Mexican defense secretary calls for more troops, greater powers in waging “war on drugs”
By Kevin Martinez
31 October 2016
Mexico’ Secretary of Defense, General Salvador Cienfuegos, has
called for the country’s military to intervene even more directly into the
10-year-old “war on drugs.” Speaking at a seminar entitled “National defense
and international humanitarian law,” Cienfuegos asked the government to recruit
more troops and create a legal framework to allow the military to operate with
impunity.
“There is a drain [on the army], and it’s obvious why: we are
working all over the country, at all times, in the mountains and in the
cities,” Cienfuegos declared. He warned that if the government wanted the army
to do more, it would have to supply “more people.”
While the ostensible target of the Mexican police and military has
been the drug cartels, in reality this conflict has served as a pretext to
clamp down on social opposition. Large sections of the Mexican government of
President Enrique Peña Nieto and the Mexican ruling class as a whole are among
the beneficiaries of the drug trade and are intimately tied to both the drug
cartels and US imperialism.
Given that the Mexican military has until now operated with carte
blanche in the towns and countryside, Cienfuegos’ “legal framework” can only
mean blanket immunity for soldiers who commit abuses. The general’s demand that
the military have a more direct say in shaping government policy can only be
taken as a grave warning to the Mexican working class.
In his comments General Cienfuegos remarked that the army had
suffered from “fatigue” in its 10-year war against various drug gangs. When
reporters asked about the lack of a legal body to monitor the army he
contemptuously declared, “Ask the legislators, not me; I do not make the laws.”
The Mexican newspaper La Jornada noted that the three main
political parties were taken aback by the general’s blunt comments, calling
them “unusual.” Patricio Martinez, senator of the ruling Institutional
Revolutionary Party (PRI), was quoted as saying, “We need to correct, amend the
Constitution so that the army can assist with civil authority.”
In comments last March, Cienfuegos called the deployment of the
military in the drug war a “mistake” and said that corruption in the police
force had to be stopped, adding ominously, “If we don’t do it, there is no one
else who will.”
The army is responsible for much of the violence wracking Mexico
today. It has now been revealed that an army unit was on the scene the night
that 43 Ayotzinapa teaching students were kidnapped by police and presumably
murdered in 2014. The 17th Army battalion protected the police and refused to
help the survivors.
Cienfuegos also absolved the army of any responsibility for the
Ayotzinapa massacre, as well as the army operation in Tlataya in which 22
civilians were massacred. In the Ayotzinapa case, Cienfuegos declared that the
army had “absolutely no responsibility.” In the Tlataya massacre, Cienfuegos
noted that four soldiers had been released without charges, while another three
had yet to be tried.
Since the beginning of the drug war under President Felipe
Calderon (2006-2012), 80,000 have died and 30,000 have disappeared. The Obama
Administration has been instrumental in making sure the Mexican military is
armed with the latest weaponry and logistics, providing more than $1.5 billion
in US arms, equipment and training between 2008 and 2015.
The militarization of Mexican society is being presented as a
crusade against not only drugs, but corruption and human rights abuses as well.
In Veracruz, Governor Javier Duarte of the PRI was issued an arrest warrant on
suspicion of ties to organized crime and money laundering. Guillermo Padres, a
member of the PAN who was governor of Sonora, was also accused of corruption
and has been pursued by authorities. President Peña Nieto is trying desperately
to refurbish his image as an enemy of political corruption, especially after
his own complicity in the Ayotzinapa massacre and other state attacks against
teachers and workers becomes public knowledge.
In a related development, a federal judge based in Mexico City,
Vicente Antonio Bermudez Zacarias, was shot dead in broad daylight while
jogging. Zacarias was involved in legal rulings in the case of the 43 missing
students. The media has accused gangs of being behind the killing; however,
given the political sensitivity of Zacarias’ rulings, a government
assassination cannot be ruled out.
The former police chief of Iguala, Felipe Flores, was also
detained by the government after more than two years on the run. Flores had
disappeared after the events of September 26, 2014, when the students were last
seen in the custody of police. In the official story, the students were handed
over to a local gang who murdered them, incinerated their bodies and dumped the
ashes in a nearby river. Numerous forensics experts have since concluded this
story to be impossible. Flores’ arrest may shed new light as to the true fate
of the 43 missing students.
While the army and Cienfuegos have sought to project an apolitical
public image in relation to the country’s worsening violence, the military has
always sought to maintain the status quo in Mexico. The intervention of the
army in political life, if history is any guide, has never been in the interest
of the working class. The history of Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s, and
its CIA-backed military-police dictatorships, is a bloody reminder of this
basic fact.
Mexico is not the only country to militarize it police force in
the face of worsening violence. El Salvador and Honduras, two of the most
violent countries in the world, have deployed the military to ostensibly fight
gangs. In Argentina, President Mauricio Macri declared a public national
emergency to pave the way for the militarization of the country’s anti-drug
war.
