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Mexican networks Televisa and Milenio both said security forces had confirmed the capture of Ovidio Guzman, El Chapo’s son.
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A member of the Mexican National Guard works at the scene of the murder of a man in the state of Mexico on September 17, 2019.
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Heavy gunfire on Thursday rocked several neighborhoods in the Mexican city of Culiacan, home to Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel, after security forces detained a son of the notorious kingpin.
Mexican networks Televisa and Milenio both said security forces had confirmed the capture of Ovidio Guzman, who, along with his brothers, is believed to be influential in the cartel since their father was jailed in the United States.
A senior government source told Reuters the reports were correct. Milenio broadcast a photograph that it said showed Ovidio Guzman in detention.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters his security cabinet would give information about the situation in Sinaloa later on Thursday.
State police confirmed to Reuters that several prisoners escaped from a prison during the chaos, which lasted for hours. Video footage showed a group of at least 20 people running in the streets. It was not immediately clear how many had escaped.
Vehicles and a petrol station were set on fire while cartel gunmen roamed the city in trucks, at least one of which was armed with a mounted machine gun, videos posted on social media showed. Civilians hid in the aisles of a supermarket, while other ran for cover in leafy suburban streets.
State police said there were no confirmed deaths, although two videos broadcast on Milenio showed men lying in the streets, apparently lifeless.…
greement with the ruthless Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed it to operate with impunity, an in-depth investigation by a leading Mexican newspaper confirmed this week. In exchange for information and assistance in quashing competing criminal syndicates, the Bush and Obama administrations let the Sinaloa cartel import tons of drugs into the United States while wiping out Sinaloa competitors and ensuring that its leaders would not be prosecuted for their long list of major crimes. Other revelations also point strongly to massive but clandestine U.S. government involvement in drug trafficking.
Relying on over 100 interviews with current and former government functionaries on both sides of the border, as well as official documents from the U.S. and Mexican governments, Mexico’s El Universal concluded that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the U.S. Justice Department had secretly worked with Mexican drug lords. The controversial conspiring led to increased violence across Mexico, where many tens of thousands have been murdered in recent years, the newspaper found after its year-long probe. The U.S. agents and their shady deals with Mexican drug lords even sparked what the paper called a “secret war” inside Mexico.
The newspaper’s investigation also confirmed long-held suspicions that U.S. authorities were signing secret agreements with Mexican drug cartels — especially Sinaloa, which CIA operatives have said was a favorite for use in achieving geo-political objectives. Supposedly without the knowledge or approval of officials in Mexico, ICE and DEA, with a green light from Washington, D.C., made deals with criminal bosses allowing them to avoid prosecution for a vast crime spree that has included mass murder, corruption, bribery, drug trafficking, extortion, and more. In exchange, cartel leaders simply had to help U.S. officials eliminate their competitors — certainly a win-win scenario for crime bosses who prefer to operate without competition or fear of prosecution.
As The New American first reported in early 2011, a high-ranking operative with the Sinaloa cartel had outlined elements of the criminal agreements with U.S. authorities in official court documents. “The government of the United States and its various agencies have a long history of providing benefits, permission, and immunity to criminals and their organizations to commit crimes, including murder, in exchange for receiving information against other criminals and other organizations,” trafficker Jesus Vicente “El Vicentillo” Zambada-Niebla argued in U.S. court filings cited by El Universal. The New American has also reported extensively on the Zambada-Niebla case and what it reveals.
Experts quoted in the Mexican paper echoed other analysts who have spoken out in recent years, saying that the U.S. government scheming handed the Sinaloa cartel de facto status as the primary powerhouse. In fact, during the period when El Universal says the relationship between American officials and Sinaloa chieftains was most active — 2006 through 2012 — drug war-fueled violence in Mexico surged to unprecedented levels. There are numerous indications that despite official denials, top Mexican officials may have been aware of the schemes, or even involved in them.
Also part of the U.S. government deal with Sinaloa, analysts and Zambada-Niebla have said, was the Obama administration’s “Fast and Furious” gun-running program to arm Mexican cartels at U.S. taxpayer expense. Most recently, a whistleblower from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) said that U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, killed with a Fast and Furious gun, was murdered by criminals working for the FBI. “It is clear that some of the weapons were deliberately allowed by the FBI and other government representatives to end up in the hands of the Sinaloa Cartel,” stated a motion filed in U.S. court by Zambada-Niebla’s defense team, adding that the U.S. government has documents showing that the weapons were provided by authorities pursuant to the agreement with Sinaloa.
According to former officials and drug kingpins, the agreements between Sinaloa and Washington also allowed the criminal empire to ship multi-ton quantities of hard drugs across the border into the United States. In all, El Universal said there had been at least 50 meetings in Mexico between U.S. government agents and senior Sinaloa bosses, along with many more phone calls and e-mails. The criminal syndicate’s leaders “were given carte blanche to continue to smuggle tons of illicit drugs into Chicago and the rest of the United States and were also protected by the United States government from arrest and prosecution,” Zambada-Niebla’s court filings state, adding that the U.S. government has the documents proving it. “Indeed, United States government agents aided the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel.”
