Archive for the 'Central America' Category

(AJC) – Patrick Henningsen interviews elected state officials in Arizona and provides a broad primer to the Fast and Furious scandal that has been going on under different names for decades Read the rest of this entry »

(DailyCaller) – A spokeswoman for House oversight committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa told The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric Holder could still avoid the contempt of Congress proceedings on the horizon — if he cooperates with the congressional subpoena he’s thus far failed to comply with.

“The Justice Department can still avoid contempt,” Issa spokeswoman Becca Watkins told TheDC. “They need to pledge their cooperation and stop stonewalling on critical documents outlined by the committee in the draft contempt report.” Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – Infowars.com travels to Arizona with Patrick Henningsen for a special report investigating the open border crisis and Arizona’s battle for states rights against a federal government who is suing the state over the controversial SB 1070 law, a case currently being heard in the US Supreme Court. Read the rest of this entry »

(DailyCaller) – In a shocking development in the Operation Fast and Furious investigation, documents show Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents allowed grenade parts to walk in addition to guns.

The emails also show Obama administration officials acknowledging that they may lose track of grenades but would still be able to accomplish their original objective even if the grenades explode. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – Walmart covered up millions of dollars in bribes paid out year after year to officials all over Mexico in order to obtain and expedite building its stores. Read the rest of this entry »

(WashFreeBeacon) – The Department of Justice is using the liberal “watchdog” group Media Matters for America to deflect questions about the Fast and Furious scandal, including those regarding a gun that might have been used in the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

A new book raises questions as to whether the FBI hid the existence of a weapon recovered at the scene of murdered U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. Conservative commentator and author Katie Pavlich lays out evidence she says points to a FBI cover-up to protect a confidential informant in her recently releasedbook, Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-up, Read the rest of this entry »

(ElPasoTimes) – Apri 18th, 2012 – A U.S. truck driver was arrested after 268,000 rounds of ammunition were found in a tractor-trailer in Juárez by Mexican customs agents at the Bridge of the Americas on Tuesday afternoon. El Paso Times photos. View Here

See Also: (BorderlandBeat) – The Cleansing by El Chapo in Zeta Turf – (Discretion advised, extremely graphic material.) – View Here

(IntelHub) – With the demise of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the U.S. has essentially put Canada and Mexico on separate tracks.

It has pursued dual-bilateralism with both its NAFTA partners as the primary means of advancing continental integration with regards to trade, regulatory and security initiatives. Read the rest of this entry »

(Fox) – The investigation of Operation Fast and Furious escalated this past week as Fox News learned a leak at the Justice Department is providing documents to the Congressional investigators.

The scope of investigation also includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which records show failed to tell ATF its own confidential informants were helping finance the illegal gun purchases.

Eduardo and Jesus A. Miramontes-Varela, Mexican nationals born in Juarez worked for the Sinaloa Cartel when they became informants for the FBI in 2009, according to sources. Read more

(GRTV) – As US troops deploy to the Mexican border to deal with the fallout of Fast and Furious, details continue to emerge about this flagrantly illegal operation to arm Mexican drug lords in a supposed sting operation. But as veteran investigative journalist Bill Conroy points out, operations like this were going on years prior to Fast and Furious and this latest scandal is just another example of a drug war that is not what it is believed to be. This is the GRTV Feature interview with your host James Corbett and our special guest, Bill Conroy. Read the rest of this entry »

Bizarre Coincidence: Government-run simulation also had earthquake measuring 7.9 on Richter scale

(PaulWatson) – Fears amongst some that governments are experimenting with technology that can trigger seismic events have heightened following the bizarre occurrence of yesterday’s Mexican earthquake coinciding with a government drill that was scheduled to take place at precisely the same time simulating an earthquake of the exact same magnitude. Read the rest of this entry »

(BeYourOwnLeader) – Through a series of bilateral meetings, U.S. and Canadian officials are busy working out the details of the perimeter security action plan. This includes a recent joint crime forum which dealt with border and law enforcement issues. These various discussions are part of the implementation process which when finished would bring about the complete transformation of the northern border and another step closer in the creation of a fully integrated North American security perimeter.  Read the rest of this entry »

(DailyCaller) – Republican Reps. Reid Ribble of Wisconsin and Bob Goodlatte of Virginia have signed on to a House resolution of “no confidence” in Attorney General Eric Holder over his role in Operation Fast and Furious.

