Below is the video with English captions and a separate article from ABC News and Univision. Check out both of them:

ABC NEWS & UNIVISION – On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez. Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled.

Indirectly, the United States government played a role in the massacre by supplying some of the firearms used by the cartel murderers. Three of the high caliber weapons fired that night in Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), according to a Mexican army document obtained exclusively by Univision News.

Univision News identified a total of 57 more previously unreported firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites related to murders, kidnappings, and at least one other massacre.

As part of Operation Fast and Furious, ATF allowed 1,961 guns to “walk” out of the U.S. in an effort to identify the high profile cartel leaders who received them. The agency eventually lost track of the weapons, and they often ended up in the hands of Mexican hit men , including those who ordered and carried out the attack on Salvarcar and El Aliviane, a rehabilitation center in Ciudad Juarez where 18 young men were killed on September 2, 2009.

In Mexico, the timing of the operation coincided with an upsurge of violence in the war among the country’s strongest cartels. In 2009, the northern Mexican states served as a battlefield for the Sinaloa and Juarez drug trafficking organizations, and as expansion territory for the increasingly powerful Zetas. According to documents obtained by Univision News, from October of that year to the end of 2010, nearly 175 weapons from Operation Fast and Furious inadvertently armed the various warring factions across northern Mexico.

“Many weapons cross the border and enter Mexico, but that [Fast and Furious] number, quantity and type of weapons had quite an impact in the war in this area” Jose Wall, an ATF agent stationed in Tijuana from 2009 to 2011, told Univision News.

Following the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry at the hands of Mexican bandits on December 14, 2010, media and Congressional investigations prompted hearings. On September 20, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General report, which opened the door for sanctions of 14 ATF and DOJ officials.

In Washington, the Fast and Furious scandal became politicized, diverting the attention from the human cost in Mexico to political battles on Capitol Hill. In June, a vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt ignored the real tragedy in Mexico.

“Americans are not often moved by the pain of those outside [their country]…” Javier Sicilia, a Mexican poet whose son was killed in the midst of the violence, told Univision News. “But they are moved by the pain of their own. Well, turn around and watch the massacres.”

The Univision News investigation also found ATF offices from states besides Arizona pursued similar misguided strategies. In Florida, the weapons from Operation Castaway ended up in the hands of criminals inColombia, Honduras and Venezuela, the lead informant in the case told Univision News in a prison interview.

“When the ATF stopped me, they told me the guns were going to cartels,” Hugh Crumpler, a Vietnam veteran turned arms trafficker, told Univision News. “The ATF knew before I knew and had been following me for a considerable length of time. They could not have followed me for two months like they said they did, and not know the guns were going somewhere, and not want for that to be happening.”

Other firearms under ATF surveillance were permitted to leave the country from Texas, according to court documents and the exclusive testimony of Magdalena Avila Villalobos, the sister of an ICE agent who survived a confrontation with cartel hit men on a rural highway in Mexico on February 15, 2011. His fellow agent, Jaime Zapata, was killed during the attacks.

“It’s not from Arizona and Fast and Furious,” Avila Villalobos told Univision News, speaking in her brother’s stead for the first time, “but it’s a very similar operation…” She later added, “Those weapons that have been recovered, it’s been confirmed that they were weapons used in the shootout that killed Jaime Zapata and wounded Victor Avila.”

The Texas-based operation and the firearms linked to the attack were bought by two trafficking rings in the state, according to Raymond Thomas, the Zapata family’s lawyer.

Earlier this year, Texas Senator John Cornyn had echoed Thomas’ assertions . Moreover, on September 25, Congressman Darrell Issa and Senator Charles Grassley, the politicians behind the Fast and Furious congressional report released in July, sent a letter to the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General, requesting an investigation into Avila’s and Zapata’s case.




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105 comments
anneinarkansas
anneinarkansas

Univision is doing a job that the Obama Media refuses to do.

As Pat Caddell said...The Media is becoming an enemy of the people.

You have to know they are being exposed when even Kirsten Powers turns on them!

steprock
steprock

Yeah, besides, it's not like AMERICANS were killed. Just a bunch of Mexicans, right? Yeah, that's right.

:-(

Josh
Josh

It's OK, we fired someone. Obama and Holder can wash their hands of it, right?

anneinarkansas
anneinarkansas

If, as we plan, Obama is defeated, Holder and Obama should still be held accountable for this horror.

