López Portillo belonged to a triumvirate of former presidents — all of whom also had connections to the CIA — who waged a “dirty war” against leftist political dissenters and armed revolutionary organizations between 1964 and 1982. Under these three presidents, the Mexican Armed Forces, the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (or DFS, the notorious secret police), and paramilitary groups committed egregious human rights violations. Agents and soldiers were left to their own devices to track down, torture, rape, and kidnap peasants and students, terrorize rural communities and wreak havoc on their crops, and perform extrajudicial executions and disappearances.

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    1 year ago

    What they did some time ago is absolutely not irrelevant. It’s highly relevant. What do you think caused the situation that allows such people into power? Even if you somehow believe that there has been no CIA intervention in the mean time, the current situation can at least somewhat be explained by the meddling that was done in the past.

    The CIA has a strategy of creating situations in which extremist groups or political exploiters take hold. Instability is a goal.