DEA Iran 'Coke' Contra Whistleblower Sentenced To Prison!! Part 2

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DEA Iran 'Coke' Contra Whistleblower Sentenced To Prison!! Part 2

Gus García: The Third Man

With the third member of Ancira’s San Antonio troika, developer Gustavo García, the Grupo Texano became a multinational operation

García has been under investigation by the DEA for cocaine trafficking in Florida and Venezuela, and by local police for money laundering in San Antonio.
He has not been charged

He’s head of the Brita water purification franchise in Mexico, and he owns around a hundred million dollars’ worth of San Antonio real estate along with his partner, Lebanese-Mexican businessman Anuar Name (pronounced nah-may)

The only visible sign of Name’s presence in San Antonio is the gleaming office tower he and Gus García own together. The Mercantile building is an impressive, mirrored ribbon of a building, and García wanted to buy it for several years but couldn’t come up with the money.
Then, after a lengthy trip to Mexico, he returned victorious, representing Anuar Name, a multi-million-dollar financier of the Salinas campaign

Name, too, had blemishes on his reputation, but they weren’t well-known. Newspapers reported that Name co-owned a Tijuana disco together with a member of the Caro-Quintero drug cartel of Sonora.
Name is also an associate of Egyptian arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, a friend of Raúl Salinas, and a partner of PRI king-maker Carlos Hank González, whose family has been investigated in the US, Costa Rica and Mexico for links to drug cartels, murder and money laundering (See El Andar Summer/Fall ‘99)

García bought the Mercantile building for Anuar Name in February 1992 for $5 million — in cash. “I have some major tenants looking at it,” García told reporters. Soon after, Name’s friends the Hank family moved in, leasing the entire ground floor for Carlos Hank Jr.’s Laredo National Bank.
There, too, Ernesto Ancira installed campaign headquarters for his 1992 run for Texas State Senator

Anuar Name’s circle also includes Joseph Audi, of the Lebanese Bank Audi, a “private, personal bank” with branches in Beirut, Geneva, Paris, Luxembourg and New York that has been involved in a multi-million dollar arms running and money-laundering scandal.
The bank was not charged, but a $6 million account was frozen and one of its depositors was charged with arms running and money laundering

In late 1993 and early 1994, Name and García re-financed their building several times over (for $1 to $5 million each time), a large part of which came from none other than Name’s friendly neighborhood banker, Bank Audi

But Bank Audi has a more auspicious claim to fame: its Geneva branch was the issuing bank of a $599,985 payment that made its way through several banks until it landed in an account belonging to Manuel Muñoz Rocha and a hit man convicted in the assault that killed Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu

Investigators have never determined who owned that original account in Bank Audi



The Amigos de Bush

Ernie and Roy Barrera campaigned for President Bush in 1992, and they celebrated what looked like an easy re-election with George W at a “Super Tuesday” rally for the Texas primary. Ancira also thought he was a shoo-in in his run for the state senate, especially when both Bushes came out to campaign for him. George W. optimistically greeted Ernie as “Mr.
Senator” well before the election took place

But Ernesto and President Bush lost on the same depressing day in November, 1992 — Ancira lost the state senate and Bush, the presidency of the United States

1994 was a turbulent year for the Grupo Texano. Things happened quickly, and so dramatically that the scene was brutal, intoxicating. NAFTA, the jewel in the crown of all involved, from Salinas to the Bushes to Mosbacher to the Anciras, became reality on January first. The same day, Zapatista rebels declared war on the Mexican government, followed by bloody massacres and international outcry. By fall Mexico had suffered the assassinations of Colosio and Ruiz Massieu. Ernesto Zedillo — a Yale man just like the Bushes — was elected President. Then the peso collapsed. Lucky for them, most of Mexico’s wealthy class had already put their money into dollar-based investments — such as San Antonio real estate. So things were looking up, especially after George W.
was elected