With their signatures, a total of 120 U.S. House members have now either publicly demanded Holder’s resignation, expressed no confidence in his job performance via a formal House resolution, or both. Read the rest of this entry »

(Fair) – This week on CounterSpin: Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan provided a real-life example of something many corporate pundits say they’ve longed to see: A Palestinian activist pursuing non-violent resistance. And yet his 66 day hunger strike to protest Israel’s policies of detaining Palestinains for months at a times without charge didn’t draw much media attention. We’ll talk to Yousef Munayyer of the Palestine Center about that. Read the rest of this entry »

(BeYourOwnLeader) – In a move that went largely unnoticed, the U.S. government unveiled a new counter-narcotics strategy for the northern border which will work towards closer cooperation with Canada in the war on drugs. This includes both countries strengthening integrated cross-border intelligence sharing and law enforcement operations. Canada has also released a comprehensive counter-terrorism plan aimed at combating the threats of domestic and international violent extremism. The separate U.S.-Canada undertakings are both tied to the Beyond the Border deal and efforts to establish a North American security perimeter. Read the rest of this entry »

(AmericanFreePress) – Republican lawmakers on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee called on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign even as the country’s top lawyer dodged questions about his involvement in what many are calling a criminal scheme by the U.S. government to traffic weapons to Mexican drug gangs. Read the rest of this entry »

(VillageVoice) – Investigators with the Drug Enforcement Agency helped a Mexican narcotics kingpin transfer million of dollars in illegal cash profits, the New York Times reports today. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (DailyCaller) – Holder may be holding on to private emails about Fast and Furious – Read More Here

(KurtNimmo) – Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, who claims to have a faulty memory about Operation Fast and Furious, the effort to arm murderous Mexican drug cartels, will be in Austin, Texas, tomorrow, December 13. Read the rest of this entry »

The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)

(ChavezCode) – While much of the world is in crisis and protests are erupting throughout Europe and the United States, Latin American and Caribbean nations are building consensus, advancing social justice and increasing positive cooperation in the region. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – A CBS report on December 6 reveals that the U.S. government has legally sold thousands of weapons to the Mexican government and the firearms have ended up in the hands of the country’s violent drug cartels. Read the rest of this entry »

(DailyCaller) – On Thursday morning, Attorney General Eric Holder will appear before the House Judiciary Committee and he’s set to get grilled over Operation Fast and Furious. – Read the rest of this entry »

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

(ActivistPost) – Illegal immigration is a very emotional subject, especially in the border states that are most affected. Illegal immigrants are easy scapegoats for politicians to pin their failures on for budget problems, the violent ramifications of the drug war, the lack of jobs for Americans, etc. Read the rest of this entry »

(NYTimes) – Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials. Read the rest of this entry »

(HSToday.US) – Citizens of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico were stunned to see two beheaded and disemboweled corpses hanging from a highway overpass in early September. It wasn’t because they’d never been exposed to this level of brutality by Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), but rather it was because of the message that was left with the bodies signed by Los Zetas. The note implied the two unidentified males were savagely killed for using social media against them. Read the rest of this entry »

(TheMonitor) – Gunmen crossed the Rio Grande into the United States near a shootout between where the Mexican military and a group of gunmen was taking place.

Several area SWAT teams responded about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday to a ranch near Escobares, just across the U.S.-Mexico border, where a shootout broke out south of the Rio Grande. Read the rest of this entry »

Over two dozen Republicans call for Holder to resign

(PaulWatson) – Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu joined over two dozen Republican lawmakers in calling on Attorney General Eric Holder’s to resign over Operation Fast and Furious, the gunrunning program that saw the ATF deliver some 2,000 guns directly into the hands of Mexican drug gangs, labeling the scandal worse than the Watergate cover-up that brought down the Nixon White House. Read the rest of this entry »

The Real Lords of the Trillion-Dollar Narco-Sphere

(BoilingFrogsPost) – ‘Two’:I am reading the new sensational headlines on Honduras’ now internationally recognized statusas the Western Hemisphere’s major Cocaine Hub: Read the rest of this entry »

(CNN) – Could a Mexican drug cartel be the next target for a group of hackers known for online attacks against banks and government institutions?

A video purportedly from the international hacker ring Anonymous threatens the Zetas, warning that the names, photographs and addresses of cartel supporters can be published “if necessary.”

