Beyond The Horizon
The Strategy Being Used By The United States In Hopes Of Breaking The Back Of The Sinaloa Cartel (7/8/24)
The United States government has intensified its efforts against the Sinaloa Cartel, aiming to curb the influx of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, into the country. The Sinaloa Cartel, responsible for significant portions of illicit fentanyl entering the U.S., is a primary target due to the deadly impact of fentanyl on American communities. This potent synthetic opioid has driven the opioid epidemic, now the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 49.
Federal agencies like the DEA, FBI, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) have adopted a multi-agency approach to dismantle the cartel's operations. These efforts include indictments and sanctions targeting cartel members and their operations. Recent indictments have exposed the extensive drug trafficking networks run by the Chapitos, the sons of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, highlighting their use of various methods to smuggle drugs, including aircraft, submarines, and tunnels.
In collaboration with the Mexican government, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned key cartel members and associated entities, disrupting their financial networks. These sanctions are part of a broader strategy to cut off the financial lifelines of the cartel, leveraging international cooperation to tackle the transnational threat posed by the Sinaloa Cartel.
Overall, the U.S. government's comprehensive strategy involves legal actions, financial sanctions, and international cooperation to weaken the Sinaloa Cartel's operations and mitigate the flow of deadly drugs into the United States.
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How the US is putting the squeeze on the Sinaloa Cartel | U.S. | EL PAÍS English (elpais.com)
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- 08 Jul 2024
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Paid for by the US Department of Health and Human Services. - What's up everyone and welcome back to the program. The United States of America has been waging a war against drugs since Nixon announced the war against drugs in 1972. And in that time that this war has been waged, what has really been accomplished besides more death, more suffering and more pain for the American people. Yet here we are still doing the same things that we've been doing year after year and thinking that we're going to get different results. Now look, I'm all for going after the cartels and going after the bosses, but if we don't change things at home, when it comes to addiction and when it comes to the problems we have on our side of the border, none of this is ever going to get fixed. There's not a silver bullet here. If we sent in every military person we have in America to Mexico and took out every single cartel member in some fictitious world, there would be another cartel popping up the next day to fill the void. So please explain to me how the decapitation strategy that we've put so much money into is something that's a net positive for us when it comes to the war on drugs. Because from where I'm sitting, it's not. But here we are all these years later with hundreds of thousands of deaths due to overdose, mind you, doing the same shit that we've been doing for decades. So today we have an article from El Pius and The Headline, how the US is putting the squeeze on the Sinaloa cartel. This article was authored by Georgina Zarega. The US siege on the Sinaloa cartel continues. In Washington's ongoing war on fentanyl, which by 2022 had driven overdose deaths up to more than 107,000, measures are increasingly aimed at choking off production and distribution beyond America's borders. The problem is they're making it here in America now too. We've talked about the labs that are be popping up here in America. We're talking about the clandestine shops that they've set up and it makes everything that much more simple for them, logistically speaking. They don't have to ship shit across the border. They have their people right here that can come pick it up at whatever the designated location is to pick up product and everything keeps moving swimmingly. Now of course we have to focus on the border. It's a big problem. It is a huge problem, but the border isn't really the issue as far as people sneaking in with drugs on them. Does that happen? It does. Where does the vast majority of these drugs come from though? Well, they're coming in on trucks. They're coming in on boats and they're coming in on planes. A mule can only strap so much drugs to their body, right? There's only a certain amount of drugs that you can mule across the border on your person. Whereas if you're driving a truck, NAFTA, coming across the border, tons and tons of drugs. So this is a gigantic issue. This is an issue that's not gonna be fixed by even building a border wall. I know people wanna think that's gonna fix it, but it's not. Now don't get it twisted. I am not opposed to a border wall. I think it's a good idea. A border wall, a physical barrier, as well as a technological wall with drones and the rest of it. But we can act like that's going to do the trick because what we need is to focus on the addiction problems here in America. The DEA's pressure on one of the cartels for factions known as Los Chapitos, the sons of now gelled Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, initially indicated that they were preparing to launch a major operation against Sinaloa. Since then, there have been sanctions and arrests. While the cartel is fighting for turf in Mexico, resulting in the massacre of 19 people in Chiapas this week, it's being bombarded by attacks from the courts and the U.S. government. The crew say it against Mexican drug traffickers intensified after a report from the DEA revealed the declining health of one