The Bush for Governor campaign was easy. The Amigos de Bush — W’s Latino support group — rallied heavily for their man. Bush’s people were elated that he had garnered 29 percent of the Latino vote, approaching the record 38 percent Roy Barrera had earned in his bid for state attorney general. Back in that 1986 race, both Bushes had stumped for Barrera, holding “Voy Con Roy” barbecue fundraisers and rallies. In ‘94, Roy was more than happy to return the favor and celebrate George W’s victory, and especially his coup with the Hispanic vote.
After all, Roy and the “Amigos” helped him win it

Ancira, another “Amigo de Bush,” was feeling good, too. He was rewarded with two Bush appointments: first to the Texas State Workers Comp Board, then to a coveted advisory board position at the University of Texas School of Business. George W.
’s influential friend James Leininger gave Ernie a board position in his new conservative think tank, the Texas Public Policy Foundation

Almost immediately, Governor Bush had to tackle a problem presented by Ernesto’s young cousins from Mexico. The Anciras had teamed up with an old school chum, pharmaceutical heir Xavier Autrey, during President Salinas’s privatization free-for-all of the late 1980s. The “A” kids maneuvered six million dollars of other peoples’ money into billions, buying up mining and energy companies, as well as Mexico’s largest steel company, Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA). Soon their companies were accused of being fronts for the drug trade, and were described as such by analyst R.C. Whalen at a 1993 US congressional hearing. Together with a secretive binational strip-mining operation called Dos Republicas, the Anciras tried to get a Tex-Mex energy deal going by re-vamping a decrepit coal-burning power plant on the border, named Carbon II. They convinced the World Bank, Citibank and Southern California Edison to invest over $250 million in the project.
It was a disaster

The Anciras’ reputation sank as fast as a rust-eaten bucket, and partners and investors began to look for ways out. The Ancira family was accused by shareholders of wasting extraordinary amounts of money on corporate jets, limousines and other luxuries. Not to mention their extensive purchases of San Antonio real estate.
Just last year, while the company amassed nearly $2 billion in debt and had to suspend payments, the Anciras began quietly moving property titles to Cayman Island holding companies, with the help of their front man Marcelo Sánchez

Carbon II should have been the kind of project Governor Bush would have embraced: a model energy venture between Mexico and the US. But as environmentalists’ complaints about air pollution grew louder, Bush’s comments grew guarded.
By the time of the project’s final demise in 1995 — due to mismanagement as well as the fact that its approval by Salinas had been blatantly illegal — Bush was given credit for heeding environmental concerns

By the time his 1998 re-election rolled around, W was already said to be working on his run for the White House, and in Texas he once again relied on the Latino vote. He was also working to strengthen energy ties with Mexico. That fall, he held a press conference with Mexico’s Secretary of Energy Luis Téllez.
Together they promised a new era in which Texas and Mexico would essentially erase the border and create a “common market” for gas and electricity production and consumption, as well as an integrated electrical network

One month later, with help from the Amigos de Bush, George W. surpassed Roy Barrera’s record and pulled in a hefty 39 to 49 percent of the Latino vote. He won in a landslide.
He was already counting on the Republican presidential nomination



Still Running with Wolves

It’s been a wild ride since the 1989 White House dinner. Bush Sr. lost the presidency, and he and his wife Barbara are now campaigning for their son. Carlos Salinas is self-exiled in Ireland and Cuba.
His brother Raúl is in prison

This year, Roy Barrera Jr. is on the campaign trail with W. He has “rumbled,” say the papers, about running for governor.
But the shadow of past relationships continues to haunt him

Last year, Barrera Jr. landed in the hot seat. He represented millionaire Allan Blackthorne after the contract-style murder of Blackthorne’s ex-wife, Sheila Bellush.
The case made national headlines because Bellush was stabbed to death in front of her toddler quadruplets, and they crawled in her blood until they were found

The hit man, José Del Toro, fled to Mexico and was represented by none other than Barrera’s old Gulf cartel client, the prestigious office of Enrique Fuentes León. Barrera was dropped as Blackthorne’s lawyer, and the US Justice Department began investigating who paid Del Toro’s presumably high-priced legal bills. Del Toro said, in a taped interview, that he was told by his U.S. lawyer that Barrera had hired Fuentes León. Roy’s father admits that the Barreras and the Fuentes León family have remained close through the years.
The Justice Department’s findings have not been revealed

