Nope. And pushing the little people north generates the other revenue stream that the oligarchy dips into.
And those are the people he's been working for all along. In the end, he couldn't cross them. He would have ended up dead. Better to forget all the reform chatter, and just keep the uber-class happy.
Here's an update:
Drug informant allegedly helped in Juárez killings
Louie Gilot
El Paso Times
The man who led authorities to the bodies of 12 men in a Juárez back yard in January had a hand in many of the killings, according to documents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Mexico's attorney general's office.
The man, known as "Lalo," was linked Wednesday by El Paso police to the shooting death of a man at an El Paso Whataburger last month. Lalo sent Abraham Guzman to the restaurant to pick up money he was owed, and men shot Guzman, possibly mistaking him for Lalo, police said.
Four other associates of Lalo were also killed recently in Juárez, police said. Lalo is believed to be in U.S. Marshals Service custody.
In Juárez, Lalo was a member of the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes drug cartel and was an informant for the U.S. government, police said.
He witnessed one killing in August 2003, according to a previous memorandum by ICE officials. Two other documents recently obtained by the El Paso Times from a source who did not want to be identified show the informant's involvement in the killings was more extensive than previously reported.
The man participated in "carne asadas," the cartel's code name for the often brutal killings, by making appointments to lure the victims to places where they were kidnapped and by opening the safe house at 3633 Parsioneros Street in Juárez, where the killings occurred, documents show.
In January, Mexican federal police unearthed the bodies of 12 men in the house's back yard. Most had been tortured and suffocated.
Although the memos are dated after the discovery, certain details suggest that ICE agents knew what their informant was up to earlier on. For instance, the informant gave an ICE agent a key chain with the family picture of one of his victims, a name he knew only as "Chapo," soon after the killing in November 2003.
ICE officials said they won't comment on a pending case.
A trial date for the informant's alleged boss, Heriberto Santillán Tabares, who was charged with five counts of murder, was set for Jan. 24 in El Paso.
Santillán's lawyer, Sib Abraham, declined to comment on the case, but legal experts say the information in the documents may jeopardize the government's case.
"One of the biggest things you can do with information like that is to attack the credibility of the informant," said Joe Spencer, an El Paso criminal lawyer who defends cases in state and federal courts. Spencer also said that if a lawyer can prove prosecutorial misconduct occurred, a judge may exclude crucial evidence or even declare a mistrial.
An ICE memo dated August 2003 detailed the killing of a lawyer named Fernando Reyes Aguado.
The new documents -- a time line by ICE and a statement the informant made to the Mexican federal authorities in Dallas -- gives a deeper insight into who gets killed by the cartel and why.
Reyes, for instance, was apparently killed because Santillán wanted to steal a load of drugs from him.
Others were killed because they lost loads of drugs or money from drug deals, because their superiors felt they slacked off on the job or because they sold drugs without the approval of "the office," the code for the cartel.
In December, a woman and her young daughter were killed when she asked for money she said the cartel owed her husband, the informant said.
Three men saved their lives in December by giving the cartel a house to pay a debt, according to the document.
In most of the instances the informant recalled, according to the documents, Santillán called him to tell him to prepare the Parsioneros Street house for a "carne asada."
The informant told Mexican officials that he was a former federal highway police officer who started dealing drugs after he quit his job and couldn't find another one. He said he started in 1995 in Guadalajara, helping a drug dealer transport 3 tons of Colombian cocaine a month. Once, they used a van with side decals of the Mexican TV station Televisa to transport drugs to Juárez, according to the document.
In 2000, he started working for Santillán in Juárez, he said.
The document also alleges widespread police corruption in Juárez.
Miguel Loya Gallegos, the police commander wanted for his alleged role in the drug ring, is described as a brutal executioner, using hammers to beat his victims to death. Santillán is Loya's uncle on his wife's side, the informant revealed.
On Nov. 28, 2003, two men paid the price for going to the Federal Investigation Agency, known as AFI, the Mexican equivalent of the FBI, with information about the location of a stash house belonging to the cartel. AFI agents informed the cartel, and the men were taken to the Parsioneros street house and killed, the informant said.
In September 2003, a man died of a heart attack after being kidnapped. He, too, was buried at the house.
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