May 2, 2001
Narco News 2001
Together
Again
Roberto
Hernández and Ernesto Zedillo
A report by Vértigo
Magazine
April 22, 2001
Mexican Secret
Service Prohibits Scuba-Diving in Cancun
Translated by The Narco News Bulletin
There
are probably two companies within the
Presidential Secret Service: one that works in a government of
transition, and another that operates as it did in the old regime:
that is to say, the PRI era. That was the tone that residents
and vacationers adopted - full of fear and indignation - now
that having experienced the response of the citizenry on July
2nd elections, the plain liberty that was hoped for still doesn't
arrive.
It turns out that on April 13th, a group
of friends went scuba-diving inside a cenote (earth-fed
spring) near Cancún. As is normal, or at least should
be, since individual rights have not yet been suspended in the
United States of Mexico, the scuba divers spent some 15 minutes
underwater when they felt strong tugs on the cable meant to guide
them back to surface. As authentic hobbyists of this sport know,
if the cable is pulled it means that the guide at the surface
is signaling an emergency and, because of that, they came out
of the water.
There, on the surface, they received a
strict order: "Abandon this place immediately… if you
would be so kind," clearly, with guns pointed at them. The
emissaries of the unquestionable order: personnel of the Presidential
Secret Service. Why did they want the place vacated? So that
new visitors could enjoy it in sacred peace.
All the arbitrariness was because Ernesto
Zedillo Ponce de Leon, ex-president of Mexico, and Roberto Hernandez,
the partner of Banamex - of Foxism and Salinism - desired that
the place would be solely for their exclusive use.
Vertigo Magazine, Mexico,
April 22, 2001
Diving
for the Facts