay? Because when he started fighting against Los Pepes, which was that organization that got together to try to kill Pablo, Pablo reversed it on those guys. He got rid of almost all of them, but it wasn’t him. It was Rodriguez. [15:24] Rodriguez gotcha. He’s the one. And he was involved in the Emerald business before he got into the coke business. He was the guy, let me tell you what, when Pablo was around, and I only saw that once, when Pablo was around Gacha, okay, this was down in La Guajira, in the high desert in Colombia. When he was around Gacha, you could tell that he was subordinate. He was scared. He was like, damn, if I mess up with this guy, he’ll take my head off. [15:53] So people really have the whole story, Pablo, Pablo, my, you know what, Pablo, my ass. There’s a lot of people who you had to have money to do those things yeah and in those days they were strong enough because of the ochoas well they could gather big loads a thousand two thousand keys and put it all together but as time went on chronologically that shit changed okay i can remember once getting a load where it had it damn you they labeled it they labeled everyone One had one name, one had the other So what they were doing at that time Was it got so tough on them Because of Pablo’s big mouth And because of his, I’m going to take over Blowing up a plane Doing a few other attacking parliament All those things You couldn’t put those loads together To me there’s no cartels anymore To me they’re government Narco systems You. [16:55] The Mexican government is definitely involved with the cartels. And as you saw, we went after a cartel in Venezuela, but the head of the cartel was the Venezuelan government. So what they are is narco states now. And you know how hard it is to attack or to deal with a narco state? Now you’re dealing with a government entity that has a lot of power. It’s a completely different ballgame. And Venezuela themselves, including Cuba, had a diplomatic immunity flying into different countries with the drugs. And they could put a load of cocaine on and fly into Spain, and they had no problem with it. And they were doing those kind of things, I would say, recently, like within the last 10 or 15 years. Maybe even since Maduro has been there, which is about 20 years, that they’ve been doing that. Really, the United States can get information on anything they want. They had this information but couldn’t do anything about it. [17:57] So chronologically, everything changes. Back in the beginning, let me tell you, the first time I made a little money was hauling some marijuana with old Touch Brown from the Everglades. And I worked like a Hebrew slave for four days in the swamp hauling bails from marijuana and into the into the everglades and then over into miami and it was completely different game and you know what they didn’t cheat me for one penny they didn’t cheat me for one penny and how much came in 40 tons on one of the boats yeah it was 80 000 pounds on a freighter and we worked like little like slaves and they paid me like two weeks later, they paid me $2. I’ll tell you that story in a minute. You asked me a while ago how I got started. Should I answer that, or you got another question you want for me? No, go ahead. How’d you get started in that? You started out as a grunt, as we say in the military. You started out as a low-end worker, a guy that transports bales. What did you do? You started saving your money up, and you knew where the connections were, and finally you You bought your own load and just kept getting bigger and bigger. [19:11] In a sense, yeah, it wasn’t drastic. When I came in, here’s the story. I’m in Texas. My mom calls me up and tells me I have an uncle who’s in Texas. He wants to see me. I get together with him, and he’s driving a brand-new Cadillac. This is a guy who, two and two to him is 22. I know he’s my uncle, but he’s a dumb son of a bitch. [19:35] He’s telling me that he’s got a, you know what a roach coach is? Yeah. with those construction things with food. He tells me he has a red smoke in Miami and that he bought a house, got a house, he’s doing really good. And I looked at him and I said, bro, you’re the one that’s crushed. You’re the wetback. I came on a plane a long time ago. He’s telling me stories. What’s going on here? So anyway, he tells me and I say to him, get me a job. I was working as a carpenter in Houston. Straight out of college, I’m banging nails. I said, God damn, I’m banging nails. but I got an education here. What’s going on? So anyway, I loaded up in Houston. I head and I end up in Coconut Grove working for one of the bosses. My job was $500 a week and I had to go and sleep on his yacht about 7 p.m. And by 6 in the morning when the workers started coming in, just go. That went on for about four or five months and