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The letter from US Congress expressing their concern that PEMEX is being given preferential treatment and that the 2014 energy reform, which was purchased through bribes, might be in jeopardy.
The bribery was done by funneling money through a sophisticated network of shell companies and offshore accounts through the contracting company Odebrecht. The case is global in scope. Here& #39;s a great article with the basics of the Odebrecht bribery scandal https://www.icij.org/investigations/bribery-division/bribery-division-what-is-odebrecht-who-is-involved/">https://www.icij.org/investiga...
In Mexico, the Odebrecht bribery scandal involves Emilio Lozoya, the fmr head of PEMEX, Luis Videgaray, fmr campaign manager for EPN, and fmr President EPN as well as several former legislators who were paid bribes in exchange for energy reform. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-20/ex-pemex-chiefs-charges-of-bribery-payoffs-roil-mexico">https://www.latimes.com/world-nat...
One of those legislators implicated in creating the legislation which ended the state-owned PEMEX monopoly on Mexico& #39;s energy industry is former senator and current Governor of Tamaulipas Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca. Pay attention because here& #39;s where it gets juicy.
According to testimony from a former money launderer for Los Zetas, the governor has been mobbed up with the Gulf cartel (CDG) and Los Zetas since at least 2004 before he was mayor of Reynosa. https://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/DEA-informant-Mexico-senator-received-500-000-6707417.php">https://www.chron.com/news/nati...
Los Zetas were supposedly the enforcers of the CDG made up of deserters from the Mexican special forces, who were trained by the US at the School of the Americas. Some say at Ft. Benning, others say at Ft. Hood. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2010/10/20101019212440609775.html">https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/f...
They& #39;re credited with (supposedly) changing the way that organized crime operates in Mexico. Their supposed fights over territory were used to justify Felipe Calderón& #39;s decision to deploy the military against the civilian population in December 2006 & its associated consequences
According to a 2007 diplomatic cable from the US consulate in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, the DEA obtained statements alleging that Cabeza de Vaca had funded Felipe Calderón& #39;s presidential campaign with drug money from the CDG, the supposed bosses of the Zetas
Do you see where I& #39;m going here?
"[nonstate actors and mercenaries are used] to initiate an intervention in a host state, to destabilize a region, to fight an enemy government, and to serve the political, monetary, and strategic interests of aggressive states." https://narco.news/4gw ">https://narco.news/4gw"...
"By employing nonstate actors, states wage political and military warfare against a host state without being identified as the perpetrator."
