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Mexico’s Drug Cartel War Nets Huge Profits For U.S. Banks
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, across the border from Texas, has become the center
of
a war between drug cartels, employing local cops. Recently after one
police
chief was assassinated,his replacement was killed the very next day. It’s
basically a war zone.
According to a Southern U.S. Joint Task Force of police agencies, Mexican
cartels have now replaced the Colombian drug lords as the main
distributors
of cocaine, marijuana and methaphetamines in the U.S. (El Universal,
Mexico,
7/31). The drugs flow from Colombia and elsewhere through Mexico and into
the U.S.
The latest development finds the Mexican Sinaloa and Gulf cartels using
heavy weapons, not just Uzis and guns. How do these drug gangs obtain
their
weapons?
"Re****ts by Mexican authorities say that in their fight for control of the
drug routes in the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean side of Mexico, the criminal
organizations have increased their purchase of weapons in the U.S. The
same
way they trans****t the drugs to the U.S. they bring back heavy caliber
weapons to Mexican soil." (La Tornado, 7/31).
Mexico’s authorities blame this on the U.S. government’s lack of control
over the weapons sales. The Gulf cartel is the main group with a
paramilitary wing armed with heavy weapons, but their enemy, run by drug
capo Chap Guzman, now also has heavy weapons. Both use them to kill each
other and anyone else who gets in their way. Now a 50 millimeter Barret
machine gun was also found on one of the Pacific drug trafficking routes.
According to Mexico’s Justice Dept., the arrests and jailings of some drug
capos and their lieutenants have led to a war among many of the drug
cartels
in Tamaulipas, Sinaloa and Baja California.
Drugs are big business. Methaphetamines are now becoming one of the most
lucrative for the cartels, which have established labs on both sides of
the
border. The bosses — especially in the U.S. — have always been very
hypocritical about the drug business. U.S. banks make billions laundering
the drug-money. Only about a decade ago, Citibank had a special unit just
to
manage the money of the brother of Salinas de Gortari, then Mexico’s
President, before he was jailed for drug trafficking and murder.
Corruption
is rampant among the politicians and cops on both sides of the border.
Afghanistan again has become the biggest producer of heroin following the
U.S. invasion and restoration of the warlords back into power. Now the
weapons manufacturers are making big bucks from the drug trade.
So basically, as long as capitalism is in power, drugs will be around.
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