U.S. Government and Top Mexican Drug Cartel Exposed as Partners

New American ^ | Tuesday, 14 January 2014 | Alex Newman

[AzNASCARfan]

For over a decade, under multiple administrations, the U.S. government had a secret agreement with the ruthless Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed it to operate with impunity, an in-depth investigation by a leading Mexican newspaper confirmed this week. In exchange for information and assistance in quashing competing criminal syndicates, the Bush and Obama administrations let the Sinaloa cartel import tons of drugs into the United States while wiping out Sinaloa competitors and ensuring that its leaders would not be prosecuted for their long list of major crimes. Other revelations also point strongly to massive but clandestine U.S. government involvement in drug trafficking.

Relying on over 100 interviews with current and former government functionaries on both sides of the border, as well as official documents from the U.S. and Mexican governments, Mexico’s El Universal concluded that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the U.S. Justice Department had secretly worked with Mexican drug lords. The controversial conspiring led to increased violence across Mexico, where many tens of thousands have been murdered in recent years, the newspaper found after its year-long probe. The U.S. agents and their shady deals with Mexican drug lords even sparked what the paper called a “secret war” inside Mexico.

[nathanbedford]

The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over again and expecting a different result.

(Falsely credited to Albert Einstein)

The quotation might be apocryphal but the wisdom is certain. Perhaps a better aphorism would be: the definition of a loser is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Your way has flatly failed over and over again. You are the loser and not those who appeal to common sense and countless historical precedents.

In 2014 I published the following reply which tells us one of the main reasons why your way loses:

Feds Seek Prison for Rural Washington Pot Growers

5/12/2014 6:38:28 AM · 18 of 29

nathanbedford to mgist

If you want to know why the war on drugs is lost start thinking about it the way Adam Smith and Warren Buffett would think about it.

Adam Smith would talk about the law of supply and demand and he tells us that when the demand goes up so does the price; when supply goes down, the price goes up. When the demand is inelastic, that is, when it is the product of an addiction, the price curve is even more radical in its upward thrust when supply is reduced. Therefore, the more the government succeeds in interdicting the supply of addictive drugs, the more it increases the price and thereby increases the incentive to increase supply. The more the government succeeds, the more it must fail.

That is why drug smugglers and dealers are so wonderfully inventive in evading the law and will ever continue to be so unless you want to live in North Korea.

Without putting words in Warren Buffett's mouth, his criteria for investing in an enterprise are well-known. He wants a company with a unique product and a huge market potential. What better than an addictive drug? He wants company with high barriers to entry against competition. What better barrier than the law and what better barriers than drug enforcement agencies raiding your competition? And if competition becomes too serious, this business model says you simply eliminate it by murdering them.

Buffett would be very intrigued by the idea that costs are extremely low, markup extremely high, and the price is ever supported by the government! By making drugs illegal, the government in effect has enacted price supports. By selling into an inelastic demand of addicts, the market as well as price are virtually guaranteed.

Because the price is high, addicts are incentivized to push the drugs onto others in order to addict them, to create a mini market which funds their own addiction. What a wonderful business model! On the macro level it is a multilevel marketing scheme on steroids, or should I say, powered by addiction, and supported by the government.

Meanwhile, this wonderful marketing scheme generates so much money that corruption is inevitable. Worse, our enemies in the Muslim world and elsewhere have exploited this market to our disadvantage and national security peril. Meanwhile, our only politically correct response is a full throated roar: "do more of the same."

[Jarhead9297]

[Rashputin]

all true,

Regards

[867V309]

Your way has flatly failed over and over again. You are the loser and not those who appeal to common sense and countless historical precedents.

what, exactly, mr IS my way?

[nathanbedford]

all the negative losers are congregating over at dmbocrap underground. I hear they have a place for you.

You made your "way" exquisitely clear in your reply #13 which is simply to offer no solution of your own but to insult and demean those with whom you evidently disagree without even deining to explain why you disagree.

Never explain, always insult, as you have demonstrated for all to read, that is your way.

[no-to-illegals]

Your thoughts remind me of the ethanol in gasoline scam

[867V309]

hey beauregard



The war against drugs is over. We lost. Get over it.

it's your negativty.        own it

[nathanbedford]

If you want to solve the drug problem, or any problem, first step: recognize and accept reality, that is a positive good not a negative.

But you keep on if it makes you feel good: never explain, always insult.

[wastoute]

Why would america’s wealthiest and most powerful people take any action that reduces their access to great, cheap blow?

[wastoute]

Just some?

[wastoute]

Did it ever really start. I was in Just Because. It had more to do with a home video of GB humping a Nebraska cheerleader at the Hotel Panama than cocaine. But let’s not get into that. Check just where the first two bombs fell.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#15. I think VGLGT9286 or whatever it is, is the Third Star from the Left.

[wastoute]

Well, IMHO a strong case can be made that they didn’t fail. They just let him sit in the Oval Office and fly around in the plane. I don’t see anyone indicted for the crime so how can anyone claim they didn’t succeed. In fact, Mueller’s continued existence is pretty good proof they succeeded. Rosenstein still has a job. As does Bruce Ohr IIRC. I wouldn’t even try to argue they failed. Especially after last week.

[wastoute]

Pretty certain that word should have “conspiracy to commit” in front of it instead of “meeting”.

[cnsmom]

Let’s not forget Bill Clinton and his little airport in Mena Arkansas running drugs.

[867V309]

If you want to solve the drug problem, or any problem, first step: recognize and accept reality, that is a positive good not a negative.

But you keep on if it makes you feel good: never explain, always insult.

well mr beauregard it was you who said "The war against drugs is over. We lost. Get over it."        I called you out for your negativity and now you accuse me of not "recognize and accept reality."

If you want to solve the drug problem, or any problem, first step: recognize and accept reality, that is a positive good not a negative.     The war against drugs is over. We lost. Get over it.

YOUR QUOTES.

I say go back to DU where the druggies believe they've won.

[zeestephen]

Re: “This is exactly the plot of the movie Sicario. Not exactly a secret I guess.”

It's also the plot for “Clear and Present Danger” (1994), a Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) movie.

The Mexican “journalist” who wrote this article is hoping for a movie contract.

[lizma2]

bkmk

[jonascord]

"I hear they have a place for you at Dmbocrap Underground "

That you could be that naive and ill-educated enough to believe that the Drug War was winnable, despite the evidence, is a true pinnacle of Stupid. Logic is supposed to be a Conservative trait.

Ponder these thoughts. How many hundreds of thousands of LEOs, DAs, middle management bureaucrats, congress-slime, senators, mayors, on both sides of the Border, currently depend on unsuccessful drug enforcement for their livelihood, a bass boat, a condo in Arizona, that new Land Rover?

Look at the history of Prohibition, and explain how federal price supports for meth, heroin, fentanyl, cannabis are going to control them?

The truth is to admit that some people cannot handle reality. We can kill them all, as China did during the Opium Wars. Or, let them kill themselves, by selling 1 lb. bags of 100% pure, at Walmart, for $1, to whoever walks in the door. This in-between nonsense ain't cuttin' it.

It's been a century, now. 100 F#$KING YEARS! Point to ONE successful drug interdiction.

[mdmathis6]

“so unless you want to live in North Korea.”
How about Singapore?