Damn Censorship here is Insane, I keep getting most Comments Auto Deleted, so I guess I can't Speak About How I Feel and What can be Done about the Subject Bad Guys of this Video... Can I personally even say Bad Guys on UA-cam? There is a Monopoly on Free Things that Come Out of Your Mouth (not saying the Word after Free right after saying Free, probably won't Post if I personally do) between a few major Platforms, but I am not really allowed to tell you how I feel about that or what should be done, or my Comment won't Process Through the Algorithms... I can't even speak the words I want to... So I effectively can't really speak than, and do not have a Freedom of those sounds that come out of your Mouth now do I?
There needs to be a "The" in front of US, because right now the title reads US SPEACIAL FORCES. TOP SECRET. LATIN AMERICA OPERATIOM. It's not super readable imho
Did Clancy ever write about Che Guevara? I only watched "Jack Ryan" and never read a book by Tom Clancy but i guess i should. Regarding Che Guevara, there have been some released Documents of the German "BND" (basically our CIA) linking German War Criminal "Klaus Barbie" who was paid for quite a long Time by both the US and the BND to help regarding Communists in South America (where he fled to after the War). Once the BND and US Secret Services were done with Barbie, he got captured and prosecuted in France. So the Talk is that he wasn't captured until the 1980s because he was on the Payroll of both the US and German Gouvernment until then Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
Story #7: In 1986, Dutch Schaefer, the leader of an elite paramilitary rescue team on a mission to save hostages in guerrilla-held territory in a Central American rainforest, who encounter a deadly Predator... Dutch was the only man to survive the deadly encounter and fled on a helicopter. Unfortunately the Predator returned to California years later to wreak havoc on the streets of LA.
All the original gafe members of the zetas have been killed by the Mexican military. The last SF boss was herberto lascano z3 he was shot by Mexican marines in 2012
I used to work with a former Green Beret that did a tour in Colombia. The only story he would tell about that was that he got to shoot a bulldozer with a LAW rocket.
I mean the fact he talked about it means it was probably training or something declassifed. I know some GBs and Psyops guys who have been to columbia. They don't talk about work but all the other fun shit they did @UA-camsucks999
As a person who grew up in Honduras for most of my life, I really appreciate the content revolving around Central American operations and events. It is often overshadowed by operations occurring in better known regions like Europe and the middle east. You're a real one for this video Chris, really appreciate this content.
@@mannyb7949 C'mon bruh. They be fight'n overseas for our Freedom of speech , lower taxes, honest elections and second amendment, can't you feel the difference its made for us? Sheesh, why so ungrateful? 😂🙄😅
You speak of proxy wars, the real US military profit is gained through Latin America. There is a reason you don’t see mainstream covering Latin American topics.
I knew one of the guys who did this in the late 90s and early 00s. He had a heart attack while in the Army and was medically discharged, so he had to get a regular job. He had some wild stories about what he did there, outside of his official operations. He couldn't tell us anything about the official operations, or where he was, but his downtime produced some good stories.
My dad was in logistics, while in the Army in the 1990s. He told me they shipped some trucks that looked like a cross between a HMWV and a Jeep south of the border. I don't remember if he specified the country or not. He was never deployed anywhere, but that doesn't mean he was sitting on his hands. I mean, it wasn't like he was in the Navy! (Sorry uncle lol).
danbgingerich, jed, does the US military really put any "effort" into stopping these car-tel people? Anyone who knows anything about the AirForce should know: Cartel's will fail against against a GAU 20mm that fires 6000 rpms! There's no good excuse for a caravan of drug-gypsies to cause all this chaos!
Dude, the first Specialized Warfare units in Latin America specifically fighting the Cartels was from the US Coast Guard... And Americans really give it no credit because the DOD steals all the glory and the USCG is horrible at PR. Of all branches, it was the US Coast Guard going into the jungles like Dutch's team in Predator. The were called DIATs and they were in the jungles fighting since the 80s through mid 90s.
I did a whole video on how the coast guard is fighting the cartels narco submarines! I'll have to research more about this information sounds facinating
I had a buddy that went SF and was in 7th group. He mentioned some of the seasoned guys told him they would be get into tic's in Colombia up till the early 2010s while they were deployed "advising" Colombian forces.
I wonder if I was connected to one of these? I was in the USN and we were off the coast of Columbia in the '90s. We just did a patrol back and forth along the coastline for a few weeks with a SEAL team aboard doing secret stuff. They took over the room behind the sonar room where I worked - that room had a hatch to the top side where they had a bunch of stuff set up and covered with tarps. They would sleep on the floor in the sonar room. It was unnerving to be standing watch next to someone who could and would kill you at the hint of a provocation. Those guys were scary, but they were polite and they cleaned up after themselves - I remember I had to scrub the rest of the deck really hard to make it all match. They must have had some kind of cleanser that was really effective... or they're just really intense about cleaning.
They wouldn't kill you at the hint of provocation, they'd simply restrain you or just go directly to your command lol. Granted, with the amount of steroid and drug abuse they're not the most stable people, but they at least know how to IFF lol.
I can tell you this, I have an older cousin who flew helicopters in the army in the late eighties/early nineties. For the pretty much his whole time in-service he was stationed in Alaska. It was only YEARS later he admitted to us that the pretty much the whole time he was TDY in South America supporting our troops there.
Aka, fascist governments. From Guatemala to Chile, the CIA has destroyed their neighbors and themselves peace and future prosperity by destroying the peaceful existence of central and south americans. If Eisenhower never went stupid with geopolitics, all of the Americas, West Africa and south east asia would be strong American allies and protectorates. Nearly the entire western hemisphere would have adopted some form the constitution and the bill of rights. The world would have been truly free if that stupid domino theory was never picked up.
My father was involved in a lot of this, vietnam vet, 82nd, 7th, jungle warfare school, green beret. He doesn't tell me anything about it (I'm also prior service, OEF), and I've found that he's sort of ashamed of what he was involved in. I've learned that in the 1970's and 1980's the US Army had a pretty significant drug problem of military members abusing drugs, very involved in trafficking these drugs. In the 90's my dad moved on to working in the anti-drug LEO world and came to basically hated anyone who ever used a drug for any reason. He is an extreme hardcore anti-drug person. I think his big personal conflict came in, trying to reconcile his past. I suspect that one of the reasons we hear so little about US ops in South America is that when we peel back layers we can find a lot of criminal acts or unsavory actions, so those involved don't want to write books about it.
It'd shatter, or at least damage the illusion veterans and their families need to believe in. Several years ago I saw a picture of an Abrams that suffered a mobility kill in 91'. A part of me could not believe... did not, want to believe it. Our most vaulted piece of armor was stopped dead in its tracks by a dude with some old Soviet kit.
It was off books to keep the Cartels from retaliation. OPSEC/PERSEC He struggled knowing the friends he lost were labeled as “training accidents” it’s called carrying weight because the truth is the burden
I was a contractor for the 160th. Kurt Muse spoke at our compound in Ft. Campbell KY about Acid Gambit and his story was different from yours. The Little Bird was not shot down by crossfire. The pilot who I know personally flew the Little Bird on the ground to avoid RPG fire. That birds skids where touching the road while the chopper went through intersections and various streets in a high speed chase while returning fire to the combatants that were chasing the bird. Once the Little Bird cleared the hot LZ it flew out of there and got Muse to safety. Muse was arrested by Noriega’s forces for working with the CIA for broadcasting anti-Noriega messages on the radio. Operation Gambit should be made into a movie! I applaud the 160th for making that raid possible!
Yeah it definitely should, I believe an uncle of mine was involved in that operation and I never knew about it till a few years ago. He was also part of the first Gulf War.
