We learn today that the drug cartels may have bribed the Mexican president with $100 million.
Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto took a $100 million bribe from Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the infamous crime lord known as El Chapo, according to a witness at Mr. Guzman’s trial.
The stunning testimony was delivered Tuesday in a New York courtroom by Alex Cifuentes Villa, a Colombian drug lord who worked closely with Mr. Guzmán from 2007 to 2013, when the kingpin was hiding from the law at a series of remote ranches in the Sierra Madre mountains.
“Mr. Guzmán paid a bribe of $100 million to President Peña Nieto?” Jeffrey Lichtman, one of Mr. Guzmán’s lawyers, asked Mr. Cifuentes during cross-examination.
“Yes,” Mr. Cifuentes said.
Was anyone else bribed by the drug cartels?
Paul Ryan is now worth millions more than when he was entering Congress.
The 48-year-old has been married to former tax attorney Janna Christine Little since December 2000, and a significant chunk of his net worth comes from her side of the family. Following the May 2010 death of his wife’s mother, Prudence Little, Ryan’s net worth jumped from about $1.5 million to more than $5 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks politicians’ financial disclosure forms.
And here is more about the Mexican drug cartels and the Democrat Party.
#Maricopa County recorder Adrian Fontes is a native of Nogales, Arizona, a border town where #ArizonaMafia #4, Marco Lopez, my former friend and business partner, grew up with Fontes…Fontes handled vote count in Kyrsten Sinema’s election where a “last minute surge” was seen
Considering the way #ArizonaMafia members work, their influence on the U.S. #Democrat party and otherwise, they are a hard charging, aggressive group. They use scorched-earth tactics themselves and through others … everything they do is brute force.
And:
What we are seeing now in the U.S. is unprecedented in history in terms of Mexico’s growing influence over American politics. Dems were already having trouble with money — trust me I know, having been in the apparatus — and the #Mexico #PRI money flows freely to them #TRUTH
Democrats choose to take the easy money that flows up to them from south of the border because it’s (1) easy and (2) abundant. In return they push #Mexican #PRI political objectives and that is why you are seeing Dems *REFUSAL* to Build The Wall, it’s #Mexican influence. #TRUTH
Hmmm.
Meanwhile, there French protests continue, in spite of US media ignoring them.
In response to a growing number of assaults on journalists, the left-leaning newspaper Le Monde recently asked ‘why do the gilets jaunes hate the media’? The answer is because for many in France the media and political class are indistinguishable; the latter are out of reach but reporters are not. For years the white working-class have had their lives lampooned and been smeared with a multitude of ‘isms’ and ‘phobias’ by politicians and journalists who, simultaneously, champion open borders because they believe Europe owes it to the third world. They don’t understand that the misery and poverty they think exists only in Africa and the Middle East is also found closer to home. The victims of globalisation are everywhere.
My question is whether the Mexican president was the only politician bought by the drug cartels.?