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Mexican politicians, analysts and the general public are irate after learning this week that Operation Fast and Furious, the US federal program that allowed more than 2,000 military-style weapons to flow illegally into Mexico between 2009 and 2010, happens to be copycat of a previous undercover and similarly illicit sting called Wide Receiver, an operation ran between 2006 and 2007.
More than 40,000 people have been killed in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon declared war on drug cartels on December 2006, same year of the launching of Operation Wide Receiver, which officially -and conservatively speaking- allowed some 500 fire-arms to "walk" across the border and get to the hands of organized crime.
The Mexican Senate demanded President Felipe Calderon to protest before the United States government and complained about both the Fast and Furious and Wide Receiver operations, Thursday. The president of the Senate's public safety committee, Felipe Gonzalez, said that he will protest against US federal agents running secret operations in Mexican soil.
An editorial in the daily "La Jornada" regarding the two gunrunning programs, questioned whether the US is an "ally or enemy" of Mexico (link in Spanish).
"While the Bush administration negotiated and signed the Merida Initiative -agreement of bilateral assistance through which Washington made a commitment to guide, counsel and equip Mexican authorities- the artillery's capabilities of delinquent organizations south of the Rio Bravo were being fed from an office in Washington," wrote the left-leaning newspaper.
The Calderon administration has firmly protested against the cited stings and has consistently affirmed that 80 percent of the weapons seized to Mexican criminal groups have been traced back to the US. Furthermore, Mexico's attorney general Marisela Morales called Operation Fast and Furious "an attack on Mexicans' security."
Morales told the Mexican press over a week ago -at that time, unaware of the additional US gunrunning probe- she had demanded a full explanation from the United States government, and also confirmed that at least 200 murders have occurred in Mexico as a result of Operation Fast and Furious.
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Fire up the "Bush did it first" rhetoric, THAT'll take the edge off...
"The Mexican Senate demanded President Felipe Calderon to protest before the United States government and complained about both the Fast and Furious and Wide Receiver operations, Thursday. The president of the Senate's public safety committee, Felipe Gonzalez, said that he will protest against US federal agents running secret operations in Mexican soil.
An editorial in the daily "La Jornada" regarding the two gunrunning programs, questioned whether the US is an "ally or enemy" of Mexico (link in Spanish)."
I have a neighbor who is incensed about the behavior of the big banks and both political parties. Yet she says she has never ever registered to vote much less gone to the polls with an informend opinion about the issues or candidates.
In other words, the effect of her outrage is diddly squat.
The Obama administration (and maybe Bush's as well) have violated our own laws and committed a defacto act of war against the Mexican people by arming criminal organizations that pose an existential threat to the people and their government. I doubt we would look the other way if Mexicans were arming Al Qaeda.
Yet until the Mexican government does something dramatic, like closing the border crossings until Obama comes up with some straight answers, their outrage is, to borrow a phrase from John Nance Garner IV, "not worth a bucket of warm piss".
"Fire up the "Bush did it first" rhetoric"
That's exactly what this is. That's this criminal administration's answer to everything.
Perhaps the word allowed in the first paragraph sentence, the US federal program that allowed more than 2,000 military-style weapons to flow illegally into Mexico could be edited to the word subsidized. After all, did the FBI not use stimulus funds to make some of the purchases through one or more of their paid informers?
I keep PRAYING that the mex.gov will grow a pair, indict, and seek extradition of ALL OF THEM!
Regardless of how all of this turns out (maybe by 2015),I am convinced that one of the motivating reasons for the administrations of both Bush and Obama, was to destroy our 2nd Ammendment rights and help usher in the UN's Small Arms Treaty.
*snort*
@DedicatedDad-hell I keep hoping that the mexican government will stop subsidizing criminal enterprise. Not gonna happen though because for all their words..the government is own lock, stock and bother smoking barrels by the criminal syndicates.
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