Charlie Rose

Saultxyca  05/18/2012 02:21 AM Report

When Charlie quizzically retorts, "What do you mean by US laundering of money (drug)?" surely CR is playing devil's advocate. It's a well-known problem. Union Bank of California was nailed for it a few years ago and that story got a lot of play. PBS has covered the big subject. See this link just for starts:

Video: Getting dirty money clean | Need to Know | PBS

www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/economy/getting-dirty.../1121/Jun 1, 2010 – The story of one of the biggest money laundering investigations in recent ... enormous shipments of bulk cash – head south into Mexico to casas de ... American Express's private banking unit, Union Bank of California and ...

Saultxyca  05/17/2012 08:55 PM Report

There is no violence in Mexico City (at 5:58)? Who does Carlos Fuentes think he is fooling? His own daughter, Natasha, died violently in one of Mexico City's worst, drug-riddled slums in late August 2005, a few days before her birthday, under murky, conflicting circumstances. The 29-year-old was allegedly seven months pregnant at the time of her death.

Carlos Fuentes' son also died suddenly under suspicious circumstances (drugs and drug paraphernalia at the scene) on Wednesday morning, May 5, 1999, in a penthouse bathroom at the Hotel Camino Real in Puerto Vallarta . Local police investigators were barred from the scene, according to the Guadalajara Reporter (5/7/99).

Fuentes' first wife, the well-known Mexican actress Rita Macedo, also died unexpectedly and violently with hardly a trace in the public record. Dark scandal followed Carlos Fuentes his entire adult life, and for such a visible, vocal public figure, Carlos Fuentes was curiously secretive, silent and undemonstrative about so much starkly missing data for his high-profile family members. The best-selling Carlos Fuentes story may be the one about the "champagne-socialist" Carlos Fuentes.

Have you seen Carlos Fuentes' MySpace (!) page? ...

Haussmann  02/23/2011 03:29 PM Report

REMant:

I don't think Carlos Fuentes would agree with your assessment that the Church rules in Latin America, certainly not more than religious groups "rule" the United States. Where do you get this idea from?

Regards

robdverity  02/22/2011 04:48 PM Report

Sr. Fuentes was spot on on his assessment of Mexico. Although his ref. to the drug cartels and their dependence on the US Mkts was too muted - in particular the laundering of drug and gun money - that the US banks profit from.

Charlie nearly bristled, wanting to know what his point was. CR's so in bed with the monied gentry he loses his objectivity. Carlos was just telling like it is.

For instance:

"Wall Street Is Laundering Drug Money And Getting Away With It

Posted by Zach Carter on @ 8:19 amArticle printed from speakeasy: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasyURL to article: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/07/14/megabanks-are-laundering-drug-money-and-getting-away-w ith-it/

Too-big-to-fail is a much bigger problem than you thought. We’ve all read damning accounts of the government saving banks from their risky subprime bets, but it turns out that the Wall Street privilege problem is far more deeply ingrained in the U.S. legal system than the simple bailouts witnessed in 2008. America’s largest banks can engage in flagrantly criminal activity on a massive scale and emerge almost completely unscathed. The latest sickening example comes from Wachovia Bank: Accused of laundering $380 billion in Mexican drug cartel money, the financial behemoth is expected to emerge with nothing more than a slap on the wrist thanks to an official government policy which protects megabanks from criminal charges."

But nevermind. Jamie Dimon says good times are ahead. He didn't say for whom.

REMant  02/22/2011 11:49 AM Report

This interview appeared to be somewhat out-of-date. While I didn't agree with most of what he had to say about this country, I wonder if he would agree the Church actually rules Latin America, rather than the secular institutions.