Patrick:  The Narco Favorite (rumor has it that ex president Foxy Loxy received millions to let him escape from the maximum security can here in Mexico in Jan. 2001) Joaquin El Chapo Guzman is on the Forbes list—listed as Mexican businessman.

Of course we also have the number 1 on the Forbes, Carlos Slim Helu—as well as 60% poverty.

Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the U.S.

Several points to consider:

1.  The article should have said more than 50,000 people have been killed since Calderon started his Justify My Fraudulent Entry to the Presidency War against Narcos except for El Chapo Guzman.  Another 10,000 plus are “disappeared”, and 300,000 displaced.  Calderon managed to do in 5 years what it has taken Colombia since 1948 to accomplish.

2.  This caper by the DEA is nothing new—nor is the Fast and Furious ATP caper of selling automatic weapons to narcos.  Same rationale as the CIA has always used—their budget is too small so they have to deal and wheel on the side.  Right.

3.  US banks have only avoided by bankruptcy (and some didn’t) by taking trillions from your tax money and by laundering narcodollars.  This is also not new, nor is it news.

4.  The US basically outsourced its War on Drugs just like other aspects of its economy, and continued its eternal policy of genocide against non-whites in order to rip off their resources.

global banks have been central to drug-money laundering since the 19th C.
opium bonanza - more important: a robust global market in 1) drugs, 2) assault
weapons / munitions, 3) objects for carnal abuse, 4) human organs and said
market’s requisite revenue laundering embody the essence of the 3rd-World War
and attendant Global War OF Terror - joint mission: fail states, bring entire
populations to their knees, begging for protection and IMF/World Bank debt
servitude - no mistaking winners, losers, enablers, victims - overwhelming sense
of helplessness

Read Michael Ruppert’s “Crossing The Rubicon”.  The CIA has been peddling drugs
in the ghettos of Los Angeles for decades.  When the Taliban ran Afghanistan,
there were no poppy fields, and it wasn’t until the US invasion that the fields
began to reappear.  All that money is laundered somewhere.  @felicity - yep,
BANKS!

The narcos are currently in the 28% bracket, the democrats want to increase it the repubs want to lower it.

I am in complete agreement with Robespierre’s recommended reading, I would only add that for the long historical view to look into the works of Eduardo Galeano.  Bowden and Gibler offer an outstanding change of perspective from the “anchor baby”, “illegal” narrative of the MSM, or the propaganda of xenophobic
reactionaries.

This is news?  The U.S. gov’t/military has been directly involved in the drug trade - as buyers, sellers, money launderers - since at least the 70s, and probably earlier.

This is nothing compared to the full picture. In the book “To Die In Mexico” by John Gibler and other excellent works of journalism by authors such as Charles Bowden, one key issues explored is how narco dollars might have helped prevent a much wider economic collapse in 2008 because it was the moust bountiful, readily available cash resource available for banks.

Wow, what a windfall for BANKS. I’m SHOCKED, SHOCKED
that banks, those upstanding fine institutions, would
even accept such ‘dirty’ money.