A Mexican newspaper raises serious allegations against the US Drug Enforcement Administration: Their investigators are said to have collaborated with the notorious Sinaloa cartel. For information about rival mafia groups they offered supposedly to impunity.

US Government departments and agencies have taken in the fight against drug cartels, according to a newspaper report on questionable methods. According to research by the Mexican “El Universal” they should have done several years common cause with the largest and most powerful drug cartel in order to obtain information on rival mafia groups.

The newspaper reported in detail about how did met from 2000 to 2012 Employees of the American Anti- Drug Enforcement Administration and the US Department of Justice several times with senior members of the Sinaloa cartel in a ten -page article from early January . In exchange for information about the competing cartels provided the agents and government officials criminal facilitation or the dropping of charges against informants in the United States in view.

The DEA refused against ” El Universal” each opinion . The agency would not comment on the report. The story was picked up by some US media , among others, reported “Time” on the report. The ” Washington Post ” took the story with guarded skepticism note : None of this necessarily mean that the US would take active party for a drug cartel or were to offer his relatives immunity.

” El Universal” , one of the oldest and most reputable newspapers in Mexico , refers in his report on their own research of about one year duration . The reporters interviewed for more than a hundred active and retired drug enforcement in both countries , prisoners and relatives of prisoners as well as experts on the topic. They also had access to court records and U.S. government documents.

Mexican Drug Mafia:Supplied weapons to the cartel

Rumors that the United States cooperate with the Sinaloa syndicate are not new. 2009, the U.S. weapons ATF authority was assumed in Action “Fast and Furious” guns to the cartel led by Joaquín Guzmán , known to have ” El Chapo ” delivered .

Now published ” El Universal ” official documents – cooperation seems busy. The newspaper cited testimony from the trial before a U.S. District Court in Chicago against Vicente Zambada Niebla , the son of Ismael ” El Mayo ” Zambada , second husband of the Sinaloa cartel. Zambada Niebla , was arrested in 2009 in Mexico City, after he had previously met for half an hour with a DEA agent and an emissary of the U.S. Department of Justice .

The cooperation between the Mexican Mafia and U.S. drug investigators falls within the period of the two governments of the conservative PAN party under Presidents Vicente Fox ( 2000-2006 ) and Felipe Calderón (2006 to 2012) . Especially in the tenure of Calderón around 60 U.S. drug agent was apparently freely determine in Mexico and arrested . Their findings , they did not even share with the Mexican government.

According to research by ” El Universal” , employees of DEA and Justice Department should have taken at least 50 times with representatives of the Sinaloa cartel. In individual cases, the information would have led to direct arrests of drug lords other cartels or the securing of drug. According to the newspaper , the U.S. government should have been largely informed about the cooperation with the organized crime in the neighboring country

Mexican Drug Mafia:A violation of international law

The strategy of the DEA to ally with representatives of organized crime punctually in order to get information about other offenders is not new in Latin America. The late eighties, the US Drug Enforcement worked in Colombia with the enemies of Pablo Escobar together. This made it possible to bring the head of the Medellin cartel, and then most wanted criminals in the world, to the track. At Escobar’s enemies and DEA informants were paramilitary death squads and the rival Cali Cartel.

The actions of the US authorities constitutes a violation of international law constitute and lead to an increase in violence and human rights abuses, criticized the drug and crime expert Edgardo Buscaglia. The government in Washington apply a similar strategy for the last ten years in Afghanistan, the head of the International Law and Economic Development Centre is quoted in Mexico.

It is also conceivable that the strategy behind the U.S. government’s attempt plugged to strengthen the largest cartel in Mexico , in order to end the drug war so quickly. The carnage between Mafia members and security forces and the cartels among themselves have fallen victim in the past twelve years, more than one hundred thousand people .

According to the DEA , the Sinaloa cartel is one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Latin America. It is with marijuana , cocaine, synthetic drugs and is also involved in human trafficking , robbery of raw materials and piracy. The organization is represented in more than half of the 32 Mexican states . Connections she has , according to experts could in some 40 countries , demonstrate Interpol cells in Argentina and Australia. Recently it was said that the organization had ventured up to the Philippines.

Their supremacy was consolidated under the government of Felipe Calderón again . Only one percent of strikes against Mexican Mafia organizations 2006-2012 met the Sinaloa cartel. This nourished the suspicion , the Mexican government supported the organization of ” Chapo ” Guzmán .

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