The missing 43: The apparent murder of 43 students,
it is rumored by a local drug
cartel at the behest of a
city government official, has enraged Mexicans in an
unprecedented fashion.
The CIA and the Missing 43 (La Cronica De Hoy, Mexico)
"A growing
number of voices point to the presence of destabilizing agents in Mexico. The
can clearly be seen from the perspective of a general uprising - which is what
these protests are. They are well calculated, progressive, and have sources of
funding no one investigates. … Ratcheting up incrementally and geographically
dispersed - and with the participation of groups and organizations supposedly
of the left, its members seem employed only as participants in public
demonstrations. … Let’s return to the never-answered charges of WikiLeaks: that U.S. soldiers are actively involved in the drug war [in
the form of negotiations with the drug cartels].
A growing number of voices point to the presence of
destabilizing agents in Mexico. The can clearly be seen from the perspective of
a general uprising - which is what these
protests are. They are well calculated, progressive, and have sources of
funding no one investigates.
The origins of the protests remain obscure, with no
explanation of why a teachers' college sent freshman students to stage a
protest, sequester buses and potentially confront the forces of repression on
unfamiliar territory. The normal realm for the students is Chilpancingo,
the Autopistadel Sol [Highway 95]
and the businesses of that city, where they loot and rob you in broad daylight
with the assurance that police in the capital of the state of Guerrero will not
intervene.
Since then the protests have expanded. Ratcheting up
incrementally and geographically dispersed - and with the participation of
groups and organizations supposedly of the left, its members seem employed only
as participants in public demonstrations. We still don’t know the source of
funding that mobilizes, feeds and provides them with basic elements of their
welfare and safety, meaning medical support and shelter.
I must point out the sudden interest of the White House in
intervening - the one in Washington and not Las
Lomas - demanding a swift solution and punishment for those responsible.
The demand was accompanied by a warning that U.S. investigators were assisting,
as the lady responsible for Latin American affairs has put it. [Most likely Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemispheric
Affairs Roberta S.
Jacobson].
Let’s return to the never-answered charges of WikiLeaks: that U.S. soldiers are actively involved in the drug war [in
the form of negotiations with the drug cartels]. There will be no doubt about
this if we recall the death near Cuernavaca of Arturo BeltránLeyva, who was mowed
down by Mexico Marines under the supervision of their gringo instructors, the
photos of which were published in the days following the event in December
2009.
And then there is
the incident
in Huitzlac, in TresMarías,
where federal police responded to a call about a kidnapping and ran into an armored
SUV that didn't respond to orders to stop. The Mexican agents were in plain
clothes and the encounter ended with the car being showered with bullets. Later
it became known that it belonged to the U.S. Embassy, was carrying agents of
that nation [CIA], and had a driver that was a Mexico Marine taking them to a
training camp in the area.
According to e-mails made public by
WikiLeaks, information was obtained from correspondence between a Mexican
diplomat and the Texas-based intelligence firm Stratfor
- a private espionage agency supposedly supported by the CIA. The documents
recount a “secret” 2010 meeting between gringo officials and Mexicans with the
goal of improving communication between the Federal Police and undercover
agents from the North [the U.S.], the former being repeatedly denounced for
failing to share information about sky-high levels of corruption among federal
agents of Mexico.
The
Mexican diplomat was identified as Fernando de la Mora Salcedo
(left) who, among other things, stated in messages that drug cartels have
penetrated both the agencies of Mexico and those of the United States. At
one point, he mentions that a “high level” Mexican official was trading state
secrets with entities in the institutions of the country to the North. This
information at a certain time ceased to be secret and is on public view on the
Internet, although the name of the person is nowhere to be seen.
The blog Narconews informs
that the unnamed Mexican diplomat told Stratfor that
he “was trained to be the Mexican tip of the spear in the United States.” The
blog adds that “he is the youngest diplomatic corps official in the recent
history of Mexico … and has been appointed point man by the GOM
[government of Mexico] which paid for his law school stint at UNM [the University of New Mexico] to prepare him for more
interactions with U.S. law enforcement and legislators … He is possibly a CISEN [Center
for Research and National Security] collaborator.”
Another document recovered by WikiLeaks, directed by Mora to
Stratfor, confirms that “there is a Marine presence,
but I don’t know if it is MFR [Marine Force Recon]… Furthermore, operational
coordination and indeed joint exercises have been conducted, and there are more
in the planning stages. We do indeed have U.S. military presence in Mexico as
part of the MI [Merida
Initiative] coordination office (even though they are sometimes under
official cover as DOS [Department of State], etc…) There are advisors and
intelligence operatives that work on the tactical level with their Mexican
counterparts …”
Another important revelation is that the Mexican government
seems to have been involved, at least in terms of intelligence sharing, with
the failed operation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - “Fast and Furious.”
Posted By Worldmeets.US
The information ends with: “In June 2010, when Narco
News first reported on the presence of a U.S. special
operations task force deployed inside Mexico, one source of that
information, former CIA asset Tosh Plumlee, indicated
that task force members feared their mission had been compromised because of
leaks and corruption within the Mexican government. … Since
operations of the task group have already been exposed, at least as far as the
drug trafficking organizations knowing about their presence in Mexico, Plumlee says that divulging information about Task Group 7
may actually help protect its members, despite the embarrassment it may prompt
[for the U.S. and Mexican governments]."
Oh, yes, a lot of embarrassment… But when playing in mud,
one must expect to get dirty.