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• Kiki Camarena was executed on orders of the CIA
• Open for business: Gulf Cartel keeps moving marijuana, despite decimated leadership
• Sicarios Killed my Papá
• Zetas Trafficking Drugs to Europe Through West Africa

Kiki Camarena was executed on orders of the CIA Posted: 13 Oct 2013 02:33 AM PDT El Diario de Coahuila (10-13-13) Proceso (10-12-13) By Luis Chaparro and J. Jesus Esquivel Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat (This story will likely elicit much discussion, especially given the outrage that Caro Quintero's release triggered in the U.S. Quien sabe?-- un vato)  A story that sounds like it was taken from a complex espionage novel has just exploded on U.S. television.  Enrique Kiki Camarena, the DEA law enforcement officer murdered in Mexico in February, 1985, was apparently not the victim of the Mexican capo Rafael Caro Quintero, but rather,, of a dark member of the CIA. This individual was the one charged with silencing the anti-narcotics agent for one serious reason: he had discovered that Washington was associated with the drug trafficker and was using the profits from the drug trafficking to finance the activities of the counterrevolution. WASHINGTON (Proceso)(apro).-- Three former U.S. federal agents decided to end a 28-year silence and simultaneously entrusted this journal and the U.S. Fox news services with an information "bomb": Enrique Kiki Camarena was not murdered by Rafael Caro Quintero -- the capo that served a sentence for that crime -- but by an agent of the CIA. The reason: the DEA agent discovered that his own government was collaborating with the Mexican narco in his illegal business. In interviews with Proceso, Phil Jordan, former director of the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC); Hector Berrellez, former DEA agent, and Tosh Plumlee, a former CIA pilot, claim that they have evidence that the U.S. government itself ordered the murder of Kiki Camarena in 1985. In addition, they point to a sinister Cuban character, Felix Ismael Rodriguez, as the murderer. "It was I who directed the investigation into the death of Camarena", says Berrellez, and he adds: "During this investigation, we discovered that some members of a U.S. intelligence agency, who had infiltrated the DFS (the Mexican Federal Security Directorate), also participated in the kidnapping of Camarena. Two witnesses identified Felix Ismael Rodriguez. They (witnesses) were with the DFS and they told us that, in addition, he (Rodriguez) had identified himself s "U.S. intelligence."        The official story and the version that the DEA continues to assert is that Caro Quintero kidnapped, tortured and murdered Kiki Camarena in February of 1985, in retaliation for the U.S.  agent having discovered his enormous marijuana farms and his processing center in the El Bufalo ranch.   Felix Ismael Rodriguez, "El Gato", has one of the murkiest histories in the U.S. intervention in Central America, mainly in Nicaragua. To this Cuban -- who participated in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and after that, in the Vietnam War --  is attributed the capture, and therefore the assassination, of Che Guevara in Bolivia on October 9, 1967. Helping the capo Interviewed separately, Jordan, Berrellez and Plumlee coincide on many details in the reconstruction of the events that led the CIA to decide to eliminate Camarena. The story that the three former agents describe begins with pointing out that El GatoRodriguez, in addition to having infiltrated the DFS, took a Honduran named Juan Mata Ballesteros, a person known to Colombian traffickers, with him to Mexico. In Mexico, according to the interviewees, Matta's mission was to obtain drugs in Colombia for the Guadalajara Cartel, led by Caro Quintero in the 1980's. The U.S. government allowed the Mexican drug trafficker to sell cocaine, marijuana and other drugs wherever he wanted. Washington benefited, since it shared the profits. The portion of the money received by the CIA -- represented in Mexico by Rodriguez through Mata -- was delivered to counterrevolutionaries in Nicaragua, La Contra, in the form of weapons and other military equipment. This is how the U.S. financed the guerrilla war against the Sandinista regimen, then led by the current president of the Central American country, Daniel Ortega. Death sentence In his investigations into the drug trafficking activities that Caro Quintero led, Camarena discovered the role that his government played in the illegal business to finance the Contras. And this, in the opinion of the interviewees, was his death sentence. "The CIA ordered the kidnapping and torture of 'Kiki' Camarena, and when they killed him, they made us believe it was Caro Quintero in order to cover up all the illegal things they were doing (with drug trafficking) in