Mexico Dissolves Its FBI, Moves to Legalize Drugs
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by Chriss W. Street 1 Aug 2012
In a stunning development, President-elect Enrique Peña and his
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who won control of Mexicos
government on July 1st, moved to dissolve the Agencia Federal de
Investigación (AFI).
Modeled after the United States FBI, the AFI was founded in 2001 to crack
down on Mexicos pervasive government corruption and drug trafficking. With
rival drug cartels murdering between 47,500 to 67,000 Mexicans over the last
six years, the move by the PRI represents the total surrender of Mexicos
sovereignty back to the money and violence of Mexicos two main drug
cartels, the Sinaloa Federation and Los Zetas. Coupled with the Obama
Administrations Dreamer Executive Order curtailing deportations of
illegal aliens, a hands-off policy on both sides of the border foreshadows a
huge increase in narco-trafficking violence and corruption flooding into
the United States.
The PRI ruled Mexico with an iron fist for 71 years between 1929 and 2000.
Although the PRI claimed they were the socialist peasants party, they
operated as a corrupt political organization that siphoned off wealth from
Mexicos nationalized oil industry with bribes for protecting the drug
cartels that trafficked in marijuana and narcotics into the United States.
As a glaring example of the level of official PRI corruption, in 1982 the
oil workers union donated a $2 million house as a "gift" to President López
Portillo. Mexicans often joke: Our Presidents are elected as millionaires,
but they leave office as billionaires.
But on December 1, 2000, Vicente Fox, the former Chief Executive of
Coca-Cola in Mexico and founder of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), was
elected President of Mexico. Mr. Fox ran on a platform of reforming Mexicos
pervasive police corruption, and his first move as President was to form the
AFI. Under the leadership of President Fox and his partys successor,
President Felipe Calderón, the AFI grew over the next 11 years into a
5,000-member force with an international reputation as a premier drug
enforcement agency. The U.S. provided extensive equipment and training to
the AFI. The AFI reciprocated by capturing numerous drug kingpins and
extraditing them to face criminal prosecution for murder and drug
distribution in the U.S.
Over the first six months of 2012, the Sinaloa Federation and Los Zetas
carried out a vicious war across Mexico to expand their areas of operations
and intimidate the local population. Both cartels engaged in information
operations campaigns by displaying large numbers of dismembered bodies in
public places. The shock value of body dumps was designed to broadcast that
the cartels are the dominant authority in Mexico.
The AFI under President Felipe Calderón retaliated against the major drug
cartel kingpins horrific bloodshed by partnering with the U.S. and
Guatemala to capture Horst Walther Overdick in Guatemala, followed by the
capture of Francisco Treviño and Carlos Alejandro "El Fabiruchis" Gutierrez
Escobedo and the killing of Gerardo "El Guerra" Guerra Valdez in Mexico,
along with the capture of José Treviño in the U.S.
Two days after the election, President-elect Peña came to the U.S. to
announce that he would welcome debate on the issue of drug legalization and
regulation in Mexico. In an interview by PBS News Hour, President-elect
Pena clearly stated:
I'm in favor of opening a new debate in the strategy in the way we fight
drug trafficking. It is quite clear that after several years of this fight
against drug trafficking, we have more drug consumption, drug use and drug
trafficking. That means we are not moving in the right direction. Things are
not working.
These are code words to signal the PRI intends to cut a profitable deal
with the cartels to legalize drugs in exchange for collecting tax revenue on
drug sales. The month before, Congressman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.)
called a Congressional hearing to accuse Peña Nieto of advocating "a
reversion" back to the old PRI policies of "turning a blind eye to the
cartels" as long as they weren't perpetrating grisly violence.
President-elect Peñas announcement of the PRIs new cozy relationship with
the drug cartels directly followed President Obamas announcement of his
Dreamer Executive Order curtailing deportations of undocumented aliens.
These actions have caused major alarm among rank-and-file border agents that
the Sinaloa Federation and Los Zetas are now unrestrained to flood into the
United States with drugs and violence. In a joint union press conference by
the customs agents and the border patrol unions, Chris Crane, President of
the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council (ICE) warned:
Its impossible to understand the full scope of the administrations
changes, but what we are seeing so far concerns us greatly There is no
burden for the alien to prove anything.