I finally said, let me make some real money because I saw he was still moving and doing things economically economically moving forward, and I was sleeping on a boat. So he finally gets me an interview with two of the bosses. And this is a building in Miami that was called the DuPont Plaza building. [20:52] And so we go to the meeting, and I’m talking to the two guys. One of them, they called him El Coronel, and the other one, El Colorado. The Colonel and Red. They were the ones that were handling it. And this was, by the way, this was marijuana, coming from Colombia at that time. So we go in there, and he tells me, no problem. I’ll pay you $2 a pound. Now, understand that at that time, at that point in time, my mind is in Jersey and New York. And if you’re moving 20 pounds from one place to the other, it’s a lot. You’re not dealing with loads at that time. We’re talking, what, 1977 in New York? And I looked at him, I said, you’re fucking crazy. You think I’m going to risk my ass for $2 a pound? Even if it’s 300 pounds, that’s $600. Are you fucking nuts? [21:45] My uncle grabbed me by the shirt, stood me up and said, excuse me. Walked me outside and said, listen, there’s 40 tons coming in. You want the job or not? I went back in. I apologized to you guys. I said, no problem. I will go to work. From that point on, there wasn’t, that’s just, was right about at the end of the big freighters. And so now my uncle invites me to go to Bimini because he had a friend there and they were going to do some job. I don’t know. When we go, I end up running into a younger guy, Bahamian, and I became partners with him. We call him Dreamer. And I said, look, if you can set things up over here and gather up whatever materials you can gather up, I’ll come and get it and we’ll be partners. At that time, a lot of freighters and a lot of boats were being chased by the Coast Guard and what they would do is they would drop, they would dump it overboard. Oh yeah. Ergo the, what they call it, the square grouper. [22:44] Yeah, I’ve heard that before. Bales were floating everywhere. You could go out. So what he would do is he would go on a boat, find bales that were floating. He would call me up, and he would tell me, hey, I salvaged a 300-horsepower engine. Come and get it. I knew what the weight was, so I knew what kind of boat I had to take. So I bought an 18-foot formula. I dug out the hole in the bottom. I made a secret hole. What the what cubans call a clavo a clavo which is you’re hiding it underboard he called me up one day tells me there’s three he can get 300 pounds i left at eight in the morning was back in miami by 11 30 left at about 12 30 went back and picked up another load so in that first job we ended up making a couple hundred thousand dollars from there we bought a bigger boat, Now he started patrolling, All the area where the boats were coming in Because everything flows from the Gulf Down in this area, flows north The Gulf Stream goes north So everything’s going to float this way somehow. [23:54] We did that for probably a year Until one time, I was over there. We were going fishing, and we ran into a duffel bag. The duffel bag had 65 kilos in it that was just floating. At that time, it cost probably around $40,000 a kilo in Miami, let alone New York. We didn’t bother to take it up north. Sold it all in Miami. I used to say to myself, where in the hell does all this cash come from? Because they would pay. We made a lot of money that time. And then we had seen… Carlos, let me interject here. No, no. [24:38] You were making hundreds of thousands of dollars just by picking up cocaine and marijuana that had been thrown off other boats. So you didn’t even have to go buy it, really. You guys were just picking it up, the square groupers, and then putting it together and then bringing it to money. That’s crazy. You are an entrepreneur. You’re a guy that sees an opportunity and seizes it. Tell you what. And that’s exactly how it went, Gary. When we made that big chunk of money, we had seen how things were going because we knew that planes were coming in and landing. And they had whatever it is that they were hauling, either coke or marijuana. So with that amount of money, we bought a plane and I decided to become a pilot. I said, hell, we’re going to cut this down. I’ll fly. We’ll save money that way. And now we can talk to the people down in Jamaica or Columbia and say, hey, we’re coming together. We’re taking a responsibility. We’re not going to middle it. We’re not going to find it. We’re going to do the job. And it took off from there. [25:43] Took off real good from there. Eventually, I see that you are going to build in to have a legitimate life, become a horse breeder and a ranch owner and rub elbows with all the kind of the muckety mucks, if you will, down there in