Tue Jul 24, 2012, 10:53 AM

Judi Lynn (77,557 posts)

Mexican official: CIA 'manages' drug trade

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Source: Aljazeera

Mexican official: CIA 'manages' drug trade
Spokesman for Chihuahua state says US agencies don't want to end drug trade, a claim denied by other Mexican officials.
Chris Arsenault Last Modified: 24 Jul 2012 14:16

Juarez, Mexico - The US Central Intelligence Agency and other international security forces "don't fight drug traffickers", a spokesman for the Chihuahua state government in northern Mexico has told Al Jazeera, instead "they try to manage the drug trade".

Allegations about official complicity in the drug business are nothing new when they come from activists, professors, campaigners or even former officials. However, an official spokesman for the authorities in one of Mexico's most violent states - one which directly borders Texas - going on the record with such accusations is unique.

"It's like pest control companies, they only control," Guillermo Terrazas Villanueva, the Chihuahua spokesman, told Al Jazeera last month at his office in Juarez. "If you finish off the pests, you are out of a job. If they finish the drug business, they finish their jobs."

A spokesman for the CIA in Washington wouldn't comment on the accusations directly, instead he referred Al Jazeera to an official website.

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/07/2012721152715628181.html

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19 replies	Author	Time	Post
Mexican official: CIA 'manages' drug trade (Original post)	Judi Lynn	Jul 2012	OP
I suspect this to be at least partly true. nt	siligut	Jul 2012	#1
I don't think "manages" is the right idea. "Exploits" is more like it. nt	bemildred	Jul 2012	#2
Try "runs".	Spitfire of ATJ	Jul 2012	#14
More corporate greed.	Remmah2	Jul 2012	#3
I would so believe that.	Baitball Blogger	Jul 2012	#4
Whoops, some truth from Aljazeera	tavalon	Jul 2012	#5
Most Americans know the government does crap like this	Spitfire of ATJ	Jul 2012	#16
"as if it's all a conspiracy theory"	FiveGoodMen	Jul 2012	#18
"It's like pest control companies...If you finish off the pests, you are out of a job." NT	Unite2DefeatGOP	Jul 2012	#6
Or like Big Pharma..if you cure the disease, you are out of sales.	dixiegrrrrl	Jul 2012	#7
Ray McGovern: "No duh!"	Roland99	Jul 2012	#8
K&R	DeSwiss	Jul 2012	#9
Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" Award	rocktivity	Jul 2012	#10
This is how the CIA does business. It recruits drug dealers to use as agents, offers	McCamy Taylor	Jul 2012	#11
The CIA then uses the profits for their nefarious, clandestine purposes.	xtraxritical	Jul 2012	#13
d'oh	Berlum	Jul 2012	#12
Can't sell solutions when there isn't a problem	harun	Jul 2012	#15
'like pest control companies'?	tawadi	Jul 2012	#17
Locked: Not LBN	Scurrilous	Jul 2012	#19

Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 11:02 AM

siligut (10,994 posts)

1. I suspect this to be at least partly true. nt

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Tue Jul 24, 2012, 11:04 AM

bemildred (67,478 posts)

2. I don't think "manages" is the right idea. "Exploits" is more like it. nt

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Response to bemildred (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 01:27 PM

Spitfire of ATJ (7,342 posts)

14. Try "runs".

The one detail they kept out of Iran Contra was the drug trade. Every time it came up they went into Executive Session.

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Tue Jul 24, 2012, 11:08 AM

Remmah2 (3,291 posts)

3. More corporate greed.

Is there a difference between government and big business?

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Tue Jul 24, 2012, 11:14 AM

Baitball Blogger (11,211 posts)

4. I would so believe that.

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Tue Jul 24, 2012, 11:17 AM

tavalon (25,656 posts)

5. Whoops, some truth from Aljazeera

This is becoming quite the habit with them. This isn't a well kept secret but surprisingly few Americans seem to know or care. It astounds and saddens me.

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Response to tavalon (Reply #5)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 01:33 PM

Spitfire of ATJ (7,342 posts)

16. Most Americans know the government does crap like this

it's just that they don't think there's anything that can be done about it.

Politicians refuse to even talk about it as if it's all a conspiracy theory, much less clean house.

However they ARE willing to launch major investigations into steroid use in baseball.

Or drone on and on about a birth certificate....

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Response to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #16)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 06:16 PM

FiveGoodMen (13,234 posts)

18. "as if it's all a conspiracy theory"

Isn't that what it is?

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 11:20 AM

Unite2DefeatGOP (25 posts)

6. "It's like pest control companies...If you finish off the pests, you are out of a job." NT

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Response to Unite2DefeatGOP (Reply #6)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 11:47 AM

dixiegrrrrl (30,728 posts)

7. Or like Big Pharma..if you cure the disease, you are out of sales.

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Tue Jul 24, 2012, 11:53 AM

Roland99 (36,477 posts)

8. Ray McGovern: "No duh!"

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Tue Jul 24, 2012, 12:05 PM

DeSwiss (17,172 posts)

9. K&R

''One measure of a society is the problems it chooses to solve. Rome’s ruling class was unable to restrain its rapacity, even in its own ultimate interest. Adams saw what liberals are rarely willing to admit——namely, that a system based on corrupt practice cannot be saved merely by tinkering with it.'' ~John Whiting, London University