Unsurprisingly, none of the American federal agencies implicated in the machinations would comment on the revelations. However, citing court documents and official records it published online — as well as numerous interviews with federal agents, convicts, and analysts — the paper was able to conclusively confirm what experts and even officials have been arguing for years: The U.S. government is deeply intertwined with the drug trade. It was not clear what statutory or constitutional authority Washington, D.C., believes would authorize its functionaries to participate in, protect, and facilitate wanton criminal activity.
Mexican authorities, meanwhile, were reportedly kept largely out of the loop surrounding DEA meetings and agreements with top leaders in Mexico’s most notorious criminal syndicates. Officials in Mexico also claimed to be in the dark about the Obama administration's program to arm the cartels with U.S. weapons. According to analysts quoted in the El Universal report, if it is true that Mexico City was unaware, that only adds to the troubling implications of the unlawful scheming between U.S. officials and criminal bosses from Mexico and Colombia to Afghanistan and Southeast Asia.
Among other concerns, experts highlighted violations of human rights, infringements on the sovereignty of other nations, and more. It also helped fuel the devastating violence that has plagued the nation and claimed the lives of between 50,000 and 100,000 people in less than a decade. If Mexican authorities in fact approved the U.S. government’s drug-running schemes in Mexico, they broke the law, too, legal experts told the paper, saying the Mexican Constitution could not be trumped by bilateral agreements or anything else.
The latest revelations in the El Universal report came just days after the emergence of more explosive information implicating the CIA in drug-trafficking yet again. In an investigative article for Narco News entitled “DEA Case Threatens to Expose US Government-Sanctioned Drug-Running,” veteran drug-war journalist Bill Conroy highlights another U.S. government investigation that, perhaps inadvertently, ended up implicating the infamous American intelligence agency in major cocaine trafficking operations once more. Citing official documents and numerous U.S. officials, the piece also notes that CIA-sponsored drug running has been a persistent and ongoing problem.
In fact, it would not be the first time that the DEA has stumbled on major CIA drug-running operations. Even former DEA chief Robert Bonner, during an explosive interview with CBS, revealed that his agency had learned that the U.S. intelligence outfit unlawfully imported a ton of cocaine into the United States in cooperation with the Venezuelan government. According to the agency’s inspector general, the CIA was indeed working with traffickers but received a “waiver” from the Justice Department purporting to allow the government crime spree to remain secret. More recently, a Mexican official accused the CIA of “managing” the global drug trade.
The Mexican investigation follows decades of explosive revelations and accusations, many documented by The New American, suggesting that Washington, D.C., plays a crucial role in facilitating the international drug trade. In fact, more than a few officials, drug lords, and analysts have even said that the CIA and other secretive U.S. and foreign agencies actually run the global trade in narcotics, laundering the profits, and more. The DEA was even investigated by Congress last year for helping to launder drug money, while the ATF was exposed supplying U.S. weapons to Mexican cartels. ICE has reportedly been allowing cartel hit men into the United States to murder. So far, none of the high-ranking officials responsible for the lawlessness have truly been held accountable.
Photo shows alleged hit men working for Sinaloa drug cartel along with grenades, automatic weapons, and body armor: AP Images
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of CIA drug smuggler Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Coronel in Mexico, his followers –a rogue Sinaloa Cartel cell operating in the state of Jalisco- announced the creation of ‘Los Matazetas’ or ‘Killers of Zetas.’
Nacho Coronel was known for using CIA rendition aircraft to smuggle cocaine belonging to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel into the United States. Coronel was allegedly killed on July of last year by the Mexican government in a joint operation between the federal police and the Mexican military. Coronel’s people fought against Los Zetas for the control of the Yucatan peninsula, the state of Veracruz and many other regions in Mexico.
Recently, Nacho Coronel’s rogue Sinaloa cartel cell formed what’s now known as ‘the New Generation Jalisco Cartel’ in order to replace the old cartel members from the Guadalajara-Puerto Vallarta area. In essence, this is a way for the CIA-affiliated Sinaloa Cartel to micromanage the local criminal activities, using Sinaloa Cartel members and changing the name of their organization to ‘Jalisco’ to make it sound like they are from the local area.
Once the Jalisco Cartel was realigned, they then proceeded to recruit the troops on the ground to protect and expand their territory (where ever possible). They formed what is now known as ‘Los Matazetas.’
Last week, ‘Los Matazetas’ launched their web video, introducing themselves to the rest of the Mexicans. In the video, they mention the importance of eliminating what’s one of the biggest problems in Mexico: Los Zetas. The video shows a group of some 30 armed men, wearing body armor and face hoods. By looking at the way they hold their weapons, one can tell that some of them are current or former Mexican military. Others are probably former police officers. The man speaking in the video sounds like a military commander.
