US Weapons “Walked” Into Mexico Under ATF Operation Supplied Firepower for Juarez Bloodbath
A top enforcer for the Sinaloa drug organization and his army of assassins in Juarez, Mexico — responsible for a surge in violence in that city that has led to thousands of deaths in recent years — may well have been supplied hundreds, if not thousands, of weapons through an ill-fated US law-enforcement operation known as Fast and Furious...
But it is clear, based on the media reports and Mexican government press statements about Marrufo, that, prior to his arrest earlier this year, he was a “high-level ‘plaza boss,’” for the Sinaloa organization in Juarez and that he has clearly been connected to weapons that were smuggled across the border into Juarez as part of Fast and Furious. And it also seems probable, according to the Congressional and media reports, that alleged FBI informant Miramontes Varela was a major “financier for” Fast and Furious weapons purchases, weapons that eventually landed in the hands of the Sinaloa “Cartel’s” enforcers in Juarez.
okay..this isn’t funny..but I laughed anyway at the irony
Also accompanying Kennedy, president of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, was Mexican human-rights defender Abel Barrera as well as a team of lawyers — who attempted to point out to the military-unit commander that the soldiers were violating Mexican law, but to no avail.
“We were stopped, harassed, threatened and detained by eight soldiers in battle fatigues brandishing automatic weapons,” Kennedy writes in a recent op/ed penned for the Inter Press Service, in which she recounts her experience.
But Kennedy and her daughter, this past weekend, were spared the fate of assassination at the hands of a drug-war enabled, power-drunk Mexican military squad, possibly armed with US-supplied weapons and bullets. She and her daughter, and their traveling party, after a half hour of nail-biting agony, were allowed through the Mexican military checkpoint and went on to visit the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe.