Political Quotes

“As you can see from the chart printed above, a number of major well known second-tier cartel figures, including Oscar Malherbe of the Gulf/Juarez Cartel, Adan Amerzcua of the Amezcua/Colina Cartel, and Manuel Bitar Tafich of the infamous Juarez cartel have also been arrested by Mexican authorities and their extraditions have been approved. In addition, if you look further down on the same chart, seven major traffickers, including Felix Gallardo of the Tijuana Cartel, are behind bars and serving sentences anywhere from nine to forty years. Moreover, thanks to joint operations between United States and Mexican authorities, there have been extensive indictments of key players in the Tijuana cartel. These events all represent significant advances in disrupting the major drug cartels. issue 7--money laundering In 1996, the Mexican Congress enacted new statutes criminalizing money laundering--heretofore, as in the case of many other countries, it was not a crime. The complicated regulations implementing that law were issued just last year. Currently, Mexican authorities have more than seventy cases under investigation based upon these money laundering statutes--sixteen of them, jointly with U.S. Treasury officials. Clearly that represents progress in the area of money laundering. issue 8--chemical controls Last December, the Mexican Congress passed comprehensive legislation designed to regulate precursor and essential chemicals as well as equipment for making capsules and tablets.”