Posted on 11/11/2011 9:16:20 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
WESLACO - Cartels only care about getting their product from Mexico into the U.S. One cartel member tells CHANNEL 5 NEWS they won't let anything stop them, even if it means torturing people.
"I've never killed," the mans tell us. "I've seen how they do it. They kill anybody."
He wants out of the cartel, but death is almost always the only way out. He's telling his story from the shadows.
"They never let you move up. You are just working, working, working, and that's it," he describes. The man tells CHANNEL 5 NEWS the cartel bosses make the big bucks, and everyone else makes next to nothing. He says it's a hard way to live.
He tells us he got into the cartel as a child living in the Rio Grande Valley. He was lured by the promise of living the high life. The promises never paid off. He says he spent the last few years living his idea of hell.
"I heard from a guy who used to work there. He was a Zeta and he was drugged up day and night. He wouldn't sleep. They don't sleep," he says. "I saw them. They take newly-born babies. They put them in a stew, and they eat them."
He says these unimaginable acts of cruelty are meant to inflict control. CHANNEL 5 NEWS can't verify what he tells us, but we have heard other first-hand accounts just like this.
"The Zetas were causing a lot of damage," he says.
Common enemies make strange bedfellows. The man tells CHANNEL 5 NEWS the Gulf Cartel and La Familia teamed up to try to wipe out the Zetas a few years ago.
All three are fighting for the money-making drug routes into the United States. They're willing to spend the dollars to buy their way through the bridges and the waters. He says the price is never too high to buy a Mexican military member.
"Four thousand dollars to $5,000 a week, everybody on the bridge makes that," he says, "Every week 600 or 700 kilos of drugs cross the river. Daily, it was 200-300 kilos."
He says the drug lords own the pilots of the Mexican Military choppers too. He says the incursions we've seen into the U.S. aren't innocent mistakes.
"They're coming to drop off merchandise," he says.
Military divisions not on the cartel's payrolls are on their watch list.
"Wherever they come, they are being followed every movement they make," he says.
The man tells CHANNEL 5 NEWS the corruption isn't confined to Mexico.
"In some parts, Border Patrol sees. In some parts, they don’t. In some parts, you are looking at them. But in most parts, I've heard and I've seen, we pass right in front of their eyes. They let it go through. They are also paid $20,000 every three to four days," he says.
A recently-released Texas Border Security report says two South Texas sheriffs and 70 Customs and Border Patrol agents and officers were convicted for cartel-related corruption.
The cartel member tells CHANNEL 5 NEWS even without corrupt U.S. law enforcement, the cartels are doing business on the U.S. side.
"They have a lot of money coming here. There is millions, same with the firearms. Somebody thinks they're untouchable, because you're on this side. You're wrong. They'll knock you out," he says.
The man claims the cartels are paying bank presidents in the U.S. to launder money. Business owners aren't given a choice. The hitmen move in if you don't cooperate.
He doesn't think he has a choice either. The life that sounded sexy and rich is now his black hole of endless evil.
Reminds me of the chapter in “Freakonomics” that involved a young grad student social scientist who spent years studying the Chicago drug gangs. Only the guys at the top make the big bucks, everyone else busts their asses, gets shot at and makes chicken feed.
The drug murderers now have a foothold in American government, courtesy of the dim-witted Mormon church colluding with violent thugs of Mexico.
Welcome to the end of America, fools.
The Russell Pearce loss is more complicated than the SB 1070. Without the money from the open borders crowd, the recall would never have happened. However, Pearce made enemies on a number of issues during his time. He has some corruption charges although I am not sure if the corruption charges have any substance. The open borders group muddied the water so much that Pearce was defeated although I do not think that his loss reflects voter disapproval for SB 1070.
libertarian ping!
The drug war corrupts everything it touches ...
This is a Mexican government initiative, pure and simple: shove as many of their people into the U.S. as possible, agitate for political rights, and then pick off any American opposition, either by political or violent force. Since the Mexican government is simply an extension of what the media calls "cartels" - in Mexico they are referred to as familias or Mafias, and are equated with the regional governments - then any Mexican government initiative is also a Mexican mafia initiative.
Ask anyone familiar with it.
This is what is happening now in the Southwest. Outright takeover and intimidation. Randy Parraz should be investigated for contacts with the Mexican government and the drug gangs. My guess is that even a cursory look at the guy and his contacts would be startling.
The things you mention about Pearce are minor things that are routinely dismissed when it comes to Leftist politicians all over the country, and had nothing to do with his recall. This was a power play by Mexicans flexing political muscle in the U.S., in an attempt to silence forever any American opposition to their ongoing Reconquista. Nothing more, nothing less.
I would have voted for Pearce but the emphasis was to fool the independent voters. It looks like the trickery worked. Lewis is a Republican (at least in name) so maybe he will not obstruct Pearce’s accomplishments.
We taught the Mexican military their special operations techniques. They took on the cartels and saw the money. Now, they have the money and run the drugs themselves. The Mexican military is the cartel.
I have never had any doubt that the Bushes, Clinton and Obama were all part of the corruption - as well as large swaths of both sides of the aisle in both houses of Congress, Federal officials, state and local officials, and LEOs at all levels from seas to shining sea.
There is simply no other explanation for the decades long, insane open border and immigration policies maintained by the government against the will of the people, against the general welfare, and against the very sovereignty of our country.
U.S.-trained forces reportedly helping Mexican cartels
May 14, 2008
WASHINGTON — As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress on Wednesday.
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