Florida. So tell us about that transition and how did your life change during that time? [26:04] I had a family. I had four kids by then. And I knew that I was in a business where the chances were threefold. I either score or I die or I go to jail. And I didn’t like any of those odds at that time. I was like, you know what? I’ve made enough money. I got a small little ranch out here. I don’t need to do anything. And I decided that was it. I don’t need to be doing this anymore. I’m set. And I’m the kind of person, I’m set with what I mathematically calculate. I’m not like I need almost $20 million. I calculated it to where I knew I could be comfortable. And talking about the mucks and the big famous guys, I had lunch with Sam Walton one time. How did you do that? [26:59] I was at his, his daughter, Nancy Walton, Laurie was heavily into the horse. And by that time I was into horses also. So we used to, I used to show them all over the country and we were in, in Illinois at a horse show. And the setup that his daughter used to put out there was unbelievable. It was like, whew, she really put out a spread. And he happened to be there one time. And it wasn’t like I went and had lunch with him, but a few people sat around, ate a couple of grilled burgers. And that’s my story of Sam Wolfe, the richest man in the world at that time. And look who he’s having lunch with. how really i’ve noticed going to horse races that a lot of the support staff are all hispanic i think because hispanic people know how to deal with horses have an affinity affinity for horses, you’re absolutely right the barn work even me and who as far as the horses went i was a nobody i just had my own little stretch even my workers were mexican they just are good at it they’re very good at that. Interesting. They understand country life, too. Yeah. [28:10] So, what happened? You’re like, you’re going straight. You haven’t really done any time. Surely DEA, I know enough about them that they keep files, and they may not do anything about you now, but they know a lot about you, and they don’t forget. So, what happened here? You can’t feed the government. It’s an entity, not an individual. You know, one guy prosecutes you and he retires. That doesn’t mean your case is over. He hands it over to somebody else and it goes on and on. They didn’t get, I didn’t get caught doing anything. I had too many ways to outmaneuver them and not because I was smarter than anybody else. It’s because I had contact. I had a contact, like I told you, at the Miami Tower where I would call him and say, hey, I need to know where this was. He would call me back and let me know exactly when I could cross. [29:06] So it was a matter of, in my case, I didn’t play Russian roulette. I tried to put things on more of the positive end of it on my side but i’m so they arrested me for money because they thought i had too much first the irs came in and they started checking out the next thing i know is i’m being visited by by the fbi but it was alphabet soup when they showed up at their hotel yeah not the farm i was like what the hell are these guys doing here anyway they grabbed me took me in and i’ll give you a funny story and you used to be a policeman yes all They pick me up, and I say to the guy, the old James Cagney state, I’ll be home before you tonight. Yeah, I’ll be home. You’ll be still writing your report when I’m back home. You’ll still be filling out the paperwork, but I’ll be sitting at home. [29:58] So I played that act. And actually, I did get home pretty quick. I was able to call my lawyer. He actually called up the mayor of Fort Myers. His name was Wilbur Smith. And he was a lawyer also. And Wilbur is the one that got me. It happened to have been on a Friday, which meant if they didn’t work something out, I was going to sit my ass in the jail until Monday. When the judge comes up. But Wilbur got me out of it. Wait a minute. Wait till the dogs get, okay. Can you start that with Wilbur? Wilbur got me out of that when the dogs quit. Let’s see. [30:38] Anyway, Wilbur gets me out of it. I’m walking down the hall with Wilbur to go see the judge real quick. And he says to me, he goes, do you do drugs? Do you have any drugs on you? And I’m like, oh, Jesus. I don’t know. I smoke weed, but I don’t touch anything else. I never have. And he goes, so, okay, we’re okay with that. And in my pocket. I had a joint in my pocket. I pull it out and I go, here. Oh, Jesus Christ, put that back. Oh, Wilbur. Oh, Wilbur’s shit when he saw that. But anyway, I was home. I was home that night. Now, here’s another funny story. I had a, along with this story, I had a maid at the house at the farm. And she was Brazilian. And she was not a resident or anything. That girl took, when they came, went to pick me up. And they took me into, it was a