America's Third War: The U.S. Cut a Deal With the Sinaloa Cartel

FoxNews.com ^ | August 05, 2011 | William Lajeunesse

[PhilDragoo]

U.S. federal agents allegedly cut a deal with the Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed it to traffic tons of narcotics across the border, in exchange for information about rival cartels, according to documents filed in federal court.

Click here to view the Sinaloa Cartel case document.

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I thought Drudge had an article up for a short time, then took it down. (Odd)

[Nachum]

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[potlatch]

One house.........one "find".......just imagine!

[wardaddy]

Weird business with drug traffickers goes back to Nicaragua and contras.

I did not see it with my own eyes but know folks whom I had faith in that saw for a fact some Contra leaders were able to transport from Nica areas they controlled, Costa Rica areas they controlled...Eden Pastora, and Honduras areas with relative impunity while the US Govt...Magnus and Bush I admins...worked to expose Nicaraguan Sandies transporting Pablo and Gacha dope...which has been proven on film

it links back even earlier to opium war lord cooperation in the Indochina war...dopers fight commies...give dopers a little slack...black ops or CIA and Military guys often trump LEO needs

Same with AUC and Victor Caranza during Uribe time in Colombia

not sure what the angle is in Mexico though

[marktwain]

I had an eyewitness claim to have seen arms being offloaded in Panama for transshipment by air to the Nicaragua Sandanistas before the overthrow of the Somoza government, during the Carter years.

[PhilDragoo]

Terry Reed and John Cummings, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA, SPI/Shopolsky, 1994.

Buddy Young guards the door as inside the bunker North and Clinton argue over profits.

Johnny Sutton immunized Aldrete-Davila--if any U.S. citizen had independently run loads of 700 or 1,000 pounds of marijuana, would Sutton or any other U.S. Attorney have immunized him?

[PhilDragoo]

Panama. Noriega. Guilty knowledge. Taken down.

In my view, tracks with the Karzai brother: lit up as CIA paid asset and major druglord--assassinated.

The same deal used over and over: silver or lead.

Why the Tea Party is such a threat: no vulnerabilities to bribe or threat.

The ruling class is not merely a term of art.

[PhilDragoo]

Our Federal government presents as Mena-spirited.

Deja vu all over again.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Add to your list the 0 administration’s initial decision not to enforce federal marijuana laws.

[Ken H]

Add to your list the 0 administration's initial decision not to enforce federal marijuana laws.

Could you explain that? Are you saying that non-enforcement of federal laws against medical marijuana helps the cartels?

[wardaddy]

I was first in Nicaragua in 78 or so war touring...there and El Salvador and Guatemala etc...not in military....spectator..met D’aubisson.in Sally...helluva guy unless you were a commie louver

Was back to buy Somoza’s cargo ship in Corinto in 88...Contras were hitting Chinandega at the time....later after Sandies in 1991....not much surprises me from there

[OneWingedShark]

...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness....

[gusty]

The 21st Century versions of Whitey Bulger and Danny Greene, past gangsters enabled by our government.

[PhilDragoo]

FACTBOX-The growing power of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel

CULIACAN, Mexico, Jan 19 (Reuters) - A decade after its leader Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman escaped from prison, Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel is the most powerful organized crime gang in the Americas despite a government crackdown.

Guzman's cartel is believed to handle 65 percent of all drugs illegally transported to the United States, drug experts say. The Sinaloa cartel is also the most international in the Americas, with cells in Central and South America, Europe, China and India, according to analysts and official sources.

Guzman, 53, was captured in 1993 in Guatemala but escaped from a Mexican maximum security prison on January 19, 2001 in the back of a laundry van with the collusion of dozens of corrupt guards. He has outwitted several major government drives to find him since 2002 including narrow escapes from planned raids on parties in 2007 and late last year, according to Mexican media reports.

Amid accusations that federal authorities protect Guzman, experts estimate his cartel has suffered fewer casualties and arrests during President Felipe Calderon's four-year-old campaign against drug trafficking. But the government says it has made progress in weakening the Sinaloans, including the arrest of Vicente "Vicentillo" Zambada, the son of Guzman's right-hand man Ismael Zambada in 2009, and the killing of senior cartel leader Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel last July.

The outrage of the Clinton State Department over Hondura's ouster of its president seeking an unconstitutional extension in office may have revolved around the four planeloads a day the so-called "coup" curtailed.

It had been reported that China shipped tons of precursors to Mexico for Mexico's superlabs' manufacture of methedrine smuggled into the U.S.

Ramos and Compean, Jesus Diaz, John Carman, F & F, DEA aiding Sinaloa cartel--can there be corruption at a high level, organized crime in our government?

"I assure you there is no gambling in this establishment."

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