23 FEB 2026: Mexico on Fire, U.S. States at Risk // Cubans Bounced From Venezuela // Trump Tariff Wins, Big Loss // CIA's Deep State Clean up // Dem Promises National Revenge // Good Border News // Addiction Hope!
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he dives into today's top stories shaping America and the world. In this Monday Headline Brief of The Wright Report, Bryan covers the U.S.-backed operation that killed El Mencho, leader of Mexico's most violent cartel, triggering nationwide retaliation and raising serious security concerns for Americans both abroad and at home.
Bryan then reports major shifts across the Americas as Venezuela expels Cuban security forces under U.S. pressure, Canada caves to tariff threats over Gulfstream jet certifications, and the Supreme Court limits presidential tariff authority, forcing the White House to pivot fast. He also details the CIA's quiet removal of politicized intelligence reports, Susan Rice's warning of political retribution against Trump-aligned corporations, a major asylum work permit crackdown, English-only commercial driver testing, and new action against "chameleon" trucking companies.
The episode closes with hopeful research out of Sweden showing that popular GLP-1 weight loss drugs may dramatically reduce alcohol cravings and relapse risk, adding to growing evidence that both medicine and faith play powerful roles in recovery.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32
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| 0:00.0 | It's February 23rd. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:12.3 | Hey, good day to you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to The Right Report, Your Daily News, podcast. |
| 0:22.4 | It's Monday's headline brief, heavy on news, lighter on analysis, launching us into a new week with events that as ever are shaping America and the world. |
| 0:31.2 | We begin with global news this morning, starting with a major operation in Mexico with likely fallout here in the U.S. |
| 0:38.4 | The Latin Times, Reuters, and others confirmed that U.S. Intel and special forces were |
| 0:43.2 | handed in glove with Mexican forces yesterday to kill the head of the largest and most deadly of |
| 0:48.2 | Mexico's cartels, the Halisco New Generation Cartel. |
| 0:51.8 | The leader's nickname was El Mentiono, and he had a $15 million bounty on his head, |
| 0:56.6 | and now that head is no longer working. He is no longer alive. His cartel, though, is they are raging |
| 1:03.5 | with violence in response this morning. They have launched attacks in at least six different |
| 1:07.9 | Mexican states, from the border areas nearest Baja to the central |
| 1:11.5 | and western parts of the country. U.S. citizens are now being asked to shelter in place, including |
| 1:16.2 | at resorts in cities like Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara, with cartel members now |
| 1:21.0 | setting up roadblocks and killing people that they suspect to being either Mexican government |
| 1:25.9 | officials or it appears in at least some cases |
| 1:28.9 | being U.S. citizens. Folks, if we see an uptick and that kind of targeted violence against Americans, |
| 1:35.3 | that is because this killing of El Mancho happened only with the support of U.S. Intel, |
| 1:41.6 | including a very special unit that was set up this past fall of U.S. military, |
| 1:45.8 | FBI, DEA, and CIA members. They were chosen to find and neutralize cartel members in Mexico. |
| 1:52.4 | That task force was stood up by President Trump because he felt that the Halisco New Generation |
| 1:57.5 | cartel was growing, but has grown in both size and power during especially |
| 2:02.7 | the Biden administration, as that cartel tapped into the open border policies that resulted in |
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