Begin forwarded message:
From: "David B. Briones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: March 12, 2007 12:31:11 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [narconews] Giordano: Accused Narco Banker to Host Bush-
Calderón Meeting
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
March 12, 2007
Please Distribute Widely
Dear Colleague,
In 1999 Narco News’ Al Giordano reported on an "anti-drug" summit
between the President of the United States and his counterpart in
Mexico held on land owned by then President of Banamex, Roberto
Hernández Ramírez. While the mainstream media was reporting this
event as a positive step against drug-trafficking, Mexican
newspaper Por Esto! reported the dirty truth behind the scenes.
Banamex went on to sue Por Esto! and Narco News in the New York
Supreme Court, only to have the move backfire on them.
Giordano reports:
"...By July of that year, Narco News, the Por Esto! publisher Mario
Menéndez Rodríguez and I found ourselves as defendants in the New
York Supreme Court from a lawsuit filed by Banamex. The bank had
hired the mega-lobbying and law firm Akin Gump, of Washington DC,
to harass us with that nuisance suit. More than a year of our lives
was dominated by the painstaking presentation of all the evidence
to the Court. In December 2001, the New York Supreme Court
delivered a thunderous blow to Banamex (by then part of Citigroup,
the world's wealthiest financial institution): it dismissed
Banamex's case, and established, for the first time, First
Amendment protections for Internet journalists in the United States.
"...Eight years later, both countries have new presidents, and both
rose to those posts via brazen acts of electoral fraud. Today, Air
Force One will deliver George W. Bush to the Yucatán capital of
Mérida, where he will hold two days of meetings with his Mexican
counterpart Felipe Calderón. Part of those meetings will be held at
the same Temozon Sur Hacienda of Roberto Hernández where Clinton
and Zedillo met in 1999. The hotel zone of Mérida and the town of
Temozon Sur are today 'under siege' by more than 3,000 US and
Mexican soldiers and police officers; 900 of whom are camped out in
tents behind the Hyatt Regency and the Fiesta Americana. Residents
of these places are blocked from walking in their own
neighborhoods. Demonstrators are kept walled out miles away. The
corporate media will - if past is prologue - withhold the
uncomfortable facts from the public about the narco hacienda where
the presidents will meet but it will, no doubt, quote the
presidents as they praise each other's heroism in the so-called
fight against drug trafficking."
Read Giordano’s full report, as well as other breaking news from
Latin America and the Drug War, at The Narco News Bulletin:
http://www.narconews.com
From somewhere in a country called América,
David B. Briones
Webmaster
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com
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