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Strategies & Market Trends : World Outlook

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To: Les H who wrote (47598)9/11/2025 7:29:28 AM
From: Les H  Read Replies (1) of 49062
 
Inside the CIA’s secret fight against Mexico’s drug cartels

Working with special Mexican army and navy units, the CIA for years has been running covert operations to hunt down Mexico’s most-wanted narcos, a Reuters investigation finds. Among the captures: a son of cartel chief Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

By Drazen Jorgic and Laura Gottesdiener
September 10, 2025

Reuters

The US was outed in 2014 for a long-term collaboration with the Sinaloa cartel to manage the drug trade. The capture of El Chapo occurred shortly afterwards as retribution for exposing the arrangement. The Sinaloa cartel has since splintered into separate factions.

businessinsider.com

The Year Long Sinaloa Cartel Internal War Has Left Over 1,850 Dead

borderlandbeat.com

The CIA's involvement in the cocaine trade was exposed in 1996 by San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb who was later assassinated. As long as they have projects to fund like the Nicaraguan Contras, they'll be involved in fund-raising in channels which evade Congressional oversight.
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