Posted on 10/25/2007 10:50:18 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Informer tells of corrupt Mexico
October 25, 2007
By Jerry Seper - An informant who worked for U.S. authorities for more than four years says government, police and military authorities in Mexico have been corrupted by drug smugglers, often carrying out kidnappings and killings on the orders of drug cartel bosses.
The accusations are outlined in sworn testimony before a U.S. immigration judge by Guillermo Eduardo Ramirez Peyro, a former Mexican police officer who was paid $224,000 for information U.S. anti-drug agents used to convict dozens of high-ranking Mexican drug traffickers.
Ramirez told U.S. Immigration Judge Joseph R. Dierkes in Minnesota that cartel bosses made "arrangements" with "high-level government people," including Mexican military, politicians and police officials, to protect the drug gangs and their smuggling operations.
He said he witnessed two Mexican police officers kill one drug-cartel rival at the behest of Heriberto Santillan-Tabares, a top lieutenant in the Vicente Carrillo-Fuentes drug cartel in Ciudad Juarez, and helped supervise the burying of others whom Mexican police officials tortured and killed.
The killings, he said, took place between August 2003 and January 2004 at 3633 Calle Parsioneros in Ciudad Juarez, known as the "House of Death." Twelve bodies have since been unearthed in the back yard of the two-story residence.
"Well, the police, well, they would kill them there and then they would leave and then I would go to check to make sure the people would bury them," Ramirez said, adding he tape-recorded one of the torture-and-killing sessions and turned the tape over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents for whom he worked as an informant.
Earlier this month, Judge Dierkes blocked Ramirez's forced deportation, saying he faced being killed by drug cartel members or complicit Mexican government officials.
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The leaders and government of Mexico are adversaries of America. They should be treated as such.
Let in more illegals! ;O)
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The perpetuation of the status quo in Mexico is but one of many cruel consequences of our government’s decision to have America remain a political/economic safety valve for our southern neighbor.
Put more explicitly, that which drives Mexicans to leave their homeland is kept in place by making it all to easy to come — and remain — in America illegally.
Know who the prosecutor is that was involved in the 'house of death' scandals and just couldn't seem to accomplish anything on it? Johnny Sutton.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1962643,00.html
'Sutton could and should have shut down the case, there and then,' says Bill Weaver, a law professor at the University of Texas at El Paso who has made a detailed study of the affair. 'He could have told Ice and the lawyers "go with what you have, and let's try to bring Santillan to justice". That neither he nor anyone else decided to take that action invites an obvious inference: that because the only people likely to get killed were Mexicans, they thought it didn't much matter.'
Mexico is corrupt? Who Knew?
More here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817368/posts
Border Patrol agents’ case, House of Death go to the heart of Justice scandal
The problem will end when there is Pancho Villa incursion that will justify a Pershing like raid into Mexico by a presently unnamed US Cavalry colonel.
Until that incursion it is strictly a Mexican problem
Ping!
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Sure seems like somebody at DHS wants this man dead so he can't talk anymore.
These are the people who will truly be pocketing Bush's $1 billion gift to Mexico that is supposedly to fight the drug gangs.
“Bush’s $1 billion gift to Mexico”
Not to mention the $400 million to the PA.
Our President (loosely termed) spends money like a teenager with their first credit card.
But, Mexico is just part of the conduit for the drugs from Colombia (cocain, methamphetamine, marijuana), Afghanistan, Laos, Cambodia (heroin).
The multi-billion $ market for this distructive garbage is in the U. S. A., not in Mexico. As long as there is a lucrative market, there will be a willing supplier.
Legalizing or decriminalizing is not the solution. These drugs will always be distructive of the users and the nation.
I wonder if we have will to end the market here.
Y’know, sometimes I think Bush had the right idea but the wrong country. Just think about how much cheaper it would be to transport out troops to Mexico rather than Iraq. Instead of ships and huge airplanes we could have used busses.
LOL! Yeah....that's some real news there....
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