DEADLINE LIVE EXCLUSIVE: 
Sinaloa Drug Cartel Controlled and Protected by Both Mexican and U.S. Governments
April 15, 2011 by supermario
Recent testimony by captured drug cartel leader Vicente Zambada in Federal Court
points to DEA and FBI protection and collaboration with one of the most dangerous
and powerful criminal organizations in the world: the Sinaloa Drug Cartel. South of
the border, a brave Mexican journalist exposes how the Mexican government not only
protects the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, but also works as an ally to eliminate their rivals and
competitors.
By Mario Andrade
DeadlineLive.info
April 15, 2011
Almost four years ago, on September of 2007, the Mexican military caught and
confiscated an airplane with almost 4 tons of cocaine in the state of Yucatan. A
month later, there was a plane crash in the same region, involving a similar aircraft
–a Gulfstream II with registration N987SA, belonging to a U.S. company known as
Donna Blue Aircraft Inc.  When authorities arrived at the crash site, they discovered
around 4 tons of cocaine onboard the aircraft. The narcotics reportedly belonged to
the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, under the command of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, whom
according to Forbes Magazine, is among one of the wealthiest men in the world.
However, the airplane did not belong to Guzman; it was later discovered by both
Mexican authorities and independent news sources that the aircraft was used for CIA
rendition flights. Mexico’s leading newspaper, El Universal, obtained the flight records
and other documents related to the ownership and recent flight information and
confirmed that it was a CIA aircraft.
Captured drug lord Vicente Zambada said in court that he worked with the DEA and
FBI.
A year later, one of the members of Guzman’s inner circle, Vicente Zambada, was
captured and later extradited to the United States. Last week, at a federal court in
Chicago, Zambada presented evidence stating that U.S. Government agencies, such
as the D.E.A. and the F.B.I. protected him and worked with him. Furthermore, he’s
not just making baseless accusations; Zambada is actually naming names, such as
“the DEA Regional Assistant for South America, the Director General of the Office of
the DEA in Mexico, the DEA agents commissioned in Monterrey, Hermosillo and
Mexico City , including but not limited to those who are named Eduardo Martinez
“Manny” LNU, “David” LNU, and Stephen Monk, as well as other people, including
FBI agents whose names are unknown but the defendant agencies are known for, ”
according to court documents. In the document, Zambada states that the U.S.
Government agencies were in contact with him and were fully aware of his
operations between January of 2004 and March of 2008, just months before his
arrest.
Who are the real drug lords?
In a recent interview with the newspaper Diario de Juarez, Mexican journalist Anabel
Hernandez, who’s living in exile in Italy, stated that in the Mexican Drug War, the
federal government and the United States D.E.A. only go after the Sinaloa Drug
Cartel’s competitors. She indicated that the protection that Sinaloa receives from the
government is ‘systematic’ and embedded in the drug war policy. She also accused
Felipe Calderon of protecting the Federal Public Safety Director, Genaro Garcia Luna,
who many accuse of having ties to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, and plays the most
significant role as the government liaison with organized crime.
Anabel Hernandez, author of the book "Los Señores del Narco"
In her new book “Los Señores del Narco” (or the Narco-Lords), she provides detailed
information about how Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the alleged leader of the Sinaloa
Drug Cartel is an Orwellian creation of the Mexican government, almost a mythical
and elusive character, who’s story about how he broke out of prison in 2001 using a
laundry truck is completely bogus. She finds it hard to believe that Forbes Magazine
listed Guzman among the richest people in the world, given the fact that he’s illiterate
and cannot do basic math. “When he was captured, his testimony made absolutely
no sense; he couldn’t come up with the exact figures he was supposedly paying his
people; he could not do basic additions or multiplications,” she said.
Further in the interview, Hernandez said that the real drug trafficking is done by
people other than the typical drug dealers, who are only figure heads in this so-called
“drug war.” The real drug lords are not wanted by police or federal authorities; they
are people well established in the political and economic systems, as well as many
other areas of government, from where they have established a wide network of
complicity to money laundering and protection of the drug cartels. “These are people
in positions of power, who use their power for trafficking, or who at one point of
another it has been proven conclusively that their careers -whether they are
businessmen, politicians, governors, presidents, secretaries of state or police chiefs-
have been financed by drug money or are deeply linked with drug trafficking,” she
said.