A Substack Blog called Eko Loves You posted an article on Sunday about the money behind Bad Bunny. The money behind Bad Bunny is in no way associated with people who love America.
The article reports:
The man who built Bad Bunny’s empire is Rafael Ricardo Jiménez Dan. Captain in the Venezuelan army. Official in Hugo Chávez’s government. Third in his class at the military academy, 1987. In 2014, he gave $2 million to a broke 24-year-old named Noah Assad in Puerto Rico. That money became Rimas Entertainment. Bad Bunny’s label. Dan owned 60%. He approved the signing. Rimas is an acronym for his children’s names. Ricardo, Marianna, Sophya.
…In 2023, Sony helped buy Dan out.
His name disappeared from the ownership papers.
…Dan says he served in government from 2006 to 2007. One year. Minor role.
Venezuelan Official Gazette archives show him in a senior judicial position in October 2003. Three years before he admits to starting. His 2006 appointment as Vice Minister of Legal Security was signed by his own classmate, Jesse Chacón.
After government, Dan registered companies across Venezuela, Panama, and Florida. At least a dozen. The registered agent on the Florida filings is Carlos A. Souffront.
Souffront is the president of Rimas Publishing.
Souffront also represents Dominican Senator Felix Ramon Bautista Rosario. Bautista was sanctioned by the US Treasury for fraud, embezzlement, and money laundering tied to Haiti earthquake reconstruction. He took over $10 million for work that was never finished.
Your church probably raised money for Haiti after that earthquake. Some of it ended up with a man whose lawyer runs Bad Bunny’s publishing company.
Dan says every dollar he invested came from entrepreneurship.
He was an official in a regime now under federal indictment for narco-terrorism. He retired to Florida. Millions appeared. A corporate network spread across three countries. Within a few years he had launched the most successful Latin music label in history.
Bad Bunny canceled his 2025 US tour. Said ICE might target his fans at concerts. At the Grammys he told America “ICE out.” The man whose career was funded by a Chávez regime insider, whose classmates trafficked cocaine with terrorists, armed militants, and carry combined federal bounties north of $50 million, wants you to believe immigration enforcement is the danger.
The NFL vetted this.
The article concludes:
I know this is a lot to take in. I wanted to amplify it before kickoff. Every claim above is Sourced from federal indictments (SDNY), US State Department Narcotics Reward Program designations, OFAC sanctions lists, Venezuelan Official Gazette archives, Puerto Rico court filings, Florida Secretary of State corporate records, and reporting by Billboard, NotiCel, Daily Wire, and Music Business Worldwide.
That’s what the NFL gave us at Super Bowl halftime!