Another Mexican Drug Dealer No. 522223N45332E busted

"Mexican DRUG LORD BUSTED BY HIS INSTAGRAM FEED"

Another Mexican Drug Lord

Today I read this on Internet  and I couldn't avoid to think that is interesting how this "bad" guy was arrested in Amsterdam, where Marijuana is legal but they don't produce it so guess who is the supplier?

This guy is just like all the other Modern Drug Lords, he has facebook, twitter, instagram, fancy places, cars, money, he's carismatic and a great ability to be fit in any situation that he has to face and that's not the problem. Drug dealers are smart, creative and like the D.E.A. agency and other intelligence agencies they are the most creative people in the world because they know how to run a successful business , the most successfully in human history, with all against them, handle a war in several places, get huge profits and even enjoy their way of life. Also, they come from poor families and they just take the opportunities that they have in life, in this case they receive huge amounts of money to make a job and there is no other job in the world that can offer to them a better payment based on their personal knowledge. In resume they are businessmen.

But let's go back to our Drug Lord, we can see that in his pictures are in really cool and fancy places and he even has a photos with Paris Hilton, what it doesn't mean he's related to her but means that he has the resources to reach this type of people because he moves at the same level. For me is really funny how the main markets are Europe and the U.S. and they are the main countries that dare to point the finger to countries like Mexico as the "bad" guys. 

I don't remember to read or watch in the news things like "European Authorities involved with drug mafia" or U.S. D.E.A. Agents busted with drugs, who are the responsible authorities in U.S or European of give protection to allow drug dealers pass the drugs to their countries? at the end there is also the same or even more corruption than in my those "bad" countries but of course those KPI's are not available.

Another thing that always comes to my mind is: Where are all those cars, money, houses and bank accounts that are in U.S. or European countries or banks. All of us remember how the American,Swedish and Chinese  banks where involved in money laundering millions of U.S. Dollars.

Well just to set an example: Here we have the case of HSBC and our great friend in Mexico Shen Lee Ye Gon

HSBC Money Laundry : Well at the end HSBC was guilty of money laundering drug money for the Mexican Cartels and payed a fine for it but the fine was not even then 10% of the amount of money that this bank was moving and at the end nobody knows where is this money.

Zhenli Ye Gon : The President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, granted the Mexican citizenship to this Chinese businessman in 2003. After that he installed the biggest chemical laboratory in Latinamerica to synthesize pseudoephedrine. He had contracts with the Mexican Health system to provide flu remedies with the pseudoephedrine compound and the supply of this medicine was remarcable, I remeber take this type of remedies when I was working to the Mexican Health System.

When this guy was busted they "discovered" that he was selling the same pesudoehedrine to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel. Let's remember that this is a precursor for methanfetamines, yes the same drugs that are showned in Breaking Bad. He was caught in march of 2007, then he went to the U.S. asked for protection and now he's living in the U.S. without any kind of restriction. In Mexico was a huge scandal, now the pseudoephedrine is illegal but the supply from China to the Mexican Drug Cartels still intact so are we playing or what?

I think that the only difference is that we decided to accept the problem and fight it with a frontal strategy in all the possible ways (army,  government,  health institutions,  diplomacy,  religious and education institution,  through the education of families, laws, etc). It's not a perfect strategy because the drugs problem is so big,  complex and has so many nations involved that a single country can hardly finish with this,  I hope day can be a multilateral solution between the consumers / producers to really hit this problem.

This is  nice documentary of the National Geographic that allows to see the problem with a better perspective:

Finally, I hope that with this you can have more information available, be able to see with other eyes and the next time you know about a friend or hear a story of someone that visits Amsterdam or any European Cool Country or the U.S to buy some "legal" drugs you know that it was produced illegally, passed through corruption and packed by cynicism the only thing is that nobody is telling you that part of the story and in that precise moment they're part of the problem that makes the drugs war and news so terrible.

