(archived from June 15, 2015)
by
Scott Creighton
(The
title of this article is pays tribute to one of the most courageous
and dedicated journalists of our time, Gary
Webb.
There have been many others who have covered this issue, notably
Alexander
Cockburn,
Jeffrey St. Clair Alfred
W. McCoy
, Michael
Levine
and Michael
Ruppert
just to name a few.)
It
is said they operate more like a corporation than a drug gang.
There’s good reason for that. It’s what they are.
The
Sinaloa Cartel
(a.k.a. “Guzmán-Loera Organization”, “The Federation” and
“The Blood Alliance”) ships more harmful illegal drugs into this
country by far than any other single group in the world.
According
to the National Drug Intelligence Center, within the U.S. the Sinaloa
Cartel is primarily involved in the manufacture and distribution of
cocaine,
heroin,
methamphetamine,
marijuana
and MDMA.[20]
The
Sinaloa Cartel is also the #1 importer of all those trendy, tasty
flavors of high-end pot a few of you can buy legally in a couple
states. So as the push to legalize continues, the Sinaloa corporate
brand (and all those who essentially have stock in it) sits back and
smiles.
And
now, according to Tomás Zerón, the director of the Criminal
Investigation Agency (AIC) within Mexico’s Attorney General’s
Office (PGR), Sinaloa stands almost alone atop a pile of rotting
corpses of what used to be a myriad of drug gangs in Mexico.
That’s
because we made them that way.
It’s
been over eight years since former Mexican President Felipe Calderón
declared an offensive on the country’s drug trafficking
organizations that left over an estimated 100,000 people dead on both
sides.
In
the coinciding years, a slew of drug cartels have risen to prominence
to fill power vacuums left following the death or capture of their
counterparts. But now, according to a high-ranking Mexican official,
there are two cartels operating in the country: the stalwart Sinaloa
cartel and the newer Jalisco-New Generation cartel. Fox
News Latino
According
to this official, Sinaloa and the fledgling Jalisco have won the
Mexican drug wars and taken control of nearly all the trafficking
throughout the country making Sinaloa basically, the only established
cartel to have come out the wars intact.
You
might ask how they did that? How did one illegal cartel scurry around
and avoid all the other killer gangs, the Mexican military which was
killing drug dealers like it was going out of style and that renowned
War On Drugs we keep hearing so much about from the DEA and the CIA
and ATF?
Quite
a feat, right?
Well,
not really when you think of it in terms of the one thing Western
capitalism thrives on: crony capitalism or rigging the market to
favor one friendly institution over all others.
This
is what happens when the masters of the universe apply their special
brand of “free markets” to the drug industry. As in every other
industry this “free market” model effects, covert collusion
between the cartel and brutal government forces paved the way for
Sinaloa to corner the Mexican market.
These
are but a few of those Dark Alliances.