Friends of Brad Will

Drug War Doublespeak

Laura Carlsen | March 9, 2009
Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)
americas.irc-online.org

Through late February and early March, a blitzkrieg of declarations from U.S. government and military officials and pundits hit the media, claiming that Mexico was alternately at risk of being a failed state, on the verge of civil war, losing control of its territory, and posing a threat to U.S. national security.

In the same breath, we’re told that President Calderon with the aid of the U.S. government is winning the war on drugs, significantly weakening organized crime, and restoring order and legality.

None of these claims is true. Instead they are critical elements in waging the hypocritical drug war in Mexico. Read more of this excellent article by Laura Carlsen outlining the disinformation and fear tactics used to strong arm Plan Mexico through a pliant Congress and Senate here

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Note: The Merida Initiative Round II (aka Plan Mexico) was passed by the Congress in February, by the Senate March 10th late in the evening, and signed into law by President Obama(!!!!) March 12th, 2009 (today).

We are now looking forward to stopping the delivery of as much of the military/police ‘aid’ package as we can in order to have those resources properly invested in local and regional economic development programs which recognize the Mexican, Latin American and Caribbean peoples’ right to their own form of developing their economies.

We will continue to inform our elected officials that the funding of a ‘failed policy’ (see GAO November 2008 report on lessons learned from Plan Colombia) is wasteful and – given the record of massacres and systematic abuse by the Mexican, Latin American and Caribbean military and police forces – is incredibly dangerous for the citizens of those regions.

No metrics to allow lawmakers to measure success on the stated goals of this Bush Initiative were included in the spending package guaranteeing that ‘drug war’ profiteers (consultants, security and arms corporations, and U.S. extractive industries benefiting from a more powerful (but still quite unpopular) Mexican right wing President will continue to peddle disinformation with no scientific, public policy counterweight.

We have and will continue to propose that the mainstream D.C.-based human rights organizations join the many organizations which have spoken out against Plan Mexico and take a position against the ‘war on drugs’.

03.11.2009 Caravan to D.C.

Join us March 11, 2009 for the Friends of Brad Will Caravan to D.C. Or setup a meeting with your local representatives.

Below is a list of our demands and an information packet you can take to your congress person. (check periodically for updates)

You can join our efforts: http://friendsofbradwill.org/contact-us/

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OUR MISSION:
To inform our representatives of the Human Rights Violations and impunity U.S. tax money supports in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean; and to verbalize our opposition to it as well as encourage theirs.

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OUR GOALS:
1. Free Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno! (unjustly imprisoned for Brad Will’s murder)

2. Prosecute the paramilitaries responsible for killing Brad Will and investigate the 27 other political murders in Oaxaca.

3. Stop the Merida Initiative! (aka Plan Mexico) End The Drug War!
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Plan Mexico is Back in Congress

Posted by Kristin Bricker on The Narco Sphere – February 26, 2009 at 4:06 am

Yesterday the House Passed 2009 Plan Mexico Funding Despite Mexico’s Failure to Comply with the 2008 Funding’s Human Rights Conditions

The US House of Representatives passed the “omnibus” spending bill yesterday, which reportedly increases federal domestic spending by 8%. Democrats celebrated the bill as having “reversed the Bush cuts on domestic priorities.” The bill will now head to the Senate.
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WSJ Op-Ed: The War on Drugs Is a Failure

Now, why can’t ‘human rights’ (Amnesty International) and Latin American Policy (Washington Office on Latin America) organizations say this clearly!? And come out against the Merida Initiative?

FEBRUARY 23, 2009, 4:03 P.M. ET
We should focus instead on reducing harm to users and on tackling organized crime

By FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO, CéSAR GAVIRIA and ERNESTO ZEDILLO

The war on drugs has failed. And it’s high time to replace an ineffective strategy with more humane and efficient drug policies. This is the central message of the report by the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy we presented to the public recently in Rio de Janeiro.

Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and criminalization of consumption simply haven’t worked. Violence and the organized crime associated with the narcotics trade remain critical problems in our countries. Latin America remains the world’s largest exporter of cocaine and cannabis, and is fast becoming a major supplier of opium and heroin. Today, we are further than ever from the goal of eradicating drugs.
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Mexico in the international human rights spotlight

http://www.newspapertree.com/features/3441-mexico-in-the-international-human-rights-spotlight

by Frontera NorteSur

“Torture continues, extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances occur, freedom of expression is limited, and practically none of the cultural and economic rights is guaranteed or protected,” charged a report from civil society organizations delivered to the UN Human Rights Council.

Posted on February 10, 2009

Mexico’s government is under the glare of stage lights in different national and international venues for allegedly allowing the systematic violation of human rights. The administration of President Felipe Calderon faces a test today (Feb. 10, 2009), when the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council will submit Mexico to a three-hour exam and possibly assign voluntary make-up work.

Although the UN committee’s grading of Mexico’s compliance with international human rights standards is pending, a network of prominent Mexican human rights organizations has already given the Calderon administration an “F” in the subject matter.

Decriminalize?

February 17, 2009

Former Latin American presidents Cardoso, Gaviria and Zedillo told the United States what it didn’t want to hear: that their fight against drugs has failed and that it’s time to seek another approach.

Note: This is another encouraging piece except that Semana allows the Colombian government to get away with the strange claim that “the fight against drugs hasn’t been a failure in Colombia because if they hadn’t had implemented it, institutions would have failed”.

Strange in a country in which 4 million people have been driven from their land by government-backed paramilitaries, many too brutal to be ignored anymore by the u.s.g. which, although funding Colombia year-in-and-year-out, has had to add them to the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. Talk about failed institutions. . .

DRUGS AND DEMOCRACY: TOWARD A PARADIGM SHIFT

Report by the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy
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Great analysis of highlights of the Commission Report by Laura Carlsen of the Americas Program at the Center for International Policy can be found at the Huffington Post.

Please popularize that analysis by linking to it etc. . .

Yes, we can!

2.4.09 Congressional Hearing on U.S. Policy towards Latin America

Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman

U.S. Policy Toward Latin America in 2009 and Beyond

You can download the witnesses’ testimonies at the site above.

The U.S. Congress is beginning to recognize the failure of the ‘war on
drugs’. That’s because of your work and the many fighting the domestic
and international policies which benefit drug cartels and corrupt
governments while increasing violence and human rights abuses and
promoting the high profit of narco-industry and its security and
banking partners.

Contact your Congressional Representative to schedule a face-to-face
meeting as part of the International Day of Action announced by
Friends of Brad Will last week.

Domestic impact of 'war on drugs'

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/opinion/l20blow.html
Drug Prosecutions

To the Editor:
Op-Ed Columnist: Cocaine and White Teens (January 10, 2009)

In “Cocaine and White Teens” (column, Jan. 10), Charles M. Blow writes that white teenagers use more cocaine than black teenagers, and cites a ratio of 10 to 1 of white versus black teenagers entering drug treatment for crack and cocaine use.

A significant but missing statistic is white versus black teenagers entering the criminal justice system.

F.B.I. statistics for many years have shown more whites than blacks arrested for drugs, while more blacks than whites are incarcerated. We should not lose sight that our war on drugs has been a war on people of a certain color. Howard Josepher

New York, Jan. 16, 2009

The writer is president of Exponents, which helps people affected by drug addiction.

Here’s the original article.

How Clean Is Mexico's Operation Clean-Up?

How Clean Is Mexico’s Operation Clean-Up?

Frontera NorteSur, News Report, Ricardo Ravelo, Posted: Jan 13, 2009

When Mexican President Felipe Calderon and U.S. President-elect Barack Obama met Jan. 12, one of the topics high on the agenda was Mexico´s drug war — and President Calderon’s Operation Clean-Up, the Mexican government’s declared campaign to cleanse federal law enforcement of corruption by organized crime.

The latest name to be associated with the probe is that of the late Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, who served as head of the federal attorney general´s elite anti-organized crime squad, SIEDO, during the Fox administration. By most accounts, Santiago Vasconcelos was also the Bush administration´s man in Mexico. From the vantage point of the Potomac, he was viewed as an uncorruptable ally in a common war against drugs and vice.

