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Nevilledog

(54,712 posts)
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 01:04 AM Jan 2021

Remember when Bill Barr abruptly let this dude go so that Mexico could prosecute him?



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Remember when Bill Barr abruptly let this dude go so that Mexico could purportedly take the first crack at prosecuting him? Guess what...

Mexico clears ex-defense secretary of all US accusations
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors on Thursday declared completely unfounded the U.S. case against a former defense secretary arrested on drug charges in the United States and then returned...
apnews.com
10:57 PM · Jan 14, 2021


https://apnews.com/article/mexico-latin-america-arrests-drug-cartels-united-states-cef4c7cebe328463c8339d031afc0c31


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Remember when Bill Barr abruptly let this dude go so that Mexico could prosecute him? (Original Post) Nevilledog Jan 2021 OP
I wonder if any of the terrorists have ran to Mexico to hide out? Sure would be nice for the brewens Jan 2021 #1
K&R UTUSN Jan 2021 #2
He looks like a peach.... LeftInTX Jan 2021 #3
Obrador Lopez is as corrupt as Trump. lunatica Jan 2021 #4
LOL... I hope no one was surprised by this. a la izquierda Jan 2021 #5
Looks like cartel $$$$ landed in Barr's bank account. secondwind Jan 2021 #6
 

brewens

(15,359 posts)
1. I wonder if any of the terrorists have ran to Mexico to hide out? Sure would be nice for the
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 01:23 AM
Jan 2021

Mexicans to help us out and round them up. Might take awhile to process everything and bring them back to the states. But I hear the stories about Mexican prisons are bullshit. They are really quite nice.

LeftInTX

(34,015 posts)
3. He looks like a peach....
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 02:31 AM
Jan 2021

And now Obrabor is mad at twitter for banning Trump.

MEXICO CITY — Mexico's president vowed Thursday to lead an international effort to combat what he considers censorship by social media companies that have blocked or suspended the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's administration is reaching out to other government to form a common front on the issue.

"I can tell you that at the first G20 meeting we have, I am going to make a proposal on this issue," López Obrador said. "Yes, social media should not be used to incite violence and all that, but this cannot be used as a pretext to suspend freedom of expression."

"How can a company act as if it was all powerful, omnipotent, as a sort of Spanish Inquisition on what is expressed?" he asked.

https://www.startribune.com/mexican-president-mounts-campaign-against-social-media-bans/600010649/

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
4. Obrador Lopez is as corrupt as Trump.
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 02:53 AM
Jan 2021

Once he was elected he veered into exactly the kinds of things Trump did. He took money away from funds for children with cancer and he made friends with the drug traffickers. People are getting even poorer while he and his friends get richer. He loves Trump.

I hear this from people I’ve known for decades who are friends. He was just elected two years ago and in Mexico Presidents serve for six years.

a la izquierda

(12,234 posts)
5. LOL... I hope no one was surprised by this.
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 03:08 AM
Jan 2021

For god's sake, in the 1970s, the chief of police of Mexico City was running a protection scheme for drug traffickers. This is nothing new.

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