Gene Lyons on the War On Drugs

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I thought of Montenegro after reading The Observer’s astonishing account of U. S. government collusion in mob killings in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. According to the British newspaper, agents from the U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, a division of Homeland Security, hired a corrupt Mexican cop named Guillermo Ramirez Peyro, a. k. a. Lalo, to infiltrate a drug cartel in Juarez, directly across from El Paso, Texas. Things went wrong from the start. Early on, the Mexican gangsters asked Lalo to prove his loyalty by helping torture, execute and bury a Mexican lawyer named Fernando Reyes.

Possibly fearful of refusing, Lalo did so. Wearing a wire supplied by ICE agents, he also recorded the entire grisly affair down to the last scream.

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