This is the kind of crap we’re subsidizing with our massive financial support of Mexico’s war on drugs:
If the Mexican drug war were a Fortune 500 company, would you invest in it? Seriously, can anyone prevent our drug war donations from ending up in the hands of the cartels? This is an extraordinary mess, a complete mockery of everything we’re trying to accomplish and we have no clue how deep it goes.
There isn’t a single thing happening in Mexico right now that could be construed as progress in the war on drugs. To the contrary, every day that goes by brings new evidence of the fundamental failure of our strategy on every conceivable level.
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A major drug cartel has infiltrated the Mexican attorney general's office, and one cartel worker says he even spied on DEA operations from inside U.S. Embassy, Mexican prosecutors said Monday.
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The revelations of corruption inside the control centers of the U.S.-Mexican anti-drug effort were a major blow to President Felipe Calderon's anti-drug campaign, in which he has sent tens of thousands of troops and federal police across Mexico to combat violent cartels.
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Assistant Attorney General Marisela Morales said two top employees of her organized-crime unit and at least three federal police agents assigned to it may have been passing information on surveillance targets and potential raids for at least four years. [Guardian]
If the Mexican drug war were a Fortune 500 company, would you invest in it? Seriously, can anyone prevent our drug war donations from ending up in the hands of the cartels? This is an extraordinary mess, a complete mockery of everything we’re trying to accomplish and we have no clue how deep it goes.
There isn’t a single thing happening in Mexico right now that could be construed as progress in the war on drugs. To the contrary, every day that goes by brings new evidence of the fundamental failure of our strategy on every conceivable level.
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Placing the fate of our children in the hands of the corrupt...
Until the general public stops thinking of legalization as a Laissez-faire, libertarian "free for all" haven for drug dealers, we reformers will never stop the drug war and its disastrous consequence to government and society at large. I want these low life cartels put out of business as much as Presidente Calderon.
Our "Prohibition" laws only prohibit the effective regulation of these markets while turning your run-of-the-mill street thugs into wealthy and powerful cartel leaders.
Planned continuous war..
...whatever the war. War = revenue stream , plus crusade. Go with the flow...into the fog...for an even bigger return.
Corrupt Status Quo
The exposure of police corruption in the drug war is met with expressions of surprise among politicians and law enforcement personnel as if prohibition and corruption can somehow be separated. Succeeding in the drug war without the attendant official corruption is impossible, and if the absence of corruption is a requisite for success, then there can be no success.
In the case of Mexico and just about everywhere else, any high level or mid-level drug dealer is going to have moles in the police department or government on their payroll. It’s a relatively cheap investment that always pays off.
Giordano
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