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By Jeremy Schwartz | Friday, January 25, 2008, 01:31 PM
Remember that movie
The Departed, where Matt Damon’s character joins the Boston Police Department so he can serve as the inside man for Jack Nicholson’s criminal enterprise? Well, it seems that that little ploy is in full effect here in Mexico, according to an article in this morning’s
El Universal. No longer content to corrupt existing police officers, Mexico’s drug organizations are apparently sending their own stealth officers through the training academy and into unsuspecting law enforcement agencies.
“They infiltrate the authorities to create a group with impunity,” said top federal prosecutor Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos.
Vasconcelos should know — not only is he one of Mexico’s most respected law and order men, but he was also a target of two assassination attempts over last month that authorities believe were carried out by the Sinaloa Cartel. Police foiled both attempts when they arrested the alleged gunmen just before the hit was supposed to take place. Among those arrested were three high ranking police officers, who just may have entered the force under the scheme described above.
The arrested men were found with vests emblazoned with FEDA, an acronym for Arturo’s Armed Forces, a nod to drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva, whose brother was arrested this week.
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By duh
January 25, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this
yet another wonderful consequence of America’s insane war on drugs
By Bill
January 25, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this
Precisely why we need stronger border control and enforcement of immigration laws. It’s already spilling over into the US and Mexican authorities appear helpless (or totally corrupt), to do anything about it.
The Mexican government needs to pull out all the stops and declare war on the drug cartels; the Mexican people should demand it.
By zamu
January 25, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
Bill, The Mexican govt HAS pulled out all the stops, they’ve sent the army to take back control of all the towns controlled by the narcos..that’s why we’re seeing this violence. On the other hand, what has the US done to reduce the demand from drugs here and to stop the flow of money and weapons south that fuels the drug cartels’ violence????
By Bill
January 25, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this
Zamu, http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_8060460
By David Davo
January 26, 2008 5:39 AM | Link to this
Zamu is 100% right.