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20 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Iván Reyes Arzate, federal police chief under Felipe Calderón, has pled guilty in an NY Court to cocaine trafficking with an arm of the Sinaloa Cartel.

Reyes Arzate was trained at the DEA's Sensitive Investigations Unit and headed its ops in Mexico.

milenio.com/policia/ivan-r…
The guilty plea is another nail in the coffin for Calderón, the Sinaloa Cartel's favorite president, whose Security Minister, Genaro García Luna, is also on trial for running protection for the cartel.

eluniversal.com.mx/english/genaro…
It also raises fresh questions about the training and association of US "intelligence" agencies with cartel collaborators, just as the DEA is asking for its agents to be let back in to Mexico following last year's National Security Law.

proceso.com.mx/reportajes/202…
The AMLO Administration has requested, in exchange for letting the 12 DEA agents in, that 12 Mexican agents be allowed into the US to verify efforts to control the massive arms flow into Mexico. The US, unsurprisingly, has refused.
Mexico, needlessly to say, should refuse the presence of any US "intelligence" organizations on national soil, something the Reyes Arzate affair has made all the more clear.

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21 Oct
Amazing how the DEA's point person in Mexico during the Calderón administration has pled guilty to cocaine trafficking in conjunction with the Sinaloa Cartel and the US press just snoozes away...

mexiconewsdaily.com/news/ex-federa…
Trained at Quantico, Virginia, Reyes Arzate was the DEA's man. Who has the agency been arming and training? What did they know and when they did they know it? Instead of cowtowing to the "intelligence" community, the press should be demanding answers.
And it's not just Reyes. As @DoliaEstevez writes, the DEA has trained more than 2,000 Mexicans over two decades, running armed operations, conducting searches, planting informants, operating clandestine houses, wiretapping, recording, filming. All in conjunction with who? Image
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25 Aug
The scandal rocking #Mexico, and that has caused an ex-presidential candidate to flee the country, is that the 2013-2014 energy reform was allegedly passed by paying off legislators w/money from the Brazilian firm #Odebrecht. Big stuff, but hardly mentioned in English media. Why?
Because, with few exceptions, Western corporate media are mouthpieces for multinational energy interests. The last thing they want you to know is that the law that opened up Mexico's energy industry to foreign investment is fraudulent to its core and could even be struck down.
Not reporting on this backstory has the additional advantage of making any prosecutions undertaken by AMLO's Attorney General take on the appearance of political persecution instead of the fruit of a long-simmering investigation.
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21 Aug
1. The 2018 presidential candidate from the conservative party PAN, Ricardo Anaya, has fled to the United States to avoid arrest on charges of accepting bribes and illicit enrichment.

tribuna.com.mx/mexico/2021/8/…
2. As I reported a year ago, Anaya stands accused of accepting some 6.8 million pesos worth of bribes in order to pass the energy counterreforms of 2013-2014, in his role as Congressman and Speaker of the House. (Full piece here: jacobinmag.com/2020/08/pena-n…) Image
3. The money -upwards of $10 million dollars- was funneled from the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht through the presidential campaign of Peña Nieto by means of Emilio Lozoya, who then became head of the state oil company PEMEX.

milenio.com/politica/odebr…
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14 Aug
1. #Mexico's conservative-majority Electoral Tribunal @TEPJF_informa has stripped #MORENA of 3 Congressional seats won in June's midterms. And it is suspected they may try for more, including governorships the party won in Michoacán and Campeche.

politica.expansion.mx/mexico/2021/08…
2. The magistrates, meanwhile, are embroiled in scandal with their former leader, José Luis Vargas, resigning as head of the tribunal on charges of illicit enrichment and his replacement, Reyes Rodríguez Mondragón, resigning shortly thereafter.

elpais.com/mexico/2021-08…
3. For its part, the Electoral Institute is appealing a ruling by the Supreme Court that it is not exempt from the Maximum Salary Law -which prohibits federal officials from earning more than the president- in order to continue to earn lavish salaries.

proceso.com.mx/nacional/2021/…
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5 Aug
1. On the second anniversary of the #ElPasoShooting, #Mexico is suing 10 US gun manufacturers and distributors for their responsibility in flooding the nation with arms.

Some 70-90% of the arms found at Mexican crime scenes can be traced to the US.

nytimes.com/2021/08/04/wor…
2. US manufacturers make some $250 million a year on selling arms to Mexico, knowingly targeting the market with guns that have Spanish nicknames, quotes, even the engraving of Emiliano Zapata's face (the model used in the killing of journalist Miroslava Breach by Sinaloa Cartel)
3. As I wrote at the time of the shooting, Mexico's strict gun-control laws are constantly undermined by US laxity. Indeed, nearly 1/2 of US dealers depend upon sales to Mexico to survive. Illegal trafficking of arms to Mexico isn't even a federal crime.

jacobinmag.com/2019/08/el-pas…
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20 Jul
1. The #PegasusProject reveals the extent of the police state created in #Mexico under presidents Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto: using software from the Israeli firm #NSO, some 15,000 numbers were potentially hacked, including 25+ journalists...

theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
2. ...and no less than 50 people close to #AMLO, then a presidential candidate, including his wife, sons, brothers, advisors, even his cardiologist.

One of the hacked journalists, Cecilio Pineda Birto, was subsequently assassinated.

theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/…
3. The software was originally purchased by Calderón -NSO's first international client- whose Defense Department made a massive purchase in 2011. His Security Minister García Luna was also heavily involved in Israeli-exported spy technologies.

sinembargo.mx/20-07-2021/400…
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