Mexico ex-defense chief held in US on drug allegations

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Mexico ex-defense chief held in US on drug allegations

Mexico's former defense minister Salvador Cienfuegos has been arrested in the United States on suspicion of links with drug trafficking, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday.

It's a very regrettable fact that a former defense minister is arrested, accused of links with drug trafficking," Lopez Obrador told reporters.

"Of course, all this must be proven," he said, adding that the US authorities were expected to announce the reasons for the arrest later Friday.

"We're facing an unprecedented situation" Lopez Obrador said, noting that two former Mexican ministers are now detained in the US on allegations of links to drug cartels.

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Mexico ex-defense chief held in US on drug allegations

Other senior military officials of Mexico had also come under investigation when US authorities began to collect evidence against drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman

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This book is great and explains allot of the Mexican situation from the 60s 70s 80s and 90s

The Drug Lord, http://druglord.com/

Basically Mexico has been a narco state since the 80's or possibly before. Murder, torture and huge drug businesses are completely overlooked as long as the cash is flowing. The prohibition of drugs creates incentive that will always corrupt and the nature of that black market will always generate extreme violence. When the stakes are high enough, like they are in entry points to a massive market like the US, we see what extreme cases of both look like. They look like present day Mexico.

Go drug war.. expanding what it fails to stop into an irresistible hell.

 

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A federal judge dismissed drug-trafficking and money-laundering charges against Mexico’s former defense minister after Attorney General William Barr asked the court to drop the case to preserve the U.S. law enforcement partnership with Mexico.

Barr Gets Judge’s Signoff to Drop Mexican Drug-Traffic Case

letting the high level dealers go to preserve relations with them. How pathetic can the drug war get? Fucked like a football bat.

 

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U.S. drops drug-trafficking charges against ex–Mexican general following diplomatic backlash

US backs down to narco state. Give up the War on drugs.

Mexico really wouldn't want one of its top officials interrogated for long in the US as that would scare some powerful people. What do you think the chances are he gets murdered?