Mary
Mary

The ABC article is so full of bias and b.s. and simply a review of the Univision newspiece. It's no better than a high school book report. Not once is there a "our own investigation has found that"....I was particularly upset by this paragraph: "In Washington, the Fast and Furious scandal became politicized, diverting the attention from the human cost in Mexico to political battles on Capitol Hill. In June, a vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt ignored the real tragedy in Mexico."

If it hadn't been for Issa's hearings and the coverage done by the female CBS reporter, whose name I've forgotten, the issue would never have reached the national stage. There was hardly a mention of Fast and Furious by ABC news until now.

steprock
steprock

Thanks Mary. Yeah, why waste time prosecuting the head perpetrators? News flash, ABC, that's how you get to the bottom of it.

Orangeone
Orangeone

Thank you Scoop for providing Americans with access to the truth once again!

jlbs
jlbs

Many thanks to The Right Scoop. When our local station did not carry this at the stated time last night, I knew I could watch it on this site.

iaintlyin
iaintlyin

hopefully rscoop gets a cc version of the whole show, this 10 min was riveting. Between what we know in general about the MSM and its bias, watching the Pat Caddell dress down of the media at the AIM conference (see RS Sept. 26), and this expose, hopefully America will be treated to a much needed truth awakening. Hopefully.

iaintlyin
iaintlyin

Who should hang their head in shame more, the DoJ for letting this happen or the MSM for not reporting it? The MSM is showing us (Americans) as much disrespect as the approval of Fast and Furious gave Latin countries. This Holder creep has got to be pressured, he must run the DoJ like Khaddafi. There has to be a thousand people inside that agency willing to get the story out but are in fear of their jobs. Or, is the MSM just ignoring them too!

Wolfie (was whitewolf2009)
Wolfie (was whitewolf2009)

The blood we see is the blood of the victims of F&F. The blood we can't see, but know is there, is the blood on the hands of Holder and the Corrupt NObama Regime who first let this happen, and second continue to cover it up.

Univision - Doing the job the US MSM won't do.

kong1967
kong1967

That was only ten minutes, and I heard the rest will be put out by Univision later...?

Kudos to Univision for doing the story. The MSM has ignored it.

K-Bob
K-Bob

Yeah. Radio Shack!

Don't get me wrong, sometimes you have to go there. But not for specialist equipment.

kong1967
kong1967

Especially not when countless lives depend on the batteries.

p m
p m

Maybe they saw the 'use by' or 'good until' date on the battery packs and thought they'd be good for four or five years!

3seven77
3seven77

The whole idea is just sick. But what is even sicker is that the people in charge of this "program" thought that instead of relying on tracking devices on the weapons, it was just as effective to "track guns back" from crime scenes. Not a second thought about all those dead bodies stacking up like cordwood.

For the first time in my adult life I am really ashamed of my government.

kong1967
kong1967

I agree. When Bush lost one weapon he called off....was it "Operation Gun Runner"? Here these guys didn't even track the guns. Just see where they turn up connected to dead bodies. People should be going to prison for this, especially the agent that decided to track them back from crime scenes.

Holder and Obama had to have known about this whole thing as it went down.

JudyPaulette
JudyPaulette

Will you be able to get the rest? I watched it on Univision tonight, but I couldn't understand a word of the Spanish. The host is the one that interviewed Obama last week and the relevant portion from the interview was toward the end of the documentary.

I have been wondering if Obama knew that this was coming out when he did the interview or was it a.....surprise! Were they setting a trap. I know he pulled the

blame Bush stuff as he always does.

kong1967
kong1967

I don't think Obama knew. From what I heard he was pretty annoyed with the interview.

Boris_Badenoff
Boris_Badenoff

And don't forget the reason behind it all.

To take guns out of the hands of legal gun owners...

Obama and company's intent is repeal of The Second Amendment. An unarmed society is much easier to control.

The leftist do not care one bit about the collateral damage as log as they are pushing their agenda..

That's all they see Brian Terry's death as, collateral damage.. along with a few hundred Mexicans, but they don't care in the least except when they get caught..

kong1967
kong1967

They didn't even care after they got caught. They just said "I didn't have anything to do with it" and started the cover-up. Promoted a few ATF agents and sent one overseas so he was inaccessible.

Typical_White_Person_pa
Typical_White_Person_pa

Wal-Mart can track a pair of pants with electronic tags...all the way to your home...and the gov't didn't put tracking devices on these killing machines? The question with this administration is always: Incompetence? Or evil?

Rich Wojcik
Rich Wojcik

...I N T E N T I O N A L ......

