POLITICS: What the TV Won’t Tell You: The Bloodshed in Mexico is the Direct Result of a Decades-Long U.S. Proxy War – USSA News

You won’t hear this on the nightly news, but the unprecedented violence currently tearing through Mexico is not some random, isolated cartel uprising. It is the catastrophic and entirely predictable blowback of the U.S. government intentionally arming, funding, and protecting the very narco-paramilitary death squads that are now setting Jalisco on fire.

Yesterday, the sky over Jalisco burned black as the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) unleashed a wave of coordinated narco-terror in response to the assassination of their leader, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes. The mainstream press is predictably regurgitating the sanitized official briefings, painting this as a heroic triumph of military intelligence over an isolated vacuum of evil.

The state needs the public to believe that syndicates like the CJNG materialize out of thin air, requiring billions more in taxpayer funding and heavily armed federal ICE agents to defeat. That narrative relies entirely on historical amnesia and state-sponsored propaganda. The truth is that the United States government—acting as the ultimate cartel with a legal monopoly on violence—incubated the exact conditions, supplied the military-grade weapons, and allowed Wall Street to launder the bloody profits that created the CJNG in the first place.

The claim that the CJNG functions as a legitimate paramilitary force capable of taking down military aircraft is not hyperbole; it is a terrifying matter of historical record that the state tries desperately to downplay.

On May 1, 2015, during an initiative dubbed Operation Jalisco, the Mexican military deployed Special Forces via helicopters to capture the CJNG’s founding leadership. As a Eurocopter EC725 Super Cougar carrying military and federal police operatives descended, CJNG forces used a Soviet-made RPG-27 rocket-propelled grenade launcher to blast the helicopter out of the sky, killing nine law enforcement officers and forcing the military into a humiliating retreat.

The U.S. Department of Justice explicitly confirmed this unprecedented escalation during the recent sentencing of “El Menchito”—the son of the CJNG’s founder—who was formally convicted in U.S. federal court of ordering the downing of that exact military helicopter.

By violently interfering in a black market of their own creation, the intelligence agencies engineered an arms race that culminated in a cartel boasting anti-aircraft capabilities, perfectly illustrating how the state creates the monster, feeds it, arms it, and then demands you surrender your liberty to be protected from it.

To understand the sheer scale of the CIA and DEA’s cartel engineering, you have to look past the sanitized Hollywood narratives and examine the state’s long, documented history of playing kingmaker in the underworld.

The blueprint for this corruption was laid decades ago when the CIA helped establish the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS), Mexico’s equivalent to the FBI, which functioned as the intelligence and enforcement arm for the early cartels while the CIA simultaneously used smuggling routes to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.

The U.S. intelligence apparatus has never been in the business of eradicating the drug trade; they are in the business of managing it, utilizing black-market profits and cartel muscle to advance geopolitical objectives while ensuring their own enforcement budgets continue to bloat.

If we want to understand how the CJNG ultimately emerged from this proxy war, we have to examine the monsters they were originally built to fight. In the 1990s, the U.S. government trained elite Mexican special forces, known as the GAFE, at the infamous School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia.

These heavily trained, U.S.-funded commandos eventually deserted the military to become the brutal enforcement wing for the Gulf Cartel, calling themselves Los Zetas and introducing military-grade terror tactics to the drug war. Desperate for a win against the monster they helped create, the U.S. government effectively formed an alliance with the rival Sinaloa Cartel.

This policy of managed monopolies carried over seamlessly into the modern era, where the DEA effectively outsourced its enforcement. As exposed during the trial of Vicente Zambada Niebla—and frequently documented by independent investigations at The Free Thought Project—the DEA utilized a secret “carte blanche” agreement that allowed Sinaloa operatives to traffic billions in narcotics with absolute impunity in exchange for intelligence on rival factions. This arrangement allowed the DEA to parade high-profile arrests for the media, all while functioning as Sinaloa’s taxpayer-funded assassination squad to violently wipe out the Zetas.

It was this exact environment of state-sponsored protection that allowed the Sinaloa Cartel to amass the astronomical wealth needed to fund Los Mata Zetas, the paramilitary death squad that ultimately evolved into the CJNG. Because the U.S. government spent years crippling their rivals and flooding the region with military-grade weaponry through botched operations like Fast and Furious, the CJNG didn’t just inherit the drug routes; they inherited a massive arms depot. This evolution shifted the paradigm of cartel violence from street-level assassinations to full-scale guerrilla warfare.

