Introduction:
    This is the story of some of my experiences working and traveling in Central America for 23 years. I often worked as a translator for the Nicaraguan Contra (FDN, ARDE, UNO, & others) from 1977 until 1992 when their last office (ANPDH) in San Jose, Costa Rica was closed. During that period I was witness to and knowledgeable of, many criminal activities by the CIA and Central American governments. Among the criminal activities orchestrated by the CIA included cocaine and arms trafficking, murder, torture, political blackmail, sale of U.S. visas, and electronic spying on the telecommunications of foreign businesses in order for certain American companies to gain unfair advantages in international business.The latter activity being one which could easily lead us into a war or seriously damage our relations with many countries.
    You should know from the start that the CIA and Justice Department regularly use elaborate, effective procedures to help cover up the criminal activities of their officials. No one is better qualified to perpetrate a professional criminal operation than insiders who have been thoroughly trained in the rules of evidence and law so as to make a case almost impossible to prosecute, may I mention the JonBennet case, Vince Foster, Oliver North, Waco, Ruby Ridge, J.F. Kennedy, O.J. Simpson, the Chinese espionage where the results of a generation of America's most valuable research was literally sold in exchange for campaign donations, and an endless list of others? Some of these techniques include discrediting witnesses, political coersion, blackmail, intimidation, destroying evidence, planting misleading and false evidence, fabricated accusations, contracting persons with prior criminal records so that their testimony would be subject to question, and murder. Techniques perfected by J. Edgar Hoover and handed down to his gang. This is the legacy left by Hoover, a man who used political blackmail to maintain himself in power longer than any man in U.S. history.
    I think that anyone with common sense should be able to figure out, especially after reading my story, why drug trafficking increases every year and produces more profits than any business in the world today. It should be obvious also, that this could not happen unless a huge number of government employees from various agencies were actively participating and helping the drugs get through.
    I hope that by relating some of my experiences, many others, including former CIA contract employees, who have knowledge about the participation of the CIA in criminal activities in Latin America will be moved to tell their stories and help provide more information. I hope that those who participated or who were witnesses to events, will consider the suffering and injustice that all of this has caused for so many people in Central America and the U.S. Most of the people who participated in these activities did so
only for the money, and even a drug trafficker can have a conscience. I hope that these accounts will help people gain a better understanding of why the War on Drugs will never be won and why we should not allow our relations with foreign countries to be controlled any longer by a corrupt and criminal organization like the CIA. The CIA operates anyway it wishes outside of the U.S. and most of the time ignores the U.S. Congress and other agencies that try to "interfere" with their operations. They say that U.S. congressmen don't know enough about foreign operations to be sticking their noses into C.I.A.'s business. They use the money, contacts, training and infrastructure of the CIA in order to build their own private fortunes from drugs and arms trafficking and which are easily hidden in offshore accounts in the same way corrupt Latin American politicians hide their illicit fortunes. When the CIA wants to conduct an operation overseas that the Congress does not approve of, they just use profits from drug-trafficking operations and the illegal sale of U.S. visas to finance the operation themselves, and of course, skimming off a little of the profits for themselves for being such good Americans.
    The following account is based on my experiences while driving though Central America four times and living and working in Costa Rica for 23 years. I also lived in Panama for three years and one year in Mexico. Some events I witnessed in Guatemala were significant to me personally so I have tried to describe the events in great detail since I couldn't film or photograph what I saw, even though I tried on at least one occasion and was almost shot. One Guatemalan man and his wife begged me to tell everyone what happened to them so that it would never be forgotten, a few minutes later they were both machine-gunned to death. The people in Central America have suffered so much but because there's no way for them to tell their stories, the abuses continue, and they are considerable. While the American news media spend so much time and effort putting pressure on the Chinese government for human rights abuses, they completely ignore the even greater amount of suffering and abuses that have been going on in Latin America, our next door neighbors, since these countries were first invaded by Europeans.

They spend millions televising stories about sweatshop laborers in Asia but they ignore the fact that people of all ages are bought and sold as slaves even today (especially in Guatemala), in Central America, South America and Carribbean island countries. American television reports child labor in Latin America as if it were an occasional practice when it is actually the norm. Once the report is aired, it disappears from the news and there is no follow up or protests anywhere. They talk about how child labor in Latin America should be prohibited but they ignore the fact that these children and their parents are usually barely surviving and that they would be in even worse conditions if the U.S. forced businesses to stop hiring children. Sometimes these children wouldn't even have a home if it weren't for the money they bring home to their mothers. When American politicians complain about the child labor that has already been going on for over a hundred years, instead of helping the children and their families to make higher salaries, the employers fire them and the children end up as orphans sleeping on the streets at night because their mothers can't support them any longer.

The media ignore the fact that millions of Latin Americans work for wages which are no more than slave wages, even by their standards. American tourists go to Guatemala and the Carribbean islands to have fun and come back without any understanding at all of what is going on in those countries because from the time they enter the country they are led around by a tourist guide who only shows them the best the country has to offer. The American government complains because Asian workers aren't being paid enough, while ignoring that Latins have worked for equally miserable wages throughout history and little has been said about it. Central Americans are murdered and tortured every day but if a Chinese dissident is jailed in a demonstration, he's the one who will appear on the nightly news. Our government protests when a black is beaten in South Africa but not when Haitian, Guatamalan and Dominican children and adults are sold every day as slaves to arrogant, rich landowners, abused and worked to death in the sugar cane fields.

    The truth about the things that have been going on for many years in Latin America is only being partially reported, that's why nothing has ever been done about it. In Guatemala the guerrilla have signed a meaningless peace treaty with the scum in the military and government knowing that as long as the U.S. continues to support these murderers, they could only look forward to years of useless struggle and eventual defeat. The U.S. has seldom supported Latin American governments that weren't run by murdering dictators. When Fidel Castro first took over the government of Cuba, he first turned to the Americans, by choice, because he preferred to seek help and establish political ties to a democratic country. But we turned him down, ignored him when he came to the U.S. to try to establish relations, treated him like a criminal and made a fool of him publicly for the whole world to see. Can anyone blame him for turning against the U.S. after the morons in Washington have done something so stupid and arrogant? But we chose to support the dictator Batista and to shun the man who led the movement to overthrow him. It doesn't take much, from looking at our record this century in Latin America, to conclude that our government verbally supports democracy and in practice (where it counts) actually favors dictatorships - and what should that tell us about our own government's attitude towards the rights of its' own people?

   I have included some information and events even though I personally may not be able to explain their significance or offer an explanation. I have learned that even insignificant information can lead to important facts, a technique used by the CIA themselves. The fact is that I saw so many things that due to my job and other obligations, I couldn't take the time to follow up on many of them. Maybe some readers will see something that I put up here and because of their job or other training, they will be able to make better sense out of it than I could. I hope that when and if that happens, that that person will inform me also. I really hope that some readers on the Internet will offer to help fill in the gaps or clarify some things. I have posted a top secret letter that was given to me in Costa Rica giving information about how and where at least one of Oliver North's CIA cocaine traffickers (probably a pilot) hid considerable amounts of his drug money, with the hope that someone more knowledgeable of banking or accounting can help clarify for me what it all means.