Cocaine Jet Crash in Mexico Linked to Narco-Trafficker Who Worked for U.S. Government

[Joanne98]

Cocaine Jet Crash in Mexico Linked to Narco-Trafficker Who Worked for U.S. Government
Before His September Arrest, José Nelson Urrego May Have Been Operating as a Trafficker and Money Launderer for Years in Panama, Under U.S. Protection


By Bill Conroy
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
January 12, 2008

Panamanian police descended on a small, private island off the Pacific coast of the Central American nation in late September of last year. They arrested the island’s owner, a middle-aged Colombia named Jose Nelson Urrego Cardenas, as well as his 20-year-old girlfriend, who testified before Panamanian prosecutors just this week.


José Nelson Urrego after his September arrest
Photo: D.R. 2008 El Siglo
The police also found a sophisticated communications center on the island that is a clue to Urrego’s occupation and to his connection to the Gulfstream II jet that fell from the sky over Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula about a week after his arrest — with close to four tons of cocaine onboard.

Baruch Vega, a Colombian citizen who has a long history as a CIA asset operating in Central and South America, has told Narco News that the Gulfstream II was part of an undercover government operation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – a law enforcement agency that is part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Previously, DEA officers had told Narco News the same thing, indicating the Gulfstream II was linked to an ICE operation called the Mayan Express.

Documents obtained previously by Narco News also indicate that the jet was used in prior CIA operations and was last owned, in part by a pilot named Greg Smith —
http://www.narconews.com/Issue49/article2965.html

[lynnertic]

1. The War on Drugs is a setup n/t

[Joanne98]

2. Exactly! When will the American people wake up! This is stupid.

[Peace Patriot]

3. See my comments at similar thread. This is about Rumsfeld's Oil War II: So. America

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x331590

Thanks to Joanne98 for posting this NarcoNews story!

[shenmue]

4. Sure, it's all the fault of *the U.S. government!!!1!1*

:eyes:

People will believe anything. With all this drug selling they're supposedly doing, how do they have time to do anything else? And why do we have debt?

We have a drug problem because of assholes who buy drugs and assholes who produce and sell it. Quit believing your loony conspiracy theories and worry about something useful. :tinfoilhat:

I have a feeling this has a lot more to do with Panama and Colombia than anything we've done. If they wanted to protect an asset, they wouldn't kill him. Which is it?

[rAVES]

5. lol, you show about 10 levels of Ignorance in this post...

Oh and a childish naivety

[RuleOfNah]

6. Now listening to: Zappa's Cocaine Decisions

[Truth2Tell]

7. Recommend and kicked

so this important story doesn't get lost in the Obama/Clinton mud fight.

[groovedaddy]

8. So the plane was brought down by heavy snow? n/t