In Brazil: Fábio Mesquita & Regina Bueno Exonerated

(Monday morning update: Narco News has now identified Phil Smith as the author of the libelous text. Without offering any correction or apology to those who it unfairly defamed, the DRCNet link has now been updated and changed to remove the libelous material, and to reverse the order of its reports, now leading with the real news story, and scrubbing the rest of it of the “corruption” libel. Mr. Smith should have done that in the first place, because thousands of copies of the libelous text were sent out on Friday via email, which is why if he were an authentic journalist, or an honest person, he would have, in this situation, already published and emailed his organization’s list with an honest correction, admitting the wrong, directly clearing the name of the persons he smeared. But I already told you: he and his boss have no ethics, no commitment to the truth or the facts. Now they’re simply in “damage control,” trying to save their own tarnished reputations by pretending they never committed the crime. Narco News has received copies of email correspondence between Mr. Phil Smith of DRCNet and Latin American activists written last Wednesday and Thursday which demonstrate that he knew certain statements were defamatory before he published them, but he published them anyway. Again, that is called malice. Why doesn’t he simply correct, apologize, and move on? Instead, he’s being downright Nixonian, trying to cover-up rather than shed light. I’ll show you his “private” emails, which he sent by accident to a public mailing list, then later claimed they were “private,” over on the Narcosphere later today… because the truth does not sleep… it only dreams.)

Also, kudos to one of our copublishers, Charles Faris, who, through the creative role of playing "gyroscope" on his own ChasBaudelaire blog, where he posts under the handle of "The Sky Is a Landfill" (Charles, do you know the history of that song, my old pal Jeff Buckley, and the first days of the Authentic Journalism renaissance?), at least convinced DRCNet that it had done wrong, and caused them to erase that 18-and-a-half minutes of their online tape.

The Narcosphere is fully operational!