Sinaloa Cartel kingpin charges DEA gave him "carte blanche" http://www.ww4report.com/node/10223

Zambada claims to have met with regional DEA directors for Latin America and Mexico at a hotel in downtown Mexico City, and received guarantees of his immunity from prosecution, shortly before his arrest. Zambada "was specifically told that he would receive immunity, not only under Loya's prior agreement, but as an agreement with him personally and approved at the highest levels of the government," his counsel said. (IPS, Aug. 9; Reuters, Aug. 6; AHN, Aug. 3)

Zambada filed notice with the federal court in March that he would assert that he had been working "on behalf of" the DEA, the FBI and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).The allegations will doubtless fuel widespread claims in Mexico that the government is tilting to the Sinaloa Cartel in the ultra-violent drug wars.

[ALSO SEE...Top Mexican Drug Lord: I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2011/04/mexican-narco-trafficker-s-revelation-exposes-drug-war-s-duplicity US Government Informant Helped Sinaloa Narcos Stay Out of Jail http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2011/08/us-government-informant-helped-sinaloa-narco-s-stay-out-jail [A.S. US Court Documents Claim Sinaloa “Cartel” Is Protected by US Government http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2011/07/us-court-documents-claim-sinaloa-cartel-protected-us-government

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