Posted on 07/12/2014 11:59:39 AM PDT by mgist
Mexican Cartels Buying Afghan Heroin PVNN
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Mexican cartels have established business alliances with gangs operating in places like Afganistán and Turkey, in order to obtain and smuggle drugs to supply Europe and North America, according to investigator Edgardo Buscaglia, a fellow at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM).
In an interview with EL UNIVERSAL, Buscaglia confirmed that Mexican narcotraffickers operate like multinational emissaries "to establish contacts and place operatives that can deal with the Turkish and Indian criminal organizations in order to facilitate the production and sale of drugs," specifically heroin.
Buscaglia says that according to his investigation, these criminal groups operate on an international level, and their bases of operations are located in México.
“It is in the interest of these Mexican groups (specifically the Sinaloa alliance) that they open smuggling routes for the distribution of heroin to the U.S. market. Furthermore, they are not only focusing on the movement of Afghan heroin through Mexico; they are also taking positions of power as major players in the international world of the heroin trade," according to Buscaglia, who is also the director the International Center of Legal and Economic Development.
Strategic Global Alliances
According to Buscaglia, the strategic alliances between the cartels of México and the Middle Eastern group becomes potentially closer to being a fact with each passing rumor.
“It is not as if (Joaquín) El Chapo Guzmán (Loera) himself travels to Turkey, it is up to his emissaries to maintain good relations in that country. They keep the flow of heroin packages and money that belongs to the Sinaloa cartel moving to their appropriate destinations. Money and heroin make its way to Chicago, or New York. It is like the concept of outsourcing labor: the Mexican cartels receive the product from their overseas suppliers and they distribute the merchandise locally," Edgardo Buscaglia explained to his interview with El Universal.
The shipments that arrived to Canadá and the U.S. are very profitable to the criminal groups of the southern henisphere, but the product itself is produced in Afganistán, where 90% of the worlds heroin supply comes from, says Buscaglia.
“The Mexican groups arrive to the Turkish and Afghan markets with contacts established by emissaries or companies where cartel members hold minor positions. Often, the exporters themselves come with the credentials of being overseas suppliers and representatives of people in the business of illicit services,” he explained.
Once bought, the heroin supply arrives to the North and Central American market, “these emissaries often exchange drugs for arms, or for other items. Nothing is out of the question, it really just depends on the region."
Arms Trafficking
Buscaglia assured that“Mexican groups are gaining a presence on the world stage , not only in drug trafficking, but also in the arms smuggling and money laundering schemes of Romania and Bulgaria. They are also making inroads into the European Union markets”.
The patriarchal position of the Mexican cartels has expanded and has benefited the groups operating deep in the heart of their home country, very similar to the Italian and Russian mafias benefited when those groups dominated the world stage.
In this sense, the ATIM fellow said this confirms in part why the drug cartels are using weapons manufactured in Asia; it is because of the fluid interchange of drugs and arms.
“The most important gun suppliers at the moment (other than the U.S. and China) are the Russians and the Albanians. Places where the purchase of illegal arms is often made in drugs" concluded Buscaglia.
NATALIA MATAMOROS | EL UNIVERSAL
Saturday October 05, 2013 12:00 AM
The shipment of 1.3 tons of cocaine bound to France onboard a flight departing from Venezuela is just a pearl that decorates the necklace of a myriad of similar cases.
Bayardo Ramírez, a criminal lawyer and former president of the National Anti-Drug Commission (Conacuid), stressed that based on data of groups engaged in counter-narcotics efforts worldwide, Venezuela ranks as the first drug trafficker in Latin America, overtaking Mexico and Colombia.
According to Ramírez, some sectors inside the Venezuelan government have distinct strategies on drug trafficking, with no attempt at setting policies to curb the scourge.
“There are groups in the current regime that traffic in drugs coming from Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia -the latter in cooperation with the FARC. The country (Venezuela) became a warehouse, lab, and collection and distribution center of substances.”
The expert claimed that in Venezuela, together with other countries in the Latin American region, “some groups have set routes to ship cocaine and marihuana through Central America up to Canada and the United States. There is another route to Africa and there it (the drug) is distributed to Europe.”
Remember the 80’s when there really was a war on drugs? The DEA was in Colombia burning coca fields, and intercepting boats loads of cocaine.
In Obama’s America we have epidemic drug addictions rates, unprecedented amounts of pure, cheap, deadly heroin, and opiate addictions that have surpassed car accidents and alcohol, in accidental deaths.
In Obama’s America the Federal Agencies are MIA, and Drug Legalization is trendy.
They are working together and our government enables them.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/tag/national-drug-intelligence-center/
“Mexican cartel violence is at an all-time high along the increasingly porous southern border yet the Obama Administration has shut down a critical intelligence agency dedicated to identifying, tracking and severing the nexus between drug trafficking and terrorism.”
Nothing is what is seems. I promise you.
M4L
I thought Afghan heroin was going to Russia before this. Putin will be happy.
Afghan heroin is going everywhere.
My Iranian friend told me her brother who is still in Iran is a heroin addict. She said the heroin supply is vast in Iran, especially now. She also said something that most educated people who have lived in narco nations understand.
“No major drug trafficking goes on in a country like Iran, without government complicity.” The government is involved. Just like most nations in thos hemisphere. They need to keep the population sedate and depedent. Especially the youth.
It has gotten out of control, but the easy money is as addicting as heroin. Russia and China have the same problem. The corruption in China goes hand in hand with the addiction. They can’t get rid of it.
The NDIC was an immensely unsuccessful program. Look at where it was located and you can see it was just another John Murtha boondoggle.
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