A very interesting article, (Mexican Drug Cartel’s Cash is King! By Michael Webster Part three of a multiple part series.  however you have failed to identify the forest for all the trees. 

Dear Editor:

 

The MDC's do not control the Mexican government officials through bribes, it is the other way around -- the Mexican government, through its officials, "lease" franchises (plazas) to the cartels and the cartels pay franchise fees to the government officials who pass that money up the governmental "food-chain" all the way up to the president of Mexico.

 

The Mexican feudal system (established by the PRI, but continued under the PAN) has infected the US -- from presidents of the United States all the way down to local city council members, from the president of the New York Stock Exchange all the way down to the local banker.

 

You need to dig deeper in order to see the Big Picture.  There is a bigger picture than the simple drugging of America for the sake of greed (at least from the Mexican government's perspective).  So, here are some things you need to look into (see below) in order to identify the forest for all those pesky trees.

 

Janet Conroy

 

To understand the Mexican plaza system, you MUST read this book!

 

From page 16: (The newly elected PAN party mayor of Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico -- circa 1975)

As the mayor quizzed a top administrator, the drug lord sat on a sofa with his cowboy hat on his lap, listening politely and smiling ironically now and then, but did not participate in the conversation.
The mayor said to the administrator, "We have to recognize that drug trafficking is good business, and also that there is nothing that can be done about it.  And anyway, all the drugs are going to the United States."
The administrator replied: "Yes, but some of it always remains in Mexico where it is consumed.  But the fact remains that there can never be any moral or ethical justification for that kind of activity."
The mayor and Manuel Carrasco exchanged smiles.  The mayor went on, "Maybe not, but it can be seen as having an historic justification; as the vengeance of a vanquished country that lost half of its territory in a war with the United States -- and is still being exploited by the United States."
"Drug Lord: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin" by Terrence E. Poppa

 

Writing in Excelsior magazine, Loret de Mola made it clear as early as 1982 that the goal was to return a part of the Southwest U.S. to Mexico. "A peaceful mass of people ... carries out slowly and patiently an unstoppable invasion, the most important in human history." He continues: "It seems to be slowly returning the southwestern United States to the jurisdiction of Mexico without the firing of a single shot by means of a steady, spontaneous, and uninterrupted occupation."

 

Statement of Mark K. Reed before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Citizenship and the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security, May 17, 2005.

 

"Almost twenty years ago President (George H. W.) Bush declared the War on Drugs. I was present at a high-level strategy meeting between representatives of federal law enforcement, DoD (Department of Defense), and the State Department regarding the urgency of sealing the Mexican border to stop drug smuggling. When DoD stated that they were capable of detecting and interdicting any intrusion, but could not distinguish between groups of migrants from drug smugglers until interdiction, the dialogue became difficult. When DoD refused to entertain the idea that they should only detain drug smugglers upon interdiction, the meeting was abruptly terminated."

 

George H. W. Bush has been involved in the "Mexican system" long before his days in the CIA (going back to his early oil rig days and before).  Which is why his "War on Drugs" was nothing but a ploy.

 

"The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government." - William Colby, former CIA Director, 1995 (he died under mysterious circumstanced the following year while Bill Clinton was running for re-election and Mena, Arkansas was a hot topic).

 

"I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important - a very important - part of it." -- Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo at the National Council of La Raza (The Race) Soiree, Chicago on July 23, 1997 

 

Yeah, right, they help to traffic the drugs and have been doing so since at least the end of WWII.  See the making of California's Health and Safety Code Sec.11369 which resulted from work by a Senate committee charged in 1951 with studying how to deal with the “deliberate exploitation of naive boys and girls by drug traffickers” from across the border who aimed to “open up a new market by enslaving a huge new crop of addicts.”  (Cited in Fonseca v. Fong, 08 S.O.S. 5807). 

 

"We are practicing La Reconquista in California." --1998, Jose Pescador Osuna, then-Consul General of Mexico, in California.

 

"Mexico is recovering the territories yielded to the United States by means of migratory tactics." -- 2001, Elena Poniatowska, a prize-winning Mexican novelist who has taught at Harvard, Yale and Princeton

"We are Mexicans that live in our territories and we are Mexicans that live in other territories. In reality, we are 120 million people that live together and are working together to construct a nation." --2004, Vicente Fox, President of Mexico, in Chicago.

 

You should also read some of the Catherine Austin Fitts articles at this site:

 

http://www.narconews.com/narcodollars3.html

 

And, especially:

 

Narco Dollars for Beginners

 

"How the Money Works" in the Illicit Drug Trade

 

http://www.narconews.com/narcodollars1.html

Two more Americans found dead in the Arizona desert This is the same general area where Deputy Louis Puroll was shot, allegedly by drug smugglers, more than a month ago. There was an delay for authorities to respond to the scene of the shooting. It is not clear why the delay, but when the sheriff spokesperson was asked Lt. Villar stated that the communications center lost contact when cell service apparently dropped out. Crews were sent out to try and locate the caller. Those searchers found the bodies of two men who had been shot to death. Detectives had to wait for daylight before they could begin their investigation...

 

  U.S. troops on the border: What does it mean? By Michael Webster: Part four of a multiple part series

The danger of having porous borders is not just coming from Mexicans. Although the Mexican Drug cartels have raised that danger bar by taking over the smuggling business... Also see

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Mexican Drug Cartel’s Cash is King! By Michael Webster Part three of a multiple part series. Many large American banks over the years have been used to launder the MDC’s cash. Just last week Wachovia bank executives admitted that the banking giant laundered millions of dollars for Mexican drug lords between 2003 and 2008...

Attention Concerned Citizens

By Michael Webster:

"We want to alert you to a new citizen activist opportunity to help observe and report the daily invasion across our southern border with Mexico. This is not a Minuteman or extremist group sponsored event - just a call to action by a group of "Concerned Citizens" ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1W7CB8oxgY