of its infamous Cappos, Ismail El Mayo Zumbata. El Mayo has had health problems for quite some time. So this is nothing new. Now they might have accelerated. He's getting older, right? You get older, shit happens. But do you really think that if El Mayo is gonzo, the party's over? Or do you think somebody else is just going to move right in and do what they do? Look, the proof is right there for you to see. Just go and look in the past. We were told that after Pablo Escobar was taken out, that would end all of the coke, right? Well, there is more coke being produced now than ever before. There's no Pablo Escobar. There's no gentleman of Cali. So, what happened? I thought that if we took out Pablo, if we took out all of the bosses down in Colombia, that it would be party over. Well, guess what? You were lied to, like usual. And make no mistake, folks. The war on drugs is big business. There's a lot of people getting rich here. If there was no war on drugs, we wouldn't need the DEA. The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on July 1st against three people, one in Mexico and two in China, accusing them of money laundering and ties to the Sinaloa cartel. It was said that Mexico-based Diego Acosta Ovali helped the criminals from Mexico by concealing and collecting the drug trafficking proceeds before turning them over to cartel associates, according to the Office of Foreign Assets Control. Meanwhile, Tong Peje and he, Zishuan, worked out of China laundering the proceeds through a U.S.-based organization. The latest judicial onslaught is part of a complex scenario that has now been underway for the last year and a half. And this is all great. Look, I say, go get 'em. If you're gonna sanction people, fine, that's great. But it's not gonna stop the flow of drugs. You might get your target, and you might get one of these drug dealers, one of these narco bosses and end up extraditing 'em to America. But what's it going to accomplish? I guess that's the point I'm trying to make. All of this is great, and I understand why you would wanna do it, and I get it. But if you're just gonna do this, it's never gonna fix the bigger problem. So we have to attack it from many different angles. And it just seems like nobody is interested in doing that. I guess there's no money in the cure, huh? Activity against the cartel became clear in January last year with the arrest and subsequent extradition of Ovidio Guzman, one of the Las Chapitos who was accused of fentanyl production and trafficking. In April, 2023, while Washington was processing Guzman's extradition, the Justice Department filed charges against 28 members of the Sinaloa cartel, including Al Chapo's three sons, Ivan Archivaldo, and Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar and Ovidio. As part of the DEA's investigation into fentanyl trafficking, the 28 were accused of setting up operations to flood the U.S. with fentanyl, resulting in streets full of drug addicts. Mission accomplished? I can unequivocally tell you here in Las Vegas, mission accomplished. There are so many people out there with the fentanyl bends that it's not even funny. It's disheartening, honestly. It's sad, it's pathetic, it's gross, and it's sickening. Our streets should have never been an asylum for the people who are insane. Now, I'm not talking about, you know, people that have mental illness per se, as in Schizophrenia or something like that. All of their problems have been brought on by drugs, or if they had those problems previously, these new drugs have just launched everything into overdrive. And our streets are acting as a silums. This cannot be the case. If we were compassionate about what's going on, we would have places for these people to go. There would be wraparound services, but instead we have people out there giving them pipes, giving them needles, all sorts of crazy shit, and then calling it compassionate. Bro, these people are literally dying in front of us on a daily basis. And you're out here giving them crack pipes and calling it compassionate, giving them fentanyl needles and the rest of it? Like, we really need to reevaluate what we're doing. I'm all for compassionate care for addicts, as you all well know. But this is not the right way to do it. Enabling people is not the right way to do it. In September last year, following his extradition, it was revealed that, oh, video, Elias El-Raton, was facing charges of drug possession with intent to distribute conspiracy to import, manufacture and distribute drugs, conspiracy to launder money, possession of arms and membership of a criminal enterprise. The war on Los Capitos did not end there. In November last year, Mexican authorities arrested Nestor Isidro Perez Salas, Elias El Nini, the cartel security chief. A few months later, in the final leg of the Mexican elections, Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador's government extradited El Nini to the U.S., where he was accused not only of drug trafficking, but also of murdering Alexander Mesa Leon, a DEA informant who had infiltrated the Cinaloa cartel and was found dead in October of 2023, along with eight other people in the state of Durango. Seven cartel members, two Mexicans and five Americans, were also sentenced at the time for smuggling thousands of fentanyl pills and several kilos of methamphetamine and cocaine across the border into the U.S. A DEA report released in early May describes the Cinaloa cartel not as an organization operating under the command of one leader, as is the case with CJNG, but as four criminal groups. The report identified one faction as led by El Mayo Zambada, another by Las Capitos, a third by Adiano Guzman-Larea, El Chapo's brother, Alias El Guano, and a final one created by Rafael Cotto-Cantero, known as the Caborka cartel. The report stated that Zambada's physical health had deteriorated suggesting he may no longer be fit to head his faction. And