The “El Chapo” trial in New York is revealing just how bad corruption is in Mexico. Fox News reports:
And then there were three.
In a trial in federal court in New York that is turning out to be about far more than Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Mexican drug lord, a court document that was unsealed Wednesday claimed bribes by cartels were paid to former president Felipe Calderon and to a former campaign worker of current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The assertion of corruption came just a day after the bombshell — by witness Alex Cifuentes Villa, a Colombian drug trafficker who worked with El Chapo from 2007 to 2013 — that former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto attempted to squeeze $250 million in bribes from the kingpin shortly after he took office in 2012.
The court document, which the U.S. government sought to keep sealed, saying it was irrelevant to its case against El Chapo, referred to a bribe that was paid by a brother of Sinaloa cartel leader Ismael Zambada to an unidentified man who worked López Obrador’s unsuccessful 2006 presidential campaign, reported Vice News.
Although the new Mexican president is committed to working with America to secure the border on both sides, the massive corruption will make this harder.
Mexico has been a criminal enterprise since Spain left. When Stalin had Trotsky exiled from Russia He went to Mexico, where He was later hatcheted to death by one of Stalin’s trolls. It has been well known that getting into trouble in Tijuana can cost You a lot: Your Family may spend Thousands to get You out of jail–Your auto will be confiscated (many police vehicles are obtained in this way) —-Our Military pays a great deal of money to “bail out” Their troops—it has been considered a form of foreign aide for decades. The Governments involvement in DRUGS and Human smuggling is why They FEAR a closed border.
MEXICO should have been invaded by the us military. the crime is MURDER OF AMERICAN CITIZENS WITH DRUGS SENT OVER US BORDER BY CARTELS AND HIGH MEXICAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. this is the same as having ISIS killing AMERICAN citizens. Mexico is a corrupt country and needs to be THOROUGHLY cleaned up of all the drug cartels and corrupt officials. The charge is MURDER and the penalty is DEATH. The US cannot have a neighbor that murders our citizens and young people with OPIEDS that make them drug addicts. many commit suicide and crime. Mexico cartels must be cleaned up with the government gangsters that live off the money of the cartels.
This is corroboration of something long understood. Mexico has two governments: the criminals/crime families and the government. The drug trade to America has simply tipped the balance of power in favor of the Cartels.