John McAfee’s battle with the government of Belize was the reason for the death of his neighbor in that country, the libertarian presidential candidate wrote on Thursday, and helped equip him to battle corruption in America.
“It is not easy for the average person to gain a reference point for the evaluation of my life,” the millionaire tech entrepreneur wrote in an editorial for Business Insider. “Up until the age of 38, I experimented with drugs of every kind. I became addicted to some, was scarred by others and was astonished by a few.”
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He also described other novel aspects about his life. “I am currently married to an ex-prostitute,” McAfee wrote. “The details of how this came about have also been divulged by me many times. I have been jailed multiple times, and have had brushes with law both here in America and abroad, and it is in this aspect of my life that the average person cannot find a reference point for understanding.
“My most prominent act of civil disobedience occurred in Belize, when I refused to be extorted by the government,” he added. McAfee explained that after starting “more than a dozen” companies in Belize, the ruling party took notice, and sent a representative to convey a discreet demand for a $2 million contribution. Ultimately, McAfee wrote, “I told him to f—k off.
“Thus began a war between myself and the government of Belize that went on until October of 2012, when my neighbor was murdered. To this day I believe the target was myself, and that the incompetence of the government caused the assassins to enter the wrong house,” McAfee said.
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McAfee was arrested in Guatemala shortly after fleeing to that country. After a legal battle, the country shipped him back to the United States rather than to Belize.
“The rest is history. If I have fault in this entire process, then it is the sin of arrogance,” McAfee concluded. “I believed that I could stand alone against a sea of corruption and fix it. I could not. … I am now standing against a similar, but more sophisticated form of corruption: Our government and the political process which creates and supports it.”
Belizean authorities still classify the murder of McAfee’s neighbor, who was also an American national, as unsolved. McAfee has faced questions about the incident during his pursuit of the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination.
