Did Guzman Finance Pena Nieto's Campaign? DEA's Ex-Intelligence Director Thinks He Did David Iaconangelo - Latin Times
go to original February 26, 2014

The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a press release this week distancing itself from remarks made by ex-intelligence director Phil Jordan in an interview with Univision shortly after the arrest of Sinaloa cartel drug boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán over the weekend. Jordan told Univision news anchors that he’d been surprised by news of Guzmán’s capture.

“I never thought that with the PRI” - or the Institutional Revolutionary Party, to which Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto belongs - “they would arrest him,” Jordan said, “because El Chapo Guzmán contributed a lot of money to the campaign of Peña Nieto.”

Asked for proof of his claim, Jordan said he couldn’t point to specific papers, but added that “in the intelligence that we had - that we have - el Chapo has always had his hand in politics.”

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