U.S. Marshall. She took off running into the woods. and I’m talking deep Florida woods and when I got back home about an hour later she ends up showing up and I said what are you doing why did you take off like that I was scared they were going to deport me, if you were scared what do you think I was. [31:46] And when they showed up that one time when they showed up you could have sworn that they were picking up Pablo Escobar it was alphabet soup long guns long freaking guns not just People holding their little long guns. Yeah. And I’m like, all this for me? Really? And you know what it is? It’s not long before that happened. They had called me in to do a polygraph. [32:14] The FBI did. I had no problem because they were trying to associate me with the head of the Indian cartel in America, the guy that handled everything, including the money. You might have, did you see Cocaine Cowboys Kings of Miami? Yeah, I did. Okay. The one guy, George Valdez, that was pretty much testifying against the other guys that he said he helped. Like how can you you’re snitching right in front of everybody bro anyway he i had a farm next to his, and the next thing i know because i guess they tried to associate me with him i had nothing to do with him next thing i know the fbi is calling me out they do a polygraph even my lawyer said don’t do the polygraph it’s not mandatory said i got nothing to hide now they told me they were going to ask me about horses they ended up asking me everything except horses until i finally yeah took those things off my fingers i pulled them off and i said this is done and i left not long after that is when they swatted in i was like jesus god who do they think they’re picking up here i’m just a in in uh in sense i’m still even if they know everything i’m still a grunt, I’m working for you. It’s not like I’m Mr. Put-it-together shit. You call me up, hey, we got a job. You want it? Yes or no? But it was unbelievable. [33:41] I went to jail. I did some time in jail. When I got out, I never once again really, even though I got 100 phone calls about you want to go to work, you want to listen to that, I never really thought about it again. My kids were growing up. The youngest one was six or seven by then. And they had suffered because I was gone. Yeah. And I didn’t like that. That made me feel like shit. [34:10] It just, it got to the point where when I was working, I looked at everything economically. Hey, this is what I’ll be able to have. Once you have what you want, economics is bullshit if that’s what you’re working for, because you already have it. Yeah. And when I got out, my thoughts were completely different. My thoughts were that the money is not going to solve any issues I may have. Physically, maybe. Mentally, no. mentally, I’ve got to learn how to deal with a little bit of reality here and figure out who is affected by my actions. And the people that were affected by my actions were people that were close to me. And I didn’t enjoy that. I didn’t enjoy that at all. It made me double take. It made me go inside and do a lot of things. [35:04] So from that point on, I really didn’t know what to do. And so I have a friend who is a big-time producer in Hollywood. We grew up together in Jersey, who told me, wow, you’ve got a lot of stories. You should start writing. I never thought about writing. So I started putting down ideas. I wrote a book. I wrote a bunch of political essays on what was going on in Cuba. See, I grew up in a revolutionary family. My father was in intelligence, and my uncle trained the troops that were going to go to the Bay of Pigs, among other incursions into Cuba. So I came over, I’m six years old. I’m a Peter Pan kid. I don’t know if you know what that is. Now, what is that? You’ve mentioned that before. What is that? Tell the guys. Peter Pan is, it’s not a good translation because it has nothing to do with Peter Pan. In Spanish, it’s Pedro Pan and had to do with a little kid eating some bread or whatever. But in 1960, the Catholic Church got together and decided to send the children out of Cuba so they wouldn’t suffer the wraths of the revolution. In essence, 14,000 kids were put on planes and sent into the States. I was one of them. Wow. I ended up in Miami. [36:27] I was one of them, and I was actually one of the lucky ones because I had family in Miami at that time, so I was able to stay with them. My parents were still back in Cuba applying to leave. Back then, they called the freedom flights. So a lot of those kids though they were sent some of them were sent to alaska montana wyoming really they were dispersed all over through families that were willing to help and and keep them until their parents came so i was one of them that grew up because of my father and my uncle the conversation most of the time if not all the time was