El Chapo trial shows why a wall won't stop drugs from crossing the US-Mexico border

[Judi Lynn]

January 16, 2019 6.23pm EST

The trial of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera has exposed just how powerful Mexico’s cartels really are.

The trial has now run for two months. On Jan. 15, a Colombian drug trafficker who worked for Guzmán’s Sinaloa Cartel from 2007 to 2013 testified that Guzmán paid former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto a $US100 million bribe while he was in power, a charge Peña Nieto’ office denies.

It was just the latest allegation of the cartels paying off high-ranking politicians in Mexico, presumably to exert influence over the government.

Guzmán is charged with drug trafficking, murder, kidnapping and money laundering – crimes he allegedly committed over the past quarter-century as head of the Sinaloa cartel, the Western Hemisphere’s most powerful organized crime syndicate.

More:
http://theconversation.com/el-chapo-trial-shows-why-a-wall-wont-stop-drugs-from-crossing-the-us-mexico-border-110001

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[democratisphere]

1. The f'ing wall would be continually breached by tunnels built under the wall.

[shanny]

2. +1

[Judi Lynn]

3. Interesting video. Trump has no idea how disgusting he is. He doesn't hear them in McAllen, does he?

How many times do they have to say they feel totally safe in their town, even though the administration claims their area is a total hotbed of criminal immigrant activity.

Thanks.

[democratisphere]

4. The facts and reality don't comply with drumpf's agenda, so he wholesale ignores it.

This even more current video by msnbc on tunnels underneath existing border walls is also interesting. This message should be shoved in drumpf's face every day.

https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/go-inside-a-smuggling-tunnel-trump-s-wall-can-t-stop-1426848323856

[Judi Lynn]

5. Fascinating! Also liked the attitude on the agent who acts as if he's literally seen everything!

Thanks for taking the time to share this one.