Do U.S. government arms exports play a part in arming Mexican cartels?
Mexican government corruption is not exactly a big secret: Mexican government, police and military units struggle with corruption and direct links to drug cartels and immigrant smugglers. That creates problems when U.S. or border state officials looking to coordinate efforts. Information and intelligence sharing can often end up in the hands of organized criminal syndicates and cartels. How unsurprising, therefore, to find that in spite of the media-driven claim that cartels get 90 % of their guns from the U.S. that the promulgators of that lie don’t look at a more likely source of military-grade U.S. guns, government-to-government transfers. I received the following from “Carl in Chicago,” unnamed due to professional considerations. What he has to say deserves to be investigated. He has graciously consented to allow me to reproduce his missive in its entirety, which I will now do.