I'm using my wife's tablet. I was a 13F with the 3rd BN 319th FA with the 101st. In August of 83, we were deployed to the Trujillo area of Honduras. Our mission was to train Hondurian Soilders how to use M-102 Howitzer and the adjustment of the indirect fire. While there, I bumped into a friend of mine that I served with when I was an 11C with D/1/506th. We were about 7 clicks from his camp. He was training the 11Bs of the Hondo Army. I later found that we were on a route that Cuba(?) used to run guns to insurgent groups on the Pacific side of Honduras. They had some of us repell onto a mountain top and build some bunkers that the FOs were to use, but one was facing the wrong way. It looked out over a big plantation that the bad guys been going through. We didn't see any because they stopped using it. We left in December. Our BN CDR got in trouble with the FatHats when we left. He left all of the howitzer and associated equipment with the Hondos. It made the Army give us new M-102s. They weren't to mad at him, because he retired a 1 star. A quick side story. We had an Army LCM attached to us. One of the crewmembers was a gunner for me back in 75-77 time frame with D/506th.
Heard a similar story from a guy I served with in Germany and the year looks right They were ordered to leave their gear and weapons and when got back to the states all new issue was ready for them
Airborne insert is not obsolete. "Hop-N-Pop" gets personnel on the ground decreasing exposure of aerial resources, even though individuals have heightened risk if LZ is heavily forested.
@@joshschneider9766 to be fair, airborne is still probably the fastest way to insert a force en mass. But not the most efficient way of doing it. I second just driving there.
Funny thing: I trained with the US on the northern part of Chile due to the fact it's a desert. It was army, marines, navy, air force, everybody. It was just a normal FTX; some of us got the chance to further our training in the US as well. Edit: And yes, I'm 100% sure there were some secret squirrel operatives during the FTX as well.
I like the iceberg part. It's always good knowing a bit more about why conflicts start and whos involved. Thank you for all the videos this is my favourite channel
3:51 It's important to note that the "Special Forces Groups" are specifically the US Army Special Forces, widely known as Green Berets. For those who didn't know, special forces in the United States are referred to as "Special Operations Forces" to avoid confusing other units with Green Berets.
@@future_me_6067 Correct. I was giving this information so that people don't think that Delta Force or the SEAL teams are part of 5th Group or something.
T&P, I was Military Police in an MI unit which supported the 'drug war.' In 1999 we lost a surveillance aircraft in Colombia. The 'crash' (shot down?) claimed my CO and some peers. One of the worst days of my life. Thank you for touching on the general SA story. It doesn't get enough coverage and there's so much more involved than people know. And F the FARC. IYKYK
that propensity, bordering on utter madness, of americans to go fcuk around in other's countries, spending countless trillions, while letting their very own country infrastructures crumble and institutions get captured by foreign agents, turning it into a -third world- 💩hole country never ceases to amaze me but not as much as when they found out... 🙄
I would say the FARC can go to Hell, but the fact that they kidnapped innocent children as young as 8 and brainwashed them into being child soldiers pretty much guarantees they're going to Hell.
While serving as a Contracted Employee in 1988 I worked on an Overseas U.S. Military installation. While there I began a relationship with a lovely lady, who just so happened to have a BROTHER whom was working as a Trainer/ Service Technician for the Colombian Air Force Helicopters. This Brother shared that he often ALSO went on routine Air Patrols serving as a DOOR GUNNER. 1988. Go Figure... ♾
Nice. I may have or may not have had "friends" stationed at Diego Garcia in the 90's and 00's that "may or may not" have rerouted flights there and it, "may or may not" have been a CIA fob.
I remember very clearly Operation Golden Pheasant. My best friend went there. The troops from the 82nd they took with them (7th Group) were being pre-selected for Selection. They used it as sort of a "gut check" for troops wanting to go SF. As I recall him telling me, the terrain was absolutely brutal lol.
Fun fact, many of the troops trained by the Green Berets in El Salvador were Children. As the government went to schools to draft many of the School kids. One of the youngest being 12 years old. A couple of these went on to help start MS13 later on.
@@jed-henrywitkowski6470 when you VOTED, you gave power and consent to gangsters to dictate how you and others will live and die, and to do things on your behalf.. 💯💯
My dad was 7th group from 84’-92’. He was deployed to Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras. He never talks about what he did back then and I’ve always been so curious about it. Haven’t been able to find much due to so much of it being classified but this video summed up everything. Thanks man.
My parents are from El Salvador and Nicaragua. I’m born in America and I love America and love my country. But also love my roots. My parents will appreciate it this video. Thanks man salute 🫡 from Texas
I've been a pretty consistent viewer for the last year and love a lot of your breakdowns. Truly, I think these types of breakdowns help bring light to and make more palatable for the average American the vastness of JSOC operations globally. Simply put; do more.
The whole video is awesome! Regarding your question at the end as far as whether or not we would like to see more videos like this. I can't speak for everyone else, but I can say this: the content you put out is awesome, well researched, and delivered in a way that I can understand very well. To be honest Chris you can do a 2-hour documentary about my hand and I would still watch it because of the way that you deliver your material. It's much appreciated, and please keep them coming
Ima have to say no we don’t need anymore like this..not that it’s accurate or anything but just to keep specialized units in the dark so work can be done..that’s why they are there..good info sure but everyone else don’t need to know..sure there are information that are opened source but all the extra stuff should be hidden. 🤘🏾
A couple of things here. It is JCET, not JTEC. Also, no, a JCET (Title 10) is not a cover for any covert or clandestine operations (Title 50). JCET forces can not be leveraged towards unilateral operations nor operations alongside partnered forces. In fact, once a US Ambassador catches wind of anything like that, that entire element will find itself recalled and back to CONUS on the first flight out of there with UCMJ action to follow due to breaking US laws. If/when the US National Command Authority wants to conduct a clandestine operation, it will project the required forces using specific Title 50 operation authority. Also, SFC Greg A. Fronius was not a Marine. The picture (headshot) shown is that of a Marine. Fronius was from 3/7 SFG. Also, the Mexican Marines who took part in the operations mentioned here are not your average Marine unit (BTW, I understand it was not stated as so here, but I wanted to clear that up). As part of SEMAR, they are a Mexican Tier One unit with a significant degree of experience conducting special operations. Regarding Che, his last name is Guevara, not "Guavara." Why do I know? I served in 7th SFG for 15 years.
Yea, he is completely wrong about JCETs, nothing untoward there and US SOF elements from all branches participate. Easily verifiable info, guess he is entitled to a mistake or 2. Additionally 7th GRP ops down south are wild, if Eric Haney's book is to be believed, very wild.
Yeah, the JTEC/JCET thing was bugging me, too. Not to mention all the misspellings and mispronunciations. You really have to take these videos with a grain of salt.
@FlyboyHelosim I think this video was put together in a hurry to create content. The most egregious error was putting someone else's face when discussing Fronius' death.
I'm from Honduras, specifically from an area near Nicaragua, during the 80s the US military built an air strip and a base. And they launched incursions to the nicaraguaan border from there
@@josemanuelrodriguez502 not surprising. They probably had a shell company buy a property and get it through to the right engineers what they wanted. Imagine a whole engineer company posing as corporate engineers 😂
@@joshschneider9766 nooo, the honduran government build it, but the US operated it. You can see the deterioration of the airstrip on google earth time line. This are the coordinates 14°02'37"N 86°25'10"W
@gvibration1 people here had no choice. If you were caught with a cassette from a considered comunist artists they send you to jail to be tortured or thrown from a helicopter. There's a lot of people who vanished during that time.
@joshschneider9766 nooo, all the infrastructure is the government's property, but it was mainly used by the US military. If you see the airstrip on google Earth's timelapse, the deterioration is notable. It was used only during the 80s. This are the coordinates: 14°02'37"N 86°25'10"W
Great video. I was an 0321 man and a few of my buddies contract in South America now. Unfortunately they are on the “other side”. Recon and MARSOC guys training tactics and making money. Crazy stuff. Me, I’m just a stay at home dad now.
It's not "a rundown on the craziest stories on a certain region" @20:20 , it's more of a compelling history lesson that we should all take notice of. Thanks for the work you and your team do. It's very insightful and interesting.
Cappy thanks for this amazing video. I had known a person who worked for a company. He had to go into Columbia to get an asset out which did not go well. It pretty much ended when the asset was captured his entire family tortured in front of him along with the asset. The transportation leader had gotten wind of a snitch. He was the snitch but never talked even as they tortured him to death. I could tell you the ages of the children but there is no good that could come of it. This video was a good look into the operations that take place. And really makes sense when you look at the War on Drugs. That really gave the South American operations legitimacy and a legal path to wage a war. To bad we had to muck it all up.
