Thread: Mexican Senator Threatens: We’ll Stop Fighting Terrorism If Trump Builds The Wall

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Mexican Sen. Armando Rios Pitter told MSNBC’s Mariana Atencio Friday that Mexico will stop cooperating with the United States’ counter-terrorism efforts if President Trump does indeed build a wall along the United States’ southern border.

Pitter, and other Mexican lawmakers, will reportedly meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto Friday afternoon to discuss “the possible course of action.”

(video can be viewed at the source link)

“We should stop collaborating with the United States,” Rios Pitter suggested to Atencio. “With this hostile administration specifically.”

The senator added that Mexico should stop working with the United States on “security issues” — specifically “anti-terrorism” — that the two countries “have been working together [on] for the last years.”

“We need to analyze this 20 percent tax that we’ve heard of yesterday,” he continued. “And I think we will retaliate.”

http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/27/me...he-wall-video/

See, this country is not our friend.

Mexican President Pays for Supporting Drug Cartels

By Shayne Heffernan
on January 26, 2017




Mexican President Pays for Supporting Drug Cartels

The wall is coming and Mexico has their Prsident to blame. The citizens of Mexico have suffered under successive Governments, corruption has left the country in ruins.

The illegals crossing the border are in 2 categories, refugees from their own Governments or Criminals supported by the corruption, also flooding across that border is an avalanche of Cocaine and Heroin.

Trump is correct in demanding a Wall, so correct that the justification of anyone to protest the Wall has to be questioned, why didn’t they build that wall before?

As he signed into law new anti-corruption measures last year, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto took the opportunity to apologize for one of the defining scandals of his tenure: the purchase by his wife of a $7 million mansion through a favored government contractor. Juan Armando Hinojosa Cantú, a close friend of Peña Nieto, enlisted Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca to create trusts for accounts worth US$100 million after he was investigated for allegedly giving special favours to the Mexican president Peña Nieto and his wife, according to an analysis by ICIJ, who said that the documents showed “a complex offshore network” of nine companies in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Described as Peña Nieto’s “favorite contractor”, Hinojosa’s companies have won more than eighty government contracts and received at least US$2.8 billion in state money.

Anabel Hernandez who not only covers the issue, but also levels accusations of narco corruption in the country’s most powerful institution: the presidency. She claims the Sinaloa Cartel is only growing in power under current President Enrique Peña Nieto.

In articles and books, she has alleged links between kingpins such as Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman and a series of Mexican presidents, including Vicente Fox, who ruled from 2000 to 2006, and Felipe Calderon, in power from 2006 to 2012.

According to Hernandez, these leaders’ war on drugs was a farce in which they used soldiers and police to help out Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel.
http://www.livetradingnews.com/mexic...l#.WIzOptJripp

Meet the journalist who accuses Mexican presidents of links to drug cartels

GlobalPost

July 17, 2014
By Ioan Grillo

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Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez says "Narcoland" reaches the highest level of government.
Credit: Alfredo Estrella

MEXICO CITY — It is not easy for any reporter to cover drug trafficking in Mexico, a country where more than 80 journalists have been shot, stabbed, bludgeoned to death or decapitated since 2006.

But despite the risks, journalist and author Anabel Hernandez not only covers the issue, but also levels accusations of narco corruption in the country’s most powerful institution: the presidency.

In articles and books, she has alleged links between kingpins such as Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman and a series of Mexican presidents, including Vicente Fox, who ruled from 2000 to 2006, and Felipe Calderon, in power from 2006 to 2012.

According to Hernandez, these leaders’ war on drugs was a farce in which they used soldiers and police to help out Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel.

And despite Guzman’s dramatic arrest in February by Mexican marines, Hernandez suspects the Sinaloa Cartel is only growing in power under current President Enrique Peña Nieto.

These accusations have major implications for Mexico, where more than 70,000 have died in cartel-related violence since 2006. But they also impact the United States, which has supported Mexico’s fight against drug gangs with billions of dollars, while the US Drug Enforcement Administration and others have worked closely with the Mexican security forces under the command of these presidents.

Such controversial investigations have come at a high personal cost. Hernandez, a mother of two, has faced relentless threats and intimidation, including Kalashnikov-wielding thugs breaking into her home.

