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Mexican Official: CIA Not Interested in Stopping Drug Wars
“CIA doesn’t fight drug traffickers, they try to manage the drug trade”, Terrazas Villanueva a spokesman of Chihahua, one of Mexico’s most violent state said.
According to him CIA’s international security forces like The US Central Intelligence Agency try to keep their paycheck by not finishing the job: “It’s like pest control companies, they only control, if you finish off the pests, you are out of a job. If they finish the drug business, they finish their jobs.”
By 2007, 90% of cocaine to US was imported from Mexico, the joint initiative to stopping the drug-trafficking began the following year when Mexican officials were looking for back-up. In 2008, the U.S. Congress passed legislation to provide Mexico with $400 million and Central American countries with $65 million that year and the security cooperation agreement, Mérida Initiative, began. The U.S. Congress has appropriated $1.6 billion since the Merida Initiative began in Fiscal Year 2008.
Merida Initiative has been criticized since the beginning. Until now, no official has come up with such a statement, only ones doubting the motives of the operation have been activists, professors or such. One of them, professor Hugo Almada Mireles, has gone as far as saying that CIA wants to control the population and everything else in Latin America.
In comparison, the Mexican government has spent approximately $7 USD billion in an 18-month-old campaign against drug cartels. Billions of dollars are flying both ways, before the operation US $12 to 15 billion per year cash money flew from the United States to the Mexican traffickers, according to US estimates.
US official statement is that The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is partnering with the Government of Mexico and civil society to promote the rule of law by supporting the implementation of Mexico’s new justice system; increasing knowledge of human rights.
US has supplied Mexico with police equipment
As far as material things go, US has supplied Mexico with helicopters, x-ray machines and has established a proper corrections academy. US has funded training of justice sector personnel including police, prosecutors, and defenders, correction systems development, judicial exchanges, and partnerships between Mexican and U.S. law schools.
According to conspiracy theorists all that support is just to establish military foothold in the country. It lets Colombia arm and support paramilitary death squads; they’re known as the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC); for more than a decade, they’ve terrorized Colombians and are responsible for most killings and massacres in support of powerful western and local business interests;
One of those ‘supplying missions’ involved a botched US exercise where automatic weapons were sold to criminals in the hope that security forces could trace where the guns ended up. The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms lost track of 1,700 guns as part of the operation, including an AK-47 used in 2010 the murder of Brian Terry, a Customs and Border Protection Agent.
‘Supporting’ can be better described as ‘taking over.’ 55,000 people have died in drug related wars in Mexico since 2006, but nothing significant has changed. The Mexican army’s growing role in the battle in Mexico has come under particular scrutiny due to allegations of human rights abuses by that institution. But while allegations of abuses have risen, accountability has not followed. Human Rights groups say military courts have not prosecuted any member of the military for abuses
Information on results of the Merida Initiative is hard to find, in fact most of the information available only describes the scrutiny of drug wars. For example, in Center Prodh four civilians were shot by soldiers in Sinaloa state in March 2008. The four were riding in a car with other family members when a group of soldiers in another vehicle opened fire with no justification, killing the victims and injuring two other passengers. The military took over the investigation and the part of the jury over the soldiers accused no violation of human rights was found.
Mexicans say cocaine wasn’t popular at all, until US government took over Mexican law enforcement. Residents and officials across Mexico’s political spectrum often blame the lethal cocktail of US drug consumption and the flow of high-powered weapons smuggled south of the border for causing much of the carnage.
