Max Fisher: Is the US Secretly Backing a Mexican Drug Cartel? Probably Not Max Fisher - The Washington Post
go to original January 15, 2014

The Internet, and particularly left-leaning U.S. blogs, are abuzz with a story in the Mexican newspaper El Universal alleging that the United States cut secret deals with one of Mexico's largest drug cartels. The nature of those deals change based on which English-language rewrite you're reading, but in the most extreme and widely circulated tellings, the U.S. allowed the Sinaloa cartel to "smuggle billions of dollars of drugs" and granted the organization "immunity and undisturbed drug trafficking" in exchange for information on rival cartels.

It certainly sounds alarming. The Sinaloa cartel is one of Mexico's most powerful. It's a massive criminal enterprise with influence over vast stretches of territory and responsibility for a lot of mayhem within Mexico and extensive drug trafficking into the United States. The idea that the U.S. would make secret alliances with this organization would seem to confirm many of the worst perceptions about U.S. foreign policy and Washington's role in the world.

It's not clear, though, that the facts of the case bear this all out. Anything is possible. But, based on the information and analysis currently available, the story as it's being portrayed appears dubious. there are several reasons why.

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