Cool imperialist hipocrit story bro, id be ashamed to admit that if i were you, you and your little gang of thugs will be a part of history, remembered as those who broke the rule of law and stole on behalf of your corrupt leaders. Lets see if another govt comes and tries to build a river across the u.s. forcefully for their personal benefit. But with Innocent blood on your hands you still want recognition.... i miss the good ol days when people felt shame.
@@l-_-lForkBombl-_-l what service? violating other countries sovereign territories to kidnap, torture, and kill their citizens following orders from corrupt US politicians that do the oligarchs's biding??
Salvy here. My Uncles fought in the Civil War. Two of them were sent to Fort Bragg and came back to form BIRI Atlactl and BIRI Belloso. They both told me that they would insert with American Special Forces and CIA.
My best friend in high school was from Mexico. He was murdered by the blood gang after being enticed to join. I completely support any of these operations and I wish them to be expanded. R9X calling!
@FarmerDrew im really sorry that happened to your friend and youve got to live with it man, and i understand why you feel that way, but the operations in mexico where delta force train and work with the actual established mexican government to capture cartel leaders are much, MUCH different then delta force funding, training, and fighting alongside revolutionary guerrila forces trying to overthrow a government. The latter is much worse. Its like the US military supporting the actual mexican army vs the US government backing the cartels organized into a revolutionary army in a mexican civil war because the US didnt like how the mexican government's policies were growing inconvenient for the US. If you dont want things like what happened to your friend to other kids in the future, hold your government to a higher standard and make it known that your government recklessly backing non-state actors with a history of war crimes, alongside racketeering and drug running to fund their warfare is absolutely unacceptable.
The hate and separation created in the 80s and 90s persists to this day. I ran an NGO with a branch in Nicaragua for 20 years. We worked training doctors in hospitals mainly. Every morning, you would get the usual clinical meeting where maybe 50 doctors in a room gather to discuss the day´s cases. But in a Nicaraguan meeting, half the doctors stand or sit on the left of the room (the Sandinista Marxist faction) and the other half, or non-Sandinistas, would be on the right side of the room. There hasn´t been unrest in Nica for over 30 years, to give you an idea.
@@gvibration1 Because after 30 years all that´s left is the ideology. It´s dificult to generate constant tension with someone you work, eat and socialise with so it´s diluted into small gestures to help you remember what you fought for .
I love your historical analysis and deep dives into records, but I just LIVE for the way you absolutely mangle foreign words and names. It's so adorable. Please never change.
The fight against drugs needs many approaches and the special forces is an important one. However, the only way we will have positive effects on both sides of the border is targeting DEMAND. It is an American problem....we absolutely love/need to get high. This War on Drugs is an endless Afghanistan if you don't treat the user.
I wonder why so many people take drugs, with all the information available about the consequences, particularly the highly addictive ones. We need to develop character, not remedy foolishness.
Legalize it , tax it and use taxes to fund and treat addicts who *actually* want to quit …watch addiction rates plummet Of course this is extremely unlikely because people believe that legalizing all those things would cause the end of the world. When in fact it’s a “forbidden fruit” dilemma Beyond that all the businesses built around the war would become obsolete overnight and they lobby to keep the money flowing ineffectively
@@jimmcfarland9318 because people like drugs. You need to understand that good majority of addicts don’t want to clean and they don’t want treatment. The United States would literally have to force people into treatment and then to keep them from relapsing the supply of drugs into the US has to be cut off
@@Kentuckyhunter58 If they never used them, they wouldn't know if they liked them. Unfortunately, the US medical system prescribes stuff that are analogues to illegal drugs. Pig Pharma is to blame for a lot of addiction. Which is why I stay away from prescription drugs.
Love it.. Keep it up! I was a double major in college history/political science…. You’ve just answered a lot of questions I’ve had…As you learn more.. please keep us informed….. IE: How many troops do we have deployed and where are they located in Africa as well as in differing areas of the Middle East…. I’m sure in both Africa and the Middle East we are facing down Russians (and their proxies) as well in certain areas of Africa we might actually be facing the Chinese (looking after their investments) These are things that we need to know so we can respond to our government correctly with knowledge not assumptions….. We live in a time where correct information is critical….. Your video focused primarily on Latin and South America this area was claimed to be in”our” fear of influence i.e. the west.. our hemisphere.. Africa is much closer to both Russia and China than it is to us. IE: Their hemisphere /sphere of influence… We need to be very very careful… We’ve got enough to worry about with Iran and their affects on the Middle East as well as potential threats here… So let’s not go out of our way to piss off Russia or China any further than we already have… Does anybody really want to have a war with either of those guys or possibly both? As I said before information is knowledge ..knowledge is critical!
From a local perspective it would be assaulting local prison to get an enemy prison out and in turn freeing hundreds of murderers, rapists and criminals.
Sounds great in theory, but once their contracts are over some end up working and/or training cartel goons, perpetuating the cycle. There is plenty of evidence around this issue.
Yeah I’m starting to get the idea that even the drug dealers don’t want to actually do the job. Anyone could be offered a bribe and then blackmailed. And if you refuse the money , then you and your family disappear and someone else is put in place.
US military invention in Latin America, covert or otherwise, has been ongoing for over a hundred years. In the early 20th century, during the "Banana Republic" era of Latin American history, the U.S. launched several interventions and invasions in the region (known as the Banana Wars) in order to promote American business interests. US Marine Major General Smedley Butler (2 Medals of Honor and a Brevet Medal), who is the second most decorated marine after Chesty Puller, wrote this in his book "War is a Racket" (1935): "I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer; a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents." In the CIA-backed Operation Condor (1975-1983), at least eight US-backed military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their political opponents in South America. Highlights of the operation was the Dirty War in Argentina (1976-1983) and General Pinochet's coup against President Salvador Allende of Chile (1973). Estimates are that at least 60,000 deaths can be attributed to Condor, with up to 30,000 of these in Argentina alone. The Central America equivalent to Operation Condor was Operation Charly (1968-1989) which produced the Iran-Contra Scandal. Between 1981 and 1986, senior Reagan administration officials secretly facilitated the illegal sale of arms to Iran, which was subject to an arms embargo at the time. The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras, an anti-Sandinista rebel group in Nicaragua. So, any current covert military operations in Latin America is nothing more than a century old continuation of such operations and the successors to the Banana Wars, Operation Condor and Operation Charly.
Well put, truth for the deniers. We have created a cluster f in Latin America that has resulted in extreme violence, poverty etc that has created mass migration to the US, these so called operations have served to increase in the case of Honduras the military know how on how to control the people of Honduras by means of repression, violence, assassination etc that have resulted in military, police, government officials, Congress people etc etc narcos who control and export drugs to the US. Honduras is a narco state.
It all goes back to our monroe doctrine which was set up to oppose any re colonization of the Americas by outside forces. Namely the European powers like the UK and France
The most famous South American Special Forces mission was made into a documentary when a team encountered an alien that detonated a small nuke upon capture
Iran-Contra was rumored for years, and finally exposed once it became clear that the mission failed. Colombian mercenaries, who operated in Iraq. Even the Israeli IDF have a base-camp training for Latin American operations. US military now has operations in 4 theatre's on 4 continents. That's what an $800B DoD/Pentagon budget can buy. The recently captured 'former' US Navy Seal in Venezuela has put the region on alert, not everyone agreeing to US military operations. Whether the 'threat' from Washington to destabilize the region is real, there is clear resistance that the region is not going back to the days of "Yanqui Imperialism". How Maduro negotiates with his neighbors, as he tries to avoid being assassinated, will determine the rest of the century for Latin America.
As always, I like the more fair and balanced perspective you provide. People hear intervention but only think negatively. Clear theres been situations were we've helped our allies. A shame that the average citizen has so little control and awareness of some of these though.
At least in the case of Mexico, the average citizen and politician tend to view defense cooperation with the US in a negative light (even more so when joint exercises are more frequent, and more and more American soldiers and instructors are entering the country).
