Guinea-Bissau: Ex-President's Son Led Heroin Gang To Fund Coup
Corruption on the African rooftops.
Edition #117
28.03.2024
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Newsflash⚡ writes fictional stories behind today’s top headlines. This story pretty much wrote itself, to be honest… picturing worlds of corruption and international drug trafficking is a playground for short-form writing. Take three minutes to sit on the rooftops of Guinea-Bissau, sipping palm wine on ice.
Estimated read time: 1.9 minutes.
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Son of Guinea-Bissau's ex-president jailed in US for trafficking drugs to fund coup - BBC News
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bacaizinho bacaizinho bacaizinho
most people never learned how to pronounce my name, but this is not a problem. problems are for the people on the food chain. i live in a world that is different to that.
the first thing people think of… when they think of me… is the lion. but here they make a mistake - I am not the lion. the truth is these games do not interest me.
I am not an animal. I am the creature that named the animals.
so?
i get to decide who i am.
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it was my third time meeting Ibrahim, sipping palm wine, iced, and listening to the sounds of cicadas in fever trees. still a young man - his face was whiter than the devil himself. maybe he did never have nerves of steel, but he was going to need more, many more, before he could negotiate with me, before he could be part of this world. after some time, he said:
“you know why I have been sent here, sir,”
i posed silently.
“we have become stakeholders in a considerably sized Portuguese enterprise running through the Sibes port. we have plans now to… [[cough]] … extend the reach of our imports into north-eastern, central Europe, where quantities are still an issue. many parties are interested in your product and would be willing to contribute significant funds to your… operation.”
“so i have heard.”
“… and the more we can reach, sir… the sooner we can all spend moments like this, in a Guinea-Bissau, with Malam as president.”
this is what i cannot allow.
“excuse me?”
the young man was smiling. it disappeared. he was too smart to be shy, now, though.
“let us not pretend it isn’t true,” he said with a shrug. silly boy. he would be wise to shut up his mouth.
“it is not.”
“i have known you long enough.”
“have you?” i clicked my fingers. four aluminium AR-15 machine gun barrels pointed at his silly head. now Ibrahim looked nervous again.
“sir?”
“well then there is one thing you have not learned about me, Ibrahim, messenger-boy. do not presume that because you sit in the place of your father that you will be granted his respect! you will find that I have more of a ruthless side.”
“i don’t mean to scare you. i mean to make it very clear. if my name is spoken, you know nothing of it. if my ambitions are discussed, you know even less. who has been talking with you like this, eh?”
“no-one, sir.”
i clap. a bullet flies carefully past, but with an eagle’s precision - all orchestrated.
“so you are discussing this now, with no-one, my friend?”
“it is a rumour, sir. it is just a rumour.”
i am calm again.
“ah, I see, well if it is just a rumour, then that is okay.” now i begin to laugh, very forcefully, laugh like older sister has just made a big mistake, until Ibrahim is laughing, too. he is very white now.
i smile, and clap.
another bullet, precision, like a falcon.
stillness. the silence of creatures.
“what do you know of my plans, Ibrahim?”
“nothing, sir.”
“nothing, sir?”
silence.
“nothing, bacaizinho.”
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If you look back in history all the big dogs in politics/establishment/royals/masons have links and connections to some sort of SATANIC EVIL!? BEGGARS BENNISON--EDINBURGH WIG CLUB--NORIEGA IN PANAMA--WEF--ROYALS WITH LINKS TO SAVILE/HARRIS/EPSTEIN etc--BLAIR'S PHANTOM WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION---TWIN TOWERS TRUTH NOT FULLY KNOWN etc--etc. So nothing new today!?
Chilling.