DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel

[NilsFG]

Found this interesting

An investigation by El Universal found that between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels.

Sinaloa, led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, supplies 80% of the drugs entering the Chicago area and has a presence in cities across the U.S.

There have long been allegations that Guzman, considered to be "the world’s most powerful drug trafficker," coordinates with American authorities.

But the El Universal investigation is the first to publish court documents that include corroborating testimony from a DEA agent and a Justice Department official.

The written statements were made to the U.S. District Court in Chicago in relation to the arrest of Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, the son of Sinaloa leader Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and allegedly the Sinaloa cartel’s "logistics coordinator."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-g ... z2qMn6qDuK

Reminds me of all those alleged CIA airplanes that crashed with several tonnes of coke onboard.

[wub]

Reminds me of all those alleged CIA airplanes that crashed with several tonnes of coke onboard.

Wasn't that more likely than not to be the case though?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendition_aircraft#N987SA

The same aircraft, while registered under tail number N987SA to Air Rutter International, a California-based air-charter service, had been involved in extraordinary rendition to Guantanamo Bay. Logs show that the aircraft flew to Guantanamo Bay from Washington, D.C. twice and from Oxford, Connecticut once. It is likely that the purpose of these flights was to ferry CIA and Pentagon interrogators to Guantanamo to question detainees.

Soldiers reached the crash site the next day, recovered 132 bags containing a total of 6.3 tons of cocaine from the wreckage

[Terpit]

so who are the baddies?

[Electric_Head]

This is pretty common knowledge surely?
Even the war on drugs is a front for more dubious affairs.

[NilsFG]

This is pretty common knowledge surely?
Even the war on drugs is a front for more dubious affairs.

Yes, but maybe now, other than just allegations and theories, some real evidence might start to surface that proves that the whole thing is just greasy and that these agencies just create crime to keep themselves alive. Obviously, nothing will probably change (look at the whole NSA affair)

[Laszlo]

But i've got nothing to hide so I don't see the problem.

[RKM]

didn't this already happen in the 80s when the CIA aided the contras in their cocaine smuggling

[Laszlo]

didn't this already happen in the 80s when the CIA aided the contras in their cocaine smuggling

Yes. The question is did it ever stop?

Mason - do you see a pattern emerging?

[m8son666]

yh lots of bad things are happening that don't effect me loool

inb4 Niemöller

[m8son666]

also before i send you into a spiralling pit of depression laszlo i am in fact joking. who woulda known.

[Terpit]

you are in fact a pancake