.....to have lapdog MSM cry against "proliferation of US weapons" - as a first step to take them away from US citizens....Limbaugh had described it well........

K-Bob
K-Bob

They DID try tracking devices. From Radio Shack. (see at 4:02)

What a buncha (_!_)s

kong1967
kong1967

So was it after the batteries went dead that they decided to track them back from crime scenes? They wouldn't have much of a choice then, but if they decided to do it in the beginning it's downright deplorable.

The fact that they used Radioshack batteries says it all.

SavingtheRepublicdotcom
SavingtheRepublicdotcom

c'mon man obviously intentional!

kong1967
kong1967

Yeah, I don't believe the ATF was dumb enough to put in batteries that went dead by mistake.

INEEDACOUNTRY
INEEDACOUNTRY

I am sad people were slaughtered because of our "leaders" in the Governments arrogance.

You could tell from the beginning, that "our" DOJ was not defending the people, any decent voters (when that Black Panther event was dismissed that happend during 2008 election) and became a tool of the left, and has left us all very vunerable, and our people in anger.

We have gotten a little taste of what things we like in 1930s Germany, hopefully before the recriminations start to take hold. We have to stop the PROGRESSIVES.

Now the people of MEXICO will think we are worthy of hate, but it will be

the same as the Middle East radicals taught to hate us, we will get blamed for their own failiings.

The founders were very careful to set up a system for us to protect, to hold us together as a people, and now we see what happens when we let liberal left principles infest our civil society.

Like PAUL RYAN has said, the current Admin is un-doing the founders work, as fast as they can, and re-writing history as something we should be ashamed of and make REPARATIONS to undo the shame.

We are in the middle of a tragic story of the VERY liberal PROGRESSIVE first black American President, who thinks he is smarter than anyone else, and we all have to suffer because some of us fell for his lies and deceipt.

The black Amercans will all vote for him because he is black, and they think he cares for them when his goal is just to use them for power. I do understand in a limited way, the PROGRESSIVE goals to use every trick in the books to fool factions of AMERICANS for controlling power. The plan divides us, and is evil and DEMONIC (to me in my heart) in concept though, as we see our society falling apart and WASHINGTON DC living large as the other cities fall apart and people suffer.

He only cares for himself, and maybe his family to fool everyone that he is a great family man.

HE actually had it all, but his arrogance and pride is bringing him down. If he had built some relationships, and passed some more benificial things for us all, and wooed some Republicans, there may never had been a Tea Party. But he went for the big stuff, full takeover of Heathcare, and that started the downward spiral in the economy and mistrust that has bought us to now.

HE would have avoided the mid-term defeats, and been in good shape to be re-elected and do whatever he wanted with House in Senate in tact.

There is no telling how much money this man would have PRINTED and spent by now, and brad would be $100 a loaf too because it would have cause runaway inflation. Coming soon to us anyway since FED had put printing money back in place.

THIS FAST & FURIOUS deal, actually was a re-use of a BUSH DOJ program, meant to go after 2nd amendment and gun owners. It WILL all come out in time, and there is plenty already proven on the subject. Many bokks out now, but does not seem to have ANY affect on his voters or is happening too late.

It is ASTOUNDING how much money and organizing people like George Soros and all the PROGRESSIVES have done to get this big chance to takeover the US Government.

His team plays for real, you have seen his POLITICAL machine systematically try to destroy MItt Romney ($200 + Million so far), and our MEDIA is less than a joke, and has to be worked around now.

There are good liberals on FOX speaking up now like true patriots, and be sure to watch the speech by Pat Caddell on RS right now.

I am sorry I feel this way about O-BLAME-O, but you can not temp GOD and tell lies

and expect everyone to be under that spell he has cast on millions of AMERICANS.

I have seen people pray and cry to him when he speaks, so this all will be horrific if he falls off his high horse in front of the NATION.

We went through this with Bill Clinton, and for almost 2 years Washington was in a deep freeze and probably started the political divide and the RISE OF THE PROGRESSIVES.

PROGRESSIVES have been planning for 100 years, we are now in the END GAME.

You must bless ISRAEL and its people, or AMERICA loses its blessings.

I PRAY it is not too late for us, as desperate men do desperate things.

CMP
CMP

Does anyone know if they are going to put the whole special on the internet with subtitles? I DVR'd it but no subtitles, so was not able to understand it.

K-Bob
K-Bob

I think this was it. Just a news segment, not a "special", like a whole program.

