News More Predator drones fly U.S.-Mexico border
12-22-2011
Washington Post
In the dead of night, from a trailer humming with surveillance monitors, a pilot for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency was remotely flying a Predator drone more than 1,000 miles away.
From an altitude of 15,000 feet, over the desert ra
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News Out of every 4 guns the US sells to the Mexican gov't, 1 goes to the cartels.
12-07-2011
CBS News
The problem is so bad, the State Dept. no longer reports how many gun sales to Mexico it approves. But in the last year reported publicly (2009), nearly 20,000 guns were sold to Mexico. That's 5,000 in cartel hands.
News Mexican presidential hopeful vows drugs war shift
10-26-2011
Reuters
A leading presidential candidate of Mexico's ruling party said on Wednesday he would break with government policy and withdraw the army from the fight against drug gangs if he wins the election in 2012.
News Break Up the US: It's Far too Big To Be Anything but a Global and Domesic Menace
10-17-2011
Lew Rockwell
"....it makes for easier economic integration with Mexico, the article glowingly points out. But even if secession is for the elite-serving purpose of more efficiently-managed economic units rather than restoring self-government and liberty
News "Grenade-walking" part of "Gunwalker" scandal
10-16-2011
CBS News (video)
the investigation into the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)'s so-called "Fast and Furious" operation branches out to a case involving grenades. Sources tell her a suspect was left to traffic and manufacture them for Mexican d
News Fast and Furious guns tied to second violent crime
09-09-2011
LA Times
In the second violent crime in this country connected with the ATFs failed Fast and Furious program, two Arizona undercover police officers were assaulted when they attempted to stop two men in a stolen vehicle with two of the program's weapons
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News US Authorities Investigate Incursion By Mexican Federal Police
09-02-2011
ABC News
An ABC-7 viewer contacted the station early Thursday, saying her son, husband and friends were hunting on the Rio Grande levy on the U.S. side when men on the Mexico side fired shots, narrowly missing them. She said more men on the Mexico side drove
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News U.S. Widens Role in Battle Against Mexican Drug Cartels
08-08-2011
NY Times
Officials on both sides of the border say the new efforts have been devised to get around Mexican laws that prohibit foreign military and police from operating on its soil, and to prevent advanced American surveillance technology from falling under t
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News Guns from U.S. sting found at Mexican crime scenes
07-26-2011
Reuters
At least 122 firearms from a botched U.S. undercover operation have been found at crime scenes in Mexico or intercepted en route to drug cartels there, a Republican congressional report issued on Tuesday said.
Mexican authorities found AK-47 assau
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Headlines: Guns from U.S. sting found at Mexican crime scenes -- U.S. Widens Role in Battle Against Mexican Drug Cartels -- US Authorities Investigate Incursion By Mexican Federal Police -- Fast and Furious guns tied to second violent crime -- "Grenade-walking" part of "Gunwalker" scandal -- Break Up the US: It's Far too Big To Be Anything but a Global and Domesic Menace -- Mexican presidential hopeful vows drugs war shift -- Out of every 4 guns the US sells to the Mexican gov't, 1 goes to the cartels. -- More Predator drones fly U.S.-Mexico border --