BY MICHAEL WEBSTER: Syndicated Investigative Reporter. Weds, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:01 AM PST.
 
Mexico’s Drugs, Violence and corruption and all of its related ramifications will bring the country down through revolution by its people.
According to a spokesperson for a new radical group calling itself the Juárez Citizens Command is threatening to strike back against lawlessness that has gripped Mexico for a long time, they say that they are going to strike back by killing one criminal a day until order and piece is restored. Similar groups are popping up all across Mexico.

Over the years, with the help of corrupt Mexican officials and corrupt or myopic American officials, and with American politicians nurturing a lack of foresight and discernment therefore developed at the very least a narrow view of what’s actually happening in Mexico and are now in denial of a failed state. As a result of this corruption the failed state of Mexico has become one of the most dangerous places in the world where violence runs rampant and Citizens wake up to executed headless bodies in their streets. The spokesperson stated.

Juan Lopez a shop keeper in the border town of Nogales says “The people of Mexico feel that the government is losing the war against the Mexican Drug Cartels bloody violence and that the government is unable to protect us.”

The Mexican border towns are like ghost towns with no tourist and no customers to buy their goods.  Tourist mainly Americans have stopped shopping in Mexico because of that violence. To make things even more untenable the cartel gangs are demanding protection money from the small Mom and Pop shop owners in Mexico City and throughout the country and it seems the current Calderon government cannot or will not stop it.


Other industries big and small including rich drug traffickers are believed to spend millions buying politicians in the failed hope of government protection as the Calderon administration turns a deaf hear and appear to be in lock step with the U.S. Some say it is because the U.S. is willing to pay more.

Mexico has become the drug capital of the world and the drug superhighway to the United States, delivering its poison of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana to the drug hungry U.S. market.

According to a DEA undercover operative the Mexican drug cartels have gained more and more of the American market. They have grown bolder in their attempts to expand their operations in Mexico and the United States. They now control the ruling party in Mexico and operate the biggest drug business on earth right here in the USA, right under our noses.
 
Law enforcement on both sides of the border say this is being done through the cartels surrogates Mexican and American gangs. These surrogates smuggle drugs from Mexico to the states and sell or front the drugs to American gang leaders who in turn sell or front the drugs to its members who move the drugs to local dealers and drug addicts for distribution and sales on the streets of America. These same surrogates, conduct murder for hire on behalf of the cartels interests, kidnap and transport victims to Mexico for executions and enforce the cartels will. Many of the drive by and other gang shootings are the result of orders from Mexico.

The Laguna Journal has reported in the past that large amounts of cash from the Mexican drug cartel gangs whom are selling drugs on the streets of American cities are being smuggled back into Mexico.

In its last report, the US Department of Justice disclosed that 17.2 billion dollars in cash entered Mexico in only the past two years as a result of money laundering operations in their country. The report advised that Mexico and Colombia are the principal destinations of narco resources that operate in the US and that “the laundering of drug money is a global industry” with transnational organizations present in various countries.  

General Barry McCaffrey, ex-US anti-drug czar, urged a halt to the “hundreds of millions of dollars” smuggled into Mexico since, with those resources, the drug cartels acquire more force and power.  He warned that Mexico is in a national emergency.  The report, drawn up by the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), said that smuggling cash is a method used by traffickers to move profits from drug sales from the US market to the foreign supplier, mainly Mexico and Colombia.  It is estimated that those two drug countries launder between 18 and 39 billion dollars annually.  ”a large part is smuggled in bulk from the US over the southwest border,” the report said.

The Mexican Drug Cartels begin their take over of the Mexican Government by infiltrating the 71-year reign of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) by buying its officials and by contributing huge amounts of cash to their cause. When that didn’t work as well as they liked they went after the ultimate control of government by causing to be formed the new National Action Party, or PAN they than looked for and found a likely candidate that they felt they could control and as a result President Vicente Fox of the PAN, finally ousted the PRI in 2000.

As most new Mexican administrations in March, Fox declared that his administration was in a "head-on battle against corruption."
"Together, we work for a Mexico full of justice, legality and democratic opportunities," the president said.

Some recent photo’s were published in the magazine Quien which gave insight into the before and post-presidential life style and it has sparked outrage among many Mexicans.
"The photos show that he got rich during his six years in office, in a very shameless and cynical way," Lino Korrodi, Mr. Fox's former chief campaign fundraiser, said in one interview of the former president. Leading the chorus of disapproval, Mr. Korrodi claims that as a candidate Mr. Fox was a terrible businessman, permanently in financial straits and keeper of a simple house with servants paid for out of campaign funds.

