Posted on 02/17/2019 11:41:44 PM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
“Plata or Plomo,Amigo?”
It amazes me when there is talk of a wall near a US City politicians and business people start talking about how it will interfere with business on both sides of the border, economic issues. I want to ask them what business they are referring to, since any legitimate business traffic goes through the Ports of Entry.
Is it any wonder it's still illegal to grow your own medicine in most states?
It was is and always will be a war on people to protect a criminal monopoly!
Seems like you are...... (derogatory insult witheld)!
That was a spooky movie.
The usual Mexican horsepucky. Some twenty years ago I held a job that caused me to be aware that Mexico’s Minister of Justice was on the narcotics cartel payroll. He would not travel to the USA for fear of being arrested. People who were around before that remember that Carlos Lehder suborned Mexican officials. The process of bribing Mexican officials at federal, state and local levels is now more than twenty-five years old. The claim that the US is complicit in the trade is as old as the founding of the Bush Florida operation that began toward the end of the Reagan administration.
Naming a bust does not come close to qualifying. Heroin was synthesized in 1874.
By 1925 it was illegal. That's 94 years of illegality. Is it still available? Has banning heroin worked? Yes, no, some, maybe a little? Or, isn't that the point?
Quite a war, there, Lou... You are either mentally damaged, or deliberately obtuse.
You mean ANOTHER President ?
I only have one question..... When has any political system, in any part of the globe, ever not sought to line its pockets and do such through corruption ?? None exists currently imho
Trump's not the one who needs to be audited. Any government official whose net worth has skyrocketed during their tenure should be audited. That's where the corruption will be found.
You CAN NOT have a War on Drugs without Drugs.
2/3rds of GOVERNMENT at EVERY LEVEL is a direct result of the War on Drugs, what will these people do if the Wall is built and the War ends?? Judges, Prosecutors, Police, Parole, Probation, Jails, Prison Guards,.... The List is Endless and you are talking about destroying their very livelyhood by BUILDING A WALL to stop the free flow of Drugs.
bump for later
Prohibition was created by busybody tyrannical do-gooders and cynical politicians who used them to create a new source of bribes and kickbacks.
If drugs were cheap the addicts wouldn’t feel the need to steal to pay for them.Of course there wouldn’t be the bribes,the “work” for the law enforcer and lawyers.
Been going on for a while. Does Mena, Arkansas ring a bell for anyone?
These scumbag politicians are getting rich while our country dies and we all go down the shi#### RELEASE THE DOCS LETS GET TO THE BUSINESS OF EXPOSING AND PROSECUTING
In 2012, Newsweek reported about allegations from an anonymous former Sinaloa member turned informant and former DEA agents that alleged that Joaquín Guzmán’s legal adviser, Humberto Loya-Castro, had become a key informant for the DEA. Statements from a Mexican diplomat, which were revealed from leaked emails from the Stratfor leak in 2012, appeared to imply the belief amongst Mexican officials that US officials were assisting the Sinaloa cartel’s drug smuggling efforts into the US and were protecting the cartel while attacking its rivals in an attempt to lower violence between Mexican drug cartels; this was backed up by information provided by Mexican foreign agent, codenamed MX1. The allegation the US officials were controlling the drug trade through Mexico was perpetuated by the former spokesman of the State of Chihuahua, Guillermo Terrazas Villanueva.
In March 2015, the BBC TV program This World broadcast an episode entitled “Secrets of Mexico’s Drug War which reported on the US government’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Operation Fast and Furious which had allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal buyers acting on behalf of Mexican drug cartel leaders, in particular the Sinaloa Cartel. The BBC also reported on Vicente Zambada Niebla’s claims of immunity from prosecution under a deal between the Mexican and US governments and his claims that the Sinaloa Cartel’s leaders had provided US federal agents with information about rival Mexican drug gangs. And they were supplied the weapons during the Obama tenure that were used to defend their turf in Mexico and that later surfaced in the US used in violent crimes.
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This article is 17 1/2 years old, but every word is still very much pertinent and the extent of corruption probably worse today than it was in 2001.
https://www.thenation.com/article/drug-war-trial/
Carlos Hank-Rhon owns as many politicians in the US as he does in Mexico.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/hankfam.html
Note that Warren Rudman, a former senator from New Hampshire, was a lobbyist for the Hank family. Not mentioned in this article, is Bob Dole, also a lobbyist for the Hanks. And yes, Rudman and Dole are both Republicans.
Want a Mexican perspective on the Hank family, Google “el Andar Hank Rhon”...
“Some”? How about MOST. Most are influenced by or financed by the drug trade or criminal activity in some fashion, whether direct or indirect. I can assure you that some weren’t aware of the source of their campaign contributions at the time they first ran for election, but those who stuck around long enough either know or suspect if they have even two brain cells to rub together. As a friend who served two terms in Congress told me, “I began to wonder, ‘Why the hell would they want me to vote against that?’ There was only one plausible reason.”
He didn’t run for a third term.
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