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Battle for the Border: Cartel Insider Speaks (TX)
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Battle for the Border: Cartel Insider Speaks (TX)11 November 2011 KRGV News WESLACO - Cartels only care about getting their product from Mexico into the U.S. One cartel member tells CHANNEL 5 NEWS they will not let anything stop them, even if it means torturing people. "I've never killed," the man tell us. "I've seen how they do it. They kill anybody." He wants out of the cartel, but death is almost always the only way out. He's telling his story from the shadows. "They never let you move up. You are just working, working, working, and that's it," he describes. The man tells CHANNEL 5 NEWS the cartel bosses make the big bucks, and everyone else makes next to nothing. He says it's a hard way to live. He tells us he got into the cartel as a child living in the Rio Grande Valley. He was lured by the promise of living the high life. The promises never paid off. He says he spent the last few years living his idea of hell. "I heard from a guy who used to work there. He was a Zeta and he was drugged up day and night. He wouldn't sleep. They don't sleep," he says. "I saw them. They take newly-born babies. They put them in a stew, and they eat them." He says these unimaginable acts of cruelty are meant to inflict control. CHANNEL 5 NEWS can't verify what he tells us, but we have heard other first-hand accounts just like this. "The Zetas were causing a lot of damage," he says. Common enemies make strange bedfellows. The man tells CHANNEL 5 NEWS the Gulf Cartel and La Familia teamed up to try to wipe out the Zetas a few years ago. All three are fighting for the money-making drug routes into the United States. They are willing to spend the dollars to buy their way through the bridges and the waters. He says the price is never too high to buy a Mexican military member. "Four thousand dollars to $5,000 a week, everybody on the bridge makes that," he says, "Every week 600 or 700 kilos of drugs cross the river. Daily, it was 200-300 kilos." He says the drug lords own the pilots of the Mexican Military choppers too. He says the incursions we have seen into the U.S. are not innocent mistakes. "They're coming to drop off merchandise," he says. Military divisions not on the cartel's payrolls are on their watch list. "Wherever they come, they are being followed every movement they make," he says. The man tells CHANNEL 5 NEWS the corruption is not confined to Mexico. "In some parts, Border Patrol sees. In some parts, they do not. In some parts, you are looking at them. But in most parts, I've heard and I've seen, we pass right in front of their eyes. They let it go through. They are also paid $20,000 every three to four days," he says. A recently-released Texas Border Security report says two South Texas sheriffs and 70 Customs and Border Patrol agents and officers were convicted for cartel-related corruption. The cartel member tells CHANNEL 5 NEWS even without corrupt U.S. law enforcement, the cartels are doing business on the U.S. side. "They have a lot of money coming here. There is millions, same with the firearms. Somebody thinks they're untouchable, because you're on this side. You're wrong. They'll knock you out," he says. The man claims the cartels are paying bank presidents in the U.S. to launder money. Business owners are not given a choice. The hitmen move in if you do not cooperate. He does not think he has a choice either. The life that sounded sexy and rich is now his black hole of endless evil. Source: [www.krgv.com/news/local/story/Battle-for-the-Border-Cartel-Insider-Speaks/a7-XIsTz4kStk26eYJKSIg.cspx] Return to Contents Battle for the Border: Cartel Safe Zones (TX)11 November 2011 KRGV News
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