Bonannos Linked To Blown Up Venezuelan Drug Boats?
A senior organized crime prosecutor once said that the Bonanno family’s idea of a meeting was to “sit around in a circle and shoot at each other.” While he was thinking of Bonanno family history circa the 1960s and 1970s, we couldn’t help but recall that quote—and the sentiment around it—when word of recent family unrest reached us. Mikey Nose, the recent prison years. Believe it nor not, it involves Operation Southern Spear, the US military’s campaign in the Caribbean to annihilate drug-smuggling boats to stop a perceived flow of illegal drugs into this country from Venezuela. The military has so far conducted at least 29 strikes since September 2, ending the lives of at least 105 sailors. The latest strike—on December 22—caused one sailor's death. The Trump Administration and the Pentagon have presented no public evidence to support their drug trafficking assertions. In fact, many believe Operation Southern Spear is most likely a “false flag” operation—the real goal of the milita...