Mr. Korrodi claims he raised millions for Fox through the very rich and known drug traffickers. His accusations have prompted calls by many for a congressional investigation into Mr. Fox's apparently lavish new found wealth.

Hailed as a hero of democracy when he defeated 71 years of one-party rule in elections in 2000, Mr. Fox left the presidential office vilified by much of the press.
At best, he was accused of living in a fantasy world dubbed Foxilandia and of ignoring the need to shore up democracy. At worst he was charged with orchestrating an electoral fraud favoring his personal choice and colleague, the current president, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa who was to carry on the Fox traditions.
 
But the latest measurement of corruption by Berlin-based Transparency International found that more than 50 percent of Mexicans remain pessimistic about corruption and believe it will get worse. That number is believed to have risen to as much as 75 percent today.

Even the U.S. military recognizes that Mexico is in danger of a “rapid and sudden collapse” due to criminal gangs and drug cartels, according to a troubling new report by the U.S. Joint Forces Command on worldwide security threats.

Bernard Wasow reported that it is no secret that law enforcement in Mexico is a "for-profit" business. Scenes of Mexican policemen taking bribes from tourists and locals alike are commonplace throughout the country. It is hard to view such an experience as many businessmen are said to view corruption: bribery is just another cost of doing business.

In a series of papers, Shang-Jin Wei, formerly of the Kennedy School at Harvard and the IMF, explored the economic effect of corruption. Contrary to the notion that corruption is a relatively minor cost of doing business, Wei found that corruption has a stifling effect on foreign investment and economic growth.

That may be much of the reason that the economy of Mexico just never seems to get going. Corruption in Mexico has been a force in public life there since colonial times, said Claudio Lomnitz, a Professor in History at U of M.

In Mexico, corruption consists of an intricate system of exchanges in which support for public officials is given in return for certain privileges. Payments of money to ensure that routine services are rendered are also part of the mix, as are elaborate public ceremonies in which hosts extract favors from their politician guests in return for support. “Corruption as a series of phenomena has played an important role in social change and in social reproduction in Mexico,"
Lomnitz writes in this environment, the police are expected to resist a combination of deadly threats and bribes that can run to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

" It's kind of like this," says Robert Nieves, a former chief of International Operations for the DEA. "You're offered a bribe. If bribery doesn't work, you're offered violence. And that violence will be exacted against you or your family members." In Mexico, the choice is called "plata o plomo," silver or lead.

The result is a breathtaking level of corruption. A large percentage of Mexico's federal law enforcement has been fired for corruption by the Calderon administration or killed by the Mexican drug cartels. In the last year alone, the federal government has fired hundreds if not thousands of Federal Judicial Police and local police for suspected offenses that included theft, extortion, guarding drug shipments--and even murder.  " But everyone involved in the effort against the Mexican drug trade says there remains massive corruption.

One DEA agent whom was asked about corruption in Mexican law enforcement pulled out a thick file full, he said, of information about commanders still in power who are suspected by the U.S. of facilitating the transport of drugs into this country. Former Mexican

Attorney General Antonio Lozano said drug money fuels industries and distorts competition. It is not an equal trade partnership when American business people are competing against enterprises that have extraordinary access to illegal capital. Corruption is so deeply embedded in the society that there's no prospect of eliminating or even curbing it anytime soon.

"Unfortunately, corruption seems to be part of our DNA," said political analyst Jorge Chabat.
"What we have discovered ... is that this is not endemic," said Eduardo A. Bohorquez, executive secretary of Transparencia Mexicana, or Mexican Transparency. "It's more epidemic."

For Bohorquez, whose agency measures corruption in Mexico, "Corruption is the abuse of the public trust to gain a private benefit. You take a mandate from a public group and act on your own behalf."

But other experts say the problem goes far beyond that, extending from the ordinary citizen to high reaches of government. They say most Mexicans have become accustomed to paying bribes and to the notion that the average police officer will try to shake them down in some way.

"The state has come to be seen as a giant pyramid with the most influential people at the top and everyone else below them also benefiting from bribes, tips, patronage or misappropriations of funds and resources. This particular version of 'trickle-down economics' developed its own set of norms and public expectations," he explained.

Presidential corruption in Mexico is nothing new all Mexican presidents have been charged or suspected of corruption.

A show of wealth snares ex-president Fox recently, he entered Mexican politics’ with little money and left as the former president as a wealthy man. In a picture of self fulfillment as well as romance, Vicente Fox and his wife, Marta Sahagun, gaze at each other beside a new lake constructed in their extensive remodeled estate and grounds. Behind, their ranch-turned-mansion shows off gilded carpets, a desk with hand carved stone horse heads for legs, and life-sized portraits of themselves on the walls. They say when Fox took office his ranch was modest at best and after office the same ranch became a opulent mansion. Many believe it was paid for by the Mexican drug cartels.