Without a doubt, like in many other parts of Mexico where the citizens are beginning to take up arms and fight the drug cartels, mainly Los Zetas, many of these men believe they are ‘doing the right thing’ because the Mexican government will never solve the Zeta problem. The majority of these men believe they are in a real war or a real revolution. However, they ignore who their bosses really work for: the Mexican narco-state, the CIA and the international banking cartel. These men are being used to eliminate the Mexican narco-state’s biggest competitors: Los Zetas; and therefore, reassuring that the CIA and the banks involved in money laundering continue increasing their profits for their black budgets (covert operations budgets).
The following is the video and the exclusive translation into English of Los Matazetas introducing themselves and announcing their intentions to ‘take back’ the state of Veracruz:
Good afternoon. It is 4PM of July 27, of the current year. We’d like to announce to the state of Veracruz and the rest of the Mexican Republic, that we are the group Los Matazetas from the New Generation Jalisco Cartel, and that this fight against the criminal group of kidnappers known as Los Zetas started because of the harm they’ve done to our colleagues, our friends, our families and the rest of the people in the state of Veracruz.
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Rodney G Benson, the chief of intelligence at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), painted an alarming picture of the growing influence Mexican cartels have in trafficking cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine around the world and also the violence they inflict while fighting for market share.
In Mexico last year there were more than 15,200 drug-related murders.
"Of the Mexican drug trafficking organisations, the Sinaloa Cartel has the broadest reach into Europe, Asia, and Australia," Mr Benson said during testimony to two US House of Representative subcommittees last week.
The Sinaloa Cartel is a powerful consortium of independent Mexican drug trafficking groups operating as an alliance with "the common goal of trafficking multi-tonne quantities of cocaine from South America into the United States", Mr Benson said.
The cartel is composed of many independent leaders, most notably kingpins Joaquin Guzman-Loera, Ismael Zambada-Garcia and Juan Jose Esparragoza-Moreno.
Mexico is not a coca-producing country, but Mexican traffickers have extended their reach into sources of cocaine supply in South America, including Colombia and Peru.
"Demonstrating an even further reach into global cocaine markets, Mexican drug traffickers have evolved into intermediate sources of supply for cocaine markets in Europe, Australia, Asia and the Middle East," Mr Benson told the subcommittees.
A report released by the Australian Crime Commission in April noted "Mexican criminals have become more prevalent as principals in the importation and supply of cocaine and associated money laundering" in Australia.
The global drug trafficking industry is worth an estimated $US322 billion ($A331.17 billion) a year, a figure exceeding the gross domestic product of many nations.
- Article from The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Charlie and Doug discuss the cozy relationship between the U.S. government, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the TBTF Banks, proving once again that the "War On Terror" and the so called "U.S. Drug War" are both complete jokes. We touch on the Trillion dollar budget and what it says about our corrupt Kleptocrats on the hill. We also have a Bogus-Law-Ski update, and a few comments from the mail bag. Check out the new Doomcast.com for more!
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ke of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, guns his own administration let "walk" across the border into the hands of Mexican drug gangs continue to show up at crime scenes both north and south of the border.The latest incident involved a Romanian-made AK-47 semi-automatic rifle that was used in a shooting that has claimed the life of a Mexican beauty queen.According to CBS News, officials have confirmed that the rifle recovered at the scene is definitely one of thousands of firearms that Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents allowed straw buyers to purchase in the United States with the intent of tracking them back to the Mexican drug gangs as part of Operation Fast and Furious.Congressional investigators said the crime scene was probably one where a recent shootout took place between purported members of the Sinaloa drug cartel and the Mexican army. During the gun battle, Sinaloa beauty queen Maria Susana Flores Gamez and four others were killed, the report said.How many more Fast and Furious guns will kill?Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa - who has been tracking the botched operation - said the Justice Department, which oversees ATF, did not notify Congress of the recovery of the Fast and Furious weapon in November, though the senator had previously requested an accounting of all the weapons which ultimately surface in the case. During Fast and Furious, the ATF allowed more than 2,000 weapons - including huge, long-range .50 caliber rifles - fall into the hands of deadly drug cartels and other criminal enterprises. Most of these weapons have never been recovered.The Romanian rifle discovered at the latest Mexican crime scene was a WASR-10, a type of AK-47, officials said. It was found Nov. 23 in Ciudad Guamuchil, Sinaloa, Mexico - the same area and weekend of the shootout where Flores Gamez was killed.A trace report shows the weapon was bought by Uriel Patino, the Fast and Furious suspect who is suspected of buying more than 700 weapons while under the watch of the BATF. CBS News reported that records show he bought the rifle and nine additional semi-automatic weapons at a gun store in Arizona March 16, 2010.
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