Updated: Do Mexican Cartels Qualify as Terrorist Organizations?

A Texas congressman is seeking to designate seven of the top Mexican cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations." Critics of the proposal fear such a designation could harm Mexico’s ability to wage its own fight against the cartels.

by Julián Aguilar April 22, 2011

A Texas congressman is seeking to designate seven of the top Mexican cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations,” a move he says would give law enforcement in the U.S. enhanced tools to combat the cartels.

Critics of the proposal, by U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, fear such a designation could harm Mexico’s ability to wage its own fight against the cartels — and damage the U.S.'s relationship with its southern neighbor.

McCaul’s legislation, HR 1270, targets the Arellano Félix Organization, Los Zetas, La Familia Michoacana, and the Beltran Leyva, Sinaloa, Juárez and Gulf cartels.

It would permit the government to freeze funds tied to the organizations and qualifies persons found guilty of aiding the cartels for 15 additional years of prison time. A life sentence is possible if the aid — including providing, among other things, identification documents, lodging, training, weapons and transportation — leads to the death of an individual.

“The definition under federal law of terrorism says ‘to intimidate a civilian population or a government by assassination or kidnappings.’ To me the cartels fall squarely into that definition,” says McCaul, a former chief of counter terrorism and national security in the U.S. attorney’s office. “I am concerned that Mexico is losing this war against the drug cartels and so are we.”

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, fears that it could further complicate Mexican President Felipe Calderón's current battle against crime.

“I think this will damage our relationship with our partner Calderón, who has risked so much to fight the drug cartels," Cuellar says. "And I think this will only strengthen his political opposition. He doesn’t work in a vacuum."

>https://www.texastribune.org/2011/04/22/lawmaker-seeks-to-label-cartels-terrorists/

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>>15418437, >>15418501 , >>15418534 , >>15418620 FBI conducts ‘investigation’ at Laredo home of Congressman Henry Cuellar, Wifes' names is Imelda Cueller

>>15418628 , >>15418652 Enrique Peña Nieto, took a $100 million bribe from Joaquín Guzmán Loera

>>15418955

Looks like both him and his brother may be on the payroll

Former Mexico officials with ties to Texas under investigation

Jason Buch

, Dudley Althaus

Feb. 18, 2012

Updated: Feb. 19, 2012 2:04 a.m.

A former governor of the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas forged close ties with Texas politicians before investigations in that country and a recent arrest in San Antonio cast a shadow over his tenure.

Tomás Yarrington Ruvalcaba,who ran Tamaulipas from 1999 to 2005, is one of three former governors the Mexican government acknowledged this month are the targets of a corruption probe.

And documents in a criminal case in Texas allege that Yarrington, who __worked hand in hand with his Texas counterparts __during his career as state treasurer, governor, Mexican congressman and border mayor, was on the takefrom one of Mexico's most notorious drug cartels.

The former Tamaulipas governors facing investigation in Mexico — Yarrington, Eugenio Hernández and Manuel Cavazos Lerma — often crossed the Rio Grande to rub elbows and pose for photos with their colleagues in Texas.

Yarrington, who has not been charged with any crimes and has publicly denied any wrongdoing, was once honored by the Texas Senate.

San Antonio raid

On Feb. 8, federal agents raided the Stone Oak-area home of Antonio Peña Arguelles, arresting the 56-year-old legal resident from Mexico and accusing him of money laundering. An affidavit filed by a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent outlining the allegations against Peña Arguelles madeserious accusations about Yarrington.

An informant “described Antonio Peña Arguelles as a conduit between Mexican politicians, in particular Tomas Yarrington, and Zeta (drug cartel) members Miguel Treviño Morales and Heriberto Lazcano,” the agent wrote.

The affidavit went on to allege that Peña Arguelles funneled millions of dollars from the Zetas to Yarrington and other elected officials.

In arresting Peña, the DEA accused Yarrington of taking money from two of Mexico's most notorious organized crime figures.

>>15419037

>Looks like both him and his brother may be on the payroll

oh look.

Rick Perry

George W

In 1999, the Texas Senate passed a resolution honoring Yarrington. When Gov. Rick Perry was sworn into office for his first full term in 2003, Yarrington was in attendance.