One of Fox’s predecessors former Mexican President Mario Villanueva Madrid, was reported to be under investigation for his helping to facilitate the smuggling of drugs, particularly cocaine, up from Columbia, up to the Yucatan peninsula, then into the USA.

The United States has a long history of supporting crooked regimes in Mexico, praising their efforts to cooperate with our drug eradication programs, while our corporate interests loot the country's coffers, hand in hand with Mexico's elite.

Of course the rumors and charges of corruption and complicity in the drug trade by the Salinas government become well known even though there were hushed up, brushed aside by US officials in the Bush (the first) and Clinton administrations. As one Mexican paper, The daily El Financero, reported, "...up to 95 percent of the people working in the attorney generals office had been bribed by the Gulf Cartel, run by Juan Garcia Abrego."

By the time Carlos Salinas left office, he and his brother Raul had looted the country of all the money they could get their hands on. Using the recently bailed out and US owned Citibank to launder massive amounts of illicitly gained drug profits; the two brothers amassed an estimated $6 billion dollar fortune between them both.

Raul Salinas was arrested in Mexico City for murder in February of 1995. While his brother Carlos enjoys the life of a jet- setting playboy, enjoying the plunders he accrued while in office.

However it was not long after Calderon took office he started responding to the unlimited amounts of U.S. government money available to his country should he cooperate and become a puppet of the CIA. It boiled down to the U.S. could offer more than the Mexican Drug cartels could, so Calderon was groomed to get the Mexican government certified so the U.S. government could funnel hundreds of millions into the Calderon government coffers in the form of the Merida Initiative.

Just today according to the National Association of Former Border Patrol officers government leaders reached a new stage in the narco-war.  The leaders of Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Panama agreed to create a united front against narcotrafficing drug cartels.  In a four-hour summit meeting, the presidents of those countries stressed that organized crime represents a danger to social stability and democratic government.  They resolved to compile the existing bilateral and multilateral agreements for combating organized crime and, in the near future, to shape them into a unified legal instrument open for signing onto by other countries in the region.

Responding to this story, one reader ventured the opinion that it was lamentable that those countries feel the need to organize against narco bands which already have a higher level of organization than the affected countries.  He asserted that the real risk to those countries is the internal corruption of each.

Editors note:
 
Michael Webster’s Syndicated Investigative Reports are read worldwide,  in 100 or more U.S. outlets and in at least 136 countries and territories. He has published articles for MaximsNews, which  is associated with MediaChannel.org and Globalvision News Network, global news and media information services with more than 350 news affiliates in 135 countries. Many of Mr. Webster’s articles are printed in six working languages: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. With ten more languages planed in the near future.
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I say again... this agency is blowing smoke up our ass.
It's the CIA which is responcible for all this misery and death, as usual.
And of course their fucking spooks who are painting this as a Mexican problem.
Eliminate the CIA and we eliminate 98% of the world's terror. torture and lying bastards who started this horror.
Fuck the War on Drugs which is a war on the people.
and fuck you asshole spooks.

These Mexican drug cartels are taking American jobs, leaving American biker gangs, hippie burnouts, and chemistry grad students without work.

And as to the jobs we no longer have, look at NAFTA and the compromised congress that now obeys the orders of the multi-national banking cartels.
Mous, like the filthey spooks who published this piece, are blaming the victims of these cartels and calling them 'Mexican' rather than operatives and clients of the CIA..
Fuck you spooks.

"by Oh Yeah? Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009 at 6:44 AM

And as to the jobs we no longer have, look at NAFTA and the compromised congress that now obeys the orders of the multi-national banking cartels.
Mous, like the filthey spooks who published this piece, are blaming the victims of these cartels and calling them 'Mexican' rather than operatives and clients of the CIA."


It says a lot that both Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan agree that NAFTA and other external forces are making the Mexicans abandon their families, communities, and cultures and cross deserts and borders to come here and work as slaves at places like slaughter houses.

If Americans are too insulated and dense to figure this out, they probably deserve the economic consequences.

This scapegoating reeks of Nazism.

mule to water wrote;

"It says a lot that both Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan agree that NAFTA and other external forces are making the Mexicans abandon their families, communities, and cultures and cross deserts and borders to come here and work as slaves at places like slaughter houses."