Mexico" emphasizes Jordan. He adds: "The DEA is the only (federal agency) with the authority to authorize drug trafficking into the United States as part of an undercover operation". The former chief of EPIC, the largest espionage center in the United States dedicated to observing what happens in Mexico and the common border, and who was also a DEA agent and Camarena's boss when he was murdered, sums up in a quote what the discovery of its involvement in Mexican drug trafficking represented to the CIA: "The business with El Bufalo was nothing compared with the money from the cocaine that was being sold to buy weapons for the CIA". However, "Kiki" Camarena was not the only one nor was he the first to discover the perverse CIA-Caro Quintero-Contra triangle. The Mexican judicial police officer Berrellez and Jordan maintain that the first person to inform of this incredible U.S. undercover espionage operation in the early 1980's was Guillermo Gonzalez Calderoni, who was then the chief of the Mexican Federal Judicial Police. Gonzalez Calderoni fled from Mexico in 1993; he was accused of collaborating with the Juarez Cartel and he sought refuge in the United States, where the DEA turned him into a protected witness. In 2003, the former Mexican commander was murdered in McAllen, Texas. -- I helped him, I sent a jet and brought him to California. Over here, now under DEA protection, he became an informant and helped us a lot. The Mexican government wanted to extradite him, but I did all I could to prevent that because I knew they would kill him over there. After that, he was accused of corruption and illegal influences and things like that, but I'm telling you: it's not true -- Berrellez states. -- And that's how he told you about the CIA? -- he's asked. -- Yes. He told me: 'Hector, get out of this business because they're going to fuck you over. The CIA is involved in that business about 'Kiki'. It's very dangerous for you to be in this.' He gave me names, among them that of Felix, and details and everything, but when my bosses found out, they took me out of the investigation and sent me to Washington. The twist to the story about the kidnapping, torture and murder of "Kiki" Camarena "is a bombshell". What is not clear is why these three former U.S. agents waited 28 years to make it known. They refuse to explain it. He doesn't talk much Plumlee, although he doesn't talk much, recalls that in the early 1980's he flew a C-130 airplane to take people from the Contras to receive training at a ranch that Caro Quintero owned in Veracruz. -- I flew drugs on CIA airplanes and I knew the pilot that took Caro Quintero out of the country when he was being persecuted by the government. -- Did you know "Kiki" Camarena? -- Plumlee is asked. -- He flew, before he was kidnapped, from Guadalajara to California to inform about the CIA operations with narcos and the Nicaraguan Contras in Mexico, and I remember I said to him "We're on the same team. Stay out of what I'm doing".   -- What else were you doing for the CIA at that time? -- The United States government was into everything. We smuggled drugs, weapons, and we used the money to finance the operation in Nicaragua. -- How was your contract in all of this? -- We were always subcontractors; that's why the CIA now said we didn't have those operations. 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Open for business: Gulf Cartel keeps moving marijuana, despite decimated leadership Posted: 12 Oct 2013 01:45 PM PDT Borderland Beat Ildefonso Ortiz  McALLEN — Despite more than three years of top bosses getting arrested or killed, the Gulf Cartel continues to be a major drug smuggling group that seeks to fill the appetites of drug users nationwide. Like arteries to a heart, Interstate 69C/Expressway 281 and I-69E/U.S. 77, which connect the Rio Grande Valley to San Antonio, are the main roads that the organization uses to pump a steady flow of marijuana into mainstream America. The plant — which is grown illegally in Mexico, packaged and then smuggled across the Rio Grande — fetches about $200 per pound wholesale in South Texas. But that pricetag can double when the drug passes the Border Patrol’s Falfurrias and Sarita checkpoints, and it can go for up to $1,000 per pound when it reaches metropolitan areas across the nation. That price is further increased when the drug is sold at street level. In an effort to curb the drug smuggling through the highways, U.S. authorities have set up permanent checkpoints along the two main arteries leading to San Antonio. TARGET OF INVESTIGATIONS For years, the Gulf Cartel has been the target of investigations aimed at impairing its operations, said Will Glaspy, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s assistant special agent in charge in McAllen. Through their work with Mexican military and law enforcement agencies, the DEA has played a key role in the arrests of numerous key members of the Mexican drug trade, including kingpins of the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas, Glaspy said. While the takedown of a kingpin hurts the organization’s operations, by design the criminal entity will shift power to a new boss quickly, thus continuing the cat and mouse game. “We will continue to put pressure on the Gulf Cartel throughout investigations, making seizures of drugs coming into our country and currency heading into Mexico to deprive them of their proceeds,” Glaspy said. “We will continue targeting and making arrest on those individuals who are in the command and control structure within the cartel.”  