Letters To My Country

June 28, 2012

"Then there’s the long collusion between the U.S. government and drug-trafficking organizations, as Mexican students of history are quick to point out. Aside from the CIA’s machinations in neighboring Central America, they refer to the U.S. Army’s reliance on Sinaloan poppy-growers during World War II to keep up morphine supplies. More recently, the New York Times detailed the DEA’s program for laundering and moving money for Mexican traffickers in order to trace where it goes (like Fast and Furious, but with bills, not guns). In a case going on in Chicago, El Mayo’s son, Jesús Zambada Niebla, who was extradited to the United States in 2010, has claimed that he is immune to prosecution because he was working with the DEA. Court documents show that he did in fact take a meeting with agents, who claim no agreement was reached. The documents also show that, for years, the DEA has relied on a Mexican lawyer high up in Chapo’s organization for information. And last year, Mexico’s former attorney general, Eduardo Medina-Mora, who left office under a cloud of suspicion and who is assumed by many to have been in Chapo’s pocket, admitted he knew about Fast and Furious."

— James Verini

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