“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Clearly, the increase in guns has increased politeness in the cartel wars.
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Since “Project Gunrunner” began in 2008, over 30,000 cartel-related deaths have been recorded in Mexico. Thus far, the only reported successes from these operations appear to be the arrest of 20 arms traffickers by the ATF this January. Given the immeasurable damage that these operations are likely to have caused, and the little information available on them so far, both governments still have a lot of explaining to do – and soon.
In between the two excerpts, the story explores the PR aspects of the story. The American and Mexican governments said different things about who knew how much and when. Both governments agree that, although the Mexican government was briefed on the sting, they were not informed that it involved releasing more guns into the Mexican killing zones.
