via Alejandro Pisanty ->
"Trump’s Latin America policy appears contradictory only if you ignore the underlying logic. Pardoning a cocaine trafficker while bombing drug boats makes sense when the pardon buys political infrastructure for tech oligarchs while military action pressures governments toward privatization.
The strategy reveals sophisticated understanding of how power operates: through overlapping systems of economic pressure, technological dependency, and military threat, all coordinated to reshape governance structures favorable to U.S. corporate interests.
This isn’t chaotic, impulsive Trump. This is systematic state power deployed to create conditions for massive private wealth extraction. The government provides geopolitical muscle (pardons, military threats, economic leverage) while tech oligarchs provide infrastructure, capital, and ideological cover through “innovation” and “freedom” rhetoric.
When Trump pardons Hernández at Stone and Gaetz’s request, advocating for Thiel and Andreessen’s Próspera investment, where does government end and corporate interest begin?
My previous analysis identified tech oligarchs building physical separation while simultaneously accumulating unprecedented government control through infrastructure provision. The Hernández pardon reveals how that alliance operates in practice. Trump serves as the battering ram, using state power to clear space for oligarch experiments."
https://substack.com/inbox/post/180764752
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