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Mexican Anti Drug Unit Corrupted! Men got $450K per month!
That's way too much money for even a good man to walk away from. The US State Depatment hasn't commented yet- hope Condi didn't write them the check
yet.
"Drug unit 'corrupted' in Mexico
Members of an elite Mexican anti-drug unit passed information to a drug cartel in exchange for thousands of dollars, prosecutors say.
They said police agents and senior officials gave sensitive information to the Beltran Leyva organisation.
Assistant Attorney General Marisela Morales said those involved had received up to $450,000 (£290,000) a month from the cartel.
They allegedly told the cartel about potential raids and surveillance.
Five officials in the anti-crime unit were arrested, four of them weeks ago.
The passing of information is alleged to have lasted for much of the past four years.
'Spy' claims
The security breach is being described as the worst case of infiltration by traffickers of the Mexican law enforcement system in a decade.
The country's Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said: "We conducted investigations which showed that members of the deputy attorney general's
office were providing classified information about operatives working against the Beltran Leyva organisation to members of that organisation in
exchange for large amounts of money."
One worker said he spied from within the US embassy on the Drug Enforcement Administration, one Mexican official told the Associated Press news
agency.
The US embassy said it did not comment on internal matters.
The attorney general said there were indications that other spies still worked inside his agency.
The Beltran Leyva brothers lead one of the groups that make up northern Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, the country's largest drug-trafficking confederation.
The most serious known infiltration of Mexican anti-crime agencies was in 1997 when General Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, then head of Mexico's anti-drug
agency, was arrested.
He was later convicted of aiding drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/7694257.stm
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We know! We know! We Know!
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20081025-1445-lt-m...
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And they arrested four so far. So the banners worked and the cartel returns $1mil a month to it's "corrupt an official" kitty
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This ain't news
Only would be news if the AG's office didn't sell information.
And forget about the argument that police are corrupt because they are paid little. Think 451 thousand per month would have made
proper schoolboys out of this bunch?
The problem is systemic. Corrupt from top down and bottom up. When a whole society practices and tolerates corruption it's only a matter of time until
anarchy reigns.
I believe you had it about 90% right when in another post you said, "No one does the right thing in Mexico." I say 90% just because I think one in 10
people are born naturally honest.
The rest of us have to work at it.
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Looks like the spies are inside the US Embassy and leaking DEA secrets too though...
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_MEXICO_DRUG_CORRUP...
[Edited on 10-28-2008 by Woooosh]
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Corrupt Mexican police? Who knew?
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There was arrests way before the banners were put up.. seems there have been a couple arrested because of this for several months... SO it seems
they have just had it under taps for a while...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by MexicoGringoGuy
There was arrests way before the banners were put up.. seems there have been a couple arrested because of this for several months... SO it seems
they have just had it under taps for a while... |
Perhaps they wanted to keep it quiet until they cashed the check from Condi.
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I guess this should come as no surprise to anyone.....
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Should we take this as a major breakthrough? The narco-structure that has reigned for so long in Mexico is beginning to tumble, now that corrupts from
the top are falling. There is no other way that could happen. The enemy has been inside the house and we all knew. Now it has not only been proved.
They have trapped them.. I think that's great. Bravo for Calderon and his team. I hope he continues on.
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and Baja tambien
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| Quote: | Originally posted by LOSARIPES
Should we take this as a major breakthrough? The narco-structure that has reigned for so long in Mexico is beginning to tumble, now that corrupts from
the top are falling. There is no other way that could happen. The enemy has been inside the house and we all knew. Now it has not only been proved.
They have trapped them.. I think that's great. Bravo for Calderon and his team. I hope he continues on. |
They is never an end or "breakthrough" when it comes to gangs. They exist for the power and profits of crime and corruption and are
self-perpetuating. When one source dries up - they move on to easier targets. IMHO the mexican gangs will move on to full time extortion and kidnap
operations to make up their drug money losses if the drug wars make a dent.
Too many people have made too much money for too long for things to change in Mexico in our lifetimes. They are just too lazy, too stupid and too
undisciplined to do anything else but leach off the incomes and lives others have made for themselves. The lack of leadership and the
institutionallized corrupt Mexican systems do nothing to dissuade this. The fact is that TWO YEARS after Calderon is claiming to have cleaned-up the
upper government from corruption- it is being seen at bigger and at higher level than ever.
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