THE GULF CARTEL The majority of the drugs trafficked in northern Tamaulipas and South Texas are under the control of one criminal organization: the Matamoros-based Gulf Cartel, which traces its roots to the 1930s, when it primarily dealt with local rackets in Tamaulipas and liquor and tobacco smuggling. As part of its rackets, the organization found a way to make money from smuggling poultry, grains and other goods when a profit could be made by skimping on customs tariffs. During the 1960s and 1970s, the Gulf Cartel began shifting its operations into the profitable smuggling of marijuana and cocaine making South Texas a major player in the illicit drug trade. While most scholars cite 2006 as the year former Mexican Felipe Calderón kicked off his war on drug cartels, its effects were not felt at the South Texas border until late 2009 and early 2010 since the focus of that war fell largely on the bloody streets of Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana. By early 2010, though, the tide of violence reached the Tamaulipas-Texas border as the Gulf Cartel severed ties with its muscle, the Zetas, setting off a ruthless feud that drew the attention of the Mexican military. DOMINO EFFECT Since the split with the Zetas, the Gulf Cartel has undergone another significant split as the factions loyal to legendary leader Osiel Cárdenas Guillén and his brothers have squared off against the operational leader of the Gulf Cartel, Jorge Eduardo “Coss” Costilla. During that struggle four cartel lieutenants were detained on the U.S. side of the border as they sought to avoid the lawlessness of Mexico in favor of relative safety in Texas. In this time period, the U.S. saw a few cross-border incidents, such as a double execution in 2010 in Brownsville, a September 2011 execution along the expressway in McAllen, and in October 2011, a failed kidnapping in the City of Hidalgo and a botched kidnapping in rural Hidalgo County in which a sheriff’s deputy was shot. The internal rivalry continued until early 2013, by which time most of the known bosses of the Gulf Cartel were either dead or captured, but the criminal organization continues to be the leading smuggling organization in the area. Although Mexican authorities assume Homero “El Orejon” Cárdenas — the leader for the Matamoros region — is the de-facto kingpin, it remains unclear whether he is in fact the boss of the organization. STEADY CLIENTELE AND DIVERSIFICATION According to U.S. Border Patrol statistics, the Rio Grande Valley Sector has consistently rivaled the Tucson Sector in drugs seized. The fiscal year 2013 statistics are not yet available, but during that year, the agency saw an even bigger jump in marijuana and human trafficking, nearly doubling its apprehension rate, which came after drug trafficking organizations shifted their smuggling routes toward the Texas border. The second-most important money maker for the Gulf Cartel appears to be human smuggling, which RGV Sector statistics show yielded a jump from almost 60,000 apprehensions in 2011 to 98,000 in 2012 and to almost 150,000 in 2013. While the arrest of a top boss can spur a temporary decrease in production, criminal organizations quickly return to business to keep up with demand, said Alejandro Hope, a former Mexican intelligence official who is now the director for security at Mexican think thank IMCO. The demand for marijuana in the U.S. has climbed since 2007, when the number of users was at 14.5 million, to almost 19 million in 2012, Hope said. As long as the demand for marijuana and other narcotics remains high, drug traffickers will work to supply it. At the end of the day, the logistical structure needed to smuggle drugs across the border is not that complicated, but the volumes of drugs that are actually crossed are staggering and very difficult to quantify, Hope said.  