Posted on 04/05/2017 6:27:39 PM PDT by davikkm
Wednesday, U.S. prosecutors have let information loose regarding an embarrassing and horrific situation involving Mexican police. New documents, made public today, state that the commander for the Mexican law enforcement’s intelligence-sharing unit was giving pertinent information to the Beltran Leyva drug cartel in exchange for monetary kickbacks.
The AP reports:
Ivan Reyes Arzate was named in a U.S. district court indictment, just hours after Mexico’s federal police revealed an unnamed agent had been charged with obstructing an investigation.
What Mexican police commissioner Manelich Castilla did not reveal was that Ivan Reyes Arzate, the officer charged, was the commander of the federal police agency’s sensitive investigative unit.
The important things to note about this case are as follows:
The U.S. have been integral in vetting and training the officers in the unit. There have been problems in the past from top commanders who “refused to be vetted or submit to background checks.” This indictment is fresh on the heels of the scandal involving the attorney general for the Mexican state of Nayarit which we reported on here at TGP.
For some reason this just doesn’t sound like big news. A headline that read Mexico leadership no longer corrupt, now, that would be BIG news.
Plato o plomo.
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he said, she said, they said, that I said. Evidence at this time is real important.
Of course - our War on Drugs has made that commodity so profitable that its sellers can outpay and outgun the Mexican government.
I’m stunned....
They’ve been doing this forever.
If there is any country on Earth that the United States should invade militarily, it’s Mexico.
“CORRUPTION: Top Mexican Official Paid to Tip Off Cartel on Probe”
Out of hundreds of Top Mexican Officials doing this very same thing on each and every day, this is the ONE dude stupid enough to get caught.
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