But according to an account published in the Mexican press, Santiago Vasconcelos presided over a $35 million payment to SIEDO from the Beltran Leyva drug cartel in 2006 and 2007. The accusation was made in a legal declaration to the Office of the Federal Attorney General (PGR) by a protected witness called “Emiliano.” Read more »

Obama urged to speak up for murdered journalist in meeting with Calderon

January 12, 2009

Obama urged to speak up for murdered journalist in meeting with Mexican President Calderon
and to reject as an “impractical continuation of a failed policy” Bush’s Merida Initiative

(Washington, D.C.) Friends of Brad Will urged their members to contact President Elect Obama’s Transition Team today to urge the President Elect to bring up the case of murdered U.S. journalist Brad Will in his meeting with Mexican President Calderon in D.C. Monday afternoon.

The organization, which was established two and a half years ago when the journalist was killed by Mexican paramilitaries while covering a teachers’ strike, has called on Congress and the Bush State Department to aid in obtaining justice for their murdered friend. They described the Obama-Calderon meeting as “an important opportunity to move forward not only on Brad’s case but also on many Mexican political prisoners’ cases.”

They asked callers to Obama’s transition team to urge Obama to ask explicitly about Brad’s case and those of other innocent people arrested, raped or killed (in Atenco, Juarez, Chiapas, Oaxaca and elsewhere). Read more »

What is the DEA Smoking?

by Ted Galen Carpenter for the CATO Institute

The Drug Enforcement Administration is in an optimistic mood. A new DEA report insists that the antidrug campaigns Washington has undertaken with Colombia and Mexico in recent years have dramatically slowed the flow of cocaine into the United States. The DEA’s principal piece of evidence is that average street prices for the drug have soared over the past twenty-one months from $96.61 per gram to $182.73, which suggests “that we are placing significant stress on the drug delivery system.” There’s just one problem with the DEA’s proclamation of success. We’ve heard it all before. Many, many times before.

The rest here:
http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=20386

SUPPORT JUAN MANUEL BY SIGNING THIS LETTER

Everyone can help!

After the hearing last Monday was awaiting the decision, these days are important to take actions and exert pressure before the trial judge. Juan Manuel wants to return to his family.

Please add your name to this letter and send it to the judge in the case. The english version is first and spanish follows. Read more »

Report on International Human Rights Day delegations

NOTE: Important links and actions below in the body of the (short, 2 page) report. Ed.

Hey folks:

Thanks for all your great work!

Last week, your actions and those of a number of organizations aligned with our network against the Merida Initiative (aka Plan Mexico) made International Human Rights Day an unqualified success.

If you would like to skip the REPORT BACK and go straight to the NEXT STEPS we’re taking, please go to the end of this note.

REPORT BACK

We acted together to again issue a warning about the militarization of Latin America and the Caribbean under Plan Mexico. We explained what even Mexican commentator Jorge Chabat recognizes, even though less than a year ago he was heralding Plan Mexico as a sign of the end of the “historical lack of trust in Mexican police forces coming from the U.S.” Chabat typically adopts a cautious tone so his assessment of the results of Calderon’s militarized ’solution’ to the “war on drugs” is noteworthy. He writes: “if there’s one thing worse than a corrupt and poorly equipped police corps its a corrupt and well equipped police corps.”

Indeed, the drug cartels’ penetration of Mexican law enforcement and government at virtually all levels is legendary.

Although we didn’t reach the 100 Congress member target we had set for ourselves we did – between our delegations which lobbied in D.C. and those in our networks who met with Congressional staffers in their home state offices – reach 69 legislators total!!! Read more »

Major New Report Details the Global Impact of Arms Sales and Military Assistance

Major New Report Details the Global Impact of Arms Sales and Military Assistance

http://www.newamerica.net/pressroom/2008/u_s_weapons_war

As the world marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this week, a new report from The New America Foundation finds that U.S. arms transfers are undermining human rights, weakening democracy and fueling conflict around the world. Read more »

VIDEO: Three Men and a Baby vs. Senator Dodd and WOLA

Description: A look at how, and why Friends of Brad Will took a stand for Human Rights and against Senator Dodd and the Washington Office on Latin America on September 17, 2008.

