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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 08:25:55 -0800
To: Headnfork@aol.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Mexico in Web of Corruption (fwd)

Look, if Bo Gritz is only half-right about
the quantity of heroin flowing into our
country from the Golden Triangle (Laos,
Burma, and Thailand), $38 billion might just
buy the aircraft, fuel, oil and new tires they
need to shuttle all of it between Bangkok
and Midway.  The other half should be 
enough to bring it the rest of the way.
You must not forget all of the grease which
is used to lubricate any friction which those
shipments encounter along the way.  It is funny
how Indonesians just assume that government
officials will be paid in advance;  they call
it "grease," not bribery, and it is a way of
life down there, not a hypocritical scandal.

/s/ Paul Mitchell



At 08:15 PM 3/23/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>In Article <7aANzQi1EHnO092yn@IslandNet.com Creator@islandnet.com (Matt
>Elrod) writes:  Crime billions trap country in web of corruption.   By Linda
>Diebel -Toronto Star Latin American Bureau >  
>
>Whoever says the Mexican drug trade is worth $38 Billion is not even half
>right.
>See message below which was posted on drc 3/16/97:
>
>
>
>During Senator Biden's Committee Hearings on NAFTA, which were carried live
>on C-Span,  Mr. Christopher Whalen, a Washington based financial expert on
>Mexico,  testified as follows:
>
>1.  $100 billion worth of illegal drugs cross the Mex/Tex border every year.
>
>2.  Mexico cut a deal with the drugs cartels.  In return for depositing
>Cartel monies in cash strapped Mexican banks, cartels were given free use of
>Mexican states along the Mex/Tex border. 
>
>3.  Mexico nets $15 billion a year from this drug trafficking arrangement.
>
>Now, this damning testimony simply means that drug trafficking is Mexico's
>largest and most profitable industry.   Indeed, were drugs legalized, Mexico
>might even go broke.   
>
>Interestingly, after hearing this testimony, the Senators on the committee
>neither acknowledged Mr. Whalen's testimony nor asked him any questions.
>Indeed, Mr. Whalen and the entire panel of witnesses were dismissed,
>forthwith.  
>
>
>
>

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