By
Chriss Street
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In
a stunning development, President-elect Enrique Pena and his Institutional
Revolutionary Party (PRI) who won control of Mexico’s government on July 1st, moved to dissolve the
Agencia Federal de Investigación (AFI). Modeled after the United States FBI,
the AFI was founded in 2001 to crack down on Mexico’s pervasive government
corruption and drug trafficking. With rival drug cartels murdering between
47,500 to 67,000 Mexicans over the last six years, the move by the PRI
represents the total surrender of Mexico’s sovereignty back to the money and
violence of Mexico’s two main drug cartels, the Sinaloa Federation and Los
Zetas.
Coupled
with the Obama Administration’s “Dreamer” Executive Order curtailing
deportations of illegal aliens, a hands-off
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policy
on both sides of the border foreshadows a huge increase in “narco-trafficking”
violence and corruption flooding into the United States.
The
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ruled Mexico with an iron fist for 71
years between 1929 and 2000. Although the PRI claimed they were the socialist
peasant’s party, they operated as a corrupt political organization that
siphoned off wealth from Mexico’s nationalized oil industry with extracted bribes
for protecting the drug cartels that trafficked in marijuana and narcotics
distribution into the United States. As a glaring example of the level of
official PRI corruption, in 1982 the oil workers’ union donated a $2 million
house as a "gift" to President López Portillo. Mexicans often joke: “Our
Presidents are elected as millionaires, but they leave office as billionaires.”
But
on December 1, 2000, Vicente Fox the former Chief Executive of Coca-Cola in
Mexico and founder of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) was elected President
of Mexico. Mr. Fox ran on a platform of reforming Mexico’s pervasive police
corruption and his first move as President was to form the AFI. Under the
leadership of President Fox and his party’s successor, President Felipe Calderón,
the AFI grew over the next 11 years into a 5000 member force with an
international reputation as a premier drug enforcement agency. The U.S.
provided extensive equipment and training to the AFI. The AFI reciprocated by
capturing numerous drug kingpins and extraditing them to face criminal
prosecution for murder and drug distribution in the U.S.
Over
the first six months of 2012, the Sinaloa Federation and Los Zetas carried out
a vicious war across Mexico to expand their areas of operations and intimidate
the local population. Both cartels engaged in “information operations
campaigns” by displaying large numbers of dismembered bodies in public
places. The shock value of body dumps was designed to broadcast that the
cartels are the dominant authority in Mexico.
The
AFI under the President Felipe Calderón retaliated against the major drug
cartel kingpins’ horrific blood-shed by partnering with the U.S. and Guatemala
to capture Horst Walther Overdick in Guatemala, followed by the capture of
Francisco Trevino and Carlos Alejandro "El Fabiruchis" Gutierrez
Escobedo and the killing of Gerardo "El Guerra" Guerra Valdez in
Mexico, along with the capture of Jose Trevino in the U.S.
Two
days after the election, President-elect Pena came to the U.S. to announce that
he would “welcome debate on the issue of drug legalization and regulation in
Mexico.” In an interview by PBS News Hour, President-elect Pena clearly
stated:
"I'm
in favor of opening a new debate in the strategy in the way we fight drug
trafficking. It is quite clear that after several years of this fight against
drug trafficking, we have more drug consumption, drug use and drug trafficking.
That means we are not moving in the right direction. Things are not
working."
These
are “code words” to signal the PRI intends to cut a profitable deal with the
cartels to legalize drugs in exchange for collecting tax revenue on drug sales.
The month before, Congressman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) had called a
Congressional hearing to accuse Pena Nieto of advocating "a
reversion" back to the old PRI policies of "turning a blind eye to
the cartels" as long as they weren't perpetrating grisly violence.
President-elect
Pena’s announcement of the PRI’s new cozy relationship with the drug cartels,
directly followed President Obama’s announcement of his “Dreamer” Executive
Order curtailing deportations of “undocumented” aliens. These actions have
caused major alarm among rank and file border agents that the Sinaloa
Federation and Los Zetas are now unrestrained to flood into the United States
with drugs and violence. In a joint union press conference by the customs
agents and the border patrol unions, Chris Crane, President of the Immigration
and Customs Enforcement Council (ICE) warned:
“It‘s
impossible to understand the full scope of the administration’s changes, but
what we are seeing so far concerns us greatly,”…“There is no burden for the
alien to prove anything.”
Chriss
Street will be on the “The Inside Education” Radio Talk Show; Streaming Live
from Monday July 30th to
Friday August 3rd from
8 to 9:30 PM. Click Here to Listen: http://www.mysytv.net/kmyclive.html
