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Mario “MAD” Duarte is President and CEO of Project DYNAMO. Mr. Duarte is an internationally recognized intelligence officer with more than 20 years of experience in intelligence, national security, consulting, and strategic initiatives worldwide. He is a thought leader and change agent for some of the world’s most pressing humanitarian issues. His experience includes service in the US Army and US Army Reserves, private sector work in the technology industry, Risk and Security Manager for the Houston Airport Authority, as well as an Intelligence and Security Consultant for a U.S. Defense contractor. Mr. Duarte earned his MBA from Rice University, postgraduate degree from Ortega Gasset Institute-Spain, postgraduate studies in intelligence and national security in Taiwan and Israel, and completed his PhD studies in National Security at San Carlos University Guatemala. He is a dual national with US and Guatemalan citizenship.
Across the Western Hemisphere, governments invoke sovereignty while cartels exercise coercive authority, and until security and law are restored in fact, not rhetoric, the contest for control will continue to tilt toward those who rule through fear.
Vietkanization is deliberate political warfare that keeps regimes standing while hollowing them out, outsourcing coercion to criminal proxies, capturing courts and elections under false anti-corruption banners, and locking the hemisphere into managed instability that slowly bleeds United States influence without firing a conventional shot.
US must shift from counterinsurgency to counter-subversion to tackle criminal networks and foreign threats in Latin America.
Drug cartels aren’t just criminals—they’re insurgents. Designating them as terrorists is urgent for US security, stability, and justice.
China’s unholy alliance with cartels weaponizes drugs, tech, and influence against the US—can we reclaim control before it’s too late?
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