In the face of worsening social inequality and
rising social opposition, the Latin American
bourgeoisie has sought to arm and
strengthen its state apparatus to prepare for a
bloody crackdown against workers, students,
and peasants.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/08/obama-clintonomics-their-crony.html
rising social opposition, the Latin American
bourgeoisie has sought to arm and
strengthen its state apparatus to prepare for a
bloody crackdown against workers, students,
and peasants.
THE OBAMA SOLUTION TO END
WHITE CHRISTIAN AMERICA:
DRUG ADDICTION!!!
MEXICO: AMERICA’S DRUG
DEALER!
The
same period has seen a massive growth of social inequality, with income and
wealth concentrated at the very top of American society to an extent not seen
since the 1920s.http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/08/obama-clintonomics-their-crony.html
“This study follows reports released over the past several months
documenting rising mortality rates among US workers due to drug addiction and
suicide, high rates of infant mortality, an overall leveling off of life
expectancy, and a growing gap between the life expectancy of the bottom rung of
income earners compared to those at the top.”
WARNING!
VERY GRAPHIC IMAGES
OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/10/america-la-raza-mexicos-wide-open.html
MEXIFORNIA (Formerly
California) NOW UNDER NARCOMEX CONTROL
Suspected Illegal Alien
Marijuana Farmers Held Workers Hostage: ICE
THE OBAMA SOLUTION TO END
WHITE CHRISTIAN AMERICA:
The
same period has seen a massive growth of social inequality, with income and
wealth concentrated at the very top of American society to an extent not seen
since the 1920s.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/08/obama-clintonomics-their-crony.html
WARNING!
VERY GRAPHIC IMAGES
OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/10/america-la-raza-mexicos-wide-open.html
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S
SURRENDER OF OUR BORDERS TO LA
RAZA, AND THE MEX DRUG
CARTELS.
Even though it has gone virtually unreported by corporate
media, Breitbart News has
extensively documented the Clintons’ longstanding support for “open
borders.” Interestingly, as the Los Angeles Times observed
in 2007, the Clinton’s praise for globalization and open borders frequently
comes when they are speaking before a wealthy foreign audiences and donors.
THE DEPT. of HOMELAND OPEN BORDERS SECURITY SECRET REPORT:
The
Borders Are Wide Open. Illegals Jumping it in the Thousands.
Death
of the America Middle Class is around the corner. End of the GOP is at hand. A
one Party American is near. Mexico will elect all future Presidents.
UNDER THE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST OBAMA, THE MEX DRUG CARTELS
NOW OPERATE BORDER TO
UNDEFENDED BORDER
Mexican cartel smugglers have taken full
advantage of the system in order to maximize their profits from human smuggling
as well as the smuggling of illegal aliens. In 2014, Mexico’s Gulf Cartel was
able to make approximately
$38 million in a matter of months off human smuggling alone.
BUILDING THE MEXICAN CARTELS IN THE AMERICAN BURBS!
MEXIFORNIA (Formerly
California) NOW UNDER NARCOMEX CONTROL
Suspected Illegal Alien
Marijuana Farmers Held Workers Hostage: ICE
MEXIFORNIA.... welcomes Mexico's DRUG CARTELS... but first
register to vote DEM!
BARACK OBAMA
, HIS CRIMINAL
BANKSTERS AND THE LA RAZA
MEXICAN DRUG
CARTELS….
There’s more
than one way to destroy America’s white middle class!
HSBC
laundered hundreds of millions and perhaps billions of dollars for drug
cartels responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people over
the past two decades. The bank transferred at least $881 million of
known drug trafficking proceeds, including money from the Sinaloa Cartel
in
Mexico,
which is known for dismembering its victims and publicly displaying their
body parts.
DRUG ADDICTION!!!
MEXICO: AMERICA’S DRUG
DEALER!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/08/obama-clintonomics-their-crony.html
“This study follows reports released over the past several months
documenting rising mortality rates among US workers due to drug addiction and
suicide, high rates of infant mortality, an overall leveling off of life
expectancy, and a growing gap between the life expectancy of the bottom rung of
income earners compared to those at the top.”
THE MEXICAN
DRUG CARTELS HAVE GREATLY BENEFITED FROM BARACK OBAMA’S SABOTAGE OF HOMELAND
SECURITY.
THE CLINTON “JOBS” PLAN ENDORSED BY NARCOMEX – IT’S CALLED
AMNESTY!
Clinton, in the guise of a “jobs” and “infrastructure” program,
promoted yet another scheme to hand out tax cuts and other incentives for
companies to hire workers at poverty-level wages, with the trade unions brought
in to keep the workers in line in return for a cut in the spoils.
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