POWERFULL ALLIES The Gulf Cartel’s continued strength is due in part to its alliance with drug traffickers from the Sinaloa Cartel and the Knights Templar, formerly known as the Familia Michoacana. “Over time, there’s been a historical relationship between the Gulf Cartel, Sinaloa and the Knights Templar,” Glaspy said. “There’s always drugs that travel through the RGV that belong to other cartels. It’s all part of a business relationship.” Federal court records show an increase in prosecutions of methamphetamine smugglers, who are tied to the Gulf Cartel’s allies. The heavier presence of Sinaloan forces and their support to the Gulf Cartel in Tamaulipas is because of its leader, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman, who has a big interest in controlling the entire Mexican border, said George Grayson, a university professor at the College of William and Mary who has researched drug trafficking in Mexico and has written several books on the topic. “El Chapo is playing nice,” Grayson said. “It’s out of convenience. Ultimately he is looking to control the entire border.” Monitor

Sicarios Killed my Papá Posted: 12 Oct 2013 11:19 AM PDT Borderland Beat

Zetas Trafficking Drugs to Europe Through West Africa Posted: 12 Oct 2013 09:49 AM PDT Borderland Beat By Julieta Pelcastre for Infosurhoy.com  Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel are using Atlantic Ocean drug routes to West Africa with increasing frequency, according to authorities. Once organized crime groups have smuggled the narcotics – cocaine, marijuana, heroin and synthetic drugs – into West Africa, they transport them, often in vehicles or small airplanes, to Europe. Other transnational criminal organizations based in other parts of Latin America also are trafficking drugs to Europe through West Africa, authorities said. Among the criminal groups which are sending greater amounts of drugs to Europe through West Africa include the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian Norte del Valle cartel. Latin American drug traffickers are using two basic methods to transport drugs to Africa and Europe, authorities said:  By sea, transnational criminal organizations hide drugs in large ships that travel from Latin America to Africa and Europe. Drug traffickers set up fake export operations and hide their drugs in the cargo of the phony export businesses, authorities said. Once the large ships have reached their ports, organized crime operatives often use smaller “fast boats” to transport the drugs from the ship to land; By air, organized crime groups hire travelers, who are known as “drug mules,” to hide drugs in their luggage, clothes or even inside their bodies. Once the drugs have reached West Africa, drug traffickers often load the drugs into land vehicles, such as SUVs, and transport them to their distribution points in Europe. Security forces in Latin America and the United States have succeeded in recent years in slowing the amount of drugs smuggled north to the U.S. and Mexico by transnational criminal organizations. This success has made the Atlantic drug routes to Africa and Europe more important to narco-traffickers, said security analyst Alfredo Rangel Suárez, the director of the Democracy and Security Center at Colombia’s Sergio Arboleda University. “The fight against crime and the closing of border crossings by authorities in countries where cocaine is directly introduced have forced the FARC, Los Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel to look for new routes to satisfy demand in the European drug market, which means ports in Western Africa,” Rangel Suárez said. For Colombian narco-traffickers, “the Atlantic route is becoming more important than the Pacific one,” according to the World Drug Report 2013 of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Many Brazilian drug traffickers ultimately transport their drugs to Portugal in part because they speak Portuguese, making communication easier, according to the UNODC report. Entry points Sixteen African countries comprise the main points of entry for Latin American drug traffickers, according to a report by the American Police Community (AMERIPOL), a continental police organization of 18 countries in the Americas, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, and the United States. The African countries commonly used as entry ports are: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo and Sierra Leone. Los Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel  Two Mexican transnational criminal organizations, Los Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel, smuggle cocaine from Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil into Sierra Leone and then to Europe, according to Rangel Suárez. Los Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel, which is led by fugitive kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, often collaborate with other Latin American organized crime groups. For example, Guzmán has formed alliances with Colombian organized crime groups, such as the Oliver Solarte cartel. Guzmán also has partnerships with criminal organizations in several European