Not only them, also Ron Paul (R) and Dennis Kucinich (D) spoke out against the problems that WTO/NAFTA causes people in Mexico and in the U.S., for these "free" trade agreements enabled agribusiness corporations like ADM, Cargill, ConAgra, Monsanto to flood the Mexican market with biotech (GMO) corn crops and drive the smaller Mexican farmers off their land and into the stream of undocumented immigrants bound for dangerous low wage jobs in U.S. slaughterhouses and/or agribusiness, many of which are owned by them same corporations that drove them off their land to begin with..

For their troubles in being honest about the need to repeal WTO/NAFTA, BOTH Kucinich and Paul were treated like wicked stepchildren by their respective parties, driven to the fringes of the political debates by the complicit U.S. corporate media..

The Mexican drug cartels are a byproduct of poverty resulting from WTO/NAFTA agreements, though there was always an illegal drug trade prior to WTO/NAFTA, these free trade bills have increased the role the cartels play in bringing cocaine, heroin and meth into the U.S. markets..

Nor does every Mexican make the decision to join up with a drug gang and engage in murderous activity, so we cannot excuse their behavior simply because they were born into difficult economic circumstances..

Though the CIA have always enhanced the success of the drug cartels, they are not the only reason for the drug cartel growth over the past few years. We cannot just blame everything on the CIA without looking at the economic conditions they operate under. In addition, the CIA and other police state operations are only doing the bidding of the corporations, who are everyone's masters..

Fighting the Mexican drug cartels independent of the corrupt Mexican and U.S. governments may be the only real answer to getting some peace restored to the communities, though it will be dangerous and will require organized militia citizens groups (both U.S. and Mexican) to fight these gangs that make the old school Cosa Nostra Mafia look like a Mickey Mouse club..

Leaving out the oppression of women, the Taliban may offer vigilante groups some lessons of advice in how to remove the drug gangs from power, as they did in Afghanistan prior to the U.S. invasion that reinstalled the drug lords in the form of Hamed Kharzi. Religious fanaticism aside, the Taliban showed good results in shutting down the opium trade for at least some time before the post 9/11 U.S. invasion reopened the heroin/opium market for global consumption..

One piece of advice to the vigilante groups trying to take on the drug cartels, do not practice torture, it only degrades the spirit and brings about the wrath of God Allah. This is what the U.S. is now reaping with impending economic collapse, a result of the GW bush regime using torture on detained captives and the people of the U.S. not being willing or able to prevent this atrocity from happening. The blessings of God Allah are now leaving the U.S., despite the attempts at Obama to correct the wrongs of the previous Bush regime..

Swift executions of criminal gang leaders are the most just and righteous way to remove the drug gangs from off the face of the Earth. We are entering a time of cleansing, and the wicked human beings who engage in drug smuggling, kidnapping and other brutal activities must be returned to the soil..

Sangre y Tierra!!

Here's an article detailing the CCJ;

"The Juárez Citizens Command vigilante group issued its manifesto setting a deadline of July 5 to begin carrying out its threat to kill a criminal a day if order is not restored to the crime-ridden city.

The validity of Comando Ciudadano por Juárez, or CCJ in Spanish, remained in question, with Chihuahua Attorney General Patricia Gonzalez saying there was no evidence of a vigilante movement.

"The government wants to believe that we don't exist," a line at the end of the CCJ announcement read. "But we are closer than they think."

The 10-point manifesto issued Tuesday was the second communication from an organization that was unheard of prior to its initial threat made on Jan. 15.

"The CCJ declares war on the thieves, kidnappers and extortionists that have put in risk the rights of citizens and reiterates its plan to terminate the life of a criminal every 24 hours for the good of all Juarenses," the document stated in Spanish.

The manifesto, sent via e-mail to the El Paso Times and other media, was signed by leaders identified only as Comandante Abraham and Sub-Comandante Gabriel "Durito" (Hard).

If order is not restored by midnight July 5, "the CCJ will take to the streets with its army of men and women to do what the government could not," the group stated.

The manifesto stated the CCJ believes in government institutions but not in "political parties that have lied to Juárez." The document, showing a half-black, half-red star, said that the CCJ would not replace government, that it is willing to share information with the military and that it will launch a Web site on Feb. 2.

"We really consider it is a strategy by a criminal organization to generate more violence and destabilize society in Ciudad Juárez," Gonzalez, the attorney general, said Monday on a radio show.

Juárez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz asked residents to maintain faith in authorities even as anger has grown over kidnappings, extortion, carjackings and a wave of violence that left more than 1,600 dead last year.

Classes at a pre-kindergarten were canceled Tuesday when a note threatening the lives of children was posted at the school's entrance demanding about $5,000, the Norte newspaper reported.

