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Saturday, March 15, 2014
DEA, U.S Attorneys Secretly Met with Drug Cartels in Mexico to Obtain Info on Rivals
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents and U.S Attorneys held
secret meetings with drug trafficking organizations, especially the
Sinaloa cartel, on Mexican soil, revealed Mexico-based newspaper El Universal. The DEA and the U.S. Attorney's office are both components of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Official and court documents from the U.S and Mexican governments were cited as the source in the Jan. 6 news report. Court documents show that the U.S. government knew and authorized
those meetings, which resulted in drug seizures, arrests, and an
increase in drug cartel violence in Mexico. The paper published excerpts from U.S. court documents to support their claims. Breitbart News confirmed the validity of the court papers. El Universal alleges that the DEA operations were carried out without the knowledge of the Mexican government. The paper reported that it obtained the court and official documents
in the course of a year. During that time, it also conducted interviews
with “more than a hundred” active and retired officials from both
countries. The paper also interviewed inmates, their family, and
experts. In an effort to obtain information on their rivals, DEA agents and
U.S. attorneys met with leaders of Mexican drug trafficking
organizations, especially the notoriously violent Sinaloa cartel. That is the same trafficking organization that received the bulk of
the firearms intentionally dispensed to drug cartels in Mexico under
ATF’s 2009 “Fast and Furious" operation according to a congressional investigation. ATF is a DOJ component as well. In December 2011, CNSNews.com reported that
the gun-walking operation was linked to a drug-trafficking immunity
deal between the U.S. government and the Sinaloa cartel by a defendant
who was awaiting trial in a Chicago federal court at the time. That same defendant is mentioned in the U.S. court papers published
by the Mexican newspaper showing that DEA held secret meetings with drug
cartel members. The same defendant is also the focus of a news report by The Narcosphere alleging that the Sinaloa cartel is protected by the U.S. government. The defendant's court pleadings stated: The United States government considered the arrangements with the
Sinaloa Cartel an acceptable price to pay, because the principal
objective was the destruction and dismantling of rival cartels by using
the assistance of the Sinaloa Cartel without regard for the fact that
tons of illicit drugs continued to be smuggled into Chicago and other
parts of the United States and consumption continued virtually
unabated...El Universal mentions that the meetings between U.S.
officials and drug cartel members in Mexico took place during the
Mexican presidencies of Vicente Fox (2000-2006) and Felipe Calderón
(2006-2012). However, the relationship between the DEA and cartel members documented by El Universal intensified in 2009, according to a chronological list of events published along with the report. That year is mentioned more than any other in the news report...more
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