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International Human Rights Day

DECEMBER 10th, 2008 is International Human Rights Day

Take a Stand Against Human Rights Violations in México!

Stop the Merida Initiative aka Plan Mexico!

Join us in actions at each of the 100 Congressional District offices (or
in DC). Read more »

A Border Under Siege

The Zetas, Castillo said, have now realigned with corrupt elements in the Mexican army, a marriage that is spreading the infection in the military, particularly among the 32,000 troops Calderon sent into nine Mexican states specifically to stamp out the cartels. “And so the military is sort of running the whole show down there,” said Castillo. “You’ve got thousands of military put all over the country, a lot of them corrupt, a lot of them also working as paramilitaries. They’re operating under the guise of stamping out drugs when they’re actually moving [the drugs] and stamping out rivals for the drug trade.”

Calderon’s strategy of fanning out the army to try to regain some semblance of control from the cartels in those states has worked about as well as the U.S. Special-Forces training. Rather than restoring government control, in many areas the military has wreaked havoc with the citizenry, prompting calls for Calderon to remove them.

http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=7338
A Border Under Siege

American military training and Texas guns are helping boost drug-war violence.

By PETER GORMAN
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Coverage of Brad Will Solidarity Action in "Semana News"

SEMANA News is Houston’s largest weekly Spanish-language newspaper focusing on issues relevant to the Hispanic community since 1992 with a circulation of 140,000.

brad_will.pdf
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Why is Amnesty International supporting the "war on drugs"'?

Flier given out at Amnesty International event last night.

Take action (call them at number at bottom) and pass this on far and wide!

Looks like it was a successful intervention by another human rights effort that shares our extreme shock and dismay at their fronting for the Merida Initiative (aka Plan Mexico).

And pretty interesting: the government is pushing ahead with Plan Mexico and organizations like Amnesty do have a responsibility to stop this dangerous militarization plan. So very well timed.

The use of human rights discourse and the co-optation of human rights advocates by US military and police institutions in Latin America is a tried-and-true public relations strategy pioneered at the infamous School of the Americas. It is not a sign that the US wishes to reform the military or police forces they are involved with.

Why is Amnesty International supporting the “war on drugs”‘?
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Recent alternative to neoliberal globalization event with Friends of Brad Will

Friends of Brad WIll attended the NYU Conference: Many Yeses, One No: Confronting Corporate Globalization

As the anniversary of the Seattle protests against the WTO approaches,
the world economic system- a system whose logic and shape has been
defined by neoliberal economic theory- is in ruins, and the United
States has elected a new president that many people hope and expect
will bring about “real Change.” Read more »

Mexico Arrests Ex-Chief of Antidrug Agency

(Malkin repeats the Mexican government suggestion that the human rights abuses, violence, and corruption are all worth it because of their ’success’ in increasing drug seizures and arresting some top traffickers. But the ostensible goal is to lower drug exports to the U.S. and reduce the power of the cartels. Neither of these goals are addressed in the article.

When will the United States Government admit its ‘war on drugs’ approach (Bush’s Merida Initiative aka Plan Mexico) is strengthening by arming and training a brutal and unaccountable, corrupt right-wing government which abuses its own peoples’ labor, indigenous, and basic human rights? And not achieving its ostensible goals of reducing narcotics trafficking into the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/world/americas/22mexico.html?ref=americas

Mexico Arrests Ex-Chief of Antidrug Agency
By ELISABETH MALKIN
Published: November 21, 2008

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s former senior antidrug official has been arrested and accused of accepting bribes from a drug cartel, the authorities said Friday. Read more »

Friends Of Brad Will Demands Answers from The Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations

Luis Alfonso de Alba is not only the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations, but also was the first President of the United Nations Human Rights Council. So, his speech on Thursday November 20th at the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) was an opportunity to speak to a powerful figure who has worked for human rights causes. He was the keynote speaker for the Ethics in Intelligence, Security and Immigration: The Moral and Social Significance of Gathering and Managing Information and Borders in the Global Community Conference. Friends of Brad Will’s Nick Cooper was present and brought up Brad’s case and got a vague response (hear the audio or read the transcript). Meanwhile, outside, students held a protest over influence of the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security on their campus. Specifically, the IG^KNU, (Integrated Global Knowledge and Understanding Collaboration) is seen by protesters as Homeland Security and the CIA using a partnership with the University to recruit for and legitimize the role of covert and surveillance agencies. Homeland Security is responsible for implementing many problematic policies for those living close to the border who have seen their families separated by recent border policies, increased violence and militarization, and destruction of local economies. A presentation by leftist professors earlier in the day highlighted the history of abuses of the CIA.

