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Top Mexico cops charged with favoring drug cartel (Cartel Merry-Go-Round continues)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/24/09 | Mark Stevenson - ap

Posted on 01/24/2009 1:56:00 PM PST by NormsRevenge

MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderon's war on drug trafficking has led to his own doorstep, with the arrest of a dozen high-ranking officials with alleged ties to Mexico's most powerful drug gang, the Sinaloa Cartel.

The U.S. praises Calderon for rooting out corruption at the top. But critics say the arrests reveal nothing more than a timeworn government tactic of protecting one cartel and cracking down on others.

Operation Clean House comes just as the U.S. is giving Mexico its first installment of $400 million in equipment and technology to fight drugs.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bailout; cops; drugcartel; favoring; mexico

1 posted on 01/24/2009 1:56:02 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

I am sick of seeing my hard-earned money shipped overseas for this and that program.

Obama has started the printing presses again....another tillion is being “created”. At this rate in ten years my life savings value will fall by nearly half.

Enough! I’m tired of being cheated by my government.

I voted for Bob Barr in November, only sorry I couldn’t have voted more than once.


2 posted on 01/24/2009 2:03:04 PM PST by kjo
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To: NormsRevenge

Oh suuuure...! They need US money..!

3 posted on 01/24/2009 2:08:56 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Really, I wonder if those are LEGITIMATE bills, and if they are confiscated, who gets to deposit or use them? Honestly.


4 posted on 01/24/2009 2:15:12 PM PST by rovenstinez
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To: gaijin
We need to hire this guy...

I was awestruck by the Joker character in the latest Batman film. Joker was definately a villian, but his methodology concerning the mob money was something that evaded the "good guys" who wanted it for their own purposes.

What better way is there to fight inflationary government money printing than to just burn mountains of it?

The same thing is true concerning this shadow money held in other places around the globe. Find it and burn it, this way it cannot be used against us.

George Soros is trading in currency. He has to keep that cash someplace, somebody has to hold it for him...

5 posted on 01/24/2009 2:20:59 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: rovenstinez

See #5 for my solution to that problem...


6 posted on 01/24/2009 2:22:13 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: NormsRevenge

Now the cartels will ask for a bailout?

Or is this actually why Wall Street needs a bailout?

Hmmm...


7 posted on 01/24/2009 2:26:24 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: kjo

Well, if these drug dealers were selling mortgages...


8 posted on 01/24/2009 2:28:06 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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9 posted on 01/24/2009 2:59:27 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: rovenstinez

That was one photo from a set of 6 from ONE house down there busted for drugs.

The take?

207 MILLION DOLLARS.


10 posted on 01/24/2009 3:30:25 PM PST by gaijin
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To: NormsRevenge; SatinDoll; bastantebueno55; SisterK; ronnyquest; Cvengr; CPT Clay; MNDude; ...

Ping!

If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.


11 posted on 01/24/2009 8:16:28 PM PST by SwinneySwitch (Mexico - beyond your expectations.)
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