Hernandez has been particularly concerned about her country’s federal police, drawing alleged links between them and the drug cartels.
In contrast, Mexico City’s police have provided her with protection against gunmen who might want her dead.

But while sacrificing so much of her personal freedom, Hernandez has made a huge impact on coverage of drug trafficking. Her book “Los Señores del Narco,” translated into English as “Narcoland,” has sold more than 200,000 copies, making it one of Mexico’s best-selling nonfiction works in recent years.

While the former presidents and other officials have denied Hernandez’s accusations, they have not sued her over them. Hernandez says this is because they cannot disprove her assertions, or in many cases show where their mysterious wealth came from.

As she launched a new edition of her book this summer, GlobalPost spoke with Hernandez about her investigations and what drives her on.

GlobalPost: How did you make the journey to find yourself investigating drug cartels?
Hernandez: I really started investigative journalism after the death of my father. My father was kidnapped and murdered in December 2000. … It is difficult for me to say this, but my father was abducted, beaten, put in a car trunk, and tied up in such a way that he suffocated. The case was never solved. The authorities asked for money to continue the investigation, which we refused to pay. It is very frustrating. What are you as an individual going to do against a corrupt system? This issue of my father made me change my outlook on life. For me, investigative journalism was a refuge.

Are you sure corruption in Mexico reaches the highest levels and it's not just lower-ranking officials who work for drug cartels?
Since President Luis Echeverria (1970-1976) the links with drug trafficking have been at a presidential level. Corruption in Mexico is pyramidal and from the presidency it permeates other institutions. … The principal public officials and politicians that have been part of this system are still in power. They are deputies, senators, governors and others.
President Vicente Fox.

Chapo Guzman escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001. How can you be sure that then-President Fox was complicit in this?
The escape happened under his government, and it involved public officials that worked under his orders. There is no doubt … Fox started his administration with just $1,000 in the bank. His companies were all bankrupt. … Chapo Guzman escaped on Jan. 19, 2001. In February, Fox started to spend money, to buy property and remodel his ranch. Where did he get this money? It is completely inexplicable. … He has never been able to sue me because he cannot justify this wealth.

Do you believe that President Felipe Calderon would personally meet with drug traffickers?
“La Barbie” [arrested trafficker Edgar Villarreal] wrote me a letter in 2012 revealing that Calderon headed meetings [with drug traffickers] … I have firmly documented that people of Ismael Mayo Zambada [a wanted drug trafficker] went into Los Pinos [Mexico’s presidential palace].

I am convinced that this war on drug trafficking was never real. Its only intention was to protect the Sinaloa cartel and attack others.

President Enrique Peña Nieto.

What is current President Peña Nieto’s policy toward drug trafficking?
I believe that Enrique Peña Nieto is trying to make an old-style pact with drug traffickers. The issue is that he won’t be able to because organized crime is so pulverized and there are so many loose criminal cells that don’t take orders from anybody. What I can say is that the Sinaloa cartel is achieving under this administration what it didn’t achieve in its best years under Fox and Calderon.

What do you think about legalizing drugs to stop billions of dollars that fund corruption?
I don’t believe in legalization. I don’t believe that everybody should have access to drugs and this is the solution the problem. … I believe that there has to be for the first time in the world a true war on drugs. To have a true war on drugs we need to investigate the big world banks, put all the money launderers in prison. The war on drugs is not with a pistol or an AK-47. The war on drugs has to be financial.

What do you hope to achieve with your investigations? What should Mexico do, put former presidents in prison?
What I have learned in nine years of investigation into drug trafficking is that a general, a public security secretary or a governor is more dangerous than Chapo Guzman himself. They are the ones that betray the country, that sell the state to organized crime and they should face exemplary punishments. … If there are no exemplary punishments against the Mexican political and business class who permit people like Chapo Guzman to exist, then nothing is going to change and we are just going to be repeating this story of death, sometimes with more violence, sometimes with less, but always with the Mexican state under control of drug traffickers. We have to break this cycle.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-07-...s-drug-cartels

‘Our Friend,’ Says Clinton About Mexican President with Campaign Allegedly Financed by Cartels

File Photo: Office of the Mexican Presidency/Daniel Aguilar

by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

3 Jun 2016

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has claimed that Mexico’s corruption and scandal-plagued President Enrique Peña Nieto is America’s friend. The same president that has been accused by Mexican media of taking cartel money for his campaign while the country continues to see rising levels of violence, criminal impunity, and smuggling.

