Over the past few weeks we have began to research current global issues, the issue that most interested me was the black market weapon sales in mexico to drug cartels along with the United States involvement. I first heard about this issue on the news when a story broke over the failed ATF operation "Fast and Furious," this op. was originally meant to allow the flow of weapons across the US and Mexican border so that the weapons could be tracked and recovered along with the buyers.
Since then this operation has turned for the worse, one of the first stories over this matter was in January 2010 when all of a sudden a warehouse was found in El Paso full of weapons, ammunition and ballistic vests. This interested me because after researching more on this matter I was able to find evidence of these weapons at crime scenes that had ties to drug cartels. This issue is very interesting and I cannot wait to further develop my research
Daniel, your topic sounds really interesting! I think it would be really cool to read about the relation of black market sales and Mexican drug cartels. I am sure your research paper will turn out to be very successful.
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