The investigation by Mexico’s El Universal was indeed in-depth. It conducted over 100 interviews over a year’s time with current and former government officials from the U.S. and Mexico. The newspaper ultimately concluded that the DEA, ICE and DOJ have all been secretly working with the drug cartel. This is what led to the spiraling of Mexico into an era of violent drug wars.
Evidently, the feds prefer to work with the Sinaloa drug cartel, and in exchange for the great many favors given, the cartel simply had to help eliminate our governments ‘competition’, which is a win-win for the Sinaloa because they prefer to be without competition as well.
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.
We know Obama is the kingpin but the Americans that follow his criminal orders should be brought to justice also.
Better keep Gitmo open for a while longer………
Well they’ve given 80 mile swath of US territory to the drug cartels and have put up signs to warn US citizens not to go there so the flow of drugs will not be interrupted
This is really dirty
The United States should be ashamed for the actions of it elected officials and the people under them . The WH, FBI, ICE and another departments who participated or who knew about it and help cover it up should lose their job and arrested. We did not elect our officials to make deals with drug dealers. Nor did we agree to supply them with guns just to kill us, What has this country come to when our president on down can become involved in and be a party to drug traffic Once you understand how low and dishonest our government has become , it is no wonder that they will not shut the boarder down. They leave it open so that more dope can come in and the boarder becomes a safe p$#%&!@*age. That mess is what is wrong with a lot of our kids and it needs to be stopped cold. The government need a good cleaning and people need to be put in who will do the jobs correctly. With all the boarder towns screaming that Obama has tied their hands and they are required to take illegals to a bus stop, it seems like the first place to start is in the WH. Follow the money…..that is the number one rule when you are trying to find the people who are involved in drug smuggling and money laundry. IT IS A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS WHEN YOU CAN NOT TELL WHICH SIDE YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT IS ON. OBAMA OR CONGRESS OR THE SUPREME COURT NEEDS TO ACT AND DO IT NOW. CLOSE THE BOARDERS. AND STOP ALL OF THE REST OF THE UN-DO$#%&!@*ENTED ALIENS FROM COMING IN. DEPORT THE REST. WE NEED TO GET AMERICA BACK ON THE RIGHT PATH AND NOT THE POLITICALLY RIGHT ONE.
Just pretend to be a criminal and the feds give you a brand new $#%&!@*ault rifle. AWESOME.
Did they ever catch the kingpin who Mexico got paid to release I interesting now they offer 3million dollars but send there people here to collect aid that money would put Mexico back on track now we know they can feed there prisoners has anyone watched lock up omg they starve and cut off their water supply no wonder they want in USA prisons well TRUMP Will set that shut straight
EXACTLY gives border patrol job security I said layoffs they let illegals in I also believe amnesty for those people and applicants who are desperately trying to do it right and earn their way here to have amnesty and sworn in illegals get all rewards we are the prisoners of war USA is fkd
Yes ma’am! You are right.