Posted on 09/24/2011 8:50:53 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
REPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY -- The United States government has yet to brief Mexican authorities on the failed Fast and Furious gun-running operation that led to scores of American weapons being smuggled purposefully into a raging drug war, Mexico's top law enforcement official told The Times.
"At no time did we know or were we made aware that there might have been arms trafficking permitted," said Atty. Gen. Marisela Morales in comments from a recent interview with Times reporters published Tuesday. "In no way would we have allowed it, because it is an attack on the safety of Mexicans."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Wow! I didn’t think it was possible to sum it all up in one sentence. Excellent! You get and A+.
From the what’s good for the goose category.
On Friday, Laura Chinchilla Miranda, the Socialist International President of Costa Rica urged the UN to help fight drug cartels.
...“As a result of our location between the largest centres of production and demand in the world, we have become a target to the dynamic of death that they both create, and we must bear the burden of extraordinary material, institutional and human costs What for the main perpetrators of these atrocities are mere ‘collateral damages,’ for Central Americans represent extreme challenges and deep wounds.”
Ms. Chinchilla added: “From here stems our greatest frustration. Thus we demand that the international community, in particular the greatest consumers of drugs and suppliers of arms that materialize the violence, assume completely and without further delay, the responsibility of their actions.”
Hmmmmm. Collateral damages. Sounds kind of familiar. Wonder if she’s planning to sue the gun makers of Central Europe? Or Hezbollah?
In that same UN confab El Salvador’s President Mauricio Funes claimed:
...“We are talking about a drug trade route that moves about $100,000 million per year, and that culminates in the biggest market in the world and the main consumer of these substances: the United States. Not even a big country like Mexico can take a step on its own and have any possibilities of success in this battle in the face of such a terrorist threat...”
Maybe Mexico can’t take a step on it’s own because it’s tripping over it’s increasing number of drug addicts laying around the plazas. Them and the dead sicarios.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39726&Cr=&Cr1=
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