Controversy erupts after ATF allows illegal arms shipments to Mexico
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
- ATF agent John Dodson — CBS News photo
[Translations of two articles from Mexican newspapers on revelations that the ATF’s “Operation Fast and Furious” had permitted assault rifles to be smuggled from the United States into Mexico, where they were used by drug cartels.]
United States allowed illegal arms shipments to Mexico
Traffickers sent 1,765 weapons, one of which killed border guard
[Translation of an article from El Universal of Mexico City for March 5. See original here.]
by J. Jaime Hernández
Washington – The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) carried out an operation that allowed the shipment of thousands of weapons into Mexico over a period of more than a year and the death of a border patrol agent shot with one of those weapons last December. The operation, named “Fast and Furious,” was carried out without notifying the Mexican government. (more…)