Clinton made those statements on Thursday when during a speech where she tried to attack Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

“He praises dictators like Vladimir Putin and picks fights with our friends – including the British prime minister, the mayor of London, the German chancellor, the president of Mexico and the Pope,” Clinton said during her speech.

Despite her efforts to attack Trump, Clinton failed to mention a few key facts about Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto that reveal he may not be a good friend to have. Earlier this year, Breitbart Texas reported on how an in-depth investigation by Aristegui Noticias in Mexico revealed that the Juarez Cartel had used shell companies to funnel money and help finance his presidential bid. The cartel moneys were used to purchase a series of cash cards that were handed out to individuals who pledged their vote to Peña Nieto’s party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The independent Mexican journalists also revealed that members of the Juarez Cartel had used various government programs to launder money and profit from their network of contacts. In addition to the cartel ties in his campaign, Peña Nieto has also been accused of taking bribes from wealthy businessmen in exchange for lucrative contracts.

While Mexico is considered a valuable trade partner for the United States with millions of dollars in merchandise crossing each day, a closer look at the Mexican government under Peña Nieto revealed that they in fact have not been very friendly when it comes to issues of border security. In border states, drug cartels have been able to work with impunity setting up their criminal empires that continually sent ton quantities of narcotics into every major U.S. city. As Breitbart Texas revealed, a study by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration revealed that drug cartels have managed to have a presence and influence throughout the nation.

Mexico has seen a large increase in cartel violence and activity during Peña Nieto’s tenure leading to severe consequences for the United States in the border state of Tamaulipas. In the border city of Reynosa, the Gulf Cartel has been able to overwhelm the detention capabilities of the Department of Homeland Security thus creating a humanitarian crisis as thousands and thousands of Central American illegal immigrants are brought over the Rio Grande. As Breitbart Texas previously reported, the Gulf Cartel was able to make $38 million in a few months from human smuggling alone. The Gulf Cartel has also been able to successfully operate in the U.S. and kidnap American citizens that are then taken into Mexico for ransom or worse. As Breitbart Texas previously reported, the most recent case of a U.S. citizen being taken at gunpoint into Mexico took place less than three weeks ago.

In 2014, the FBI had confirmed 199 cases of Americans having been kidnapped while in Mexico, Breitbart Texas reported at the time.

In the border state of Coahuila, Breitbart Texas carried out a three-month investigation that revealed the Los Zetas drug cartel had systematically kidnapped, tortured, murdered and incinerated hundreds of innocent victims from rural communities. Some of those victims were U.S. citizens. While Los Zetas cartel members were murdering innocent victims and terrorizing the state, Coahuila’s Governor Humberto Moreira turned a blind eye and was arrested in Spain for having been a surrogate for the fearsome drug cartel. He has since been released. Federal authorities in the U.S. are also investigating him. Moreira was a key figure in Peña Nieto’s election when he served as the national president for the PRI.

Despite the out of control violence that continues to reign in Mexico, government officials, under Peña Nieto’s command, continue to praise their efforts in keeping crime down going as far as claiming that violence is at record lows.

The underlying reason for the Mexican President’s inability to curb cartel violence falls on the widespread corruption that continues to exists at all levels of that country’s government.

Breitbart Texas has reported on two former Tamaulipas governors who are current fugitives of the U.S. Department of Justice on money laundering charges. Former Governors Tomas Yarrington and Eugenio Hernandez are both members of Peña Nieto’s PRI who have been accused in U.S. federal courts of taking cartel bribes. Yarrington has also been charged with drug conspiracy for his alleged role in giving the Gulf Cartel, Los Zetas and the Beltran Leyva cartels access to key shipping ports. The two Tamaulipas governor’s were not in office during Peña Nieto’s term, but they along with Moreira and several other Mexican politicians help illustrate the close ties between drug cartels and that country’ political elite that Clinton claims as friends.
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/...artels-friend/

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