One: Not every United States ambassador is, or has been, a CIA agent. However, since long before it became a nation, the roles of both have been responses to a common cause — saving humanity by invoking Divine Providence, Manifest Destiny, the Monroe Doctrine (or Donroe). And there have been demiurges determined to discover the algorithm of immortality (Peter Thiel) or the seed to sow life on Mars (Elon Musk).
Two: Observe how consistent they have been. For example, at the dawn of capitalism, a Puritan preacher from Massachusetts, John Cotton (1585-1632), said, “Indeed, no nation is to drive out another without special commission from Heaven, such as the Israelites had, unless the natives do unjustly wrong them, and will not recompense the wrongs done in a peaceable fort (way). And then they may right themselves by lawful war and subdue the country unto themselves" (1630).
Three: Then, if we jump forward several centuries, we find the astute observation made by heroic journalist Manuel Buendía in the lecture discussed in the last installment: “It is inevitable that there is an official relationship between the CIA and its Mexican counterpart. But the CIA operates on two levels. And what happens on the level accessible to Mexican officials is the least interesting part.”
Four: Back in 1982, the CIA had only two floors on Melchor Ocampo Street in Mexico City. And now, thanks to the Israelis and Chihuahua Governor Maru Campos, it has a state-of-the-art, 21-story tower financed by Seguritech (a company owned by Mexican-Israeli Ariel Zeev Picker Schatz), built in downtown Ciudad Juárez at a cost of $250 million.
Five: Like so many others, Buendía's murder was never fully solved. No problem. The government blamed “organized crime” — a euphemism used ad nauseam by the corporate media that serves to obscure the complicity between government security agencies, the far right, conservatives, drug traffickers and, last but not least, the CIA with its covert activities.
Six: A few months later, a naive Drug Enforcement Administration agent, Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, revealed to his superiors that the U.S. government was collaborating with the now-defunct Guadalajara Cartel in the importation and trafficking of hard drugs from Colombia to the United States via Mexico. That sealed his fate. In February 1985, as he was leaving the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara in broad daylight, Camarena was intercepted, kidnapped and murdered after prolonged torture. One of the founding bosses of the Guadalajara Cartel, Rafael Caro Qintero, was arrested in Costa Rica and accused of the crime. He served 28 years in prison.
Seven: Space limits us, so we leap forward in time. Consistent with Felipe Calderón and the National Action Party’s “whatever happened, happened” stance (regarding the 2006 election fraud), Mexico and the United States signed a bilateral agreement to train Mexican security forces to combat drug trafficking, organized crime and money laundering, providing equipment and technology (the Merida Initiative of 2008).
Eight: Next, the illegal smuggling and sale of more than 2,000 high-caliber weapons into our country, with the plan to track them and thus dismantle the cartel networks. Operation Fast and Furious (condoned by high-ranking officials in the Department of Justice) ended in disaster. The Sinaloa guys got their hands on them, and Mexican soldiers continued to die.
Nine: From the editorial “U.S.: Ally or Enemy?” (La Jornada, Oct. 5, 2011): “It is difficult to understand the Mexican government’s determination to maintain a partnership in the fight against crime and for security with a partner as untrustworthy as Washington.”
Ten: In August 2013, a federal court in Jalisco ordered the immediate release of Caro Quintero. The legal argument was that he should have been tried in state rather than federal court. But in October of that year, Phil Jordan and Héctor Berrellez (former CIA and DEA agents) revealed to the weekly magazine Proceso and Fox News that Kiki Camarena’s killer was Félix Ismael Rodríguez — the infamous Cuban-American CIA agent who posed for a photo alongside Che Guevara shortly before he was killed by Bolivian soldiers (Oct. 9, 1967).
Eleven: In July 2022, Caro Quintero was arrested again in Sinaloa by a federal court. He was extradited to the United States in February 2025. And last week, he was taken to New York City to appear in a federal court located in the borough of Brooklyn.
Twelve: From former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: “Being an enemy of the United States is dangerous, but being its friend is fatal.”
Uno. No todo embajador de Estados Unidos es, o ha sido, agente de la CIA. Sin embargo, desde mucho antes de su constitución como nación, ambos cargos han respondido a una causa común: salvar a la humanidad invocando a la Divina Providencia, el Destino Manifiesto, la doctrina Monroe (o Donroe), y demiurgos empecinados en descubrir el algoritmo de la inmortalidad (Peter Thiel), o la semilla para sembrar vida en Marte (Elon Musk).
