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October 25, 2011

Report: U.S Has Built Secret Network on Informants in Mexico 
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The New York Times reports U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly
built up networks of Mexican informants that have allowed them to
secretly infiltrate some of that country’s most powerful criminal
organizations. Typically Mexico is kept in the dark about the United
States’ actions inside Mexico with its most secret informants. The
U.S. informants have reportedly helped Mexican authorities capture or
kill about two dozen high-ranking and mid-level drug traffickers. In
addition, the informants have sometimes have given American
counter-narcotics agents access to the top leaders of the cartels they
are trying to dismantle.



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