Cheers and have a nice day

Luis O

"A Poor man is the one that needs a lot to live..." - Jose 'Pepe' Mujica Persident of Uruguay

Hello,

I hope you are having a good day. Now I'm writing in English to make my post more accessible to the internet people that they understand more English than Spanish.

I have been always worried about my personal preparation, development and worried about my own limitations and how I can use all my strength and intelligence to be  a better person to achieve my own development, being able to make the right decisions being happy, being able to make the people around me aware of this also and if I have family or a couple make them happy too, give them the elements to achieve the same things that I am looking too, because at the end and from my perspective that is the real thing that matters in life. But first I have to start with myself

During this past months I've living in Germany and I can assure is one of the most relevant experiences of my life. I traveled to Egypt during their revolution time and now I'm in Colombia on a holiday trip visiting my girlfriend. I am the Information Manager Director of a non profit organization in Germany called AIESEC. In resume I am the IT guy. I have been working in technology since I have nine teen years old. I studied Telematics Engineering at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, ITAM, and all my life I have been thinking that the solutions to all human problems are the knowledge, technology and the right distribution of this to every human being so that is why I decided to become an Engineer of Technology and I understood the world in this way. I also was worried in having a complete formation and that is why I decided to become a Scientific SCUBA diver and I got my degree in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM. I practiced martial arts and oriental philosophy during ten years to have another perspective of how the things work. I also was worried in knowing my roots and country so I decided to travel from north to south and read about their most relevant cultures like the Mayans in the south east, the Aztecs in the center and the Yaquis in the north west and I understood that my country is unique and I do not know all about it. In my university I read about occidental philosophy and was part of the United Nations Model of my University ITAMMUN and the subject I took par was Sustainable Growth. Finally, all my life I've fully connected to the internet and is one of my passions I enjoy it's power and how fast the knowledge can travel through this powerful tool and also know the damage that is can cause to the others because I used to be a "friendly" hacker during my early ages. After all this I thought that I had a complete understanding of how world worked. This experiences transformed the way I see the world and now I know that I was wrong.

During this months I've thinking about the structure of the society, I've been reading the news, I witnessed the German Elections and I was asking my friend about their point of view and why they where voting for some specific candidate. Also the way of living of people from Europe is always challenging me because some of the things that they have I just never had them in my country and never though about them.

Now I feel that my perspective is more complete and I just can say that I still need a lot to learn about a lot of things in my life.

Why is all this personal history?

Well, today I was working, reading the news and I saw a post of a friend with a particular video. This video and post cached my attention because it was about sustainable growth, a subject that I've been interested since I think that I know what I want. 

The post was a critic for our modern society and all the speeches of the modern leaders through the times about this subject and after reading it I couldn't avoid to think. Man this is what I was always thinking off too so I was happy to see more people worried about the same thing I was worried about so I decided to write this and also to make a promise with myself that I will not be part of this modern society making small changes at the time. I don't know If I will be successful but I know that I can't live without trying it. Just the time will be able to tell me if i took the right decision.

Here are some fragments of the post (translated by me), also the video and the link:

"What would happen to the planet if the Indian people could have the same amount of cars per family that the Germans have? how much Oxygen we would have to breath?..." 

"Does the world has the elements, materials to make possible that 7,000, 8,000 million people can achieve the same rates of consumption and waste than the most opulent occidental societies have? is it possible? or we will need to have another type of discussion another day? Why we had to create this civilization? product of the  market, product of competition that has the definition of progress based on a portentous and explosive material..."

"The development can't be against the human happiness, it has to be in favor of happiness, love, human relationships, to take care of children, to have friends, to have the elemental things. That's why is the most important treasure that you can have. When we fight for the environment, the first element of the environment it's called human happiness..."

Fragment of José 'Pepe' Mujica's speech, President of Uruguay, during the Sustainable Growth Summit of United Nations in Brazil (Rio+20)

I hope that my post can move something inside of you to make you start the change because the change of this starts with each on of us

Have a nice day

Luis O