Posted on 01/26/2017 11:20:29 AM PST by Resettozero
On Wednesday, Trump signed two executive orders dealing with enforcing current immigration laws and the construction of a border wall. Trump specifically called out Mexican cartels in the executive order. In response to the anti-cartel measures, Peña Nieto took to social media, as Breitbart Texas reported.
In addition to denouncing the measure, Peña Nieto announced that he would be ordering the 50 Mexican Consulates in the U.S. to step up their efforts to protect “migrants”. The Mexican president made no mention of the fact that the migrants are one of the largest funding mechanisms for the cartels who reportedly helped him gain his office.
Mexican President Peña Nieto has been the subject of immaculate investigative reporting in his own country, though his reported ties to Mexican cartels received little attention from the U.S. during the presidency of Barack Obama.
As Breitbart Texas previously reported:
An in-depth investigation has revealed that through the use of shell companies, members of the Juarez Cartel financed the political campaign of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. ... The bombshell revelation was made ... by the independent news outlet Aristegui Noticias who claim that top officials of the Juarez Cartel financed thousands of cash cards that were handed out by Mexico’s Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) during the 2012 political campaign that resulted in the victory of Enrique Pena Nieto. According to the Mexican journalists, the cash cards were provided by a company called Monex. They were reported to be financed through a series of shell corporations by key players with the Juarez Cartel. ...
They identified Rodolfo David “El Consul” Avila Cordero as a key figure in the financial scandal that implicates the leading figures in Mexico’s ruling party, the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI).
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
This guy is coming up for reelection against someone that is way more leftist and radical. He is stuck between a rock and a hard place. That’s always been the problem with Mexico, radicalism and corruption. We should have never allowed them to take advantage of us the way they did for so many years. Trump is going to have to teach them who is the top man on the totem pole.
I was shocked years ago when I worked at a place that had a money transfer machine. All the customers were mostly Mexicans sending money home. This had to be at least 15 years ago.
Noice.
Wait. The Mexican president is protecting the drug cartels????
Ixtapa is nice this time of year.
Mexico has no leverage.
None.
Wow, we’re dealing with a Narco owned Mexican president. No deals with Narcos.
“50 Mexican Consulates, close them send them back, a good start.”
Wall first.
Both simultaneously.
Let’s face it, politicians in Mexico are corrupt to the core and American politicians aren’t much better, if any. It doesn’t surprise me in the least that Pena-Nieto’s campaign was financed - at least in part - by shell companies connected to the Juarez Cartel.
One needs only look at the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio (a populist candidate for president) in 1994, the connection of the assassin to Jorge Hank-Rhon (see links below), the Hank family’s ownership - direct and indirect - of dozens of such shell companies, their as-yet-”unproven” connection to drug trafficking and their well-known (among some) connection to some very recognizable American politicians - including the Bush family) to understand that this is only scratching the surface of the depth of cross-border political corruption.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mexico/family/bergman.html
http://www.elandar.com/bush/amigos.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/01/business/big-us-fine-for-mexican-in-bank-case.html
And here’s a link to a prior post on FR:
http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-chat/3377655/replies?c=50
Move: Pena-Nieto wants the embassies and consulates to protect “migrants”.
Counter-move: Trump closes consulates.
We should just prohibit electronic remittance of funds back to Mexico. If they want to send money back home, they have to take it back in person.
Mexico’s President Cancels White House Visit After Trump Hits Cartels
Look, the president of Mexico is in deep with the cartels.
AND after the Donald asked if the MEXPREZ would mind if we ‘Droned”: a 1/2 dozen cartel mansions near the border, the Mexprez shxt his pants and cancelled !!
Brier Fox, please don't throw me in the Briar Patch.
Trump told the world that Mexico would pay. Trump set up an early meeting with Mexico's leader. Trump told the ABC interview that we would front the money as a “gotcha.” He probably had a plan to make Mexico pay when he said that to create a controversy and get publicity.
He then dared the Mexican President to cancel the meeting. Challenge stupidly accepted. Mexican peso falls in value. Trump announce punitive tax. Now the next step will be up to Mexico. I expect them to come back and figure out someway to make nice. They have far too much to loose.
What is really interesting is the domino effect this is likely to create with the next country that Trump decides to negotiate with.
I would wager that once the military has a plan in place to destroy much of the Iranian navy and Guard, that Trump will start negotiating with Iran. They will respond with some kind of small boat naval attack on a US Navy ship and Trump will release all hell on Iran and continue to destroy their military until they beg for peace and a truce. I expect that the Iranian nuclear deal will be revised at that time.
I can't wait to see how he dismantles the education teachers unions.
Eff ‘em, pay up chump!
The government is in deep with the cartels.
And he wasn’t the most radical candidate. Won with 38%. Up again in 2018.
Oh, you mean the very tiny group of highly-entrenched oligarchs that run Mexico.
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