@@Antonio_868 which is reasonable, if shoes were on the other foot, i wouldnt like it either. But its important to remember we have as much control over our government as they do.
@@kyledabearsfan Even more so if you take into account the historical background between both countries (Punitive Expedition, the war between both nations which led to Mexico losing half of its territory and Fast and Furious). I had read that by 2030 the air forces of both countries are expected to collaborate in joint operations.
Heavily involved in the region yet things have only gotten significantly worse for American citizens. Typical JSOC activity, completely ineffective. for the American citizenry.
The military operations are a good stopgap, but they pointless long term in fighting cartels if the US can’t deal with is domestic drug abuse/addiction. American drug users fuel the Latin American cartel wars. Supply and demand, cartels have had to diversify their revenue making over the years, but drugs are still the biggest money maker for them.
@@mondomendez5165 look at Amsterdam in the 1970s vs Amsterdam now. They attacked demand via treating it as a disease. And that demand combined with strict enforcement of areas where users congregated and used hit the supply side and wham. If America genuinely did the same it would be a staggering loss to those people 😂
It definitely wont hurt the cartels in the long run. They will keep fighting and keep making tons money in some other way. While yes the us should help addicts the cartels will keep on going until their home country does something about it like el Salvador
@@joshschneider9766 Amsterdam is a good. I agree with legalization, regulation, and taxation to make it an actual market. Legal enforcement. Correct. The cartel do have other ways of making money. Local extortion on a mass scale throughout Latin America, taking over other businesses (Mexico specifically with avocado fields and domestic oil, or California weed stores being extorted across the border) And the cartels second biggest money market is human smuggling of migrants from these troubled countries. Coyotes are lucrative. What frightens me is Americans would rather become like the Philippines and solve the issue of addicts by treating them like the drug dealers. No dealers, no addicts. Equal harsh punishments for everyone.
I was not special forces but I spent 8 months training Colombia forces and also going out in ops and advising them. Towards the end of our stint army SOF guys started showing up and taking over from us. Great dudes to work with, so some wild stuff.
Are you also going to talk about how US Special Forces train soldiers and hitmen for certain cartels? Or how your retired operators hire themselves out to cartels as mercenaries?
Latin America has always been messed up, but probably the biggest uptick in being messed up was when it absorbed economic migrants from Italy and Spain in the early 20th century and then refugees from Spain after they had their civil war, in both cases because large numbers of people with self-destructive ideologies flooded the region. Similar to how the U.S. took a turn for the worse after refugees from the failed socialist revolutions of 1848 in Europe arrived in mass in the 1850s.
@@alanlight7740 that the US couped almost every latin american govt. at least twice under the domino doctrine doesn't mean that latin american politics are self-destructive. It just means the US isn't a democracy but controlled by a handful of billionairs who abuse the US power to protect their personal financial interests abroad. And you pay for all this with your taxes while living under the illusion that you have a choice, sheep.
@@T.efpunkt - is it a complete coincidence that the one part of the world that resisted the influence of socialist ideologies is also the wealthiest large region in the world?
I really enjoyed this long form (iceberg) video. Great layout and format and really great info!! Please continue this style, i really enjoyed it. Thank you.
Great Video Cappie. It's great to learn about military interventions that have never had much coverage or were kept completely hush hush. Nice one mate!
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Damn Censorship here is Insane, I keep getting most Comments Auto Deleted, so I guess I can't Speak About How I Feel and What can be Done about the Subject Bad Guys of this Video... Can I personally even say Bad Guys on UA-cam? There is a Monopoly on Free Things that Come Out of Your Mouth (not saying the Word after Free right after saying Free, probably won't Post if I personally do) between a few major Platforms, but I am not really allowed to tell you how I feel about that or what should be done, or my Comment won't Process Through the Algorithms... I can't even speak the words I want to... So I effectively can't really speak than, and do not have a Freedom of those sounds that come out of your Mouth now do I?
I actually like hearing the stories that went down in south America. Do more of these please
OEF was wild,,,,.
There needs to be a "The" in front of US, because right now the title reads US SPEACIAL FORCES. TOP SECRET. LATIN AMERICA OPERATIOM. It's not super readable imho
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Literally ghost recon wildlands
Witerwee
Saw the title and thought I have to come here to say this 😂
Clear and Present Danger was a book (by Clancy) and a movie decades ago.
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kinda scary that you guys see this real life sht like only was a simple game :(
Clancy was right. Again.
He's always right
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Did Clancy ever write about Che Guevara? I only watched "Jack Ryan" and never read a book by Tom Clancy but i guess i should.
Regarding Che Guevara, there have been some released Documents of the German "BND" (basically our CIA) linking German War Criminal "Klaus Barbie" who was paid for quite a long Time by both the US and the BND to help regarding Communists in South America (where he fled to after the War). Once the BND and US Secret Services were done with Barbie, he got captured and prosecuted in France. So the Talk is that he wasn't captured until the 1980s because he was on the Payroll of both the US and German Gouvernment until then
Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
Makes me want to get on Wildlands pvp. 👍
From beyond the grave.
Story #7: In 1986, Dutch Schaefer, the leader of an elite paramilitary rescue team on a mission to save hostages in guerrilla-held territory in a Central American rainforest, who encounter a deadly Predator... Dutch was the only man to survive the deadly encounter and fled on a helicopter. Unfortunately the Predator returned to California years later to wreak havoc on the streets of LA.
It was a different predator specimen
Classic story we’ve all been there
Yeah but remind me how that ended up for that one.
Sinaloan and Jalisco Cartels: Make TEQUILAs Great Again 🥃
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A lot of Mexican special forces trained by the US at Fort Brag went to work for the Cartels and then became their own cartels like Zetas.
Los Carteles existen porque los gringos les dotan de armamento.
All the original gafe members of the zetas have been killed by the Mexican military. The last SF boss was herberto lascano z3 he was shot by Mexican marines in 2012
You forgot to mention that it was actually Tim Walz that got the headshot on Pablo Escobar! He’s carried guns in to war you know.
@@davemccage7918 Found the cult member.
@@davemccage7918 Yea and Vance filmed it.
I used to work with a former Green Beret that did a tour in Colombia. The only story he would tell about that was that he got to shoot a bulldozer with a LAW rocket.
The missions were meant to be hidden, why would they expose themselves. This is a joke right. We went in and out untraceable.
@maltheri9833 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I mean the fact he talked about it means it was probably training or something declassifed. I know some GBs and Psyops guys who have been to columbia. They don't talk about work but all the other fun shit they did @UA-camsucks999
Oh Hell yeah!
Shit how long was he in country for?
As a person who grew up in Honduras for most of my life, I really appreciate the content revolving around Central American operations and events. It is often overshadowed by operations occurring in better known regions like Europe and the middle east. You're a real one for this video Chris, really appreciate this content.
"It is often overshadowed by operations occurring in better known regions like Europe and the middle east" which is the intended goal.
@@mannyb7949 C'mon bruh. They be fight'n overseas for our Freedom of speech , lower taxes, honest elections and second amendment, can't you feel the difference its made for us? Sheesh, why so ungrateful?
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You speak of proxy wars, the real US military profit is gained through Latin America. There is a reason you don’t see mainstream covering Latin American topics.
@@Jeff4559which is ironic because latin America is our "back yard"
My dad was a green beret who did missions In Honduras lol
I knew one of the guys who did this in the late 90s and early 00s. He had a heart attack while in the Army and was medically discharged, so he had to get a regular job. He had some wild stories about what he did there, outside of his official operations. He couldn't tell us anything about the official operations, or where he was, but his downtime produced some good stories.
My dad was in logistics, while in the Army in the 1990s. He told me they shipped some trucks that looked like a cross between a HMWV and a Jeep south of the border. I don't remember if he specified the country or not. He was never deployed anywhere, but that doesn't mean he was sitting on his hands. I mean, it wasn't like he was in the Navy! (Sorry uncle lol).
danbgingerich, jed, does the US military really put any "effort" into stopping these car-tel people? Anyone who knows anything about the AirForce should know: Cartel's will fail against against a GAU 20mm that fires 6000 rpms! There's no good excuse for a caravan of drug-gypsies to cause all this chaos!