Also, the headless body of a man, the second in as many days, was found Wednesday in a canal in the community of Juárez y Reforma possibly linked to three severed heads left the day before in an ice chest in Guadalupe Distrito Bravos, police said."

Daniel Borunda may be reached at dborunda@elpasotimes.com; 546-6102.

this article found @;
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_11522345?source=most_emailed#top

The Mexican authorities of course denounce any vigilante activities that take away from their power to selectively enforce (based upon bribery from the wealthy cartels) the law in Mexico..

Based upon the Taliban's success at banning opium in Afghanistan, and the post 9/11 U.S. invasion installing Hamed Kharzi and the druglord gangs into power and reopening the opium/heroin market for global consumption, it is difficult to trust the CIA and Mexican police with the task of eradicating the Mexcican drug cartels over here..

"JALALABAD, Afghanistan (February 15, 2001 8:19 p.m. EST

U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer.

A 12-member team from the U.N. Drug Control Program spent two weeks searching most of the nation's largest opium-producing areas and found so few poppies that they do not expect any opium to come out of Afghanistan this year.

"We are not just guessing. We have seen the proof in the fields," said Bernard Frahi, regional director for the U.N. program in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He laid out photographs of vast tracts of land cultivated with wheat alongside pictures of the same fields taken a year earlier -- a sea of blood-red poppies."

http://opioids.com/afghanistan/index.html

then;

End of Taliban will bring rise in heroin

By Richard Lloyd Parry in Islamabad

"The defeat of the Taliban would result in a surge in opium production, which has been virtually halted in Afghanistan by the Kabul regime over the last year, United Nations officials have warned.

A new UN survey reveals that the Taliban have completed one of the quickest and most successful drug elimination programmes in history.

The area of land given over to growing opium poppies in 2001 fell by 91 per cent compared with the year before, according to the UN Drug Control Programme's (UNDCP) annual survey of Afghanistan. Production of fresh opium, the raw material for heroin, went down by an unprecedented 94 per cent, from 3,276 tonnes to 185 tonnes.

Almost all Afghan opium this year came out of territories controlled by America's ally in the assault on Afghanistan, the Northern Alliance. Because of a ban on poppy farming, only one in 25 of Afghanistan's opium poppies was being grown in Taliban areas.

However, while poppy cultivation dropped, exports of refined opium and heroin from the Taliban-controlled areas remained unchanged because of stockpiles.

Some UN officials privately believe that the Taliban have not received enough credit for controlling drugs, and that under any post-Taliban regime cultivation, consumption – and the amount of opium and heroin on world markets – would inevitably increase.

"These are things which no one can say," said one UN official who worked in Afghanistan before the terrorist attacks of 11 September. "No other government in the world would have been able to do that. When I travelled through Badakshan [a province largely controlled by the Northern Alliance] you often saw the poppies."

In its early years the Taliban justified the cultivation of opium on the basis that it was a drug consumed abroad by unbelievers.

But in 2000, the regime changed its mind and vigorously enforced the ban, apparently in the hope of winning credit with the UN and strengthening its claim to Afghanistan's seat in the General Assembly, currently occupied by the Northern Alliance."

http://opioids.com/afghanistan/prediction.html

If the CIA and Mexican police continue to aid and abet the drug cartels by skimming profits and looking away from the murders and kidnappings, these agents can expect the same treatment from the vigilantes as the members of the drug cartels. There is a price to pay fro corruption and betrayal of the public's trust..

By 1994, a new force emerged in the region—the Taliban—that took over the drug trade. Chossudovsky again discovered that “the Americans had secretly, and through the Pakistanis [specifically the ISI], supported the Taliban’s assumption of power.”

These strange bedfellows endured a rocky relationship until July 2000 when Taliban leaders banned the planting of poppies. This alarming development, along with other disagreements over proposed oil pipelines through Eurasia, posed a serious problem for power centers in the West. Without heroin money at their disposal, billions of dollars could not be funneled into various CIA black budget projects. Already sensing trouble in this volatile region, 18 influential neo-cons signed a letter in 1998 which became a blueprint for war—the infamous Project for a New American Century (PNAC).

Fifteen days after 9-11, CIA Director George Tenet sent his top-secret Special Operations Group (SOG) into Afghanistan. One of the biggest revelations in Tenet’s book, At the Center of the Storm, was that CIA forces directed the Afghanistan invasion, not the Pentagon.

http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2008/11/24/cia-heroin-still-rule-day-in-afghanistan.html

his whole 1992 pres campaign was exclusivley anti-NAFTA