U.S. wants to be sure drug-fighting aid isn't pilfered

(Note: Call your Congressional Rep to underscore your concern with corruption and human rights abuses. We’ve seen what military interdiction ‘drug’ policies have done to Colombia (Conflict-related killings, extra-judicial executions, killings of civilians by paramilitaries (and) by guerrillas, enforced disappearances, abductions by guerrillas, forced displacement, killings of women, enforced disappearance of women and killings of trade unionists have all gone up from 2006 to 2007 and coca production has increased each of the last 3 years as have hectares under coca cultivation. That’s after approx $8 billion in U.S. taxpayer funding to a corrupt civilian government & brutal security establishment in Colombia!). RJ)

http://www.chron.com/disp/discuss.mpl/world/6113838.html

None of $400 million handed to Mexico yet
U.S. wants to be sure drug-fighting aid isn’t pilfered
By STEWART M. POWELL

Nov. 14, 2008

WASHINGTON — Not a dime of the Merida Initiative’s $400 million in promised emergency security assistance has reached Mexico nearly five months after President Bush signed landmark legislation to help the beleaguered neighbor combat drug smugglers’ murderous violence.

The delays are being attributed to delicate U.S.-Mexican negotiations over measures to prevent corruption and protect human rights, the role and number of U.S. personnel in Mexico, and Bush administration steps to satisfy a series of congressional requirements.
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Up to the Highest Level: Narco Infiltration in Felipe Calderon's Government

Wow! This piece by Ricardo Ravelo in Proceso really underscores the waste of funds and likely harmful impacts of the proposed U.S. Merida Initiative (aka Plan Mexico). The second round of funds is currently being pushed for this failed drug war policy. Let’s hope President-elect Obama comes up with practical, non-ideological and human rights-respecting approaches to the huge drug markets in the United States. We know that the current approach throwing good money after bad; increasing the corruption, violence and human rights abuses; thereby destabilizing Mexico is not working. RJ

The agencies in charge of Mexico’s drug war have high-ranking officials who protect the cartels

By Ricardo Ravelo, Proceso
Translation from the original Spanish and notes by Kristin Bricker

The animosity between the heads of Federal Attorney General’s Office and the Public Security Ministry don’t just immobilize the federal government and make its crusade against drug traffickers and organized crime futile. It also shows that both institutions are so porous that the gangsters have already positioned themselves in them. The infiltration is of such magnitude that even Eduardo Medina Mora and Genaro Garcia Luna have become suspect. Read more »

Another brutal week in Juarez and Chihuahua

(Mentions the unresolved nature of Brad’s case and the corruption of the Mexican government)

by Frontera NorteSur

Rodriguez’s murder topped a spectacularly violent week, in which victims in public thoroughfares were shot during peak business hours, businesses were firebombed and the bodies were dumped with intimidating messages in public places.

Posted on November 14, 2008

El Diario de Juarez journalist Armando Rodriguez Carreon was well-known for countless stories about gangland killings in his hometown of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. For years, the 40-year-old police beat reporter tirelessly published pieces about the latest executions in a violence-torn city.

Rodriguez launched his journalistic career as a technician and photographer for the Ciudad Juarez Channel 44 television station before moving into print during the early 1990s. His newspaper career closely paralleled the violent rise of the Juarez drug cartel and the women’s slayings that became known worldwide as femicides. Popularly known as “El Choco,” Rodriguez was among the first reporters to write about the discoveries of raped and slain women on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez.

