For every raider killed in the conquest there were always more Europeans who followed to gather as much gold as they could from the new world, yet never died happy. George Washington's brother tried to fill his hole in Columbia in 1741, with the storming of Cartagena, which went so badly for him, and Admiral Vernon. They should have studied Admiral Drake's successful raking of a golden harvest there from the Spaniards' hoard in 1586. Drake hauled crates of loot out of Cartagena in his ship the Golden Hinde, after threatening to bomb it to rubble, as he raped and pillaged the Spanish South American Empire. He buried chests of gold somewhere in west Marin.
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Medellin Medals Plan Columbia 2000, with bipartisan support from Congress is said to be another skirmish in the longest American war, the War on Drugs. This is the official storyline. American taxpayers will spend billions to buy killing 'copters, advanced weapons, chemical poisons, and genetically manipulated fungi from American companies. We'll give those to the Colombian army. We are also sending along a few hundred military trainers from our armed services to look after things.