around cuba and his freedom so the revolution at that time is going really strong in New Jersey. There’s a family in New Jersey by the name, the last name is Cook. [37:17] And they owned a big factory called Cook, Color, and Chemical. They were very wealthy people, but evidently they lost a lot of land or investments in Cuba. So they were willing to help the revolution and the revolutionaries. They had a big farm in this small little town called Hope. And that little town, you had all the Cuban revolutionaries up there getting ready. I’m talking about going into the woods with every kind of equipment you could think of. And they were training to go to Cuba. Now, here I am, six, seven years old. And I’m running around the woods with these maniacs. They would dress me in camouflage and tell me I was the next generation of Cuban revolutionaries. And I’m like, what the fuck is this guy talking? I didn’t. I was having a good time with all these guys. [38:06] And it ended up being that the new york times caught wind that there were these crazy cubans. [38:12] In the woods in jersey and they had to move their operations down to florida but about what happened in jersey in jersey the mafia at that time they were all involved with the kennedy and the prior to the assassination and everything that was going on they thought that the cubans did it they thought to the mafia. They didn’t know who did it. But there was a get-together one time. I was probably about seven or eight years old, and it was a dove shoot where they had a thousand doves, and they would all line them up and let some of them go, and then they would do a big dove fricassee. But that meeting, I just remember the names because I was being introduced, the son of, and this is Mr. Spud. The names never left me. One of them was Santos Traficante, who was the head of the mafia in in in tampa the other one was fat tony salerno who was the head of the mafia in new york there was my mom’s cousin who was an fbi uh agent and a bunch of other guys that looked exactly like him they dressed exactly like him well i could pick you out of a barrel boy and a lot of these other i grew up in the jersey new york area so i know what tough guys act especially of the Italian guys. So there was a bunch of them walking around like they could take on the world. And this is part of my life. I’m a young person doing it. I really don’t know what’s going on, but I’m picking up on all this stuff. [39:40] They moved to Florida. I’m away from all that stuff for a while. But my parents regularly go to Florida for a visit, for vacation. So every year, I’m running into my uncle and the things that he’s doing, what’s going on. [39:57] And so the life never mentally never leaves me. I’m always, I’m always hearing next year in Havana, we’re going to get them, all this nonsense. So the years go on and on and the situation, you wonder how the smuggling game got started. The smuggling games basically, and I saw a report on this not long ago, some lady reporting on it. You had a lot of educated men that were involved in the revolution that wanted to get their country done. The U.S. government, Secret Service at the ICIA, whoever they may be, cut off the funds when all the bullshit with Cuba was done. You’re not allowed to leave from U.S. soil if we cut you with any arms headed down. And they caught a lot of these Cubans trying to go to Cuba on little boats with all kinds of armament. They didn’t do shit to them. Okay, they just slapped them on the head and don’t do that. But it got to the point where the government was not funding that part of the Cuban Revolution anymore. What do a bunch of college-educated, university-educated men do? [41:06] They’re going to go work at the Fountain Blue? My father worked at the Fountain Blue when he first got to Miami. And there was water fountains that said whites, blacks, and Cubans. He was still trying to drink. It’s like my mother used to tell me. I didn’t know I was white until I got to this country. And now all of a sudden we have white Spanish, white this, white this. It’s ridiculous. So these men were not going to go to work with a little bacon with a little Cuban coffee. They have all these contacts all through Central and South America because of the revolution. So who becomes the primary smugglers? [41:44] Yes, the Cuban revolutionaries. And that’s how smuggling was started in the Caribbean. I’m involved with all these people because of my father and my uncle. My legacy is I can get right in. I don’t have to prove anything to anybody. And that’s how I got to my uncle and him giving me the job with the guy. No, that nonsense. So it’s like the grateful dad said, what a long, strange trip it’s been. It’s been. [42:13] So where are you at now with your life? [42:17] Right now, we’re putting together