Rodriguez’s stories, which relied a lot on police sources and often did not implicate any particular suspects, were characterized by an almost matter-of-fact quality that kept to the narrative even as violence kept escalating. On Thursday morning, Nov. 13, Rodriguez became a victim himself when he was shot outside his home by a gunman who reportedly fled in a waiting car. Read more »

Morelia Case: Confessions “Under Torture"

By Jorge Carrasco Araizaga and Francisco Castellanos J., Proceso
Translated from the original Spanish by Kristin Bricker for NarcoNews

Through confessions obtained “under torture” and with multiple irregularities, the Federal Attorney General’s office (PGR in its Spanish initials) maintains the three alleged culprits under arrest in the September 15 terrorist attack in Morelia, Michoacan—which left eight people dead and 106 injured—even though many family members and neighbors assure that the accused were in Lazaro Cardenas [250 miles south of Morelia] the moment the attacks occurred.

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Army commanders fired for killings received U.S. training and assistance

“(These murderers) had been ‘vetted’ by U.S. officials for human rights abuses and approved to receive assistance in 2008… in spite of extensive reports that their units had carried out murders of civilians.”

Note: On the passage of Round 1 of Merida Initiative (aka Plan Mexico) funding in June, 2008, Amnesty International declared ‘good news’ weak protections of human rights written into the law. Those protections apply at the discretion of the Secretary of State, allowing her (or him) to hold up (a miniscule 15% of) Plan Mexico funding unless human rights conditions are met. The remaining 85% can be allocated unconditionally!

After 8 years of brutal counter-insurgency, targeting of civilians, and making Colombia a living hell for indigenous peoples, labor activists, dissenters of any kind, such cavalier disregard for the impacts of u.s. ‘drug war’ policy by a ‘premier’ human rights organization like Amnesty International (and others like Human Rights Watch) is disgraceful!

Here below is the excellent report by FOR’s Colombia Program Co-Director, John Lindsay-Poland

Army commanders fired for killings received U.S. training and assistance

Colombian Army commander Mario Montoya resigned today, in the wake of a scandal over army killings of civilians that a United Nations official on Saturday called “systematic and widespread.” A protégé of the United States, Montoya was an architect of the “body count” counterinsurgency strategy that many analysts believe led to the systematic civilian killings. Read more »

In Mexico’s Drug War, Sorting Out Good Guys From Bad

As U.S. voters go to the polls the issue of the ‘war on drugs’ looms large both domestically and internationally.

The best journalism on the international ‘front’ has come out of Rolling Stone magazine[the failed ‘war on drugs’ (Dec. 2007)and the ‘war next door’ (Nov. 2008). On the domestic ‘front’, Alternet (Nov. 2008) has written a compelling short piece about efforts to undo some of the damage in the U.S.

And as a corruption scandal hits the Mexican AG’s (Prosecutor General of the Republic’s) office, with more than 35 of its officials revealed to be working for narcotraffickers. today’s New York Times also has an important piece from which a key excerpt is included here.

Take note that it is this AG’s office – which Bush’s Plan Mexico/Merida Initiative is slated to provide $60 million to – which promoted the cover up story that Brad was shot at close range and that he was shot by the activists who in reality were helping him (as is clear in the video and photographic footage, forensic and witness evidence etc.).

November 2, 2008
In Mexico’s Drug War, Sorting Out Good Guys From Bad
By MARC LACEY

It has long been known that drug gangs have infiltrated local police forces. Now it is becoming ever more clear that the problem does not stop there. The alarming reality is that many public servants in Mexico are serving both the taxpayers and the traffickers.

The latest corruption scandal has prompted President Calderón’s attorney general to order a restructuring and purging of his office, and specifically of Siedo, which was formed from another agency that was shut down after being infiltrated by drug spies.

The men in suits, it turns out, were both bureaucrats and bad guys, officials say, corrupt employees high up in an elite unit of the federal attorney general’s office who were feeding secret information to the feared Beltrán Leyva cartel in exchange for suitcases full of cash.

Their arrest, and the firing of 35 other suspect law enforcement officials, represents the most extensive corruption case that this country, which knows corruption all too well, has ever seen. And it raises a question that is on the lips of many Mexicans: how does one know who is dirty and who is clean?

Altar For Brad in Chiapas