Julio Hernández López: Astillero

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To explosive government formation against Mexico, an operational piece without shadow of doubt regarding its vision and purposes: Terrence Cole, called Terry, will be in charge of the US Drug Control Agency (the DEA), added yesterday.

With 22 years in that agency, Cole knows Mexican policy and its critical points in relation to organized crime and fentanyl. On your service sheet, your Experience in Colombia, Afghanistan and Mexico City. In 2020 he retired as an interim regional director for Mexico, Canada and Central America.

On April 2, 2020, Breitbart News Network, the ultra -right Internet site founded by Steve Bannon (who was a advisor in a stretch of Trumpism), published an interview with Cole: The drug cartels work in close collaboration with corrupt officials of the Mexican government at the highest levels (…) If the average taxpayer had a basic knowledge of how these two groups work together so far, he would feel disgusted. Sometimes it is difficult to know who is when it comes to cartels, the Federal Police, the Military Forces and the Federal Government.

In another part of the text, entitled Exclusive: Mexican chemists help the Sinaloa cartel to exclude China from the fentanyl tradethe next director of the DEA, if the Senate confirms it, said: The Mexican government, at the highest level, is complicit and works side by side with these cartels at all levels of manufacturing, transport and distribution. Elite units such as Semar are totally marginalized and the current administration does not allow them to chase cartels leaders (https://goo.su/abknk).

In another flank: the unrelated effort made yesterday in the morning by President Sheinbaum and the federal prosecutor, Alejandro Gertz Manero, realizes the importance that the current administration has to bury the Cienfuegos case, holding it to the TRUE official; That is, to the version manufactured by Gertz himself in Mexico, without recognizing or accepting the essentials: that the former Peñista Secretary of the National Defense was returned to Mexico, as stated in judicial records of the neighboring country, at the request of the State Department , then by William Barr, in attention to efforts of the Obradorista government.

The trick tried is to focus the case on the former Mexican resolution, that is, in the accommodation of Gertz Manero, to local needs and in avoiding, discrediting or silence the foundational, defining fact, of negotiations between the governments of Mexico and United States for General Salvador Cienfuegos to be returned by the agreed withdrawal of charges, without defining whether the military was guilty or innocent.

These negotiations were talked openly in the Obradorist Mañanera in November 2020. The then Chancellor, Marcelo Ebrard, left unequivocal testimony of the arrangements, arguing that the return of Cienfuegos would imply a Mexican investigation without impunity scenarios: It would be very expensive for Mexico to have chosen to have this conversation, ensure that for the first time the charges are dismissed, that it is returned to Mexico and not doing anything would be almost suicidal; For that, we do nothing, to stay there.

He added, to try to explain the Mexican position that at the time was unofficially mentioned as the threat of canceling institutional collaboration with the DEA and the expulsion of Mexico from its agents: Put it very simple, there are two paths: either that violation is repaired to the agreement that exists between them (not notifying the United States that was investigating Cienfuegos), or then we will put on the table to review all the cooperation. Of course there was negotiation and, derived from it, the United States government asked the judge of the Cienfuegos case to withdraw the positions, for reasons of international politics and cooperation between the two countries. See you tomorrow!

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