Dos. Y fíjese cuán consecuentes han sido. Por ejemplo, en los albores del capitalismo, un predicador puritano de Massachusetts, John Cotton (1585- 1632), dijo: “Ninguna nación tiene el derecho de expulsar a otra, sino es un por un designio especial del cielo como el que tuvieron los israelitas, a menos que los nativos obraran injustamente con ella. En este caso, tendrán derecho a librar, legalmente, una guerra con ellos y a someterlos” (1630).
Tres. De ahí, saltando siglos, la atinada percepción del heroico periodista Manuel Buendía en la conferencia comentada en la última entrega: “Es inevitable que exista una relación oficial entre la CIA y su correspondiente mexicana. Pero la CIA se mueve en dos pisos. Y lo que ocurre en un piso abierto a los funcionarios mexicanos, es lo menos interesante”.
Cuatro. Sólo que en aquella época (1982), la CIA tenía apenas dos pisos en la calle Melchor Ocampo, de Ciudad de México. En cambio hoy, gracias a los “israelitas” y la gobernadora de Chihuahua Maru Campos, cuenta con una hiperinteligente torre de 21 pisos financiada por Seguritech (empresa del mexicano/ israelí Ariel Zeev Picker Schatz), erigida en el centro de Ciudad Juárez a un costo de 250 millones de dólares.
Cinco. Así como tantos otros, el asesinato de Buendía nunca fue plenamente esclarecido. No problem. El gobierno culpó al “crimen organizado”, eufemismo que los medios corporativos emplean hasta la náusea, pero sirve para silenciar la complicidad entre agencias gubernamentales de seguridad, ultraderechas, conservadores, narcotraficantes y, last but not least, la silente actividad de la CIA.
Seis. Pocos meses después, un ingenuo agente de la DEA, Enrique Kiki Camarena, expuso a sus jefes la colaboraciòn del gobierno estadunidense con el hoy extinto Cártel de Guadalajara (CG), en la importación y trasiego de drogas duras de Colombia a Estados Unidos, vía México. Allí selló su suerte. En febrero de 1985, saliendo del consulado de Washington en Guadalajara, a plena luz del día, Camarena fue interceptado, secuestrado, y asesinado tras largas sesiones de tortura. Uno de los capos fundadores del CG, Rafael Caro Qintero, fue detenido en Costa Rica y, acusado del crimen, purgó 28 años de prisión.
Siete. La tiranía del espacio obliga a pegar otro salto en el tiempo. Tras el “haiga sido como haiga sido” de Felipe Calderón y el PAN (fraude electoral de 2006), México y Estados Unidos suscribieron un acuerdo bilateral de capacitación a las fuerzas de seguridad mexicanas para combatir el narcotráfico, el crimen organizado y el lavado de dinero, aportando equipo, tecnología (Iniciativa Mérida, 2008).
Ocho. Luego, cruce y venta ilegal de más de 2 mil armas de alto calibre hacia nuestro país, con el propósito de rastrearles y desmantelar las redes de cárteles. El operativo Rápido y Furioso (sic, consentido por altos funcionarios del Departamento de Justicia), terminó en desastre. Los muchachos de Sinaloa dieron con ellas, y soldados mexicanos siguieron muriendo.
Nueve. Del editorial “EU: ¿aliado o enemigo?”, La Jornada 5/10/2011): “Es difícil comprender el empeño del gobierno mexicano en mantener un pacto de colaboración en materia de combate a la delincuencia y seguridad, con un socio tan poco confiable como Washington”.
Diez. En agosto de 2013 un tribunal federal de Jalisco ordenó la libertad inmediata de Caro Quintero. El argumento leguleyo fue que debió ser juzgado en el fuero común, y no en el federal. Pero en octubre de aquel año, Phil Jordan y Héctor Berrellez (ex agentes de la CIA y la DEA), revelaron al semanario Proceso y la cadena Fox News, que el ejecutor de Kiki Camarena era Félix Ismael Rodríguez. O sea, el tristemente célebre agente cubanoestadunidense de la CIA, que posó en una foto junto al Che Guevara poco antes de ser asesinado por militares bolivianos (9 de octubre de 1967).
Once. En julio de 2022, Caro Quintero fue detenido nuevamente en Sinaloa por un tribunal federal, extraditado a Estados Unidos en febrero de 2025, y llevado la semana pasada a comparecer en un juzgado federal de Nueva York, con sede en el distrito de Brooklyn.
Doce. Del ex secretario de Estado Henry Kissinger: “ser enemigo de Estados Unidos es peligroso, pero ser su amigo es fatal.”
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