[Peace-discuss] The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel

[Rohn Koester]

I've heard many people allege that the U.S. gov't is complicit in the drug
business. Here's a story that gives such claims full traction.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1

CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel

"The DEA agents met with members of the cartel in Mexico to obtain
> information about their rivals and simultaneously built a network of
> informants who sign drug cooperation agreements, subject to results, to
> enable them to obtain future benefits, including cancellation of charges in
> the U.S.," reports El Universal, which also interviewed more than one
> hundred active and retired police officers as well as prisoners and experts.
>


> Zambada-Niebla's lawyer told the court that in the late 1990s, Castro
> struck a deal with U.S. agents in which Sinaloa would provide information
> about rival drug trafficking organizations while the U.S. would dismiss its
> case against the Sinaloa lawyer and refrain from interfering with Sinaloa
> drug trafficking activities or actively prosecuting Sinaloa leadership.
>


> "The agents stated that this arrangement had been approved by high-ranking
> officials and federal prosecutors," Zambada-Niebla lawyer wrote.
>


> Sinaloa, led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, supplies 80% of the drugs
> entering the Chicago area and has a presence in cities across the U.S.


80% of the drugs entering Chicago. Protected by the DEA.

rdk
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