Juarez, Mexico - The US
Central Intelligence Agency and other international security forces
"don't fight drug traffickers", a spokesman for the Chihuahua state government in northern Mexico has told Al Jazeera, instead "they try to manage the drug trade".
Allegations about official complicity in
the drug business are nothing new when they come from activists,
professors, campaigners or even former officials. However, an official
spokesman for the authorities in one of Mexico's most violent states -
one which directly borders Texas - going on the record with such
accusations is unique.
"It's like pest control companies, they only control," Guillermo
Terrazas Villanueva, the Chihuahua spokesman, told Al Jazeera last
month at his office in Juarez. "If you finish off the pests, you are out
of a job. If they finish the drug business, they finish their jobs."
... read full story at Al Jazeera.
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