The left-leaning Mexican journal La Jornada , which is published out of Mexico’s National Autonomous
University (UNAM), reported on
September 28 that the August 24 ambush by Mexican federal police on a
United States embassy vehicle may have been called out as a revenge attack by
remnants the Beltrán Leyva cartel. That story has now been “broken” by an Associated
Press (AP) “exclusive” on October 2nd.
If true, this an
unusual turn of events, given that, after years of suffering defeats at the
hands of the Mexican government and rival cartels, authorities had declared the Beltrán Leyva cartel disbanded and, effectively, out of
business. What isn’t odd, as we shall see, is that remnants of Beltrán Leyva
might engage in extreme acts of vengeance.
A Mexican Navy captain called for help from within the U.S. embassy vehicle
To support its report, AP cited a Mexican official as saying
that investigators are now looking at the Beltran Leyva Cartel as the source of
the ambush. A senior U.S. official also pointed to “strong circumstantial
evidence” that the police, who wounded two CIA agents in the attack, were
working for organized crime. The CIA agents have since returned to the United
States.