More like a "special report"

As far as I can tell, anyway.

kong1967
kong1967

Univision said they will put the rest up later. Of course, that's what I was told.

PVG
PVG

This needs to go viral!

wallwatchman
wallwatchman

The quote they had of Americans not being moved by deaths outside our country, I take exception to. Insulting! We do care and that's why we have so many soldiers dead because of it. In this instance, talk to the media. We care about our Terry and Zapata as well as other deaths, but media didn't cover it! Only fox and Internet. Can't care about what you don't hear about! Holder needs to go down for all this!

K-Bob
K-Bob

It's insulting. But totally understandable, given the deaths.

Gonzo55
Gonzo55

Blame Bush.. that will be and always has been the battle cry of this Administration.. and it sickens me...

WinMissouri
WinMissouri

It was a crime when Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Cardone when to prison for shooting a fleeing smuggler in the buttocks and then when there let out of prison could not speak to the media about their case for some period of time.

The MSM did not go to their defense and have ignored F&F. I remember seeing various reports of the cartel feuds and seeing these images of people dead in the streets of Mexico. Now we know our own government was looking the other way so they could "track" the weapons.

MaxineCA
MaxineCA

This is a smokescreen folks, once again to blame America for everyone's problems. Yes, it does have a lot to do with trying to restrict our 2nd amendment and started in 2008 in a congressional hearing when they said 80% of the guns associated with the cartels came from the US. Then it was proven their stats were nothing more than BS. So in 2009 they devised F & F.

I had a LOL moment in this report when they showed "El Chapo" Guzman on their cartel chart. This guy was arrested several years ago and held in a MX prison (his conditions were like living at the Ritz with a kitchen, cook, private patio, compared to other prisoners who have to beg for food and water everyday). Somehow he "conveniently" escaped. Chapo has made the Forbes list for the wealthiest people in the world for many years, worth multiple billions of dollars. Does anyone really think he needs to rely on some small gun shops here to get weapons? The answer is a resounding NO!

Most of the military style weapons in MX cartels have come from Russia, China, Syria and other ME countries, as well as the drugs. Cartels work hand in hand. That being said, we have sold military weapons, night vision goggles (manufactured in the US) under DOD and the State Dept. contracts, that were stolen from MX armories.

Hum..... we can find Osama, but we can't find Guzman?

Patriot077
Patriot077

I didn't know that about "El Chapo" escaping. Lawless country.

Guzman is probably up in Chicago living in one of Tony Rezko's houses.

MaxineCA
MaxineCA

Our DEA agents (investigators and boots on the ground) are trying to do a good job. They found Chapo in a very exclusive community in Baja MX in June. But since we have no law enforcement authority in MX, they are always required to turn over the intel to the MX authorities. Somehow, he always manages to slip away, go figure. But yet somehow, all of their troubles are our fault.

A few months ago I read that we had captured one of Chapo's key folks who managed their finances. I can't remember if the trial is in Chicago or TX. The guy's attorney pretty much said.... if you want to prosecute, than we will spill the beans on the part the government has played in this scheme. Funny, I've never seen a follow up report or the trial.

REALLEST
REALLEST

You are a stupid CUNT ..... THERE IS NO WE! OR OUR! ... DUMB BITCH

REALLEST
REALLEST

You are a dumb stupid CUNT ... GO TO SLEEP BITCH ...

WI4Walker
WI4Walker

This is jostling some memories of something I read some time ago. Didn't one of the main people investigating "suddenly" die in an airplane crash? I might be mixing something up here, but will try to find some information.

Patriot077
Patriot077

Wow! Rotten to the very core. Wouldn't you just love to hear what the finance guy had to say?

The "war on drugs" has been a corruption from the beginning I think.

Capt Jack
Capt Jack

There is NO WAY that Holder, Obama and Naplitano not know about this.

But they skipped over the WHY of the operation. They were created to show AMERICAN gun shop owners as irresponsible. Then they would use this in their anti gun campaign. THIS WAS ALL POLITICAL to push their agenda.

Patriot077
Patriot077

I think they have testimony (taped or recorded I think) of one of the store owners begging not to have to sell to one of these straw purchasers because he felt it was hinkey. They told him to do it anyway. I think all the store owners worried that the DOJ would throw them to the wolves at some point even though they were demanding their cooperation.

WinMissouri
WinMissouri

Note to the gun shop owners: When the govt comes in to your store and wants you to help them, kick them out of your store. The govt cannot be trusted.