May 19, 2012, Mexico’s Ministry of Defense reporting that in the past week three Mexican military Generals were arrested for working with drug lords. Two of those generals are retired, one other is active duty!
Prosecutors say the generals were paid bribes by the Beltran-Leyva Cartel.
But this is the tip of the ice berg. In the past five years of the U.S. encouraged Mexican Drug War, 3,000 Mexican military personnel have been court martialed for corruption, and other crimes!
Mexico’s National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA) said those 3,000 included personnel with the ranks of corporal all the way up to colonels. There are dozens of offenses listed, including being AWOL, theft, fraud, abuse of authority, to the most serious crime of homicide. The court martials began in 2007, and are ongoing!
President Felipe Calderon, with the encouragement of then U.S. President George W. Bush, began the Drug War in 2006. Since then more than 50,000 people have been killed!
The United States Northern Command (NORTHCOMM) works closely with the Mexican military: “The level of communication, interchange, cooperation, and training exchanges between U.S. and Mexican armed forces has increased dramatically over the last two years and represents a historic opportunity for long term strategic improvement of the U.S.-Mexico security partnership.”-U.S. General Victor Renuart, March 2010
NORTHCOMM is also behind training Mexican police.
In March 2012, it was revealed that a U.S. Navy SEAL was to train the Mexican military. The U.S. Pentagon sent Rear Admiral Colin Kilrain (a Navy SEAL) to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, to oversea the training. What is significant about that is up ’till now only Russia and China had U.S. Admirals or Generals assigned to U.S. embassies!
Congressman Henry Cuellar said that sending a Rear Admiral to Mexico was a sign of how bad things are there: “I would call it a very violent situation where they have no regard to human life.”
Here’s a clue; ever since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan the illegal drug production there has skyrocketed to record levels. Ever since the U.S. pushed the Mexican government into this Drug War, the drugs haven’t stopped and the violence is now at record levels.