Bogota is 8600 feet above sea level and 240 miles away from the nearest coast.

Bogata is also in Columbia, where one of the sub survivors, and, according to the data, the vast majority of dope comes from, not the "narco center of the hemesphere, (we are told) Venezuela".

The NBC "news" interviewed Machado today. Does something about her seem off? The weekend NBC anchor interviewed her, He rattled off the number of members of her family who have been arrested or disappeared by the Venezuelan regime, yet, there she is, "in hiding", but able to communicate with the world. Meanwhile, Maduro is reportedly trying to negotiate an arty deal where he gives the US a piece of the action, in return for being left alone. Of course, his nibs is thinking why should he settle for a piece, when he can take it all?

Well, Bush #43 had "Curveball" to support his agenda in Iraq.

Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, Rāfid Aḥmad Alwān; born 1968), known by the Defense Intelligence Agency cryptonym "Curveball", is a German-French citizen who defected from Iraq in 1999, claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured mobile biological weapon laboratories as part of an Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program.

Despite warnings from the German Federal Intelligence Service and the British Secret Intelligence Service questioning the authenticity of the claims, the US and British governments utilized them to build a rationale for military action in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq,

Wikipedia: Curveball - Wikipedia(informant)

Steve