with all of the chaos surrounding his son and whatnot, look, I wouldn't be shocked to see the myofaction collapse when all is said and done, but that's not going to change a thing. It's gonna be somebody else that just moves right in and gets things rolling in the direction that they've been moving for the last, what, three decades now, four decades, nothing is going to change. - We all have somewhere we're trying to get to. As the largest energy producer in Colorado, Chevron is helping meet rising demand, and we're working to do it responsibly. Our next-gen, tankless facilities reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of our operations by more than 90% compared to our older designs, working to provide Colorado with energy that's affordable, reliable, and ever cleaner. - So everyone can get to where they wanna be. - You've arrived. That's energy and progress. Visit chevron.com/tankless. - An official message from Medicare. - A new law is helping me save more money on prescription drug costs. You may be able to save too. With Medicare's extra help program, my premium is zero, and my out-of-pocket costs are low. Who should apply? Single people making less than $23,000 a year, or married couples who make less than $31,000 a year. Even if you don't think you qualify, it pays to find out. - Go to ssa.gov/extrahelp, paid for by the US Department of Health and Human Services. - The possibility that Zumbata's reign may be over has done little to dampen activity. Yeah, no shit. This is the quiet part they don't say out loud, and I guess I have to tell you. The Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels have caused the worst drug crisis in US history. Reads the DEA's May report. Well, I agree with that. They're part of it. How about the addiction problem here at home? Not one mention of that in this whole article, like usual. So I get it, right? We have to interdict the shipments of drugs. We have to send these people to prison, but we also have to care about the people who have addiction problems here in America. And until we do that, I know, broken record here, nothing's going to change. US authorities claimed at the time that both organizations maintained a presence in all 50 American states, and insisted that the production network began in China, where the DEA is trying for leverage. Good luck. The Chinese just another poison they're releasing into America. Just like COVID. Oh, well COVID started in some kind of wet market. Yeah, okay, sure. Yeah, right, that's exactly what happened. The same people who told you that also told you that Hunter Biden's laptop was propaganda. So I'd be very, very cautious about believing the so-called intelligent services. And as far as these precursors go, they're zero doubt that they're coming from China, and China's doing it gleefully. You don't think the CCP is out there having a field day knowing that all these Americans are dying? They love it. It's right in their wheelhouse. All these people out here that are, you know, cheering for China, acting like China's some kind of great player on the world stage, just like bricks in general, the whole entire bricks organization, nothing more than con men and corrupt ass oligarchs. Point blank period. Fentanyl trafficking, it says, involves a vast network of chemical exporters and producers, international shipping companies, transporters on both sides of the border, corrupt officials, tonal builders, front companies and individuals who longer the money. At the beginning of May and Milgram, director of the DEA, complained in Congress at cooperation with the AMLO government had been inconsistent though this was denied by Mexico. The accusation indicates that the fight against Mexico's cartels can become cannon fodder for political wrangling. It always has been. Look what happened after Kiki Kamarena was killed. America shut down the whole ass border because Mexico didn't wanna play ball. There always has been and always will be a political element to all of this, unfortunately. But the pressure is also increasing on China, combating the threat posed by money laundering organizations in China is a key priority of the Treasury Department. And today we're taking action to cut off financial flows of major money launderers who are powering the trafficking of fentanyl and other illicit drugs to the United States. Said Deputy Secretary of Treasury, Walia Damo, as he announced the news sanctions. Okay, great news sanctions, Yahoo, awesome. Is it gonna change anything? Right now as we speak, how many pounds of cocaine and methamphetamine and fentanyl are pouring across the borders? How many people are doing the fentanyl bends right now as we speak in cities across the country? We all know the answer and it's horrifying. So while I'm certainly down with trying to stop this stuff at its source, I'm not naive enough to think that that's going to be successful. So we better have a different plan. And we better have a plan that encompasses everything, deals with addiction, deals with the aftermath, and certainly deals with the human element because I think that's being left out. We talk about these people who are overdosing and dying like they're just a number, but that's not the case. These are people's family members, they're loved ones, they're friends, and they're literally dying one every five minutes or so due to an overdose. And if you think you're immune to it, you're not. At this point, it's not if you're going to be affected by the drug crisis, by the overdose genocide here in America, it's when you're gonna be affected by it. So I really hope that at some point, we really take a hard look at this, we reevaluate what's going on, and we have a new plan to tackle it. Because the plan that we're currently using, the course that's currently charted, is only going to lead us to more disaster and suffering. 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