Mexico’s inquiries about the American arms smuggling operation

Mexico has demanded a complete report from the US of law enforcement operation that purportedly allowed firearms to be smuggled across the boarder.

The request has been submitted after appearing media report that US national mediator permitted huge number of guns to be smuggled into Mexico with the aim of pathways of the weapons to drug interested groups leaders. Later on some of the guns reportedly have been utilized in severe evils including murder. US Attorney General Eric Holder has already ordered an investigation.

The Mexican request appears earlier days when US President Barack Obama and his Mexican counterpart Felipe Calderon decided to maintain a setup of assistance against arms and drugs trafficking.

According to CBS and the Los Angeles Times, the search operation having secret name Fast and Furious was managed by the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).

 The ATF has seemingly permitted 1,765 guns to be smuggled into Mexico over a 15 month period, as well as physically attacking weapons and higher capacity sniper rifles. Of those guns, 797 were recovered on both sides of the border.

Many are considered to have been utilized in serious crimes, including two that were obtained at the time of the killing of a US border defense agent in Arizona. According to the report of the LS Times, the ATF permitted the action to carry on in spite of oppositions about the involving of some agents. The operation was kept hidden from the Mexican authorities.

The Mexican foreign ministry said in a statement that they would go behind US Justice Department and ATF trials report into the action with "exceptional curiosity”. They said, the main objective of both the government is to stop the smuggling of arms on the basis of collective mutual interests and both the government are working to strengthen the joint cooperation on this serious issue.

Since a long time Mexico has emphasized the US authorities to make sufficient efforts to stop weapons trafficking crosswise the border. More than 35,000 people have been killed in drug-linked fighting in Mexico since December 2006, and most of the deaths have been made with the guns that were smuggled in from the US.