Hacker News Reader

The US government has an unofficial alliance with the Sinaloa cartel.

It's always been my guess that Fast & Furious was about supplying arms to them, or at least that makes more sense than "gathering information" as an objective.

View on HN

As a mexican, this is interesting to me. Any more info/sources?

I don't know what the parent is referring to recently, but years ago Wikileaks had a Stratfor memo during the violence of the Zetas which gave 'tacit' approval to Sinoloa. https://www.businessinsider.com/stratfor-the-us-works-with-c...

https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/17/1747720_re-fwd-re-fw-f...

I'm also referring to the testimony of Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, a former high-ranking member and son of the leader of the Sinaloa cartel.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2014/01/14/was-operat...

Biiiingo.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com