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Role of Opaque Gun Sales in Mexico
The problem: Federal authorities say more than 60,000 U.S. guns of all types have been recovered in Mexico in the past four years, helping fuel the violence that has contributed to 30,000 deaths. Corruption: As an unprecedented number of American … Continue reading
VF on Mexico’s Ongoing Collapse
is a must read article. Here’s the upcoming book by the author, Ed Vulliamy. “I used to call my town a city of two economies,” Cardona explains, “one legal, the other illegal. But now that both are globalized, the dividing … Continue reading
Escalating the Border War
J.C. Gonzalez, the brother of Pfc. James Gonzalez, 24, said the soldier has been missing for about a week. He said the FBI told the family that the Army had received a call demanding a $100,000 in ransom money and … Continue reading