The Los Angeles Times

Unraveling Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 00:00
As drug smugglers from the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico sent a never-ending stream of cocaine across the border and into a vast U.S. distribution web in Los Angeles, DEA agents were watching and listening.
The strands of the Sinaloa drug cartel web
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 00:00
Channeling the Mexican cartel's nonstop river of cocaine onto trucks bound for cities in the U.S. requires a vast labyrinth of smugglers working in L.A.
ATF sought to downplay guns scandal, emails show
Friday, July 22, 2011 - 00:00
As Sen. Charles Grassley and congressional investigators looked into the Fast and Furious operation and the killing of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, ATF officials took steps to throw them off the trail.
Justice Department trying to shield officials in guns scandal, ATF chief says
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 00:00
Kenneth Melson, the ATF's acting director, claims Justice Department officials refuse to release a telling internal report on the Fast and Furious operation.
Family of U.S. agent slain in Mexico demands to know gun source
Monday, July 18, 2011 - 00:00
The lawyer for Jaime Zapata's family says U.S. officials refuse to answer questions about whether the weapons used were linked to the Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.
Mexico high court rules civilian courts should handle alleged military abuses
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 00:00
The court's unanimous ruling marks a radical change in the way human rights cases involving the military should be prosecuted.
Tightened borders force immigrant smugglers to take risky sea routes
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 00:00
The panga boats used by smugglers are not designed for deep-water trips and are unsafe.
U.S. to require more gun-buyer information in border states
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 00:00
Once the ATF distributes its new reporting forms, about 7,000 dealers near the border must report multiple sales of semiautomatic weapons in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
'Fast and Furious' scandal grows with revelation that Mexican cartel suspects may be paid U.S. informants
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 00:00
Melson reportedly told congressional leaders that Mexican cartel suspects tracked by his agents in a controversial gun-tracing program were also operating as paid informants for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the FBI.
In Colombia, a move toward restitution
Monday, July 11, 2011 - 00:00
Santos is on the right path, but his administration must focus international assistance and some of the nearly half a billion dollars in U.S. counter-narcotics aid to help suppress what has been intractable bloodletting.

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