Here is an excerpt from my article on Examiner.com, based on information from KREM 2 News:
"An international group of computer experts was recently kicked out of Mexico for using a unique computer program to track drug cartel payoffs to police and government officials. The 
program was immediately and hugely successful, resulting in the arrests of 92 Mexican municipal police officers. But apparently, no good deed goes unpunished. KREM 2 News reported that one day after those arrests occurred in late June, the team was rounded up, taken to an airport and kicked out of the country. They never got paid and all their hardware and special computer programs were left behind... According to KREM, this secret panel of computer experts was formed to help combat the problem, including Mark, because payoffs reached all the way into the Office of the Mexican Attorney General."
To read the rest of this article and watch the KREM video on this story (includes interview with "Mark"), CLICK HERE.
"...payoffs reached all the way into the Office of the Mexican Attorney General."
Would that be into the office of, or actually including Eduardo Medina Mora, who just tendered his resignation to President Calderon?
"No reason was given for Eduardo Medina Mora's departure, but the president thanked him for his 'brave work'."
I hope there isn't backlash against the computer experts who accepted the invitation to combat the corruption problems, only to be unceremoniously kicked out of the country (and basically robbed of their hardware/software and stiffed on payment). Who would blame them if they refuse a 2nd request?
Posted by: K. Meyer | September 08, 2009 at 12:33 AM
K. - Thanks for the comment! I just posted my analysis on the Cabinet changes. Who knows exactly what was going on with Mora? He was described as an "average performer" by a former high-level member of Calderon's government. Although there's no hard evidence he was dirty, it's always tough to know for sure.
Posted by: Sylvia Longmire | September 08, 2009 at 08:34 AM