Incarcerated Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzmán, aka "El Chapo," said that to end the drug war, authorities would need to pursue Mexican and American politicians alike.
Guzmán, speaking through his attorney, insisted that his arrest and the continued arrests of individuals like him would not stop the drug trade. Instead, he asserted, authorities should address the politicians and officials turning a blind eye to or cooperating with the cartels.
"For years, authorities have put away these alleged leaders but it is not serving any purpose, but if you go after politicians that are allowing this to happen, it's a different thing," attorney Mariel Colón told Insider, per ADN America. Officials on "both sides of the border" are complicit in the continuing trade, he added.
Guzmán is currently in near complete isolation. He is permitted to leave his cell for one hour per day and may speak to his mother for 15 minutes via phone, ADN America reported. The drug lord was convicted in 2019 and sentenced to life in prison for his drug trafficking exploits while the head of the infamous Sinaloa Cartel.
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Like I have heard before this govt. Is nothing but a hot steamy pile of crap where do you start??
Many decades ago there was a rumor that the6 were flying in drugs by the Air Force
today it's more believable than it was back then!
I doubt that he knows who they are.
FBI, DEA, BTFA, and the US Marshals Service all need to be investigated for connections to organized crime...
You missed this one:
https://www.judicialwatch.org/guns-drugs-cia-at-mena-arkansas-judic...
The Mena Airfield Drug operation involving the CIA and its illegal Nicaraguan arms-running schemes was quite the centerpiece for political intrigue and conversation of the day... I expected the Mena incident to end Clinton's rise in the Democrat Party, only to discover that Drug Trafficking was part of a covert operation involving serious political and government administrative and judicial powers... better left alone... without some serious power of your own. Individuals disappeared or committed suicide that got too close to the truth regarding Mena, Arkansas, and the drug and arms running taking place.
I tend to agree with chapo's statements.
I have no doubt that our government is FULLY involved in this as well.
The drug cartels and their retail operations in the US could not exist in their present form... without major collusion and support from US OFFICIALS (state and federal)... Bankers, politicians, Judiciary and the legal profession (Lawyers and Prosecutors), the senior civil service (SES) are all involved in one way or another.
Many of the individuals caught in this web of crime may merely suspect... or turn a blind eye to drug and illegal alien trafficking and its subsidiary criminal conduct... but remain criminally culpable.
The Criminal Drug culture and its associated criminal enterprises have sucked in many otherwise law-abiding individuals with the lure of money and power associated with the Drug Culture. These minions of crime all need to face the wheels of justice and severe penalties for their roles in feeding our children and weaker citizens to it.