“We cannot defend ourselves with a weapon,” a masked man says. “But we can do this with their cars, homes, bars and whatever else they possess. It will not be difficult. All of us know who they are and where they are located.” Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – The Stop Online Piracy Act introduced in Congress and its ramifications for the First Amendment.
DHS boss Napolitano’s knowledge of the ATF’s gun-running to Mexican drug cartels despite her claim she did not know until only recently about the op. Read the rest of this entry »

DHS chief tells House committee she had nothing to do with gun running scandal, when she helped launch precursor to the program in 2009 -

(PaulWatson) – Despite telling a House Judiciary Committee yesterday that she only learned of operation Fast and Furious in December last year when the controversy went public, Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano actually helped launch the previous incarnation of the program, Project Gunrunner, at a White House press conference in March 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (PaulWatson) – Feds Trafficked Guns To Suspected Criminals Under Bush – Read More Here

(CBS) – “In this case, these inconsistencies and the fact that the family is still not getting the kind treatment you would expect as crime victims — and crime victims of a law enforcement officer’s family — cause us to say, ‘Well, let’s look at the FBI.’ Kenneth Nelson and other cooperating witnesses have made it clear that there is a general pattern of ‘play a shell game with Congress, we’ll take care of this ourselves.’ And, as you know, the FBI has a history — in some cases — of working with felons and criminals and hiding their other crimes in order to keep an investigation going. We thought that was behind us, but it might not be.” Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – Aaron sits in while Alex is away, and breaks down the latest from operation, ‘Fast & Furious’ leading into another Government fairytale about Iran being involved with mexican drug cartels plotting to kill a saudi Ambassador. Read the rest of this entry »

(LATimes) – High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF’s Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the purported top Sinaloa cartel enforcer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, whose organization was terrorizing that city with the worst violence in the Mexican drug wars. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – In 2008, Sen. Barack Obama was vying for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination and the soon-to-be chief executive made a pledge that, if elected, he would preside over the most open, transparent administration in history. He promised to support an outright ban on gifts, to ensure that people working for his administration were prohibited from lobbying the same administration. He also vowed to have more open meetings and a five-day public review for legislation. Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – Alex talks about the shocking news out of Honduras of 23 farmers killed by UN Thugs to Steal land for carbon tax money. Read the rest of this entry »

(TheAmericanDream) – Could Fast and Furious be the scandal that brings down the Obama administration?  With the full knowledge of the Department of Justice, ATF agents facilitated the sale of thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels and dropped all surveillance of those weapons once they crossed the border.  Weapons sold during Operation Fast and Furious have been used to shoot U.S. border control agents.  Read the rest of this entry »

Mainstream Media Assists Government in Cloaking Evidence of an Ugly Duplicity in the So-Called Drug War

(BoilingFrogsPost) – On Saturday, October 1, 2011, investigative journalist Bill Conroy of the Narcosphere reportedscandalous and highly troubling new developments in the criminal case against accused Mexican narco-trafficker Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla. The breaking story unravels the U.S. government’s ugly national-security interests in the drug war by exposing a quid pro quo deal between the US government and the most powerful international narco-trafficking organization on the planet- the Sinaloa “Cartel,” and the US government’s recent attempt to cover this up by filing a motion in the case seeking to invoke the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), a measure designed to assure national security information does not become public during court proceedings. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (FoxNews) – Obama’s Nixon Moment – House Republicans Request Special Counsel to Probe Holder on ‘Fast and Furious’ – Read More Here

(CBS) – New documents obtained by CBS News show Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings on the controversial “Fast and Furious” operation as far back as July 2010. That directly contradicts his statement to Congress. Read the rest of this entry »

(PaulWatson) – UN-accredited companies violently seize land to grow biofuels as part of carbon trading scheme Read the rest of this entry »

(BreitbartTV) – Sheriff Paul Babeu implicates Eric Holder and the Obama Justice Department as accomplices in the crimes involving weapons used in the “Fast and Furious” scandal. Read the rest of this entry »

(FoxNews) – Not only did U.S. officials approve, allow and assist in the sale of more than 2,000 guns to the Sinaloa cartel — the federal government used taxpayer money to buy semi-automatic weapons, sold them to criminals and then watched as the guns disappeared. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (NaturalNews) – Secret recordings emerge over Operation Fast and Furious and the ATF’s conspiracy to put more guns into the hands of Mexican drug gangs – Mike Adams – Read More Here

(CNSNews) – Skeptical that Attorney General Eric Holder and other Obama administration officials did not know about the botched gun-walking operation carried out by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives along the Southwest border, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wants to see a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the matter. Read the rest of this entry »

(LATimes) – In the fall of 2009, ATF agents installed a secret phone line and hidden cameras in a ceiling panel and wall at Andre Howard’s Lone Wolf gun store. They gave him one basic instruction: Sell guns to every illegal purchaser who walks through the door.