He was part of JTF6….. later became task force north if I remember correctly
@@barryfoster6265There was always crazy stories about them at Ft Bliss. Humvees coming back with cocaine run flats and such
Sinaloan Cartels: Ayyy Gringo hold our TEQUILAs 🥃
Dude, the first Specialized Warfare units in Latin America specifically fighting the Cartels was from the US Coast Guard... And Americans really give it no credit because the DOD steals all the glory and the USCG is horrible at PR.
Of all branches, it was the US Coast Guard going into the jungles like Dutch's team in Predator. The were called DIATs and they were in the jungles fighting since the 80s through mid 90s.
I did a whole video on how the coast guard is fighting the cartels narco submarines! I'll have to research more about this information sounds facinating
@@Taskandpurpose "Stand down Cappie, that shit is classified!" ~ DIAT
Sinaloan Cartel: Ayyy Gringo, hold our TEQUILAs 🥃
Great comment I love it @@KamBar2020
@@jamesfarrell8339hes spamming it in comments like a bozo
The movie Tears of the Sun, in the movie took place in Africa. But, in reality it was based off of a mission done by JTF2 in South America.
That movie was terrible.
@@longsleevethong1457ima go watch it. I’ll b back with my review
JTF2 like Canadian special forces JTF2?
@@Vincent-vn7xo yes, you can even look up the back story. No names, but verifiable
@@CDNR711 Thats cool, I never knew that! Thanks for sharing
I had a buddy that went SF and was in 7th group. He mentioned some of the seasoned guys told him they would be get into tic's in Colombia up till the early 2010s while they were deployed "advising" Colombian forces.
I wonder if I was connected to one of these?
I was in the USN and we were off the coast of Columbia in the '90s. We just did a patrol back and forth along the coastline for a few weeks with a SEAL team aboard doing secret stuff. They took over the room behind the sonar room where I worked - that room had a hatch to the top side where they had a bunch of stuff set up and covered with tarps. They would sleep on the floor in the sonar room. It was unnerving to be standing watch next to someone who could and would kill you at the hint of a provocation. Those guys were scary, but they were polite and they cleaned up after themselves - I remember I had to scrub the rest of the deck really hard to make it all match. They must have had some kind of cleanser that was really effective... or they're just really intense about cleaning.
Oh they're really love *cleaning* alright
Colombia*
Sunlight dish soap, the preferred soap for cleaning oil spots in parking lots.
They wouldn't kill you at the hint of provocation, they'd simply restrain you or just go directly to your command lol. Granted, with the amount of steroid and drug abuse they're not the most stable people, but they at least know how to IFF lol.
@@KABLAMMATS From Clorlox to lead, I agree that their good at cleaning!
I can tell you this, I have an older cousin who flew helicopters in the army in the late eighties/early nineties. For the pretty much his whole time in-service he was stationed in Alaska. It was only YEARS later he admitted to us that the pretty much the whole time he was TDY in South America supporting our troops there.
Aka, fascist governments. From Guatemala to Chile, the CIA has destroyed their neighbors and themselves peace and future prosperity by destroying the peaceful existence of central and south americans. If Eisenhower never went stupid with geopolitics, all of the Americas, West Africa and south east asia would be strong American allies and protectorates. Nearly the entire western hemisphere would have adopted some form the constitution and the bill of rights. The world would have been truly free if that stupid domino theory was never picked up.
My father was involved in a lot of this, vietnam vet, 82nd, 7th, jungle warfare school, green beret. He doesn't tell me anything about it (I'm also prior service, OEF), and I've found that he's sort of ashamed of what he was involved in. I've learned that in the 1970's and 1980's the US Army had a pretty significant drug problem of military members abusing drugs, very involved in trafficking these drugs. In the 90's my dad moved on to working in the anti-drug LEO world and came to basically hated anyone who ever used a drug for any reason. He is an extreme hardcore anti-drug person. I think his big personal conflict came in, trying to reconcile his past. I suspect that one of the reasons we hear so little about US ops in South America is that when we peel back layers we can find a lot of criminal acts or unsavory actions, so those involved don't want to write books about it.
It'd shatter, or at least damage the illusion veterans and their families need to believe in.
Several years ago I saw a picture of an Abrams that suffered a mobility kill in 91'. A part of me could not believe... did not, want to believe it. Our most vaulted piece of armor was stopped dead in its tracks by a dude with some old Soviet kit.
From the sounds of some of the reports unsavory means crimes against humanity
It was off books to keep the Cartels from retaliation. OPSEC/PERSEC He struggled knowing the friends he lost were labeled as “training accidents” it’s called carrying weight because the truth is the burden
Was your father Rambo?
Yep, one of my work mentors also told me stories of how his captain made him snort powder after burning a grow op to "initiate" him.
I was a contractor for the 160th. Kurt Muse spoke at our compound in Ft. Campbell KY about Acid Gambit and his story was different from yours. The Little Bird was not shot down by crossfire. The pilot who I know personally flew the Little Bird on the ground to avoid RPG fire. That birds skids where touching the road while the chopper went through intersections and various streets in a high speed chase while returning fire to the combatants that were chasing the bird. Once the Little Bird cleared the hot LZ it flew out of there and got Muse to safety. Muse was arrested by Noriega’s forces for working with the CIA for broadcasting anti-Noriega messages on the radio. Operation Gambit should be made into a movie! I applaud the 160th for making that raid possible!
Yeah it definitely should, I believe an uncle of mine was involved in that operation and I never knew about it till a few years ago. He was also part of the first Gulf War.
I'm using my wife's tablet. I was a 13F with the 3rd BN 319th FA with the 101st. In August of 83, we were deployed to the Trujillo area of Honduras. Our mission was to train Hondurian Soilders how to use M-102 Howitzer and the adjustment of the indirect fire. While there, I bumped into a friend of mine that I served with when I was an 11C with D/1/506th. We were about 7 clicks from his camp. He was training the 11Bs of the Hondo Army. I later found that we were on a route that Cuba(?) used to run guns to insurgent groups on the Pacific side of Honduras. They had some of us repell onto a mountain top and build some bunkers that the FOs were to use, but one was facing the wrong way. It looked out over a big plantation that the bad guys been going through. We didn't see any because they stopped using it. We left in December. Our BN CDR got in trouble with the FatHats when we left. He left all of the howitzer and associated equipment with the Hondos. It made the Army give us new M-102s. They weren't to mad at him, because he retired a 1 star.
A quick side story. We had an Army LCM attached to us. One of the crewmembers was a gunner for me back in 75-77 time frame with D/506th.
and HOW MANY confirmed kills on sicarios did you get?
none?
that's not what this video is selling
Can you attach a glossary to your story identifying all the acronyms you used :)
@@DavidEJacob he just a grunt
Heard a similar story from a guy I served with in Germany and the year looks right
They were ordered to leave their gear and weapons and when got back to the states all new issue was ready for them
I just have to ask, why did you feel the need to let us know your using your wife’s tablet😂
Just 100 percented Wildlands on tier 1. I can't unhear the unidad helicopters.
*thousand yard stare*
@@Blank55600next town over.... Their coming
Nomad out
and circo loco playing on radio
@@jakobhernavs9986 Ew god no.
Airborne insert is not obsolete. "Hop-N-Pop" gets personnel on the ground decreasing exposure of aerial resources, even though individuals have heightened risk if LZ is heavily forested.
The true jump out boys
@@kennethsanders786 not completely obsolete just at the bottom of the list of practical infil methods
@@harrisonpeck130 yeah why not just drive there 🤣
@@harrisonpeck130 and I think wingsuit is also militarized but hardly ever used. I bet that's cool to see though.
@@joshschneider9766 to be fair, airborne is still probably the fastest way to insert a force en mass. But not the most efficient way of doing it. I second just driving there.
Funny thing: I trained with the US on the northern part of Chile due to the fact it's a desert. It was army, marines, navy, air force, everybody. It was just a normal FTX; some of us got the chance to further our training in the US as well.
Edit: And yes, I'm 100% sure there were some secret squirrel operatives during the FTX as well.
