Mexican Senate angry at reports US let guns south (AP)

MEXICO CITY – The Mexican senate on weekday titled a hearing over reports that U.S. agents allowed guns to be smuggled into Mexico as part of investigations into verify traffickers.

The senate voted to call U.S. Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan to handle the issue, though it ordered no date. The lawmakers also asked Foreign Relations Secretary Patricia Espinoza to demand information from the U.S. State Department.

CBS News and the noncommercial Center for Public Integrity reportable that agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives work gunrunning by cartels allowed hundreds of guns purchased in the U.S. to go into Mexico.

"Carrying discover this type of activeness in our land is unacceptable. It violates consortium and also undermines domestic sovereignty," said Sen. Luis Alberto Villarreal, a member of President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has asked the Justice Department inspector generalized to countenance into ATF investigative strategies and watch whether boost enquiry is needed.

"It is true, there hit been concerns. I verify those allegations rattling seriously and that is why I asked the IG to inform on it," Holder told a U.S. senate appropriations subcommittee Thursday. "Letting guns 'walk' is not something that is acceptable. Guns are different than drugs or money when we are trying to study their trail."

Gun smuggling has daylong been a painful blot in relations between the digit countries. Mexico frequently demands that the U.S. do more to kibosh the flow of weapons south.

The speaking sharpened last period when a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed on a Federal Mexican highway with a armament that was purchased in a municipality outside Fort Worth, Texas.

The concerns most the ATF is the stylish maker of exertion between the U.S. and Mexico, which for years hit been touting their accumulated cooperation in the fisticuffs against verify traffickers.

Calderon has been furious most leaked U.S. diplomatic cables describing inadequate coordination among Mexican federal agencies appointed to effort verify gangs.

The stylish document, obtained from Wikileaks by the Mexican production La Jornada and published Wednesday, indicated that U.S. officials were baffled by the 2009 designation of Mexican Attorney General Arturo composer Chavez, occupation it "totally unheralded and politically inexplicable."

Chavez composer came to office low a darken of disceptation over unskilled prosecutions in the murders of women in the Federal Mexico abut municipality of Ciudad metropolis in the 1990s, when he was the crowning state prosecutor.

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