DEA operation played hidden role in the disappearance of five innocent Mexicans
The agency knew why the victims were kidnapped in 2010 by the Zetas drug cartel from a Holiday Inn in Mexico
Ginger Thompson, ProPublica12.30.2017•4:29 PM
This originally appeared on ProPublica.
new Propublica logoAt about 2 a.m. on April 21, 2010, a convoy of gunmen working for the Zetas drug cartel, one of the most violent drug trafficking organizations in the world, rolled into Monterrey, Mexico, a wealthy, bustling city considered that country’s commercial capital. With brazen efficiency, they set up roadblocks at all major thoroughfares, then sent a convoy of sport utility vehicles downtown, encircling a Holiday Inn.
The heavily armed men, some wearing ski masks, swarmed into the hotel’s lobby and rushed directly to the fifth floor, bursting into every room and rousting the guests from their beds. The gunmen questioned the guests, then separated four of them from the rest: a marketing executive at an eyewear company, a chemical engineer for a cosmetics manufacturer, a shoe salesman expecting his first child, and a college professor who was the mother of two.
Then the four were loaded, along with the hotel’s receptionist, into the gunmen’s vehicles and driven away. None of the hostages has been seen since. All are presumed dead.
Continued at: https://www.salon.com/2017/12/30/dea-operation-played-hidden-role-in-the-disappearance-of-five-innocent-mexicans_partner/
Salon picked this up from Pro-Publica. Salon is a leftist outfit of the worse kind imo, but this article has the ring of truth and even congress, per towards the end of the article, looked at this program of working with some agents in Mexico. At the least, it shows a lot about operating the drug war in a foreign country.
It's a long article, which many people will shun but once, I started reading, it's pretty informative. It's like Mother Jones, they are liberal obviously, but it doesn't mean every article they write is bad, especially when it often deals with foreign policy issues or international affairs, they are just reporting on what they find and not necessarily on what Politician X in the USA is saying. If one is interested, it's not bad to read and then, try to find fault with what they say.
