Conroy: U.S., Mexican Justice Officials Peddle "Trust" in the Shadow of the Alamo
October 15, 2005
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Bill Conroy reports the following from San Antonio, Texas in the Narcosphere:
"U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the attorney general of Mexico, Daniel Cabeza de Vaca, blew into San
Antonio, Texas, earlier this week to announce a new 'compadre alliance' between the two nations in the assault on
narco-violence along the border.
"The two attorneys general held a press conference in an up-scale downtown hotel to lay out to the assembled media a new
program of 'bilateral cooperation' that is designed, according to Cabeza de Vaca, to put a 'chokehold' on the violent
criminal activity afflicting the major narco-corridors traversing the border.
"But as with most state-sponsored programs built around the pretense of the supposed war on drugs, there seemed to be
more hype than substance presented at this press conference - which served as the penultimate public moment of a
conference of bureaucrats held in an opulent hotel, on the taxpayers' dime no doubt.
"For those law enforcers present at this spin conference - those who truly are dedicated to stemming the violence
spawned by prohibition - well, they must have been looking toward the ceiling as the attorneys general spoke in
doublespeak in two languages to media gatekeepers in a plush ballroom at the St. Anthony-Wyndahm Hotel - which is
located only a few blocks from the Alamo, the scene of a still famous occurrence of bilateral border violence in another
century."
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From somewhere in a country called América,
Dan Feder
Managing Editor
The Narco News Bulletin