I like the iceberg part. It's always good knowing a bit more about why conflicts start and whos involved. Thank you for all the videos this is my favourite channel
It's great to hear stories about stuff that is realistically, not too far away. Great video, I learned a lot!
3:51 It's important to note that the "Special Forces Groups" are specifically the US Army Special Forces, widely known as Green Berets. For those who didn't know, special forces in the United States are referred to as "Special Operations Forces" to avoid confusing other units with Green Berets.
Blah Blah It all falls under SOFCOM.
@future_me_6067 it's SOCOM or more specifically USSOCOM.
They are invaders
@@future_me_6067 Correct. I was giving this information so that people don't think that Delta Force or the SEAL teams are part of 5th Group or something.
Not true
T&P, I was Military Police in an MI unit which supported the 'drug war.' In 1999 we lost a surveillance aircraft in Colombia. The 'crash' (shot down?) claimed my CO and some peers. One of the worst days of my life. Thank you for touching on the general SA story. It doesn't get enough coverage and there's so much more involved than people know. And F the FARC. IYKYK
@@philmarek3272 not in 99, but I know who went in and did their thing after birds went down
that propensity, bordering on utter madness, of americans to go fcuk around in other's countries, spending countless trillions, while letting their very own country infrastructures crumble and institutions get captured by foreign agents, turning it into a -third world- 💩hole country never ceases to amaze me but not as much as when they found out... 🙄
American contractors were also shot down by farc guerrillas in colombia
I would say the FARC can go to Hell, but the fact that they kidnapped innocent children as young as 8 and brainwashed them into being child soldiers pretty much guarantees they're going to Hell.
While serving as a Contracted Employee in 1988 I worked on an Overseas U.S. Military installation. While there I began a relationship with a lovely lady, who just so happened to have a BROTHER whom
was working as a Trainer/ Service Technician for the Colombian Air Force Helicopters. This Brother shared that he often ALSO went on routine Air Patrols serving as a DOOR GUNNER.
1988.
Go Figure... ♾
Nice. I may have or may not have had "friends" stationed at Diego Garcia in the 90's and 00's that "may or may not" have rerouted flights there and it, "may or may not" have been a CIA fob.
I remember very clearly Operation Golden Pheasant. My best friend went there. The troops from the 82nd they took with them (7th Group) were being pre-selected for Selection. They used it as sort of a "gut check" for troops wanting to go SF. As I recall him telling me, the terrain was absolutely brutal lol.
Great job Chris,, truly enjoying your videos.
I’ve heard some crazy stories about this by a retired DEA agent!
I can only imagine
Same, he was a prof at my uni. Was deployed to Colombia all through the 80s.
Buying or selling....
Thats a joke😅
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A dead agent?
Fun fact, many of the troops trained by the Green Berets in El Salvador were Children. As the government went to schools to draft many of the School kids. One of the youngest being 12 years old. A couple of these went on to help start MS13 later on.
Were at times our own worst enemy.
That happens a lot around the world it’s normal sadly
@@jed-henrywitkowski6470you are your own worst enemy if you VOTED.. 💯💯
@@Gangsta1168 Interesting. Why do you say that?
@@jed-henrywitkowski6470 when you VOTED, you gave power and consent to gangsters to dictate how you and others will live and die, and to do things on your behalf.. 💯💯
My dad was 7th group from 84’-92’. He was deployed to Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras. He never talks about what he did back then and I’ve always been so curious about it. Haven’t been able to find much due to so much of it being classified but this video summed up everything. Thanks man.
Your dad is evil and a foul invader
My parents are from El Salvador and Nicaragua. I’m born in America and I love America and love my country. But also love my roots. My parents will appreciate it this video. Thanks man salute 🫡 from Texas
Bout time to go back.
@@longsleevethong1457asshole.
I've been a pretty consistent viewer for the last year and love a lot of your breakdowns. Truly, I think these types of breakdowns help bring light to and make more palatable for the average American the vastness of JSOC operations globally. Simply put; do more.
Thanks for asking which vid we wanted first! A man of the people
The whole video is awesome! Regarding your question at the end as far as whether or not we would like to see more videos like this. I can't speak for everyone else, but I can say this: the content you put out is awesome, well researched, and delivered in a way that I can understand very well. To be honest Chris you can do a 2-hour documentary about my hand and I would still watch it because of the way that you deliver your material. It's much appreciated, and please keep them coming
Ima have to say no we don’t need anymore like this..not that it’s accurate or anything but just to keep specialized units in the dark so work can be done..that’s why they are there..good info sure but everyone else don’t need to know..sure there are information that are opened source but all the extra stuff should be hidden. 🤘🏾
A couple of things here. It is JCET, not JTEC. Also, no, a JCET (Title 10) is not a cover for any covert or clandestine operations (Title 50). JCET forces can not be leveraged towards unilateral operations nor operations alongside partnered forces. In fact, once a US Ambassador catches wind of anything like that, that entire element will find itself recalled and back to CONUS on the first flight out of there with UCMJ action to follow due to breaking US laws. If/when the US National Command Authority wants to conduct a clandestine operation, it will project the required forces using specific Title 50 operation authority. Also, SFC Greg A. Fronius was not a Marine. The picture (headshot) shown is that of a Marine. Fronius was from 3/7 SFG. Also, the Mexican Marines who took part in the operations mentioned here are not your average Marine unit (BTW, I understand it was not stated as so here, but I wanted to clear that up). As part of SEMAR, they are a Mexican Tier One unit with a significant degree of experience conducting special operations. Regarding Che, his last name is Guevara, not "Guavara." Why do I know? I served in 7th SFG for 15 years.
Thank you for your service.
Yea, he is completely wrong about JCETs, nothing untoward there and US SOF elements from all branches participate. Easily verifiable info, guess he is entitled to a mistake or 2.
Additionally 7th GRP ops down south are wild, if Eric Haney's book is to be believed, very wild.
Im a 5th group guy. I always wonder what you guys get up to down there. Besides women
Yeah, the JTEC/JCET thing was bugging me, too. Not to mention all the misspellings and mispronunciations. You really have to take these videos with a grain of salt.
@FlyboyHelosim I think this video was put together in a hurry to create content. The most egregious error was putting someone else's face when discussing Fronius' death.
Awesome! Definitely do more of these - they can serve as a historical reality checks...
Loved this vid Chris
We got ghost recon wildlands IRL before GTA6💀
We got it before GTA1 stfu
Ahhaahhahabahahabahahahaahhaha
I'm from Honduras, specifically from an area near Nicaragua, during the 80s the US military built an air strip and a base. And they launched incursions to the nicaraguaan border from there
@@josemanuelrodriguez502 not surprising. They probably had a shell company buy a property and get it through to the right engineers what they wanted. Imagine a whole engineer company posing as corporate engineers 😂
@@joshschneider9766 nooo, the honduran government build it, but the US operated it. You can see the deterioration of the airstrip on google earth time line. This are the coordinates
14°02'37"N 86°25'10"W
Did people you know support the Honduras government actions?
@gvibration1 people here had no choice. If you were caught with a cassette from a considered comunist artists they send you to jail to be tortured or thrown from a helicopter. There's a lot of people who vanished during that time.
@joshschneider9766 nooo, all the infrastructure is the government's property, but it was mainly used by the US military. If you see the airstrip on google Earth's timelapse, the deterioration is notable. It was used only during the 80s.
This are the coordinates: 14°02'37"N 86°25'10"W
Great video. I was an 0321 man and a few of my buddies contract in South America now. Unfortunately they are on the “other side”. Recon and MARSOC guys training tactics and making money. Crazy stuff. Me, I’m just a stay at home dad now.
When you say other side? You mean the bad guys or US bad guys (CIA)?
It's not "a rundown on the craziest stories on a certain region" @20:20 , it's more of a compelling history lesson that we should all take notice of. Thanks for the work you and your team do. It's very insightful and interesting.
This was really good guys!!! Keep up the strong work!!!
Harrison Ford and William Dafoe knew about this in 1994.
lol.. clear and present danger.. 🤭
President harrison ford
I'm just glad Domingo Chavez made it out.
