Pablo Piñero Stillmann
At first we were trying to figure out what it was. Tiger cubs
and semiautomatic weapons. Piles of cash and armored cars.
Mexico had one of the lowest rates of gun ownership in the world.
In Washington, a new strategy was proposed. He wrote
of the shock of attending a gun show in Texas, watching children
play around assault rifles. My son disappeared 40 months ago. Wow,
a normal Sunday with the family. In 24 days, he bought 34 firearms.
The man and his associates bought 212 more. The 464 police officers
killed between January and September. Roughly 2.5 million
illicit American guns have poured across the border. A record
34,582 murders registered last year alone. A figure dressed in black
with a bulletproof vest and an AR-15 rifle does
a dance move known as the Floss. Teenagers agreed
to buy weapons for a cartel in exchange for Justin Bieber
concert tickets. A young American woman tried to
speed through the border crossing this year and hit a wall.
Bill Wade, of L3 Technologies, clearly did not want Tizapa
to say anything. Last year, it was a 14-year-old boy
who slammed into a wall. I was receiving so much cash
I didn't know what to do with it. Officials have also
detected weapons inside washing machines, televisions
and even boxes of chocolates. In the back seat, a six-year-old girl
lies facedown, her pink shirt and white sandals splattered
with blood. He couldn’t make his house
payment. We are the ones who should build a wall. I had cancer
on top of that. In telephone recordings from the October 2019 ambush
in Michoacán, officers can be heard shouting "I’m dying."
We’re really pressed for time, unless you have a question.
Found in: The Washington Post, "The Sniper Rifles Flowing to Mexican Cartels Show a Decade of U.S. Failure," by Kevin Sieff and Nick Miroff, Nov. 19, 2020. Business Insider, "Mexico's defense chief says smugglers sneak guns from the US into Mexico in washing machines, gas tanks, and boxes of chocolate," Dec. 5, 2019. The Intercept, "How U.S. Guns Sold to Mexico End Up With Security Forces Accused of Crime and Human Rights Abuses," by John Lindsay-Poland, Apr. 26, 2018. The Washington Post, "Operation Fast and Furious: A gunrunning sting gone wrong," by Sari Horwitz, Jul. 26, 2011. Rolling Stone, "Arming the Cartels: The Inside Story of a Texas Gun-Smuggling Ring," by Seth Harp, Aug. 7, 2019.