{"id":14035,"date":"2012-11-14T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T23:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14035"},"modified":"2012-11-14T16:30:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T23:30:56","slug":"mexicos-new-president-set-to-empower-a-devils-cartel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14035","title":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s New President Set to Empower a \u201cDevil\u2019s Cartel\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mexico\u2019s New President Set to Empower a \u201cDevil\u2019s Cartel\u201d<\/strong>
\n14 November, 2012 – NOVANEWS – SHOAH<\/p>\n

Baruch Vega, a long-time CIA operative, has raised a red flag over the incoming president of Mexico\u2019s decision to employ the former head of the Colombian National Police, Gen. Oscar Naranjo, as his security advisor in the war on drugs.<\/p>\n

CIA Operative Claims Corrupt Colombian Law Enforcer Now Advising Pe\u00f1a Nieto Is Sign Of That Danger Ahead\u2026 <\/p>\n

\u201cI do not think Naranjo will be running a war against drugs,\u201d Vega contends. \u201cHe will be running a war to protect Mexican drug traffickers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vega contends there is a real danger that Mexican president-elect Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto is on a path to recreate a similar corrupt alliance between government security forces and major narco-traffickers \u2014 many shadowed in the trappings of legitimate business interests \u2014 as existed in the early to mid-2000s in Colombia during Naranjo\u2019s rise to power in the Colombia National Police (CNP) while he also allegedly was assisting elements of the infamous North Valley Cartel.In addition to the role Naranjo will play in helping to cultivate Mexico\u2019s drug-war strategy for Pe\u00f1a Nieto, the president-elect has already made public his plans to stand up a paramilitary force, composed of ex-soldiers, that would be some 40,000 strong. Pe\u00f1a Nieto also hopes to created a single, consolidated national police force.<\/p>\n

With these tools, he says, the Mexican military can be replaced as the primary enforcer of security in the drug war in Mexico and the battle can be refocused from hunting down the top narco-capos to stemming street violence and other crimes against the community, such as extortion and kidnappings.<\/p>\n

The elements of Pe\u00f1a Nieto\u2019s plan, however, as Vega has already exposed in Colombia while working as a US government asset, are almost identical to what gave birth to what Vega calls the \u201cDevil\u2019s Cartel.\u201dDark AllianceVega told Narco News that between 1997 and 2000, the FBI and DEA each employed him as an operative in separate investigations focused on the North Valley Cartel leadership.
\nAt the same time, Vega claims, he also worked as a foreign counterintelligence source for the CIA. Those facts are verified in US federal agency judicial-hearing documents [link here].During the course of those DEA and FBI investigations, Vega claims he discovered the operations were being compromised by corrupt players within both DEA and U.S. Customs \u2014 a federal law enforcement agency whose investigative arm has since become U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. ICE is part of the US Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n

Vega\u2019s allegations are supported by a US Justice Department memo obtained by Narco News in 2008, known as the Kent Memo. That memo, drafted by Department of Justice attorney Thomas M. Kent, contains some of the most serious allegations ever raised against U.S. antinarcotics officers: that DEA agents on the front lines of the drug war in Colombia are on drug traffickers\u2019 payrolls, complicit in the murders of informants, and directly involved in helping Colombia\u2019s infamous paramilitary death squads to launder drug money. …source<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mexico\u2019s New President Set to Empower a \u201cDevil\u2019s Cartel\u201d 14 November, 2012 – NOVANEWS – SHOAH Baruch Vega, a long-time CIA operative, has raised a red flag over the incoming president of Mexico\u2019s decision to employ the former head of the Colombian National Police, Gen. Oscar Naranjo, as his security advisor in the war on more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3698],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14036,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions\/14036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}