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September 29, 2016 By Fausta

Obama pipes in on Venezuela’s Miss Machado

I’ve been preoccupied with more immediate concerns, but even then this has struck me as emblematic of the stupidity of the current political climate:
The big issue is that 20 years ago Donald Trump told Alicia Machado she needed to lose weight after she gained sixty pounds while she was still Miss Universe.

Clearly, Hillary is going for the overweight female vote.

She’s definitely not going for the Hispanic vote. More on that below.

Even Obama’s piped in (now that Congress overrode his veto of the 9/11 bill and he needs a distraction):

“You had somebody who basically insulted women and then doubled down,” Obama said in an interview on the “Steve Harvey Morning Show.”

The president added that the way Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, talks about women’s weight and looks “instead of the content of their character and their capabilities” means he “is not somebody that I want in the Oval Office.”

Let’s parse this:

somebody who basically insulted women

1. Why should women be insulted?

Alicia Machado does not represent me as an individual, much less as a woman.

The woman in question was under contractual obligation to remain in the same physical condition as she was when she got the job.

Alicia Machado went from 115 pounds to 170 pounds within a few months. At 5’7″ and 170lbs, she would be considered obese, and fighting obesity is a cause Michelle Obama has embraced.

2. You can argue that Trump “basically insulted” women but you can’t ignore the current rape allegations against Bill Clinton, and the Democrat presidential candidate’s role in suppressing and harassing the women who came forward.

talks about women’s weight and looks “instead of the content of their character and their capabilities”

So let’s look at the “content” of Alicia Machado’s character and capabilities:
Alicia Machado, after her term as Miss Universe,

  • allegedly drove the getaway car when her then-boyfriend shot a man,
  • threatened to kill the judge who found the same then-boyfriend guilty of attempted murder,
  • had sex on TV with a fellow cast member of Spain’s version of Big Brother, La Granja, while engaged to MLB player Bobby Abreu,
  • gave birth to a daughter allegedly sired by drug lord José Gerardo Álvarez, “el Indio” – who was connected to Sinaloa cartel-affiliated Beltrán Leyva and Los Negros cartels,
  • and her daughter’s christening was attended Beltrán Leyva cartel bigwigs Arturo Beltrán Leyva, the “Jefe de Jefes”, his brother Héctor Beltrán, and hitman Edgar Valdés Villarreal, “La Barbie” (related posts here).

By the way, what happened to the guy who first revealed the information on the christening party?  He was killed while having lunch at a cafe prior to when he was scheduled to testify on the Beltrán Leyva case.

HOW’S THAT FOR “CONTENT OF HER CHARACTER,” OBAMA?

Which brings me to why this won’t get Hillary any Hispanic votes (other than Machado’s, who was granted U.S. citizenship earlier this year – how’s that for vetting?):  A lot of Latinos follow celebrities, and Hillary couldn’t have found one more disreputable and generally disliked had she tried.

On the other hand, Alicia fits right in with the Clintons.

UPDATE
Linked to by Clarice Feldman. Thank you!

Linked to by Director Blue. Thank you!

Trump is stupid enough he’s still carping on the Machado woman. How did our great nation end up with the two most unsuitable candidates for POTUS out of a population of 320 million people?




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Filed Under: crime, Democrats, drugs, Fausta's blog, Hillary Clinton, politics Tagged With: Alicia Machado, Edgar Valdez-Villarreal, José Gerardo Álvarez "El Indio", La Barbie, Los Negros

September 10, 2010 By Fausta

Who is La Barbie?

The New York Times has a report on US born and raised Edgar Valdez-Villareal, known as La Barbie, the U.S. Student who Became a Mexican Drug Kingpin

He is the only American citizen known to have moved so high in the command structure of the Mexican cartels.

Five years ago, Mr. Valdez played a key role in the battle between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Gulf Cartel for control over the lucrative I-35 smuggling route into the United States, the Drug Enforcement Administration says.

He is also believed to be the person most responsible for pushing that conflict into central and southern Mexico, taking over the city of Acapulco.

Last week, Mr. Valdez was captured by dozens of federal police officers after a firefight at a rustic house in the mountains northwest of Mexico City. He had eluded the authorities for years despite having multimillion-dollar bounties on his head, and his capture was considered a major blow to the remnants of the Beltrán-Leyva organized crime group, law enforcement officials said.

For months, Mr. Valdez had been fighting for control of the gang since its leader and his mentor, Arturo Beltrán Leyva, was killed in a gun battle with the Mexican Marines last December in Cuernavaca, just south of the capital.

The internecine struggle had pitted Mr. Valdez against Mr. Beltrán Leyva’s brother, Hector. More than 150 people have died in the struggle, many of them mutilated or beheaded and left with grisly messages for the other side.

In videotaped statements to the Mexican police, Mr. Valdez said that he managed a smuggling route from Panama to Mexico and that he transported cash in tractor-trailers back from the United States.

He also admitted that he had ties to many of Mexico’s most wanted drug lords, including Joaquín Guzmán, who has emerged from the last three years of gangland warfare as the most powerful cartel leader in Mexico.

And a total sociopath.

The NYTimes portrays him as “sucked up” into the drug war:

After graduation, Mr. Valdez turned down an offer from his father to attend college, saying he wanted to make money, his brother said. According to a federal indictment in Laredo, the next year he joined a group of smugglers who were moving hundreds of pounds of Mexican marijuana through Laredo to cities in Massachusetts and Missouri.

His brother said Mr. Valdez fled across the river into Nuevo Laredo in 1998 to avoid arrest, opened a small shop and never lived in the United States again. Detectives in Laredo say he quickly became affiliated with a local gang known as Los Chachos, one of four groups that controlled the city’s drug trade in those days.

Over the next years, the Gulf Cartel and its commandos, the Zetas, moved into Nuevo Laredo and started taking over the drug and extortion rackets from local gangs. Mr. Valdez was sucked up into the conflict.

Instead of simply “sucked up”, Valdez is a ruthless killer

By 2003, Mr. Valdez had been placed in charge of Mr. Beltrán Leyva’s squads of hitmen, known as Los Negros, law enforcement officials say. And a year later, he took over the gang’s operations in Acapulco, eventually pushing the Zetas of the Gulf Cartel out of the city with a bloody campaign that included beheadings and grenade attacks on police stations, Mexican officials said.

The war rages on.

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