hopefully a TV show on basically my life, but my life in a novel way, not in a very direct memoir way. And I continue to write. I am married to a wonderful woman who actually led me down this path. I was sitting on my farm doing quite well. My wife at that time had passed away from pancreatic cancer. That’s a death sentence. Yeah, I’ve heard that. [42:52] I didn’t have a will, and everything was in her name because I wanted to protect the family. Yeah. So when she dies, everything’s gone. I’m not knowing which way to turn here. I was 50, 70 years old. I thought I was going to be relaxing and fishing every day, and it didn’t work out that way. I was going downhill like a sled in a snowstorm, boy. I was going to hit eventually. I don’t know what bottom would have been, but I knew there wouldn’t be good. And I ran into a wonderful woman who led me down the road of, we’ve got to write, we’ve got to do this. And she is my manager, and we eventually got married. And sometimes things are tough, but they’re a whole lot better than getting that bottom. Yeah, really. Better than you’re out of jail. You’re not in jail. Not there anymore. What a long, strange trip it’s been for Carlos J.C. Perez. [43:57] I want to know how strange it gets to the point where the DEA comes to me to get information. And I’m like, you guys got to be kidding me. I always knew that when you’re in law enforcement, you depend on information. You go wherever you think the source is, that’s for sure. You think you can get something out of them. Exactly. They ended up being great, by the way. Great guys. Super nice guys. Okay? And if I said any different, I’d be lying. [44:28] But it doesn’t sound like you ever particularly worked for them. You didn’t go back in undercover for them either. No, no, I didn’t do that. Luckily, when I was doing the stuff that I was doing, it wasn’t out. It wasn’t a guns and roses type deal. I don’t ever remember collecting any money or doing anything where I had to have a gun on it. I’ll give you a little tidbit of something that just happened recently. I had to go into a government and reinstate my license or something like that. The lady’s going through it. She comes up with a ticket that I got in 19—now, I’m talking in the year 2000 and probably 14. She comes up with a ticket that I got in 82. It was a ticket. Yeah. The ticket was for $52. Two different tickets, 26 each. Okay. Yeah. You know what that ticket was for? I had come in from the Bahamas in the hull of the boat. I had 800 pounds. The Marine Patrol pulls me over and says, let me see what you got. They go through the whole thing. He finds two lobsters that I had in the live $26 per lobster. I got the ticket. The guy never checked the boat, never did anything. And I got in with 800 pounds, which at that time was like a quarter million bucks. [45:50] Oh my God. Life is funny, man. Life is funny. Life is funny. That’s for sure. All right. Carlos Perez. Now the name of the book and guys, I will, I will have a link in the show notes to it. Remind me of the name of the book, Carlos. Pedro Pan. Pedro Pan, as in Peter Pan. And Ron is bred in Spanish. So there’s something to think about the little magical character, Peter Pan. Not a thing. Not a thing. And it’s a product of a revolution gone bad, which basically is me. I’m an unfortunate product of that. Revolution. You’re back around now. You’re contributing to society. That’s the only thing that’s important in the end. Hey, I have a quick question. Did you ever hear of a book called The Corporation written by a guy named T.J. English? Oh, hell yeah. Read it from cover to cover. As a matter of fact, I know the guy. [46:46] What’s his name? Batista? Was it Jorge Batista? No, Battle. Battle, yeah. As a matter of fact, I know the guys that own the manuscript. Okay tj what’s his name what’s his last name tj english english the only thing he did was write the book off of the notes that they had gotten from a guy that i know his name is tony gonzalez tony gonzalez has another partner by the last name of freitas and what they did was they investigated battle over the years and years and and then somehow ran into english because he had written a couple of books on Cuba. And then T.J. English ended up writing that. And by the way, Battle took the New York mafia and put it on its knees. Yeah, I did a story on the book. And that’s true. He had to get permission. Actually, he had to get permission from back in the 60s from Fat Tony Salerno, and they couldn’t get an approval until Traficante stepped in and said, work with him. And what the hell were they doing then? They were killing each other. They were blowing up their little bolita houses and all that. Oh, that was crazy. But you know what? He was never any kind of a Cuban mafia boss. [48:05] He liked to fight chickens and