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The Jamaican Bobsled Team Should Win a Medal For Best Theme Song
Gabrielle Bluestone · 02/16/14 06:52PMPopulist Hero Ted Cruz Forgot About $100,000 Investment
J.K. Trotter · 10/18/13 12:41PMTed Cruz, the Tea Party Texas Senator and self-styled populist Superman, is just a common man. Except for how he apparently omitted from required financial disclosure reports his connection to a Jamaican private equity firm he founded with his college roommate in 1998, since which his initial $6,000 investment turned into a tidy $100,000. Other than that, though: Just a regular Joe!
Watch Video of America Giving Aerial Support to a Jamaican Massacre
John Cook · 05/02/13 11:29AMTwo years ago, the New Yorker's Mattathias Schwartz documented the brutal massacre Jamaican security forces undertook when they entered the notorious slum Tivoli Gardens to arrest—at the insistence of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency—drug kingpin and local hero Christopher "Dudus" Coke in 2010. They didn't find Coke, but they managed to kill 73 civilians in what the Jamaicans claimed was a pitched street battle with Coke's partisans. After it was all over, they found six guns.
How Homeland Security Helped Jamaica Massacre 73 Civilians
John Cook · 12/14/11 01:45PMThe New Yorker has just posted Mattathias Schwartz's excellent piece in last week's magazine on the disastrous raid to arrest Jamaican druglord Christopher "Dudus" Coke. At the DEA's insistence, Jamaican authorities reluctantly raided Tivoli Gardens, the West Kingston slum Coke ran as a de facto governor, two years ago. Coke didn't turn up, but Jamaican police officers killed 73 civilians, many of them allegedly in cold blood. A Department of Homeland Security surveillance plane was overhead the whole time.
Cross-Dressing Drug Lord Dashes Hopes for Juicy Trial Details
Jeff Neumann · 09/01/11 04:34AMLegendary cross-dressing Jamaican drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke, who was extradited to New York after setting off a bloody neighborhood drug war in Jamaica, yesterday pleaded guilty to racketeering charges and now faces just 23 years in jail instead of a possible life sentence for a lifetime's worth of scumbaggery. We'll probably never know more about the pink wig.
A Peek at the Today Show's Fourth-Hour Staff Reveals a Bunch of Stoner Dudes
Whitney Jefferson · 02/17/11 03:50PMSo that's why the show is the way it is. There's a bunch of Rastafarian bros at the helm!
Jamaican Gangsters Cross-Dressing Like a Real-Life, Ultraviolent Tootsie
Adrian Chen · 06/25/10 11:11AMDudus Coke's Day in Federal Court
Jeff Neumann · 06/25/10 05:52AMJamaican Drug Lord 'Dudus' Coke Arrested
Max Read · 06/23/10 12:12AMA Jamaican Drug Lord's NYC Ties
Jeff Neumann · 05/28/10 06:19AMMostly Civilians Killed in Jamaica Violence, Drug Lord Still Free
Jeff Neumann · 05/26/10 04:18AMJamaican Drug Lord's 'Shower Posse' Fights Back
Jeff Neumann · 05/25/10 05:23AMJamaican Police Declare State of Emergency in War With Drug Lord
Ravi Somaiya · 05/23/10 05:42PMJamaica Bans Jamaican Music
Hamilton Nolan · 02/23/09 10:43AMColumnist: Slavery Was Awesome!
Pareene · 08/13/08 01:12PM"Slavery was good for the black man." This real column comes not from a neo-nazi pamphlet or the editors of the National Review, but from The Jamaica Observer, which is apparently less like our own Observer and more like a really contrarian Jamaican Slate. You will not see a finer example of conventional wisdom-upending this year. Take it away "freelance writer" Michael Dingwall! "Those of us who continue to see the millions of blacks who died crossing the Atlantic and the displacement of what we had in Africa as proof that slavery was a bad institution don't understand the mechanics of human development and evolution." Wow. This is just like when Alumbrados Illustrated published that essay on how the Spanish Inquisition wasn't so bad. He goes on!
Banksy's Face
Hamilton Nolan · 08/07/08 01:19PMThe image on the left is a portrait by UK artist Mister Aitch (which we brought you last week along with several awesome action photos), showing semi-anonymous street artist-to-the-stars Banksy in profile, dressed as the Queen of England. The image on the right is the actual photo of Banksy from which the portrait was drawn. A tipster sent us the full photo-which, as far as we can tell, is not currently published anywhere-which is part of a set of photos taken of Banksy at work in Jamaica in 2004. The much-hyped "only known photo" of the artist is taken from this set. But after the jump, we have two more photos from that set, including one of the mystery man's face in profile: