Is Mexico, in the words of La Jornada columnist Jorge Camil, “witnessing the beginning of a dangerous expansion of U.S. military activity in Mexico and Central America”? In this column, Camil chastises Mexico’s Senate for allowing unmanned U.S. drone flights and warns readers that their use signals that Mexico is rapidly losing control of its territory to the U.S. and the drug cartels.
For Mexico’s La Jornada, Jorge Camil writes in part:
Over recent days, we’ve learned of two more violations to our national sovereignty: Operation Fast and Furious and the flights of unmanned aircraft (Pentagon? CIA?) over our territory. In the first operation, the United States encouraged or is currently encouraging the illicit smuggling of weapons to put in the hands of the cartels, and “let them walk” in order to track them: encore to Iran-Gate? As for the second operation, senators should know that most often, some of the drones are armed, ready to bomb hostile groups and capable of eliminating enemies in ways that violate individual human rights, and which prestigious internationalists define as targeted killings (or remote-control assassinations), as is occurring in Pakistan. So is Mexico next?
Operation Fast and Furious worked well enough until one of the smuggled weapons killed ICE Agent Brian Terry. Later, when Jaime Zapata was peppered with bullets in San Luis Potosí with an AK-47, Federal Agent John Dodson disclosed to CBS News in Phoenix the details of a criminal operation that was “approved all the way up in the Justice Department,” which ordered U.S. officers to “turn a blind eye,” and allow smuggled weapons into Mexico.
Now their drones are flying over our national territory. … Obama’s CIA has used them with impunity to bomb Pakistan and kill al-Qaeda leaders by remote control (like playing Nintendo!) Could we be next? Is there an agreement in writing with Obama? Does the Senate know about this, or is it a secret? … It’s unbelievable: Obama, a former constitutional law professor, has shown less respect for international law than George W. Bush.”
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