Patriot games
Cappy thanks for this amazing video. I had known a person who worked for a company. He had to go into Columbia to get an asset out which did not go well. It pretty much ended when the asset was captured his entire family tortured in front of him along with the asset. The transportation leader had gotten wind of a snitch. He was the snitch but never talked even as they tortured him to death. I could tell you the ages of the children but there is no good that could come of it. This video was a good look into the operations that take place. And really makes sense when you look at the War on Drugs. That really gave the South American operations legitimacy and a legal path to wage a war. To bad we had to muck it all up.
It's spelled colombia dude
I supported these missions from Panama. (1st 2 parts of presentation) Thank you for explaining 4 years of my life in a way i can share.
Thank you for what you did. I was Military Police supporting an MI unit in the late 90s, including the Canal handover.
Cool imperialist hipocrit story bro, id be ashamed to admit that if i were you, you and your little gang of thugs will be a part of history, remembered as those who broke the rule of law and stole on behalf of your corrupt leaders. Lets see if another govt comes and tries to build a river across the u.s. forcefully for their personal benefit. But with Innocent blood on your hands you still want recognition.... i miss the good ol days when people felt shame.
Damn thanks for your service you are the people that make this nation great.
@@l-_-lForkBombl-_-l what service? violating other countries sovereign territories to kidnap, torture, and kill their citizens following orders from corrupt US politicians that do the oligarchs's biding??
@@philmarek3272 you are thanking a murderer of panamenian people, shame on you! o wait, you don't care because you are a sociopath.
Cool video and great topic. I look forward to seeing more of these strategic and operations level deepdives into military missions around the world.
I love how've you display the current issue of Foreign Affairs. America Adrift is essential reading.
What are the books on the shelf under FA magazine?
Learn basic geography. 😂😂😂
Salvy here. My Uncles fought in the Civil War. Two of them were sent to Fort Bragg and came back to form BIRI Atlactl and BIRI Belloso. They both told me that they would insert with American Special Forces and CIA.
My best friend in high school was from Mexico. He was murdered by the blood gang after being enticed to join. I completely support any of these operations and I wish them to be expanded. R9X calling!
Yea so they can have statewide govt sanctioned death squads more than they already have right
@FarmerDrew im really sorry that happened to your friend and youve got to live with it man, and i understand why you feel that way, but the operations in mexico where delta force train and work with the actual established mexican government to capture cartel leaders are much, MUCH different then delta force funding, training, and fighting alongside revolutionary guerrila forces trying to overthrow a government. The latter is much worse. Its like the US military supporting the actual mexican army vs the US government backing the cartels organized into a revolutionary army in a mexican civil war because the US didnt like how the mexican government's policies were growing inconvenient for the US. If you dont want things like what happened to your friend to other kids in the future, hold your government to a higher standard and make it known that your government recklessly backing non-state actors with a history of war crimes, alongside racketeering and drug running to fund their warfare is absolutely unacceptable.
@@Alex-gd3fk is not just that, is also media promoting blood gang with members like Cardi B
I like these videos lots of information and it’s interesting to think this is happening all the time
It has to be happening EVERYWHERE the US has some sort of interest.
My Dad was SF in the 80's,& was all thru Central America, it's been very active down there for a long time
This vid was definitely one of your better ones. Very informative, keep up the good work. Carry on!
Glossing over Oliver north with a glint in his eye lol
The hate and separation created in the 80s and 90s persists to this day. I ran an NGO with a branch in Nicaragua for 20 years. We worked training doctors in hospitals mainly. Every morning, you would get the usual clinical meeting where maybe 50 doctors in a room gather to discuss the day´s cases. But in a Nicaraguan meeting, half the doctors stand or sit on the left of the room (the Sandinista Marxist faction) and the other half, or non-Sandinistas, would be on the right side of the room. There hasn´t been unrest in Nica for over 30 years, to give you an idea.
Why no tension between the 2 groups for 30yrs?
@@gvibration1 Because after 30 years all that´s left is the ideology. It´s dificult to generate constant tension with someone you work, eat and socialise with so it´s diluted into small gestures to help you remember what you fought for .
@JohnCurtinmadrid no revolutionary urge left? That's a good thing, by the way. I was just curious as to how those tensions resolved.
I approve all content involving Green Berets. Thanks!
Thanks ! I’ve been on a SF research kick lately
This puts some of my ambitions in Central America into perspective. Thank ya.
I love your historical analysis and deep dives into records, but I just LIVE for the way you absolutely mangle foreign words and names. It's so adorable. Please never change.
The fight against drugs needs many approaches and the special forces is an important one. However, the only way we will have positive effects on both sides of the border is targeting DEMAND. It is an American problem....we absolutely love/need to get high. This War on Drugs is an endless Afghanistan if you don't treat the user.
I wonder why so many people take drugs, with all the information available about the consequences, particularly the highly addictive ones. We need to develop character, not remedy foolishness.
Targeting demand is not at all good for business.
Legalize it , tax it and use taxes to fund and treat addicts who *actually* want to quit …watch addiction rates plummet
Of course this is extremely unlikely because people believe that legalizing all those things would cause the end of the world. When in fact it’s a “forbidden fruit” dilemma
Beyond that all the businesses built around the war would become obsolete overnight and they lobby to keep the money flowing ineffectively
@@jimmcfarland9318 because people like drugs. You need to understand that good majority of addicts don’t want to clean and they don’t want treatment. The United States would literally have to force people into treatment and then to keep them from relapsing the supply of drugs into the US has to be cut off
@@Kentuckyhunter58 If they never used them, they wouldn't know if they liked them. Unfortunately, the US medical system prescribes stuff that are analogues to illegal drugs. Pig Pharma is to blame for a lot of addiction.
Which is why I stay away from prescription drugs.
A Clear and Present Danger...
This country needs both a Jack Ryan and a John Clark
Reciprocity... that's a clever name
I'm reading the book right now
RIP James Earl Jones
A clear and present danger...
caused by your own actions.
Export war = import refugees
So basicaly USA special forces were cleaning up the mess created by other USA special forces.
😂😂😂
Basically Afghanistan
It happens a lot post WWII.
Love it.. Keep it up! I was a double major in college history/political science…. You’ve just answered a lot of questions I’ve had…As you learn more.. please keep us informed….. IE: How many troops do we have deployed and where are they located in Africa as well as in differing areas of the Middle East…. I’m sure in both Africa and the Middle East we are facing down Russians (and their proxies) as well in certain areas of Africa we might actually be facing the Chinese (looking after their investments) These are things that we need to know so we can respond to our government correctly with knowledge not assumptions….. We live in a time where correct information is critical….. Your video focused primarily on Latin and South America this area was claimed to be in”our” fear of influence i.e. the west.. our hemisphere.. Africa is much closer to both Russia and China than it is to us. IE: Their hemisphere /sphere of influence… We need to be very very careful… We’ve got enough to worry about with Iran and their affects on the Middle East as well as potential threats here… So let’s not go out of our way to piss off Russia or China any further than we already have… Does anybody really want to have a war with either of those guys or possibly both? As I said before information is knowledge ..knowledge is critical!
Thanks for your hard work creating this video. As a history buff, I find it tremendously interesting.
Operation acid gambit was insane breaking a U.S. citizen out of an enemies prison is wild.
oh noes, the mighty good CIA asset called Manuel Noriega wanted a bigger slice of the pie and, lo and behold, an enemy he was labeled! 😹
From a local perspective it would be assaulting local prison to get an enemy prison out and in turn freeing hundreds of murderers, rapists and criminals.
Sounds great in theory, but once their contracts are over some end up working and/or training cartel goons, perpetuating the cycle. There is plenty of evidence around this issue.
Yeah I’m starting to get the idea that even the drug dealers don’t want to actually do the job. Anyone could be offered a bribe and then blackmailed. And if you refuse the money , then you and your family disappear and someone else is put in place.