Between 2009 and 2011, the ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious purposefully allowed thousands of high-powered rifles to “walk” across the border directly into the hands of the Sinaloa Cartel—the very organization that was actively funding the proto-CJNG death squads. The state literally armed the criminals in a blatant initiation of force that directly resulted in the deaths of hundreds of innocent Mexicans and U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

While the state aggressively demands the disarmament of peaceful civilians under the guise of public safety, they deliberately sabotage their own efforts to stop heavy weaponry from reaching literal narco-paramilitaries. From 2018 to 2022, the ATF actually ran a highly successful operation called Project Thor, which systematically targeted the massive, multi-state firearms trafficking networks supplying the CJNG.

According to whistleblower documents released by Senator Chuck Grassley, the operation was wildly effective at tracking straw purchasers and crippling the CJNG’s armory. Yet, inexplicably, the Biden administration quietly defunded and shut down the operation in 2022, ensuring the cycle of violence remains highly profitable and heavily armed.

While arming the cartels is bad enough, the sheer hypocrisy of the drug war is laid bare when you examine how the state treats the financial institutions that clean the cartels’ blood money. If a peaceful individual structures a bank deposit to avoid a $10,000 reporting requirement, the IRS will seize their assets, destroy their life, and throw them in a cage. But when global banking giants launder billions for cartels, the state simply extracts a massive fine—effectively taking a cut of the drug money—and lets the executives keep their yachts.

In 2012, British banking giant HSBC signed a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the DOJ, admitting to laundering at least $1 billion in drug proceeds for the Sinaloa Cartel and the Norte del Valle Cartel.

This was not a sophisticated, decentralized financial operation; cartel operatives were literally depositing hundreds of thousands of dollars in bulk cash daily, going so far as to design custom cash boxes tailored to fit perfectly through the teller windows at HSBC branches in Mexico. Not a single HSBC executive went to prison for financing terrorism.

The bank was fined $1.92 billion—equivalent to roughly five weeks of their profit—and the U.S. court system later shielded the 1,000-page monitor’s report on HSBC’s supposed “reforms” from the public, hiding the ongoing corruption under a veil of judicial secrecy, as documented by the families of cartel victims who sued the bank.

When viewed through the lens of those who value peace and freedom, the War on Drugs is nothing more than a violent, overarching racket. It is an illegitimate initiation of force against individuals who are peacefully choosing what to put into their own bodies. By aggressively criminalizing these substances, the U.S. government engineered a black market with artificially massive profit margins, transforming opportunistic street gangs into heavily armed, multi-national corporations operating within a state-created monopoly.

When the military violently assassinates a figure like El Mencho, they are not fixing the systemic problem they created; they are violently fracturing the market. This guarantees massive collateral damage and bloodshed among peaceful civilians while simultaneously providing the state with the exact justification it needs to expand its domestic surveillance apparatus and bloated enforcement budgets.

The intelligence apparatus is fully aware that the so-called “Kingpin Strategy”—the targeted assassination of cartel leadership—does absolutely nothing to stem the flow of narcotics. Instead, as detailed in the U.S. military’s own strategic research, taking out a boss like El Mencho predictably fractures the syndicate into a multi-headed hydra, unleashing a brutal power vacuum where heavily armed factions wage massive turf wars for control of the routes.

The CIA and DEA knew exactly what the fallout would be; they knew assassinating El Mencho would set Jalisco on fire. However, a burning Mexico is highly convenient for a U.S. security state that relies on perpetual crisis, providing the ultimate pretext to justify increased border militarization, the deployment of surveillance drones, and the looming threat of unilateral military intervention.

This manufactured chaos across the border bleeds directly into the rapid expansion of the domestic technocracy. The state enthusiastically weaponizes the public panic generated by cartel violence to funnel billions into corporate surveillance leviathans like Palantir—the massive data-mining firm originally seeded by the CIA’s venture capital arm.

Under the guise of hunting down cartel operatives and securing the homeland, federal agencies are quietly deploying Palantir-built, AI-driven surveillance platforms to consolidate terrifying troves of private information, scraping everything from license plate readers to Medicaid records. The hydra effect engineered in Mexico serves as the perfect Trojan horse to erect an inescapable, digital panopticon here at home.

You cannot vote this systemic corruption away, and it is a fool’s errand to ask the alphabet agencies to police themselves. The only path forward for individuals who value peace and liberty is to systematically opt out of their rigged frameworks. The fiat banking system requires draconian KYC/AML compliance to track every dollar you spend, yet it turns a blind eye to the billions washed for murderers.

Moving your wealth and energy into decentralized, privacy-focused ecosystems is no longer just a technological choice for the early adopter; it is a necessary act of self-defense against a technocratic state that funds terror abroad while criminalizing privacy at home.

Article posted with permission from Matt Agorist

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