His successor, Hernández, was in attendance and received a mention in Perry's 2005 State of the State speech. A Perry spokeswoman said the invitations were the result of “a professional relationship in their capacities as border governors.”

A closer relationship appears to have existed between Yarrington and former President George W. Bush.

During his time as Texas governor,Bush worked closely with Yarrington, Cavazos Lerma and other Mexican officialsto forge trade initiatives and address environmental issues, and when Bush first ran for president in 2000, news stories cited his friendship with Yarrington as evidence of his foreign policy bona fides.

“Tomás is terrific, worked with him a lot,” the Los Angeles Times quoted Bush as saying in 2000.

For his part, Yarrington spoke highly of his Texas counterpart. During the campaign, a Dallas Morning News story included Yarrington relating the tale of sharing a stage with Bush.

“Tomás Yarrington is not my friend,” the then-Tamaulipas governor quoted Bush as saying. “The crowd went silent. Then he said, ‘Tomas Yarrington is my compadre.' The crowd went wild, and he immediately won them over. Governor Bush is a politician with a human face.”

The fallout's reaching the U.S., too. A spokesman for the campaigns of U.S. Rep.Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, andhis brother, Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar, said they've returned or given to charity campaign donations from Peña-Arguelles, the accused conduit between the cartels and Mexican politicians.

In 2007, Peña Arguelles gave $1,500 to Martin Cuellar's election campaign, and in 2006 Antonio Pena's then-wife, Armandina, gave $1,000 to the re-election effort of Henry Cuellar.

Martin Cuellar asked the person who solicited the donation from Peña Arguelles to return it, said spokesman Colin Strother, and Henry Cuellar donated the money to charity. They did so last year, after learning that Peña Arguelles' brother was slain in Nuevo Laredo and his killers left a note accusing the brothers of working with the Zetas.

>https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Former-Mexico-officials-with-ties-to-Texas-under-3342138.php

>>15418955

Long article about border habbenings.

Interdasting read.

All kinds of mentions.

as for Cuellar related, points out this Cow Head fag governor in Mexico Cabeza De Vaca takes bribes from the Cartels and is friendly with American Pols incluidingCuellar

>https://narco.news/los-zetas-inc-nueva-generacion

This is Mexico’s Burgos Basin, a deposit rich in natural gas and other hydrocarbons. In 2014, then-Senator Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca was instrumental in passing energy reform legislation which would end the state-owned PEMEX monopoly on Mexico's energy industry. Recently, it was alleged thatCabeza de Vaca received bribe money in exchange for the legislation. In July 2017, Mexico opened for the first time to development by private companies and foreign investment. In March of 2018, the petroleum company Repsol secured a development contract for $2.4b in the Monterrey-Reynosa block.

But Governor Cabeza de Vaca's ties to American politicians aren't exclusively to Republicans. Check out U.S. Congressman Henry Cuellar's (D-TX) website.The former Mexican Senator-turned-Governor of Tamaulipas, instrumental in liberalizing the Mexican hydrocarbon market, is also linked to Cuellar,the only (D) co-sponsor of Congressman Chip Roy's Border Visibility and Security Act.

>>15419114

>>15419114

>bun your self, when you are done

Bunned

Cuellar Dig FBI Raid Bun

Red Cross Hacked edition

>>15418437 FBI visiting US Rep Cuellar's house in Laredo

>>15418501 vice chairman of the House Homeland Security Appropriations Committee

>>15418527, >>15418547, >>15418667 El Chapo singin like a mofo. Q 4 year delta

>>15418628, >>15418652 Snopes confirms. Cuellar meets with bribed Mexican President.

>>15418652 Florence? El Chapo in Florence

>>15418620 Cuellar Bio. Wifes' names is Imelda Cueller

Dem Ballot Fraud edition

>>15418955 Cuellar does NOT want to mis-label the cartels

>>15419037 Rep Cuellar and Sheriff brother took campaign money from cartel corrupted Mexicans

>>15419059 Panama Papers have any info?

>>15419097 Was Chapo's wife singing?

>>15419287 Long opensource research article about cartels and border

>>15419427

o7

>>15419438

Thank you for baking

comfy Popcorn bread

>>15419321

>>15419321

>help take the board away from shills.

>- Still Smiling