So interesting, scary and enjoyable. I don’t understand how the twins and or their family can close their eyes at night without thinking any minute the may be kidnapped and or killed 😱
Great article and it raises some interesting questions about US involvement with the cartels. What immediately caught my eye is the sentence "Mexican journalists complain the U.S. side of the trafficking equation is poorly documented". The documentation is certainly not obvious, even in court documents which are always vague about the corruption allowing such huge quantities of drugs to enter the United States.
There is a huge resistance by the public in the United States to even accept our collusion with the drug trade. The excellent series of articles in 2019 by the newspaper Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, detailing the penetration of the CJNG cartel in rural southeastern towns in the US never gained any traction. No state government panels of investigation nor federal government panels of investigation. Everything was almost forgotten immediately. Yet are we to think that this type of corruption disappeared and never has happened in other areas of the United States?
From 2005 to 2012, 144 customs and border patrol agents were arrested for corruption from drug money. Try and find recent statistics of the same type of corruption. Not only that, the US government has become even more obvious in releasing fraudulent drug arrests, crime statistics in the recent past to the point of where government statistics are worthless.
The value of the interview with Margarito Flores is the amount of drugs he personally brought into the United States and how there had to be law enforcement, customs and financial corruption to facilitate the sale of such a large amount of drugs and unfortunately the various law enforcement groups that Flores is conducting workshops for may include many members involved in that criminal corruption.
Here mafia and relates small mafia in small provinces of Sicily operates as and with white collars, inside in many legal business, murders are very rare, they: in the trafficking drugs and humans, racketing as always (called here 'chiedere il pizzo'), open restaurants, hotels, resorts, active in the funeral business, private ambulances services too.
dear Ioan, great history, from very 'inside' cartels world, this twins snitches (infiltrati) , they made big shipping of drugs too, thanks for this very interesting reportage
Great Job Ioan! He is an amazing young man with a fascinating story and you were able to bring it out gracefully.
So interesting, scary and enjoyable. I don’t understand how the twins and or their family can close their eyes at night without thinking any minute the may be kidnapped and or killed 😱
Great article and it raises some interesting questions about US involvement with the cartels. What immediately caught my eye is the sentence "Mexican journalists complain the U.S. side of the trafficking equation is poorly documented". The documentation is certainly not obvious, even in court documents which are always vague about the corruption allowing such huge quantities of drugs to enter the United States.
There is a huge resistance by the public in the United States to even accept our collusion with the drug trade. The excellent series of articles in 2019 by the newspaper Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, detailing the penetration of the CJNG cartel in rural southeastern towns in the US never gained any traction. No state government panels of investigation nor federal government panels of investigation. Everything was almost forgotten immediately. Yet are we to think that this type of corruption disappeared and never has happened in other areas of the United States?
From 2005 to 2012, 144 customs and border patrol agents were arrested for corruption from drug money. Try and find recent statistics of the same type of corruption. Not only that, the US government has become even more obvious in releasing fraudulent drug arrests, crime statistics in the recent past to the point of where government statistics are worthless.
The value of the interview with Margarito Flores is the amount of drugs he personally brought into the United States and how there had to be law enforcement, customs and financial corruption to facilitate the sale of such a large amount of drugs and unfortunately the various law enforcement groups that Flores is conducting workshops for may include many members involved in that criminal corruption.
Fascinating, always, but even more so.
Here mafia and relates small mafia in small provinces of Sicily operates as and with white collars, inside in many legal business, murders are very rare, they: in the trafficking drugs and humans, racketing as always (called here 'chiedere il pizzo'), open restaurants, hotels, resorts, active in the funeral business, private ambulances services too.
Excellent article Ioan, his story is incredible, worthwile a new book?
All the best
dear Ioan, great history, from very 'inside' cartels world, this twins snitches (infiltrati) , they made big shipping of drugs too, thanks for this very interesting reportage
I'm hungry for more. I wish the twins would write a book. Thank you for sharing this article.
Great article on details into the narco cartel lifestyle
Great piece. What are the chances that these guys are going to ever get to a retirement home?