How Mexico's Drug Cartels Are Able To Get Military-Grade Weapons

Zetas May Be Smuggling Weapons -- El Paso Times

The brutally violent Zetas drug organization may be smuggling military-grade weapons through El Paso and Columbus, N.M., to feed its ongoing battles against other cartels and to possibly disrupt the 2012 elections in Mexico.

Phil Jordan, a former director of the DEA's El Paso Intelligence Center and a former CIA operative, said the Zetas have shipped large amounts of weapons through the El Paso area.

A federal law enforcement agency in El Paso said it has no information about the allegations that the Zetas are smuggling weapons through El Paso.

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My Comment: This explains why the Mexican cartels are able to get heavy military weapons. Unfortunately .... there is very little if any news coverage on this very important story.

Update: There is more on this story here.