Accuracy in Media

The dangerous drug cartel leader escaped once from prison. Can he do it again? Photo by Speaker resources

This raises a lot of ethical questions, that actor Sean Penn and Rolling Stone interviewed a known fugitive and drug cartel boss who was on the run from authorities. Photo by UNclimatechange

This is probably because he escaped from a high-security prison in Mexico.

You can’t make this up, the headlines write themselves (via the Free Beacon): Fresh off his astounding escape from a Mexican prison, Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is warning the Islamic State against interfering with his drug cartel’s operations. CartelBlog reports that the Islamic State has been destroying Sinaloa’s drug shipments—Islamic law strictly […]

The Free Beacon reported that a helicopter had to land due to being shot at: “A shooting incident last month that forced a U.S. border patrol helicopter to make an emergency landing near Laredo, Texas, was the work of Mexican drug traffickers, and analysts say the attack highlights growing narcotics trafficking across porous U.S. borders.” […]

He escaped from a maximum-security prison in Mexico, which embarrassed Mexico’s president and severely disappointed American officials.

As Fox News reported: “Members and associates from 239 different gangs were arrested in 282 cities across the U.S. during what’s been called Project Wildfire, a six-week operation that included 215 state, local and federal law enforcement agencies. Already at least 913 people have been charged with criminal offenses as a result of the operation, […]

So, why aren’t we arming or at least trying to protect our border? But, it also brings up a good point about the demand for drugs from Latin America, which only fuels efforts to smuggle drugs into the U.S., like this tunnel discovery shows.