López Portillo belonged to a triumvirate of former presidents — all of whom also had connections to the CIA — who waged a “dirty war” against leftist political dissenters and armed revolutionary organizations between 1964 and 1982. Under these three presidents, the Mexican Armed Forces, the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (or DFS, the notorious secret police), and paramilitary groups committed egregious human rights violations. Agents and soldiers were left to their own devices to track down, torture, rape, and kidnap peasants and students, terrorize rural communities and wreak havoc on their crops, and perform extrajudicial executions and disappearances.
The year is 2023.
What the CIA did or didn’t do 50 to 70 years ago is irrelevant.
What is relevant is that Mexico’s executive government and the cartels are supported by the Kremlin, and there are more FSB and paramilitary (Wagner, etc) operatives in Mexico than in any other nation besides Ukraine.
The problem with the CIA is that they want everyone to think they are the best at clandestine operations and espionage when the truth is that the KGB was always happy to play the “Ivan” and privately know they were and are the best intelligence service in the world.
Mexico’s AMLO is owned by Putin and if I had to be owned by either the modern day CIA or FSB, I’d go with the overeducated do-gooders at Langley every single time.
What they did some time ago is absolutely not irrelevant. It’s highly relevant. What do you think caused the situation that allows such people into power? Even if you somehow believe that there has been no CIA intervention in the mean time, the current situation can at least somewhat be explained by the meddling that was done in the past.
The CIA has a strategy of creating situations in which extremist groups or political exploiters take hold. Instability is a goal.
