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I think that both MT and FD lack a moral compass. They are both imo shady, criminal and terrible people. I hope that they are both convicted of whatever they both are guilty of and both spend the rest of their lives wearing orange jumpsuits. And it’s up to her Daughter and his/JDs 5 children, if their kids ever want to have anything to do with FD or MT. Jmo.
That's probably most people.
The girlfriend does not seem to have a good sense of morality.
Maybe she is just as narcissistic as he is. Imo
I believe exposure to gangs, guerrillas and corruption as the norm in their native countries may have created a bond between FD and MT -- one that he could not/would never have with Jennifer.
The order was probably oil when MT was growing up in Venezuela (currently gold) but there's something about birds of a feather flying together.
Seems to me not much would be shocking-- or beneath this couple. MOO
Venezuela’s gold fever fuels gangs and insecurity: 'There will be anarchy'
8 June 2019
Gold also increasingly
pays the bills for the national government in distant Caracas. With oil revenues dwindling and US sanctions biting, the president,
Nicolás Maduro, has been relying on wealth from the mines to
keep the government afloat during a months-long standoff with the opposition leader,
Juan Guaidó.
So the government has allowed the illegal industry and the armed groups that run them to flourish, spawning an epidemic of violence, disease and environmental devastation, and drawing in much of the remaining population of Puerto Ordaz.
[...]
But the government’s need for funds has not diminished with oil production, and so every month trucks trundle through Puerto Ordaz carrying boxes of bank notes heading for the mines.
Paper money has been abandoned for digital payments in most of Venezuela, but in mines beyond the reach of cellphone coverage and without power supply, hard cash still reigns supreme.
It is exchanged for gold, which is then shipped overseas,
including to Turkey, earning hard currency for the government,
an investigation by Reuters found. That makes the area particularly valuable, and particularly tense.
Guaidó has alarmed even his allies by
flirting with the idea of a US intervention, which in the east would fatally disrupt the delicate power balance between local gangs, guerrillas and the corrupt arms of the state security forces.
