Mexico’s Top Drug Cop Resigns Amidst Corruption Controversy
For the hundredth time, why the hell are we giving these people hundreds of millions in U.S. tax dollars to fight the war on drugs? To say they cannot be trusted is an epic understatement:
The best evidence that he’s corrupt may be the fact that, unlike his predecessor, he wasn’t shot to death. That’s how bad this has gotten.
Q: How do you tell if a Mexican anti-drug official is corrupt?
A: He’s alive.
Is that even an exaggeration? I’m beginning to wonder. Which brings us back to the mindblowing fact that our government is investing huge sums of our money in the deeply corrupted Mexican drug war. We cannot possibly possess any vague assurance that we can trust anyone on the receiving end of these enormous drug war donations, but we do it anyway.
During an economic crisis, we’re pouring hundreds of millions into Mexico’s cauldron of drug war corruption and you can bet we’ll get nothing in return. Nothing, that is, except an endless supply of cocaine on our streets.
Mexico's efforts to get to grips with spiralling drug crime and corruption suffered a blow at the weekend when one of the country's top police officers resigned amid allegations that drugs cartels had infiltrated his department.
Gerardo Garay, the head of Mexico's military-style federal police force, stepped down to head off suspicion that he was working for a major drugs cartel. "I am resigning because the bloody fight against organised crime makes it our duty to strengthen institutions, which means it is essential to eliminate any shadows of doubt regarding me," Garay told a press conference. "I will put myself at the disposal of the judicial authorities." [Guardian]
The best evidence that he’s corrupt may be the fact that, unlike his predecessor, he wasn’t shot to death. That’s how bad this has gotten.
Q: How do you tell if a Mexican anti-drug official is corrupt?
A: He’s alive.
Is that even an exaggeration? I’m beginning to wonder. Which brings us back to the mindblowing fact that our government is investing huge sums of our money in the deeply corrupted Mexican drug war. We cannot possibly possess any vague assurance that we can trust anyone on the receiving end of these enormous drug war donations, but we do it anyway.
During an economic crisis, we’re pouring hundreds of millions into Mexico’s cauldron of drug war corruption and you can bet we’ll get nothing in return. Nothing, that is, except an endless supply of cocaine on our streets.
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