U.S. Media Ignore Mexican President’s Ties to Drug Cartels, by Ildefonso Ortiz. Here why the Mexican President Nieto fights Trump. This is the Western Hemisphere’s worst kept secret, but Obama’s goals were synergistically supported by Nieto’s actions.

U.S. news outlets appear to have forgotten that the Juarez Cartel and multiple acts of corruption have been linked to the election of the current Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto. The Mexican president’s ties to cartels, the mysterious release from prison of major cartel figures during his presidency, and the fact that regions of Mexico are under operational control of these paramilitary transnational criminal organizations during his presidency are rarely, if ever, reported in the U.S. The outrageous number of journalists who have been murdered or who have simply disappeared in Peña Nieto’s Mexico is also rarely reported. …

The examples of the Mexican president’s softness towards Mexican drug cartels could fill hundreds of pages.

The point is that U.S. media continuously ignore the realities of Mexico and the voices of the many thousands who grieve for their murdered or disappeared loved ones. U.S. media avoid holding accountable the Mexican political leaders who not only turn a blind eye to the cartels, but often directly assist these criminal groups.

This affects U.S. governmental policy and approaches to Mexico, largely leaving frustrated U.S. law enforcement agencies that are forced to balance their law enforcement priorities with diplomatic concerns with a partially failed narco-state.

hat-tip Scott of the Pacific