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