Corruption at the Top Levels of the Mexican Drug War
This is the kind of crap we’re subsidizing with our massive financial support of Mexico’s war on drugs:
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A major drug cartel has infiltrated the Mexican attorney general's office, and one cartel worker says he even spied on DEA operations from inside U.S. Embassy, Mexican prosecutors said Monday.
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The revelations of corruption inside the control centers of the U.S.-Mexican anti-drug effort were a major blow to President Felipe Calderon's anti-drug campaign, in which he has sent tens of thousands of troops and federal police across Mexico to combat violent cartels.
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Assistant Attorney General Marisela Morales said two top employees of her organized-crime unit and at least three federal police agents assigned to it may have been passing information on surveillance targets and potential raids for at least four years. [Guardian]
If the Mexican drug war were a Fortune 500 company, would you invest in it? Seriously, can anyone prevent our drug war donations from ending up in the hands of the cartels? This is an extraordinary mess, a complete mockery of everything we’re trying to accomplish and we have no clue how deep it goes.
There isn’t a single thing happening in Mexico right now that could be construed as progress in the war on drugs. To the contrary, every day that goes by brings new evidence of the fundamental failure of our strategy on every conceivable level.
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redditPlanned continuous war..
Comment posted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 11:41am...whatever the war. War = revenue stream , plus crusade. Go with the flow...into the fog...for an even bigger return.
Corrupt Status Quo
Comment posted by Giordano on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 1:28pmThe exposure of police corruption in the drug war is met with expressions of surprise among politicians and law enforcement personnel as if prohibition and corruption can somehow be separated. Succeeding in the drug war without the attendant official corruption is impossible, and if the absence of corruption is a requisite for success, then there can be no success.
In the case of Mexico and just about everywhere else, any high level or mid-level drug dealer is going to have moles in the police department or government on their payroll. It’s a relatively cheap investment that always pays off.
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we are to blame as well
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 9:02pmHow intellectual dishonesty is so pervasive in our own law enforcement, congress and senate is not a surprise at all. our own collective apathy, complacency, disbelief are also responsible for this problem escalating beyond reason. indications of narco trafficking and massive corruption at the highest levels of government has been known since the Iran Contra scandal between Danilo Blandon Contra cocaine and CIA Barry Seal Gulf Stream II and C130 cocaine/heroine for arms trades revealed by Cele Castillo at powderburns.org and Gary Webb's Dark Alliance and Maxine Waters testimony, as well as documented evidence of contra CIA narco trafficking money trails in Senator Kerry's reports back in the 80's. This problem is not new at all, is my point and intellectually honest, morally sensitive people are waking up from their trance from Covert, Ericksonian hypnosis language patterns of news media moguls.
Oliver North pardoned there is no justice
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 9:24pmThere is no real justice in the US. George H Bush a former CIA director and known Maltese Knight pardoned Oliver North for his indictments and involvement in the Iran Contra CIA drugs for arms, continuity of government, FEMA REX 84 measures. Oliver North now has his own broadcast with FOX. Now, if justice really exists, how can people tolerate such hypocrisy of someone betraying our own constitution, glamorized with his own television show instead of in prison?
Placing the fate of our children in the hands of the corrupt...
Comment posted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 5:07amUntil the general public stops thinking of legalization as a Laissez-faire, libertarian "free for all" haven for drug dealers, we reformers will never stop the drug war and its disastrous consequence to government and society at large. I want these low life cartels put out of business as much as Presidente Calderon.
Our "Prohibition" laws only prohibit the effective regulation of these markets while turning your run-of-the-mill street thugs into wealthy and powerful cartel leaders.