Last year there were 23,000 homicides in Mexico, a level surpassed only by Syria. The record breaking homicide rate in Mexico is directly linked to large international banks. The illegal trade in heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana wouldn’t be possible without the money laundering services of large banks. Every major bank in the US has served as an active financial partner with drug cartels. The banks include HSBC, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Western Union, Citibank, and JP Morgan, in addition to overseas banks operating out of New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and London. Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel and Colombia’s Norte del Valle cartel laundered nearly 900 million through HSBC. The bank was slapped on the wrist and told to pay a $1.9 billion fine. Nobody went to prison. Banks, corporations, and governments have dealt drugs for centuries. The opium trade began in the early 1700s as an official monopoly of the British East India Company, which conquered India, and ran it on behalf of the British Crown and the financiers operating through the City of London. CIA involvement in the illicit drug trade is well documented. The CIA was created by Wall Street investment bankers to do their dirty work overseas and at home. Sociopaths have no aversion to murder, theft, torture, and social harm created by drug addiction. It’s simply another business model.

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Show Notes

Mexico Is World's Second Most Violent Country, Report Says

Mexico's bloody drug war is killing more people than ever

Banks Launder Billions of Illegal Cartel Money While Snubbing Legal Marijuana Businesses

HSBC escaped US money-laundering charges after Osborne's intervention

How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs

Money Laundering and The Drug Trade: The Role of the Banks

HSBC Bank: Secret Origins To Laundering The World's Drug Money

Death, drugs, and HSBC: Fraudulent blood money makes the world go round

Saudi banks, bin Laden companies sued by US insurers over 9/11 terror attacks

The Crimes of Mena

Imperialism: Bankers, Drug Wars and Genocide. Mexico’s Descent into Inferno

Victims of the Mexican Drug War Are Suing the Banks that Handled the Cartel’s Money

Rise of the National Security State: The CIA’s links to Wall Street

Involvement of American Banks, CIA in Drug Trade

Mexican drug cartels and the U.S. banking industry