And also end up on the FBI most wanted list too
US military invention in Latin America, covert or otherwise, has been ongoing for over a hundred years. In the early 20th century, during the "Banana Republic" era of Latin American history, the U.S. launched several interventions and invasions in the region (known as the Banana Wars) in order to promote American business interests. US Marine Major General Smedley Butler (2 Medals of Honor and a Brevet Medal), who is the second most decorated marine after Chesty Puller, wrote this in his book "War is a Racket" (1935):
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer; a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
In the CIA-backed Operation Condor (1975-1983), at least eight US-backed military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their political opponents in South America. Highlights of the operation was the Dirty War in Argentina (1976-1983) and General Pinochet's coup against President Salvador Allende of Chile (1973). Estimates are that at least 60,000 deaths can be attributed to Condor, with up to 30,000 of these in Argentina alone. The Central America equivalent to Operation Condor was Operation Charly (1968-1989) which produced the Iran-Contra Scandal. Between 1981 and 1986, senior Reagan administration officials secretly facilitated the illegal sale of arms to Iran, which was subject to an arms embargo at the time. The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras, an anti-Sandinista rebel group in Nicaragua.
So, any current covert military operations in Latin America is nothing more than a century old continuation of such operations and the successors to the Banana Wars, Operation Condor and Operation Charly.
Well put, truth for the deniers. We have created a cluster f in Latin America that has resulted in extreme violence, poverty etc that has created mass migration to the US, these so called operations have served to increase in the case of Honduras the military know how on how to control the people of Honduras by means of repression, violence, assassination etc that have resulted in military, police, government officials, Congress people etc etc narcos who control and export drugs to the US. Honduras is a narco state.
It all goes back to our monroe doctrine which was set up to oppose any re colonization of the Americas by outside forces. Namely the European powers like the UK and France
Love the video Chris. More like this please.
The most famous South American Special Forces mission was made into a documentary when a team encountered an alien that detonated a small nuke upon capture
Whats the name of the movie. Sounds dope.
Barely making it out alive on a chopper.
Listening to people really upsell JCETs is always fun😂
Iran-Contra was rumored for years, and finally exposed once it became clear that the mission failed. Colombian mercenaries, who operated in Iraq. Even the Israeli IDF have a base-camp training for Latin American operations. US military now has operations in 4 theatre's on 4 continents. That's what an $800B DoD/Pentagon budget can buy. The recently captured 'former' US Navy Seal in Venezuela has put the region on alert, not everyone agreeing to US military operations. Whether the 'threat' from Washington to destabilize the region is real, there is clear resistance that the region is not going back to the days of "Yanqui Imperialism". How Maduro negotiates with his neighbors, as he tries to avoid being assassinated, will determine the rest of the century for Latin America.
Really informative for a crunchie😅. I really enjoy your work.
These are good Capy. Do more.
A green beret in marine dress blues is crazy work! Marines can’t be 18x cause they are not in the army
You missed the 3-day fire fight between the Navy SBU and FARC in 1991.
I think the war on drugs would’ve taken place of GWOT in an alternate timeline
Awesome stories. I didn’t know about many of these. I love this channel. I hardly ever subscribe but I did to this one long ago! 👍🏻
Yes, more stories and more in depth too - would be cool to watch.
My friend who is attached to 19th SFG got sent there as 35F
As always, I like the more fair and balanced perspective you provide. People hear intervention but only think negatively. Clear theres been situations were we've helped our allies. A shame that the average citizen has so little control and awareness of some of these though.
"Our allies" Yankees go home.
At least in the case of Mexico, the average citizen and politician tend to view defense cooperation with the US in a negative light (even more so when joint exercises are more frequent, and more and more American soldiers and instructors are entering the country).
@@Antonio_868 which is reasonable, if shoes were on the other foot, i wouldnt like it either. But its important to remember we have as much control over our government as they do.
@@kyledabearsfan Even more so if you take into account the historical background between both countries (Punitive Expedition, the war between both nations which led to Mexico losing half of its territory and Fast and Furious).
I had read that by 2030 the air forces of both countries are expected to collaborate in joint operations.
Exactly
Heavily involved in the region yet things have only gotten significantly worse for American citizens. Typical JSOC activity, completely ineffective. for the American citizenry.
I enjoy these videos, especially the Latin America coverage. Keep them coming!
Great work, Cappy!
I enjoyed this video. Keep 'em coming.
Honduran here, can 100% vouch that what you have said about Honduras is facts. LOL we like to party JTF-BRAVO 504 BOYZ woop woop soto-cano ghostiez
Using the cover as "training personnel" to hide your direct action raids sound like what the Black Powder Red Earth story was built around
The military operations are a good stopgap, but they pointless long term in fighting cartels if the US can’t deal with is domestic drug abuse/addiction.
American drug users fuel the Latin American cartel wars.
Supply and demand, cartels have had to diversify their revenue making over the years, but drugs are still the biggest money maker for them.
@@mondomendez5165 look at Amsterdam in the 1970s vs Amsterdam now. They attacked demand via treating it as a disease. And that demand combined with strict enforcement of areas where users congregated and used hit the supply side and wham. If America genuinely did the same it would be a staggering loss to those people 😂
@@mondomendez5165 I would be shocked if most current cartel owners don't own a very diverse and very secretive portfolio of financial assets.
It definitely wont hurt the cartels in the long run. They will keep fighting and keep making tons money in some other way. While yes the us should help addicts the cartels will keep on going until their home country does something about it like el Salvador
@@kameronjones7139 that's probably also true 😂
@@joshschneider9766
Amsterdam is a good. I agree with legalization, regulation, and taxation to make it an actual market. Legal enforcement.
Correct. The cartel do have other ways of making money. Local extortion on a mass scale throughout Latin America, taking over other businesses (Mexico specifically with avocado fields and domestic oil, or California weed stores being extorted across the border)
And the cartels second biggest money market is human smuggling of migrants from these troubled countries. Coyotes are lucrative.
What frightens me is Americans would rather become like the Philippines and solve the issue of addicts by treating them like the drug dealers. No dealers, no addicts. Equal harsh punishments for everyone.
Yes, do more, i enjoy the Man on the ground approach
thanks for the feedback , I'll try to do more episodes like this one
I was not special forces but I spent 8 months training Colombia forces and also going out in ops and advising them. Towards the end of our stint army SOF guys started showing up and taking over from us. Great dudes to work with, so some wild stuff.
Odoo is a terrible product from my own experience
It sounds terrible
Are you also going to talk about how US Special Forces train soldiers and hitmen for certain cartels? Or how your retired operators hire themselves out to cartels as mercenaries?
Most cartel gunmen are just kids dude
What happened to the video about Trump's Foreign Policy?
Keep those icebergs coming.
But we are told there's no money to finish the wall
If you stop messing up other countries you don't need one.
Explains why latin america is this messed up.
Always been messed up
Latin America has always been messed up, but probably the biggest uptick in being messed up was when it absorbed economic migrants from Italy and Spain in the early 20th century and then refugees from Spain after they had their civil war, in both cases because large numbers of people with self-destructive ideologies flooded the region.
Similar to how the U.S. took a turn for the worse after refugees from the failed socialist revolutions of 1848 in Europe arrived in mass in the 1850s.
@@alanlight7740 that the US couped almost every latin american govt. at least twice under the domino doctrine doesn't mean that latin american politics are self-destructive.
It just means the US isn't a democracy but controlled by a handful of billionairs who abuse the US power to protect their personal financial interests abroad. And you pay for all this with your taxes while living under the illusion that you have a choice, sheep.
@@alanlight7740 tell me you recieved your "education" in the US without telling me.
@@T.efpunkt - is it a complete coincidence that the one part of the world that resisted the influence of socialist ideologies is also the wealthiest large region in the world?
The compilation was great Cappy!
I really enjoyed this long form (iceberg) video. Great layout and format and really great info!! Please continue this style, i really enjoyed it. Thank you.
Yeah I definitely like this kind of video and would definitely like to see more of these in-depth dives onto crazy missions
Great Video Cappie. It's great to learn about military interventions that have never had much coverage or were kept completely hush hush.
Nice one mate!
Parts of history, long forgotten. Thanks for these videos.
I LOVE this iceberg format :)
This was a good subject to cover, some more videos like this would be interesting
Your video consistency and topic matter is getting really good! Keep it up, really enjoying the presentation.
thank you! keep them coming! you are doing a great service!