The reign of the cartels in Mexico have caused incessant violence and created huge regions where the rule of law has ceased to exist. It has also resulted in approximately 115,000 disappearances (AP). Where are all these souls being put?
On March 17, 2025 protesters voiced their anger at the discovery on March 5 of a cartel extermination center in Estado Jalisco. Charred bones and clothing were discovered at a makeshift crematorium (CBSNews).
The deaths of civilians by cartel members is the driving force behind increases in immigration and refugee status claims. The cartels also provide a means of shipping fentanyl from Xi Jinping‘s China to the US.
Mexico faces a crisis of kidnappings, disappearances, and other criminal violence that has left over thirty-thousand people dead each year since 2018. – Council of Foreign Relations
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was the first to acknowledge the problem and formed a national search commission with help from the UN. Workers have been searching through “extermination sites” littered with bone fragments. Cartel members burned bodies and dissolved them in caustic lye mixtures. The fragments are sent to forensic labs attempting to identify victims (CBS News).
The largely unarmed Mexican populace has found themselves in the middle of a shooting war. The Federales and the Mexican Army having it out with the Cartels. Well armed criminals can easily take over small towns with small police forces. When civilians formed vigilante groups to fight back the Army would disarm them. Only recently have they allowed the groups to operate without interference.
The US was involved in gaining intelligence on cartel activities and members. That is until November of 2020. General Salavador Cienfuegos<<, the Mexican Secretary of National Defense was arrested at the Los Angeles International Airport. He was the man in charge of the military’s efforts to destroy the drug syndicates. He had been identified by the DEA as “El Padrino,” the leader of the H2 Cartel.
The General was repatriated by Donald Trump‘s Attorney General William Barr after protest by the Mexican government; and a threat to strip DEA agents of immunity while working in their country. The agents were stripped of immunity anyway. Cienfuegos was cleared of all charges by his government in January of 2021. The charges were said to be “politically motivated.”
The Trumpites have been focused on building a wall, deporting refugees back to Mexico, and threatening tariffs on the Mexican government than assisting in their fight against these criminal organizations.
The press coverage of the dangerous cartel conflict is so sparse that some Americans consider taking spring break vacations in Mexico (NYPost).
The Mexican Cartel War and Xi Jinping’s involvement seems to escape the broadcast news. The news is more focused on the Holy Lands than they are on Mexico or Ukraine. Manufacturing Consent on YouTube
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Jack Leon Ruby (March 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967) was a Dallas nightclub owner. On Nov 24, 1963 two days after the assassination of President John F Kennedy Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald.
Ruby had a troubled youth, spending time in foster homes and juvenile detention facilities. His parents were often violent toward each other and his mother was eventually committed to a mental hospital.
He spent time in the US Army Air Corps as an aircraft mechanic during World War II. Ruby was known for his short temper and for being involved in illegal activities associated with his club including procuring prostitutes and possibly narcotics trafficking.
On the day of the murder Ruby went to the Dallas Police Station and entered the basement. He was standing among reporters when Oswald was being escorted to an armored car to be transported to a local jail. Ruby pulled out a revolver and shot Oswald who died in Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same Hospital JFK died in, 2 hours later.
Ruby was sentenced to death but won an appeal and was to be retried. He died of a pulmonary embolism due to advanced cancer before his second trial. He denied the public important information that would have been revealed if Oswald had reached trial. He knew he had cancer before he assassinated Oswald.
Genaro Garcia Luna (July 10, 1968) is Mexican former Secretary of Public Security. He held his post during the administration of Felipe Calderon from 2006 to 2012. Luna has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration.
Luna worked in counterintelligence and counter terrorism for the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia or CNI.
n 2000, he was named Director for Planning and Operation for the Federal Judicial Police, where he introduced administrative structures and operational concepts. In 2001, García Luna was appointed founder and Director General of the Agencia Federal de Investigación (AFI). As head of the AFI, he faced widespread criticism after it was revealed that a 2005 police raid, televised as a live operation to rescue kidnapping victims, had been staged. The alleged kidnappers had been detained the previous day and held without due process for nearly 20 hours, with one claiming he was tortured. – Wikipedia
After his time as Secretary of Public Security he authored several books on policing and law enforcement intelligence. He became a partner in GLAC, which provides a risk and security assessment index used by the business community to evaluate conditions across Mexico. The GLAC index is published in El Heraldo de México and El Financiero. In 2015, García Luna was nominated to the Board of SecureAlert, Inc., a Utah-based company specializing in offender monitoring, which is controlled by Sapinda Asia, Ltd., and Lars Windhorst.
Luna was arrested in Dallas in 2019 for taking millions of dollars worth of bribes for the Sinaloa Cartel. Roberta S. Jacobson, the former U.S. ambassador to Mexico (2016–2018), asserted on 3 May 2020 that the Calderón government knew of Genaro García Luna’s ties with the Sinaloa Cartel. Ex-president Felipe Calderón insisted they did not.
On 16 October 2024, Luna was sentenced to 38 years imprisonment.
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