From Mercenaries to Marijuana

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Sun, 03/18/2018 - 12:00am to 12:30am
Human Rights Council report regarding Omega Strategic Services' involvement in Guinea despite embargo.
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Screenshot of Zachary Venegas's LinkedIn profile showing his career with Omega Strategic Services
A look at the new owner of BioTrack THC

This week we look at human rights and the drug war and hear from Maricela Orozco, a member of the Familiares en Búsqueda María Herrera collective, a group of family members of the disappeared organized in several states across Mexico; plus we take a look at the new owner of BioTrack THC, Zachary Venegas, whose private security firm Omega Strategic Services violated an international arms embargo and supplied mercenaries to a brutal dictatorship less than a decade ago.

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