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Mexico's President said the U.S. can still apologize for the botched Obama-era "Fast and Furious" gun-running scheme
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador reignited demands this week for either clarity or an apology over a botched Obama-era United States gun-running operation dubbed "Fast and Furious."
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"Fast and Furious" was a 2009-2011 program by the Obama administration to quote "sell guns to cartels as to track them", leading to the accidental loss of thousands of high end guns and lives into cartel hands. This plan originates from the Bush administration when they had Project Gunrunner in 2005 in Texas and later expanded it nationwide in 2006. Later this evolved into the Bush Administration's "Wide Receiver" in Arizona, which served as the basis for the much more expansive "Fast and Furious" program. Specifically the incidents leading to the downfall and exaltation occurred during 2009-2011 when deaths started pilling up and US border patrol was meeting stiff resistance. This led to loss of at least one US border agent, an ICE Agent, people in the Mexican army and Mexican civilians. These guns included 50 cals, FN Five-sevens (pistol that shoots through soft armor border agents wear) and guns with punisher skull accessories. Even early on, after 200 guns were found at crimes scenes throughout Mexico and the death of a US border agent, the operation still continued despite literally no indictments up to that point.
Arming one cartel member is too much, arming thousands with advanced guns is an unmitigated disaster that still has consequences today. The funniest thing is of the guns they were able to track, the majority ended up in the hands of Mexicans legally living in the US, not cartels honchos like they expected. Although it was later found in El Chapo's den that he had at least one of these guns, there was 2 found in a shootout with the Mexican military and a dozens were found in connection to the death of an ICE officer.
>Why bring this up 10 years after the fact?
The issue has been taboo for awhile in both countries and a settlement put through although the Justice Department didn't fully agree. This wasn't brought up until last week, however in December 2019 the former Mexican minister for security was arrested in Texas on drug trafficking charges for allowing the Sinaloa Cartel to operate in Mexico for years in exchanged for cash, while both the Obama Administration and Calderón administration knew. Eric Holder clearly knew and decided to obstruct justice.
Recent address by Mexico's foreign minister:
Obama lying on Univision about his, Eric Holder and the Mexican's governments knowledge of this and then refused to release the documents until four years after, 2016:
>Will this happen, what will happened?
I don't know but it's hard to tell with the current Mexican President, he's a true wild card being a left wing populist who totally supports Maduro. Most Mexican presidents are US puppets, but this guy seems to oppose the US' imperialism. I would hope Trump is willing to do an investigation into the whole thing, but I wouldn't be surprised if the US was still using similar methods.
However now, the Mexican government is pushing Trump to provide some answers as to what went on exactly and if the former president was involved, seeing as the former security minister got charged with taking millions in allowing the Sinaloa cartel to thrive with info and safe passage for drug transportation.
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