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by Chriss W. Street 1 Aug 2012
In a stunning development, President-elect Enrique Peña and his
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who won control of Mexicos
government on July 1st, moved to dissolve the Agencia Federal de
Investigación (AFI).
Modeled after the United States FBI, the AFI was founded in 2001 to crack
down on Mexicos pervasive government corruption and drug trafficking. With
rival drug cartels murdering between 47,500 to 67,000 Mexicans over the last
six years, the move by the PRI represents the total surrender of Mexicos
sovereignty back to the money and violence of Mexicos two main drug
cartels, the Sinaloa Federation and Los Zetas. Coupled with the Obama
Administrations Dreamer Executive Order curtailing deportations of
illegal aliens, a hands-off policy on both sides of the border foreshadows a
huge increase in narco-trafficking violence and corruption flooding into
the United States.
The PRI ruled Mexico with an iron fist for 71 years between 1929 and 2000.
Although the PRI claimed they were the socialist peasants party, they
operated as a corrupt political organization that siphoned off wealth from
Mexicos nationalized oil industry with bribes for protecting the drug
cartels that trafficked in marijuana and narcotics into the United States.
As a glaring example of the level of official PRI corruption, in 1982 the
oil workers union donated a $2 million house as a "gift" to President López
Portillo. Mexicans often joke: Our Presidents are elected as millionaires,
but they leave office as billionaires.
But on December 1, 2000, Vicente Fox, the former Chief Executive of
Coca-Cola in Mexico and founder of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), was
elected President of Mexico. Mr. Fox ran on a platform of reforming Mexicos
pervasive police corruption, and his first move as President was to form the
AFI. Under the leadership of President Fox and his partys successor,
President Felipe Calderón, the AFI grew over the next 11 years into a
5,000-member force with an international reputation as a premier drug
enforcement agency. The U.S. provided extensive equipment and training to
the AFI. The AFI reciprocated by capturing numerous drug kingpins and
extraditing them to face criminal prosecution for murder and drug
distribution in the U.S.
Over the first six months of 2012, the Sinaloa Federation and Los Zetas
carried out a vicious war across Mexico to expand their areas of operations
and intimidate the local population. Both cartels engaged in information
operations campaigns by displaying large numbers of dismembered bodies in
public places. The shock value of body dumps was designed to broadcast that
the cartels are the dominant authority in Mexico.
The AFI under President Felipe Calderón retaliated against the major drug
cartel kingpins horrific bloodshed by partnering with the U.S. and
Guatemala to capture Horst Walther Overdick in Guatemala, followed by the
capture of Francisco Treviño and Carlos Alejandro "El Fabiruchis" Gutierrez
Escobedo and the killing of Gerardo "El Guerra" Guerra Valdez in Mexico,
along with the capture of José Treviño in the U.S.
Two days after the election, President-elect Peña came to the U.S. to
announce that he would welcome debate on the issue of drug legalization and
regulation in Mexico. In an interview by PBS News Hour, President-elect
Pena clearly stated:
I'm in favor of opening a new debate in the strategy in the way we fight
drug trafficking. It is quite clear that after several years of this fight
against drug trafficking, we have more drug consumption, drug use and drug
trafficking. That means we are not moving in the right direction. Things are
not working.
These are code words to signal the PRI intends to cut a profitable deal
with the cartels to legalize drugs in exchange for collecting tax revenue on
drug sales. The month before, Congressman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.)
called a Congressional hearing to accuse Peña Nieto of advocating "a
reversion" back to the old PRI policies of "turning a blind eye to the
cartels" as long as they weren't perpetrating grisly violence.
President-elect Peñas announcement of the PRIs new cozy relationship with
the drug cartels directly followed President Obamas announcement of his
Dreamer Executive Order curtailing deportations of undocumented aliens.
These actions have caused major alarm among rank-and-file border agents that
the Sinaloa Federation and Los Zetas are now unrestrained to flood into the
United States with drugs and violence. In a joint union press conference by
the customs agents and the border patrol unions, Chris Crane, President of
the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council (ICE) warned:
Its impossible to understand the full scope of the administrations
changes, but what we are seeing so far concerns us greatly There is no
burden for the alien to prove anything.