Roy Barrera, however, is rumored in the press to be hoping for a ride with W. to Washington, his eye on a cabinet position.
Bush aides say it’s premature to talk about it, but Texas is all a-buzz with murmurs


ERNESTO ANCIRA’S car dealership is expected to top $600 million in sales this year. Ancira was one of the first to donate to Bush’s presidential exploratory committee, but lately has remained behind the scenes. Surprisingly, the Republic National Committee and Bush campaign people in charge of Hispanic outreach say they’ve never heard of Ancira.
“He must be very grass roots,” a spokesperson told me

Well, not exactly

Ernie can’t stop getting involved with guys who get in trouble. He’s now one of the “heavy hitters” paying $1,000 each to host a September fundraiser for State Senator Frank Madla, who is under investigation by a federal grand jury.
Apparently Madla accepted inappropriate favors from Eddie “The Bingo King” García, murdered in 1998 in what prosecutors called a contract hit

The Ancira name surfaced again in August when former Mexico City mayor Oscar Espinosa became a fugitive, under an arrest warrant for embezzling $45 million of the people’s money.
Mexican newspapers reported he was last seen under the protection of armed guards, provided by the Anciras in their company town in Coahuila

Gus García’s patron Anuar Name has been named by Mexican law enforcement as the business partner of a ex-governor running from charges of taking Juárez cartel payoffs


RIGHT AFTER MEXICO’S July elections, some members of the winning PAN party have clamored for the country to re-open investigations into the assassination of Ruiz Massieu and Muñoz Rocha’s activities in San Antonio. Private investigator J.
Alberto Villasana told the PAN president in a July 15 letter, “I believe that since Fox and the PAN have won, we should be aware of a very delicate matter: we will soon be facing binational criminal groups to which the previous administrations have been accomplices”

In Mexico today, there is a changing of the guard.
But president-elect Vicente Fox has made it clear that the trend toward massive privatization of industries will continue at full speed — even Robert Mosbacher has hinted he’d like the national oil company Pemex to hurry up and privatize, and he might like a job there, too

If he is elected, Bush has promised there will be a “special relationship” with Mexico.
In his family, the special relationship has long been there

So — goes the logic — if Ernie has a few unpleasant friends and partners, what of it? Ditto for Bush’s self-proclaimed “representative,” Roy Barrera. As long as he hasn’t touched the dirty goods himself, Bush has been able to benefit from these men’s vote-winning and trade-promoting influence. Does this make Bush guilty by association? If he didn’t know about their cartel connections, probably not.
(I called his campaign office and asked if the Governor knew about these relationships, and did not receive a response by press time) But the question has to be asked: if some of us far outside of the Bush camp know about those connections, how come Bush didn’t?

George W. Bush has made his lust for the Latino vote clear. “If you say a million, I want you to spend two million.
If you say you need four million, I want you to spend eight,” W told Lionel Sosa, head of the Bush Latino media campaigns

What is not clear is who Bush will be willing to consort with to earn that vote And, if he wins the presidency, what is the true nature of the special relationship he will forge between our two nations, the US and Mexico, in the coming years?

Julia Reynolds is the editorial director of El Andar

© 2000 El Andar Media Inc


Mexican soldiers guarding a cocaine seizure allegedly belonging to fugitive Mexican drug-trafficker Joaquin 'Chapo' Guzman-- after the airplane "Gulfstream II" from Colombia crashed in Merida jungle in Yucatan State, southern Mexico, in 2007



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Mexico drug plane used for US 'rendition' flights: report
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AFP France
Sep 4, 2008

http://news. yahoo. com/s/afp/20080904/wl_afp/mexicouscrimedrugs

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - A private jet that crash-landed almost one year ago in eastern Mexico carrying 33 tons of cocaine had previously been used for CIA "rendition" flights, a newspaper report said here Thursday, citing documents from the United States and the European Parliament