play the numbers. The Cubans don’t really have a mafia per se. They’re too splintered. And in the mafia, you’ve got to go ask permission to do this and that. These crazy guys, they don’t ask anybody permission for anything. [48:19] Interesting that’s a that’s an interesting world that’s a whole different world that cuban, You’ve got the revolution on one side, the Castro revolution, and then you’ve got the anti-revolution against Castro that’s been going on all these years. And in the middle of it, you’ve got some of these people that were kicked out of Cuba that can’t get jobs and they only want you to work as a waiter or something. And so you go into business and the best business going with your connections is the drug business. And so it’s just a really interesting millage, if you will, or mix of people and situations down in the southwest part or southeast part of the United States. Oh, yeah, you’re right. It is a millage of like, how does this work? [49:04] There’s no sense to it sometimes. No, that’s for sure. I guess I’m glad they weren’t blowing boats out of the water. They might have got you back then. I can’t tell you what. They wouldn’t have dared because I would have said, I said, why don’t you do that? Oh, you get somebody else to do it. Yeah, probably what would have saved my ass anyway is that I have never, ever been money hungry. My family in Cuba, my great-grandfather was a sugar baron. And I’ve heard all the stories about all the money, but I’ve yet to see a penny. [49:36] I don’t work that way. I grew up with a bunch of humble people. And it wasn’t, damn sure, it wasn’t about money. And when I’m young, I’m not thinking like that. But now at my age, I go, wow, man, if I knew then, what do I know now? Yeah, really. All right, Carlos. Thanks a lot for coming on the show. I really appreciate it. No, no problem, Gary. Thanks for having me on. Okay.

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Melissa Kirsch, writer of the New York Times newsletter "The Good List," which gives recommendations and inspirations for living a more joyful and meaningful life, and writer of "The Morning" newsletter on Saturday, discusses her newest newsletter and listeners call in about the new things they've tried that are bringing more joy and meaning to their lives. Photo: A couple reads books outdoors in the Botanical Garden of Medellin, Colombia, on March 20, 2026. (Photo by JAIME SALDARRIAGA / AFP via Getty Images)    

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Notes and Links to Davina Agudelo's Work        Davina Agudelo-Ferreria is a Colombian-American bilingual poet, writer and the founder of her independent publishing company, Alegría Publishing. Agudelo-Ferreira was born in Miami and raised in Medellín, Colombia until the age of 17.    Alegría Publishing was created in 2020 to spotlight modern Latino/x stories and give a special opportunity for upcoming writers to have a platform to present their work.     She also runs the bilingual Alegría magazine, which was founded in 2012 and is published digitally and printed quarterly.  2021 Article in Remezcla: “With Alegría Bilingual Media, Colombiana Davina A. Ferreira Is Uplifting Latine Storytelling   Publishing on Instagram At about 1:40, Davina shares some good Medellin, Colombia slang At about 3:20, Davina expands upon her upbringing and her language and literary lives and literature and writing were places of “refuge” for her At about 6:10, Davina talks about “gatekeepers” and difficulty in getting to read diverse writers and publish; she talks about her publishing company as a response to that  At about 7:50, Davina responds to Pete's asking about her early writing-poetry, journals, etc. At about 9:50, Pete cites Ingrid Rojas Contreras in asking Davina about connections between Colombian cultures and magic realism At about 11:35, Davina responds to Pete's wondering about her take on diversity in publishing and any positive changes in recent years At about 14:15, Davina reflects on the usage of Latine and Latinx At about 16:05, Davina talks about the name of her publishing company and its significance  At about 17:45, Davina expands on alegria vs. joy and their power At about 18:20, Davina talks about the publishing company and its mission and challenges around the COVID pandemic At about 23:05, Davina responds (en español) to Pete asking about her own writing-likes and specialties  At about 26:00, Pete asks Davina (en español) about balancing the personal and the universal, and the balance between the romantic and the cheesy  At about 28:20, Davina outlines the year-round work at a publishing company  At about 30:15, Davina discusses future projects for Alegria Publishing       You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. 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