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

[Carl G. Estabrook]

This history makes it clear that the War on Drugs should be ended, not expanded. The only way to frustrate the drug dealers (and the DEA) is decriminalization. 

Addiction should be treated as a public health problem, not a legal problem (like tobacco). Crime associated with alcohol criminalization was lessened only by the 21st Amendment, in 1933 (but it eventually made John Kennedy president). 

--CGE

On Jan 14, 2014, at 12:54 AM, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:

> This has been standard operating procedure for the US government for years - in all administrations.
> 
> In France after WWII the US enlisted the Mafia to break labor organizations in France, notably in the port of Marseilles. The deal was that the Mafia could use the port - once the unions were put down - to export heroin to the US. The US government, in other words, originated "the French connection." 
> 
> Much of the heroin came from Afghanistan, where production was stopped only when the Taliban was in power (1996-2001). When the US invaded and drove the Taliban out of government, production soared and remains a mainstay of the thugs who rule Afghanistan today, under US protection.  
> 
> See Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair, "Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press" (Verso, 1999).
> 
> --CGE
> 
> PS - The Castro mentioned below is Loya Castro, a lawyer associated with the Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa.
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 14, 2014, at 12:23 AM, Rohn Koester <rohnkoester at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
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>> 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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