 card number 25 drug tunnel the Mexican connection card number 25 Mexico is the largest source of marijuana and heroin entering the US and the transit point for nearly 70% of US bound cocaine as well. Among the more ingenious smuggling routes was an elaborate tunnel under the border to Arizona which was unearthed in 1990. Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari's recent roundup of major traffickers has not halted the flow of drugs between because corruption is endemic in Mexico's police and armed forces. It has however led to the US providing $17 million in military and police equipment. In the past Mexican officials have used such aid to destroy rival drug producers as well as to terrorize the populace, a practice which according to the America's Watch continues. The most infamous Mexican narcotics police outfit was the recently disbanded federal security direct turret DFS. For 45 years the DFS supplied CI agents such as E. Howard Hunt with counterintelligence information. By the 1970s, Hunt's Bay of Pig, Pig's colleague Alberto Cecily Falcón was the most important drug lord in Mexico. DFS members acted as bodyguards for Mexica's top traffickers and established huge marijuana plantations. They also organized the Guadalajara cartel which has shipped more cocaine to the US than any other syndicate for providing protection, logistics and removal of competition. The DFS took 25% of the cartel's profits. Former DFS DFS chief Miguel Nazar Haro, mastermind of the Guadalajara cartel was on the CIA payroll for a decade. He was indicted in 1982 for running a stolen car ring but the CIA blocked his prosecution calling him there quote most important source in Mexico. When the US attorney who brought the case objected to CIA obstruction, he was fired. Don't mess with the CIA. You lose your job or your life.