{"id":23114,"date":"2011-04-28T09:24:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T13:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23114"},"modified":"2011-04-28T09:24:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T13:24:43","slug":"fox-news-is-the-u-s-arming-mexican-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23114","title":{"rendered":"Fox News: Is the U.S. Arming Mexican Cartels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Fox news article asks &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/04\/28\/americas-war-arming-mexican-cartels\/\">Is the U.S. Arming Mexican Cartels?<\/a>&#8220;. The answer seems to be that we are;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to leaked diplomatic cables, there are three sources.<\/p>\n<p>1. U.S. Defense Department shipments to Latin America, known and tracked by the U.S. State Department as &#8220;foreign military sales.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2. Weapons ordered by the Mexican government, tracked by the State Department as &#8220;direct commercial sales.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3. Aging, but plentiful arsenals of military weapon stores in Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p>Even though these facts were well-known by the Obama administration, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder, it blamed much of the violence in Mexico on U.S. gun stores.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Legal domestic gun sales always seem to be the target of this administration, despite the fact that they know better. Especially since apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2011\/03\/03\/eveningnews\/main20039031.shtml\">the BATFE let weapons &#8220;walk&#8221; to Mexico<\/a> as part of their investigations. <\/p>\n<p>Deflecting blame is not the way to solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Fox news article asks &#8220;Is the U.S. Arming Mexican Cartels?&#8220;. The answer seems to be &hellip; <a title=\"Fox News: Is the U.S. Arming Mexican Cartels?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23114\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fox News: Is the U.S. Arming Mexican Cartels?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}