How The Mexican Drug Cartels And The Mexican Government Are One And The Same

Military and forensic experts inspect the body of a man who was handcuffed to a fence and shot several times by drug hit-men;outside a nightclub in Juarez Aug. 31, 2009. Seven people are murdered every day in the border city. Photograph by: ALEJANDRO BRINGAS, REUTERS, FILE, Freelance

Drug War Or Drug Deal? -- Montreal Gazette/Canwest

Mexico's biggest cartel banks on powerful friends

Like most cops in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Jesus Manuel Fierro-Mendez was dirty.

In fact, soon after being promoted to the position of captain, he was smuggling enormous quantities of cocaine into the United States. And when Fierro-Mendez quit his job in the spring of 2007, after someone tried to kill him, he went to work for the Sinaloa drug cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug-trafficking organization, run by Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman, the richest drug lord in North America and the second most wanted man in the world after Osama bin Laden.

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My Comment: While reading the printed version of my hometown newspaper (The Montreal Gazette), I came across this surprising excellent report on the Sinaloa drug cartel and its ties to the Mexican Government. When I read it .... even if half of the story is accurate .... I would be hell bent to demand that the authorities close the border if I was a border state with Mexico. There is some disturbing stuff and allegations in this report .... read it all.