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 Mexico Army Major Sold Presidential Information to Drug Cartels 
#9510508 - 12/28/08 11:26 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Mexico Army Major Sold Presidential Information to Drug Cartels
Deember 29, 2008 - laht.com
MEXICO CITY -- A Mexican army major arrested this week was giving information about President Felipe Calderon to drug cartels, the daily Milenio reported Saturday, citing a witness protected by the authorities.
According to the newspaper, ex-presidential guardsman Arturo Gonzalez Rodriguez, arrested in an anti-corruption operation by the federal Attorney General's Office, known as the PGR, tipped off the Beltran Leyva brothers's cartel about Calderon's agenda and about intelligence operations targeting the illegal drug trade.
In exchange, Gonzalez Rodriguez, whose arrest was announced Friday, received payments of up to $100,000, the newspaper said, basing its report on information provided to the authorities by a protected witness identified as "Jennifer," who also accused the guardsman in custody of selling army weapons to drug traffickers.
"Jennifer," ex-collaborator of Edgar Valdez Villareal, alias "La Barbie," head of the gunmen hired by the Beltran Leyva brothers' cartel, added that Gonzalez Rodriguez also trained members of the criminal organization.
The daily El Universal added that the Sinaloa cartel, commanded by the fugitive from justice Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman, also received information about President Calderon from the army officer now behind bars.
Separately, Mexican prosecutors on Friday said Jaime Gonzalez Duran, an alleged co-founder of the feared gang of drug cartel hit men known as "Los Zetas," has been ordered to stand trial on organized crime, drug trafficking, money laundering and weapons charges.
Three other men arrested along with Gonzalez Duran, alias "Hummer," also will face trial on the same charges, the federal Attorney General's Office, or PGR, said in a statement.
Gonzalez Duran, who is wanted by the U.S. government on organized crime charges, was arrested in early November in the northern city of Reynosa, where his center of operations was located.
The suspect entered the Mexican air force in 1991 but deserted eight years later and joined with Arturo Guzman Decena and Heriberto Lazcano in founding "Los Zetas," which for years acted as the armed wing of the Gulf cartel but now is believed to control that drug mob.
"Los Zetas" are made up of former officers with the Mexican army's elite Airborne Special Forces Group, or Gafes, whose members are specially trained to locate and apprehend drug cartel members.
For years the group served as enforcers for the Gulf cartel but, following the capture of kingpin Osiel Cardenas and his subsequent extradition to the United States in January 2007 on drug charges, Lazcano took control of a part of that crime mob while the other part remained in the hands of Eduardo Costilla, alias "El Coss."
The Gulf cartel is one of Mexico's most powerful and violent and its tentacles extend across the border into the United States - the main market for cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs - and even into Italy, where an alliance has been formed with a notorious crime syndicate.
Mexico has been rocked by a wave of drug-related killings that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives since 2006, including more than 5,300 this year, according to unofficial press tallies.
Several of the bloodiest incidents, including the decapitation of 12 people in the Yucatan Peninsula in August, have been blamed on the Gulf cartel.
Gonzalez Duran is suspected of controlling "Los Zetas" in the northern states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon, as well as in the western state of Michoacan, the eastern state of Veracruz, the southeastern states of Tabasco and Quintana Roo and in Mexico City and the central state of Mexico.
The PGR said in its statement that Gonzalez Duran is "one of the most violent and dangerous members of the country's criminal organizations and one of the most wanted by the justice systems of Mexico and the United States."
Since taking office in December 2006, President Calderon has deployed more than 30,000 soldiers and federal police to nearly a dozen of Mexico's 31 states in a bid to stem the wave of violence unleashed by the drug traffickers.
The anti-drug operation, however, has failed to put a dent in the violence due, according to experts, to drug cartels' ability to buy off the police and even high-ranking prosecutors.
The PGR recently began investigating its own staff, particularly the SIEDO organized crime unit's members and the Federal Investigations Agency, Mexico's equivalent of the FBI.
As part of the probe, begun after a protected informant revealed links between drug cartel kingpins and police, a dozen high-ranking officials, including erstwhile drug czar Noe Ramirez, have been arrested.
The initial investigation concluded that Ramirez received $500,000 a month for sharing intelligence with drug lords.
It was as part of that probe that Gonzalez Rodriguez was arrested.
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Re: Mexico Army Major Sold Presidential Information to Drug Cartels [Re: veggie]
#9510856 - 12/29/08 01:07 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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for some reason I'm not suprised
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A sudden shower falls -
and naked I am riding
on a naked horse!
-Issa
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Re: Mexico Army Major Sold Presidential Information to Drug Cartels [Re: BurstingBeing]
#9511952 - 12/29/08 10:55 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sweet has same name as immortal technique.
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