May 21, 2001 Please Distribute Widely Series Begins Today The Citigroup-Banamex Deal The Mexican Press Speaks "In the case of Citibank's laundering of Raul Salinas' (brother of Mexico's ex-President) $200 million account... When Salinas was arrested and his large scale theft of government funds was exposed, his private bank manager at Citibank, Amy Elliott told her colleagues that 'this goes in the very, very top of the corporation, this was known...on the very top. We are little pawns in this whole thing'" - James Petras La Jornada May 19, 2001 "Why are the Mexican people going to pay, through taxes, for the financial bankruptcy of a bank that today is successful because it has foreign capital, and also, because its owners are being paid in dollars?" That, certainly, is what is being asked far and wide inside national territory. - Francisco C�rdenas Cruz El Universal May 21, 2001 Dear Colleagues, We start as we often do: by translating what the Latin American press is saying about important news and public policy regarding the war on drugs in our Am�rica. The merger announced last week of Citigroup - the largest bank in the world, and with a documented history of laundering illicit drug money - with the National Bank of Mexico (Banamex) has profound implications, and not just for Citigroup, which inherits the Banamex lawsuit against our freedom to publish and your freedom to know. >From Mexico City, Francisco C�rdenas Cruz examines The Clamor in Mexico Over Citigroup's Deal: http://www.narconews.com/pulsopolitico1.html And from SUNY Binghamton, in a column published this week in La Jornada of Mexico, James Petras reports on the drug money laundering history of Citibank and other financial giants in "Dirty Money: Foundation of U.S. Growth and Empire": http://www.narconews.com/petras1.html Keep a close watch this week on page one of Narco News. Alert anybody and everybody interested in the drug war, the economy, banking, international investments and authentic journalism: The Mexican press is raging over the Citigroup-Banamex deal and we are translating its words for all to read. More stories go up later today as part of this major series on Narco News: http://www.narconews.com/ The Drug War on Trial. Now More Than Ever. from somewhere in a country called Am�rica, Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe for free alerts of new reports: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