The plane was carrying Colombian drugs for the fugitive leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman, when it crash-landed in the Yucatan peninsula on September 24, El Universal reported

The daily said it had obtained documents from the United States and the European Parliament which "show that that plane flew several times to Guantanamo, Cuba, presumably to transfer terrorism suspects"

It said the European Parliament was investigating the private Grumman Gulfstream II, registered by the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation, for suspected use in CIA "rendition" flights in which prisoners are covertly transferred to a third country or US-run detention centers

It also said the US Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) logbook registered that the plane had traveled between US territory and the US military base in Guantanamo

It said the FAA registered its last owner as Clyde O'Connor in Pompano Beach, Florida

Extraordinary rendition has been harshly criticized since it began in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States



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Gary Webb on CIA Trafficking of Cocaine - Gary Webb is the San Jose Mercury News journalist that was run out of his job and blacklisted from the industry for daring to report what he found out


Robert Parry (Consortiumnews. com) and Gary Webb (Dark Alliance) address a crowd at the Midnight Special Bookstore in Santa Monica, CA, December 3, 1996
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Gary Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was a prize-winning American investigative journalist
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Webb was best known for his 1996 "Dark Alliance" series of articles written for the San Jose Mercury News and later published as a book, In the three-part series, Webb investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had allegedly smuggled cocaine into the US which was then distributed as crack cocaine into Los Angeles and funneled profits to the Contras, Webb also alleged that this influx of Nicaraguan supplied cocaine sparked and significantly fueled the widespread crack epidemic that swept through urban areas According to Webb, the CIA was aware of the cocaine transactions and the large shipments of drugs into the US by the Contra personnel and directly aided drug dealers to raise money for the Contras

Webb's reporting generated a large controversy and the Mercury News backed away from the story, effectively ending Webb's career as a mainstream media journalist In 2004, Webb was found dead from two gunshot wounds to the head, which the coroner's office judged a suicide

Two gunshots to the head, a suicide



Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imported Cocaine - A clip from Kevin Booth's "American Drug War: The Last White Hope"
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CIA TORTURE jet crashed with 4 tons of cocaine - A Gulfstream II jet that crash landed in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in late September 2007 - bearing a load of nearly four tons of cocaine. This particular Gulfstream II (tail number N987SA), was used between 2003 and 2005 by the CIA for at least three trips between the U.
S east coast and Guantanamo Bay — home to the infamous "terrorist" prison camp — according to a number of press reports

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gary Webb uncovered that the CIA was responsible for distributing cocaine into poor Los Angeles neighborhoods Shortly after Webb exposed the CIA, he was killed (the official story is that he committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the head)

War is profitable, and the so-called "War on Drugs" is no different.
Government agencies make money in every part of the process: from sale, to seizure, to incarceration America has 25% of the world's incarcerated population, and a higher percentage of its black population in prison than South Africa did at the height of apartheid

Gary Webb's book, Dark Alliance, did make the connection between the Reagan administrations support for the Contras (some of which were involved in drug running) and the crack explosion that was going on in L.A. at the time. A subsequent John Kerry led congressional investigation into the matter confirmed that CIA operatives knew that some Contras were involved in drug running and they looked the other way (or in some cases helped get them out of trouble) because they thought their anti-communist crusade was more important.
That is quite different from saying that the CIA was distributing cocaine in Los Angeles - not even Gary Webb said that The other commenter who pointed out Gary Webb's fall, family problems and depression was right If you want a critical, but real journalistic take on what is going on with this story (as well as a touching tribute to Gary by one of the people who worked with him), you should head over to http://www. narconews. com/ They are all over this story.
And no I don't work for Narconews I studied human rights violations related to the drug war in Latin America and am very familiar with Gary Webb and all the other people who work on this issue

Why oh why doesn't the CIA get more heat for their central role in the corruption scandal(s) that support America's imperialistic foreign, as well as domestic, policies?

Is it because of their nice title: Central "Intelligence" Agency? What if we called them what they really are: Central Eavesdropping, Torturing, Drug-running, Gun-smuggling Agency?

Maybe then people would be able to recognize their crimes and demand they be held accountable