For 15 months, Howard did as he was told. To customers with phony IDs or wads of cash he normally would have turned away, he sold pistols, rifles and semiautomatics. He was assured by the ATF that they would follow the guns, and that the surveillance would lead the agents to the violent Mexican drug cartels on the Southwest border.

When Howard heard nothing about any arrests, he questioned the agents. Keep selling, they told him. So hundreds of thousands of dollars more in weapons, including .50-caliber sniper rifles, walked out of the front door of his store in a Glendale, Ariz., strip mall.  – Source: Los Angeles Times

(KurtNimmo) – In March, Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano declared security along the U.S-Mexican border “is better now than it ever has been.” Napolitano boasted about Congress approving funds for two new unmanned aircraft systems, the erection of two new forward operating bases, 250 Customs and Border Protection port offices and 250 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (RawStory) – Rice University marching band mocks Rick Perry – Read More Here

(NewAmerican) – As media attention intensifies about Texas Governor Rick Perry’s run for the presidential nomination, an activist in Tyler, Texas, was prompted to say “More checking under the hood needed before we buy the car,” according to the Dallas Morning News (DMN). Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – Larry Pratt, director of Gun Owners of America, joins Alex to talk about Operation Fast and Furious, the covert ATF effort to arm murderous Mexican drug cartels and blame it on the Second Amendment and legal gun dealers in the United States. So far, the scandal has brought down the boss of the ATF, a U.S. attorney in Arizona, and threatens the Obama administration. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (FoxNews) – Evidence Suggests Cover-Up in ATF Scandal, as More Guns Appear at Crime Scenes – Read More Here

(BaldwinLive) – Not that the national media notices much, but the federal government under President Barack Obama has been supplying guns to Mexican drug gangs for quite a spell. With only a few print media bothering to cover the story, Obama’s Justice Department has been discovered secretly supplying firearms to Mexican drug lords using taxpayer “stimulus” monies. If that wasn’t bad enough, guns supplied to these Mexican miscreants by federal agents were used to kill at least one US Border Patrol agent. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – U.S. government medical researchers, including those from the National Institute of Health (NIH), engaged in heinous crimes through secret medical experiments on Guatemalan medical experiments, concluded an investigative report commissioned by President Obama. The report concluded that:

• The U.S. government knowingly funded and deliberately engaged in criminal medical experiments against Guatemalan prisoners from 1946 – 1948, and that the people engaged in these crimes were then promoted to high levels of influence in the medical community. Read the rest of this entry »

(AFP) – Mexico plans to administer the vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer, to all girls beginning next year, the country’s health ministry said Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

(CNSNews) – The Justice Department has given a vague response to a query by congressional investigators about when Attorney General Eric Holder first learned about a botched gun running sting operation along the southwest border

In a letter answering a questionnaire about “Operation Fast and Furious,” the department replied only that concerns emerged “earlier this year.” It also mentioned two occasions when Holder testified on the matter to congressional committees, both already on the record. Read the rest of this entry »

(NewsCore) – Three supervisors of the US government’s controversial anti-gun-running program “Fast and Furious” were promoted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) despite continued criticism of their actions, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.

The men helped coordinate the large-scale sting operation, which saw thousands of firearms illegally trafficked between the US and Mexico in a bid to ensnare gangs and drug cartels. Read the rest of this entry »

(PaulWatson) – Federal government allowed Mexican drug cartel to import tons of cocaine into United States – Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – Alex Jones breaks down the truth behind the U.S. Government’s willing collaboration with large-scale narcotrafficking, even as the mainstream media now has to admit that major drug gangs are operating with official approval. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – Earlier this month, Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced “Stop Gun Trafficking and Strengthen Law Enforcement Act,” H.R. 2554, a gun-grabbing bill little noticed by the corporate media. It is co-sponsored by Elijah Cummings, Democrat and Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and notorious gun-grabber Carolyn McCarthy. Read the rest of this entry »

(Infowars) – William Newell, former special agent in charge of the Phoenix field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, admits guns were sent to Mexico under Fast and Furious. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – Last week, Carmen Álvarez Excelsior wrote a report for Salem-News.com claiming the notorious drug gang Los Zetas will attempt to overthrow the Mexican government next year using weapons sent by the United States. Read the rest of this entry »