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| Mexico's SEDENA: Cartels Undefeatable |
| 2011-02-28 |
| by Chris Covert Mexican Secretary of National Defense (SEDENA), General Guillermo Galvan Galvan, released a document to members of the Chamber of Deputies last mid September which stated that Mexican drug cartels are undefeatable. At least that is what the Mexican leftist weekly Proceso has claimed in a story on its website Saturday night. However, since that story was released, the website of Proceso has been down all day Sunday. The revelation is stunning, but it is also contradictory especially in light of what has been since since last September, especially with the SEDENA plan to reinforce the Mexican Army in northern states. it is also hard to believe that 500 individuals in the Chamber of Deputies, each of whom live and die by what they say, would keep mum about such a critical story. Going by memory,the report said Galvan Galvan had suggested making arrangements with drug cartels and to assign territories and drug rotues but the central element was an alliance of cartels to eliminate Los Zetas. The report also said that the cartels were too powerful to defeat given the great amount of resources it has access to. In some ways, Galvan Galvan may be right. Every cartel makes use of local street gangs and not just in Mexico, including the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang with affiliates throughout central and north America to provide new talent, treating local street gangs like a farm club for their operations. And if cartels also have access to funds provided by foreign governments, such as Venezuela and Ecuador that may also be a factor in the conclusion. It is a working theory with this writer that the great mass of weapons the cartels use come from foreign governments. No other entity could afford to manufacture weapons without identification markings, and drug gangs are not known for their ordnance support of their armed wings. And unmarked weapons do not come from gun shops on the US side of the border. A side note: Proceso has been less than accurate in the past. A story released by Proceso in December said that they received a fax from a group claiming to be an alliance between the Giulf Cartel and Sinaloa cartel claiming the existence of 11 more car bombs, and threatening to detonate them because of the nexus between local authorities in Nuevo Leon and kidnapping operations by Los Zetas. A car bomb was detonated in General Zuazua north of Monterrey last December. Click here to read the Rantburg report on that attack. Click here to read the report of the fax received by Proceso. No other car bombs have detonated in Nuevo Leon since that time, yet the alliance was mentioned again in the latest story. Proceso being a leftist publication, truth apparently doesn't matter; only agenda does. If the story is true, it is certainly a game changer. It means a hostile narcostate now exists south of the border in the US. But if the story isn't true, it's just another agenda item the left blows by its readers. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Glad to do it. |
| Posted by: badanov 2011-02-28 19:57 |
| #1 badanov, thank you for your work on Mexico. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-02-28 12:23 |