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In reply to the discussion: Third prominent banker found dead in six days [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)40. There was also this recent news that the DEA negotiated with the Sinaloa cartel
DEA Negotiated With Mexican Drug Cartel
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/13/dea-negotiated-mexico-drug-cartels_n_4590832.html
Agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Justice Department officials have met in secret with members of Mexican drug cartels in exchange for information on rival drug organizations, a new extensive investigative report by Mexico's El Universal newspaper startlingly concludes.
According to the report, U.S. agents held more than 50 secret meetings with cartel operatives on Mexican territory between 2000 and 2012 -- without informing Mexican authorities.
El Universal writes:
Several of the documents were related to the Chicago trial of Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, the son of Sinaloa leader Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
As Business Insider noted in 2012, Zambada-Niebla alleged while in detention in Chicago that the U.S. government struck a deal with Mexico's Sinaloa cartel to finance and arm the drug traffickers in exchange for information. Zambada-Niebla was arrested after having met with DEA officials, and believed that the alleged deal implied he was immune from arrest or prosecution.
Agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Justice Department officials have met in secret with members of Mexican drug cartels in exchange for information on rival drug organizations, a new extensive investigative report by Mexico's El Universal newspaper startlingly concludes.
According to the report, U.S. agents held more than 50 secret meetings with cartel operatives on Mexican territory between 2000 and 2012 -- without informing Mexican authorities.
El Universal writes:
Without the presence of Mexican authorities, as bilateral agreements stipulate, without informing the Mexican government, the agents of the DEA met with members of the cartels in Mexican territory, to obtain information about their rivals and at the same time and establish at the same time a network of informants of narco-traffickers, who signed cooperation agreements, subject to results, so that they can obtain future benefits, including charges being dropped in the United States.
Several of the documents were related to the Chicago trial of Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, the son of Sinaloa leader Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
As Business Insider noted in 2012, Zambada-Niebla alleged while in detention in Chicago that the U.S. government struck a deal with Mexico's Sinaloa cartel to finance and arm the drug traffickers in exchange for information. Zambada-Niebla was arrested after having met with DEA officials, and believed that the alleged deal implied he was immune from arrest or prosecution.
Reminds me of this... October 03, 2011
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/03/nation/la-na-atf-guns-20111004
Emails show top Justice Department officials knew of ATF gun program
In the emails that the department turned over to congressional investigators, Justice Department officials last October discussed both the Fast and Furious gun-trafficking surveillance operation in Phoenix and a separate investigation from 2006 and 2007 called Operation Wide Receiver. In Wide Receiver, which took place in Tucson, firearms also were acquired by illegal straw purchasers and lost in Mexico, the emails say.
Emails show top Justice Department officials knew of ATF gun program
In the emails that the department turned over to congressional investigators, Justice Department officials last October discussed both the Fast and Furious gun-trafficking surveillance operation in Phoenix and a separate investigation from 2006 and 2007 called Operation Wide Receiver. In Wide Receiver, which took place in Tucson, firearms also were acquired by illegal straw purchasers and lost in Mexico, the emails say.
This could be another one of arms for information deals. Maybe HSBC laundered the money for these transactions.
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You know, as assassin could force poison down your throat or blow your brains out
bluestate10
Feb 2014
#170
Or even Saddam Hussein. I mean how would it look to future puppets if we really let him die?
rwsanders
Feb 2014
#110
HSBC has quite a track recored of being a sleazy bank. HSBC should merge with BOA. n/t
RKP5637
Feb 2014
#77
There was also this recent news that the DEA negotiated with the Sinaloa cartel
RainDog
Feb 2014
#40
And remember "emerging economy problems" was the explanation for the run of really bad days
BlueStreak
Feb 2014
#37
That was Capital calling their money home. I see as noted above a China problem.
Ikonoklast
Feb 2014
#83
That's what struck me when they did it. It seemed like a really desperate move.
Squinch
Feb 2014
#145
Hmmm...is there something coming down the pike that we don't know about?
Baitball Blogger
Feb 2014
#5
We've been riding the greatest pyramid scheme in history. In 2008 the can was kicked
rhett o rick
Feb 2014
#6
As long as it doesn't make it to the washer woman level, I guess it was just a matter
Baitball Blogger
Feb 2014
#8
It's an egregious system that feeds on itself like a cancer and if one extrapolates it out it
RKP5637
Feb 2014
#76
The being pushed off bridges and buildings type of suicide is also a thing.
Fantastic Anarchist
Feb 2014
#153
Yes, as I said below, the collapse was only postponed. It still has to happen sooner or later...
ChisolmTrailDem
Feb 2014
#20
Yep, agree. See my post #76. The system could work, but greed and shenanigans are too great. The
RKP5637
Feb 2014
#80
Well, what happened was that the criminals were allowed to get away with it and so
ChisolmTrailDem
Feb 2014
#112
I heard the crash that was avoided in 2008 with TARP (among others) is still going to happen
ChisolmTrailDem
Feb 2014
#19
I literally just walked to BofA and cashed my paycheck and then walked to
ChisolmTrailDem
Feb 2014
#146
I don't know if that's sarcastic or not it might not be so far off the mark
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#38
What do you call a thousand investment bankers at the bottom of the ocean?
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#52
Our heavily manipulated faux economy may be running out of manipulations.
democratisphere
Feb 2014
#78
k and r--bookmarking for later reading. either they all know something really bad, or they had help
niyad
Feb 2014
#93
The DOJ is investigating big money re violation of bribery laws involving Libya's investment fund
siligut
Feb 2014
#144
A Rash of Deaths and a Missing Reporter – With Ties to Wall Street Investigations
mirrera
Feb 2014
#159
Microbiologists were dying under strange circumstances during the post-9/11 anthrax attacks...
radhika
Feb 2014
#161
they're already too big to fail and too big to jail, what other shoe will drop?
WillYourVoteBCounted
Feb 2014
#162