• Mexico anti-drug agents detain two army generals for possible connections with the drug cartels
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[quote] MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) — Two army generals, including a former assistant defense secretary, were detained by anti-drug prosecutors and are being questioned for alleged links to drug traffickers, authorities said yesterday. Soldiers detained retired General Tomas Angeles Dauahare and General Roberto Dawe Gonzalez, the Attorney General's Office said in a brief statement released late Tuesday. The office gave no other details. An official at the Attorney General's Office said the officers are being investigated for alleged links to a Mexican drug cartel, but he would not say which cartel. President Felipe Calderon named Angeles Dauahare as assistant defense secretary in 2006. He left the post in 2008, when he retired. Dawe Gonzalez is currently assigned to a military base in the western state of Colima. President Felipe Calderon deployed 50,000 soldiers and other military personnel to fight organised crime shortly after taking office in December 2006. A few senior military officers have been arrested for alleged links to drug traffickers during Mexico's long struggle to control the cartels. Retired General Juan Manuel Barragan Espinosa was detained in February for alleged links to organized crime and General Manuel Moreno Avina and 29 soldiers who were under his command in the border town of Ojinaga, across the border from Presidio, Texas, are being tried on charges of torture, homicide, drug trafficking and other crimes. In 1997, General Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo was arrested when he was Mexico's drug czar. He was charged with protecting then-cocaine kingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes. Raul Benitez, a security expert at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said having such high ranking military officials under investigation for ties to organised crime "is a blow to the army because they are generals who had top posts in the Defense Department." More than 47,000 people have been killed in drug violence since Calderon launched his expanded offensive, according to government figures. [/quote] Read more: [url]http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Mexico-anti-drug-agents-detain-two-army-generals_11489392#ixzz1v8HgocTu[/url] Corruption at its worst
I must say, they cartels are pretty good at getting double agents and shit from the authorities. That or people are really greedy in Mexico.
Must be nice when one Cartel-tied Jury member makes all the cases against them go down while he receives nice golden watches and free gardening for his yard.
Well, this is interesting.
Generals? Jesus, that's corruption at a high level.
I just had an interesting idea for a movie. What if the anti-drug agents are double agents and the 2 generals are anti-drug, and they're being held so the cartels can overthrow the government?
Funny, we have a major problem right next to us, yet we're focused on Afghanistan, Iran, and Syria? Violence is spilling over into the U.S, and it's as if no one really cares that much. We call syria a civil after around 12,000 people have been killed, and over 50,000 in Mexico. No one calls that a civil war? The projections for the violence is 12,000 a year now, and it's largely ignored.
[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;35992385]Funny, we have a major problem right next to us, yet we're focused on Afghanistan, Iran, and Syria? Violence is spilling over into the U.S, and it's as if no one really cares that much. We call syria a civil after around 12,000 people have been killed, and over 50,000 in Mexico. No one calls that a civil war? The projections for the violence is 12,000 a year now, and it's largely ignored.[/QUOTE] I've heard a lot of people say, "Violence is spilling over the border" in regard to the cartel wars, yet I've really not read of one single instance where actual cartel fighting with government forces (Mexican or American) took place spilling over the border.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;35992429]I've heard a lot of people say, "Violence is spilling over the border" in regard to the cartel wars, yet I've really not read of one single instance where actual cartel fighting with government forces (Mexican or American) took place spilling over the border.[/QUOTE] It's happened a few times, and it's mostly other gangs or high-up drug kingpins, but more civilians are getting caught in the middle. San Antonio is getting really dangerous. They know a lot of Americans want to buy drugs. New york for instance, it's estimated that people spend over $800 million on drugs every year. Most of them are from the cartels in Mexico, and that's just NY.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;35992334]I just had an interesting idea for a movie. What if the anti-drug agents are double agents and the 2 generals are anti-drug, and they're being held so the cartels can overthrow the government?[/QUOTE] Plot for the next Ghost Recon game. Calling it right now.
[QUOTE=Eluveitie;35990816]I must say, they cartels are pretty good at getting double agents and shit from the authorities. That or people are really greedy in Mexico.[/QUOTE] The problem is that if you say no, the cartels will kill you and your entire family.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;35992429]I've heard a lot of people say, "Violence is spilling over the border" in regard to the cartel wars, yet I've really not read of one single instance where actual cartel fighting with government forces (Mexican or American) took place spilling over the border.[/QUOTE] I live in Tucson and I can second that. On the other hand, that doesn't mean we should ignore it on a humanitarian standpoint.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;35992334]I just had an interesting idea for a movie. What if the anti-drug agents are double agents and the 2 generals are anti-drug, and they're being held so the cartels can overthrow the government?[/QUOTE] Then the USA intervenes and it becomes a story of heroic American soldiers.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;35999137]Then the USA intervenes and it becomes a story of heroic American soldiers.[/QUOTE] Except not because the world media will spin it into "America Invades Sovereign Mexico" And all the ignorant assholes like [url]http://facepunch.com/members/446776-smeismastger[/url] will have a field day talking trash on how we decided to help out our corrupt neighbor.
[QUOTE=farmatyr;35993468]The problem is that if you say no, the cartels will kill you and your entire family.[/QUOTE] and then hang your bodies.
[QUOTE=Laferio;36000866]and then hang your bodies.[/QUOTE] What if your family is dead already?
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