countries, including Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the Czech Republic, according to the European Police Office (EUROPOL), the European police agency that handles intelligence. Los Zetas has partnerships with organized crime groups in Central America and the Caribbean. The cartel also has established an alliance with ‘Ndrangheta, a Mafia organization in Italy, according to the report “Mexico: The Invisible War,” by Libera, an Italian human rights organization. “This alliance is beneficial for both criminal groups. Los Zetas transports the drugs to and within Europe while ‘Ndrangheta guarantees secure distribution points,” the report stated. The FARC The FARC is responsible for many of the drugs that are transported to West Africa and then to Europe, Rangel Suárez said. “The FARC is the biggest cocaine smuggler in the world,” he added. “In Colombia, more than half of the drugs produced and exported to other countries are marketed by the FARC.” Three other Colombian organized crime groups – the Popular Revolutionary Anti-Subversive Army of Colombia (ERPAC), Los Urabeños and Los Rastrojos – also transport drugs to West Africa and on to Europe. Transnational cooperation Transnational cooperation among security forces is crucial in the battle against drug traffickers, according to Colombian National Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón. Countries need to share information, experience and technology to fight transnational criminal organizations, the defense minister said. The AMERIPOL report agrees. “What we do know for a fact is that international police cooperation is a key element to undertake joint actions and respond in an adequate and firm manner to this [transnational] criminal phenomenon,” the report stated

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PROGRESSIVE MEDIA KEEPING DOUCHEBAG ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGERS NAME ALIVE Posted: 12 Oct 2013 04:51 PM PDT He may be an iconic action hero on the screen, but in real life Arnold Schwarzenegger is a corrupt, egotistical, self-serving, douchebag who cheated on his wife, screwed the family maid, screwed justice when he commuted the sentence of a fellow politician’s murderous son as a favor, screwed the Republican party as he appointed progressive socialist democrats to positions of power, and every citizen in California with a record tax hike. So why is the progressive Los Angeles Times wasting their ink on this asswipe who has done more damage to California than most progressives elected to high office? Schwarzenegger was never a Republican in the conventional sense. He wasn’t a fiscal and social conservative like Ronald Reagan. He was more like a free-spending Teddy Kennedy who managed to talk like a fiscal conservative. A egotistical asshole who believed, like Barack Obama, that his saying something made it true. Schwarzenegger did little or nothing to promote the Republican Party. One of his first acts was to appoint a long-time, lesbian, democrat-activist who served as his predecessor’s Chief of Staff to be his Chief of Staff. He appointed long-time progressive democrats to high offices and overlooked similarly qualified Republicans. He had few conversations with Republicans and was preoccupied with creating a war chest larger than the one created by the recalled Gray Davis – a consummate and perpetual fundraiser. Schwarzenegger was more like Obama, with aspirations for higher office, so that he could live on the taxpayer’s teat forever; adored and loved by the whole country who believed that Schwarzenegger was a “great politician.” If you have a moment, you may wish to read the Los Angeles Times’ Opportunity Lost: How Schwarzenegger failed to rescue California GOP and consider how Schwarzenegger failed to do much more than drive California into deeper debt, higher taxes, and toward he progressive socialist democrat’s dream agenda. He even stinks as an actor. -- steve

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[Video] TN Homeowner Shoots and Captures Burglar During Broad Daylight Break-In Attempt Posted: 12 Oct 2013 12:56 PM PDT We are seeing more and more reports of daytime home invasions and burglaries, so don’t think just because the sun is up you can afford not to be vigilant. In this case, a Memphis, TN homeowner was forced to defend himself and his home from a burglar who attempted a break-in during broad daylight. The […]

Full List of Gun Control Laws Vetoed and Signed Into Law in California Yesterday Posted: 12 Oct 2013 07:31 AM PDT The bills that California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law and vetoed yesterday represent a mixed bag for gun owners. Fortunately, the worst of the bills, which would have effectively banned semi-auto magazine fed rifles, was vetoed and cited as being too broad. On the other side of the fence, the governor signed a law […]