Wednesday, March 16, 2011

U.S. carries out flights on Mexico to spy on drug dealers

MEXICO CITY, Mar. 16 United States began conducting spy flights in February with unmanned aircraft to collect intelligence information on the activity of major drug cartels in Mexico, where 35,000 people have died in the last four years because of drug violence, according to the newspaper on Wednesday published 'The New York Times.

The governments of Felipe Calderón and Barack Obama agreed last March 3 aircraft overflying U.S. robots in various parts of Mexico to learn the movements of the major drug lords, says the article signed by journalists Ginger Thompson and Mark Mazzetti. This collaboration between Washington and Mexico "has been kept secret due to legal restrictions and to avoid the heat of political sensitivities about national sovereignty," according to newspaper officials have revealed.

Both governments have also agreed to open a Narcotics Fusion Center, where officers from both countries will work together in Mexico, although the text does not specify where in these facilities will be located. The newspaper quoted Mike Vigil, former head of International Operations for the U.S.

Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), who has said that long ago an alliance of this nature would have been impossible "to Calderon's concern" about how the American intervention can be seen at home. " "The Mexican Constitution prohibits foreign military or police institutions to operate in Mexico, except in extremely limited," he recalls saying.

Also, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has sent its own unmanned aircraft to meet several of the suspects in the murder in Mexico of special agent for Immigration and Customs Enforcement United States Jaime Zapata, occurred on 15 February. "NIGHTMARE" Calderon would have put Obama in the Summit held in Washington on March 3 concern about the "nightmare" Mexicans living because of the violence of organized crime, reveal 'New York Times.

The quote was preceded by great stress raised after the death of U.S. immigration officer and the growing accusations of Mexico's alleged trafficking of weapons from the U.S. to its territory, which is supplying the drug cartels. "Calderon told Obama that his country was the nightmare of violence because the U.S.

arms trade for the cartels" in addition to the large consumption of cocaine on American soil, the paper said.

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