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WASHINGTON (Proceso)(apro).-- Three former U.S. federal agents decided to end a 28-year silence and simultaneously entrusted this journal and the U.S. Fox news services with an information "bomb": Enrique Kiki Camarena was not murdered by Rafael Caro Quintero -- the capo that served a sentence for that crime -- but by an agent of the CIA. The reason: the DEA agent discovered that his own government was collaborating with the Mexican narco in his illegal business.
In interviews with Proceso, Phil Jordan, former director of the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC); Hector Berrellez, former DEA agent, and Tosh Plumlee, a former CIA pilot, claim that they have evidence that the U.S. government itself ordered the murder of Kiki Camarena in 1985. In addition, they point to a sinister Cuban character, Felix Ismael Rodriguez, as the murderer.
Words like “organized crime” and “drug trafficking” have vanished from the Federal District´s media and the news reports in open television. This is happening despite the number of murders remains at about 1000 a month. The observatory of Media Accords (Observatorio de Acuerdo de Medios) believes this is because the new government has stopped talking about the “war on drugs”, a term used as mantra by former president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, and the fact that the new administration has stopped the exhibition of detainees along with their weapons and drugs.
Another reason is that some media outlets have stopped talking about the issue forced by threats. Saltillo´s Zocalo newspaper announced in March that they would stop covering drug related news in order to protect their employees lives. A few weeks later, Jaime Gonzalez, the director of a news site in Ojinaga, a small town south of the US border, was shot and killed. “This is most likely our last post” ended the post with which the website announced the death of their coordinator.
727Sky
I know we (U.S.) have DEA all over Mexico assisting government forces trying to ward off the effects of a narco state.. It would appear on many fronts everything is not what most of us in the states hear from MSM.
Wrabbit2000
reply to post by 727Sky
The cartels have billion dollar budgets to work with and near unlimited, loyal to the death manpower to draw upon. Those are both things the Mexican Central government could only hope to have in the same way.
Then you have the last Mexican President who discovered his own personal daily schedule was being sent to the cartels from his own inner circle. I imagine being President down there isn't half the good time it is up here. I really feel for Mexico. It's an absolute civil war down there, even if it isn't politically correct to use the term. The casualty rate and heavy weapons sometimes used qualify as a war in every way I can see though.
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Brutal murders, beheadings, and assaults on police and the media punctuate news reports from Mexico on a near daily basis — that is, the reports that make it to the U.S. While the common perception is that insecurity is high, official accounts downplay the extent and impact of the violence. Indeed, many media outlets still quote a death toll of 60,000 to 70,000 since the drug war began in 2006. This is both inaccurate and disingenuous. Researcher Molly Molloy suggests that a more realistic estimate is more than 130,000 deaths. As a result, she calls the murder victims who have disappeared from the official government tallies the “Mexican Undead.” In 2012, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported that the Mexican murder rate tripled during Calderón’s term. The government’s response was to stop reporting drug violence statistics.
On Wednesday, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said 1,101 people were killed in March. That brings the official total under the Peña Nieto administration, which began in December, to 4,249, or roughly 35 a day, and close to the rate during the last year of the administration of President Felipe Calderon.
Osorio Chong compared the December to March period of this government to the same period of Calderon's government last year to argue that killings were down by about 17%.
"It is very early to take on triumphal attitudes," he said. "We have asked the media ... to change the narrative with respect to numbers and figures ... and with the participation of everyone we can achieve everyone's objective, a Mexico in peace."
Because governments have been reluctant to release homicide statistics — Calderon's administration deliberately concealed them — the Mexican public has relied largely on counts by national newspapers.
In a press conference Thursday morning, U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman hailed the efforts of the multi-agency task forces that brought the organizations down, saying collaboration played a strong part in dismantling the illicit activities.
Authorities have seized more than 75 kilos of meth, 10 kilos of coc aine and two kilos of heroin through the course of the investigation at JT Body and Paint. More than 20 people were arrested Wednesday, including the owner. Four have not been detained, officials said.
Greg Thrash, resident agent in charge of the Austin DEA office, said the group was a cell of the Mexican drug cartel Knights Templar and that members were taking orders from bosses in Mexico.
Wrabbit2000
I simply said Calderon was being watched and tracked by the Cartels. It would have been foolish to ever think he wasn't, and it's a basic move for the Cartel's survival. I just thought it rather interesting that it had come out some time back that he'd had his personal schedules compromised at such a close level.
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Brutal murders, beheadings, and assaults on police and the media punctuate news reports from Mexico on a near daily basis — that is, the reports that make it to the U.S. While the common perception is that insecurity is high, official accounts downplay the extent and impact of the violence. Indeed, many media outlets still quote a death toll of 60,000 to 70,000 since the drug war began in 2006. This is both inaccurate and disingenuous. Researcher Molly Molloy suggests that a more realistic estimate is more than 130,000 deaths. As a result, she calls the murder victims who have disappeared from the official government tallies the “Mexican Undead.” In 2012, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported that the Mexican murder rate tripled during Calderón’s term. The government’s response was to stop reporting drug violence statistics.
After all... That's a war by any measure I can possibly imagine. 60,000-70,000 on the low estimate and over 100,000 dead on the high side? Actually..literal wars have been fought with fewer lost in combined totals. Hopefully things improve down there.
Wrabbit2000
mm'kay...? Hmmm... Sounds like the Cartels have taken complete control now and have full ownership of a President, instead of just having a heavy leash like the last one. Whatever slows the killing down, it's a good thing.
Yet... I don't see numbers ..pretty much anywhere..beyond 2012. Of course, some of those are saying only 800 murders in Juarez for that year was a sign of peace returning. We do live in radically different nations. Close on a map...worlds apart in most other ways.
Wrabbit2000
True too on the Zetas. Oh what a success story that turned out to be, eh? Trained, armed and equipped by the U.S. as special forces for the Mexican side ...then they decide as a group to go work for the Cartels..then hey, why work for them? Make one! (sigh) ...