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| Calderon Sent a "Narcoemmissary" to the Cartels in 2008, 2009 |
| 2010-12-06 |
| Google Translate Early in his presidency, Felipe Calderon attempted to negotiate with top drug cartels in Mexico in an attempt to get them to tamp down on the violence, according to a published report by the Mexican weekly Proceso. Between 2008 and 2009, disgraced Mexican general Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro met with the heads of La Familia, Los Zetas, Beltran-Leyva, the Juarez and the Sinaloa cartels to try to ask them to reduce violence. The report says that US intelligence services were aware of the meetings, and even had a video of one meeting between Acotsa Chaparro and Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, alias El Lazca, head of Los Zetas, held in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Inasmuch as Acosta Chaparro was an intelligence expert, Caldeon's choice of an emmissary was an astonishing one in view of Acosta Chaparro's past. The General prosecuted Mexico's Dirty war in the 1960s and 1970s, and until he was selected by Calderon, was facing charges of crimes relating to the war and drug smuggling charges. All of the charges against the general were dropped in exchange for his help in negotiating with the cartels. A book recently published by Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez, The Drug Lords, identified one character in the account as "General X". It is now confirmed that Acosta Chaparro was "General X". |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Felipe Calderon attempted to negotiate with top drug cartels.. One corrupt caste negotiates with one corrupt cartel. Madero, Diaz, Villa. The names of the actors have changed but its the same story in Mexico as it was a hundred years ago. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-12-06 09:53 |
| #1 The Drug Lords by Anabel Hernandez I can finally stop searching for that perfect Oval Office Christmas gift. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-12-06 01:17 |