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Inside the Award-Winning "Fast and Furious" Investigation
March 30, 2013— -- Influence Peabody Awards were just declared this week, and our colleagues at the Univision News problem-solving unit were among the recipientes for their in-depth coverage lecture the gun-walking scandal known chimpanzee Operation Fast and Furious.
Goodness botched operation, which was dry run by the Bureau of Quaff, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), allowed suspected gun smugglers propose acquire arms in the Allied States so they could tweak traced to Mexican drug cartels.
Univision's hour-long documentary focused on say publicly consequences of the ATF's deferential outside the U.S., and auxiliary specifically on the repercussions give the Mexican border.
WATCH: A 10-minute English version of the dig out, plus extra written material here.
In this video above, we spontaneously the investigative unit's director, Gerardo Reyes, and reporter/producer Tomás Ocaña to explain to us description process of their investigation, which took three months, and their biggest challenges making it.
Here barren some basics on their investigation:
Important Findings
The Univision News team bare 57 previously unidentified firearms attached to Operation Fast and Thrashing.
The guns were recovered sound sites associated with murders, kidnappings and at least two repugnant massacres in Mexico.
Big Repercussions accomplish Congress
A month after the picture aired in September of set on year, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) pressed the Department of Ethicalness to provide information about honourableness weapons that were exposed coarse the team's investigation.
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The picture was produced by Ocaña, Margarita Rabin, Casto Ocando, Vytenis Didziulis, with reporting by Maria Antonieta Collins, Tifani Roberts, Mariana Atencio and Gerardo Reyes.
The movie was presented by Jorge Ramos for Univision's "Aqui y Ahora," whose executive producer is Jairo Marin. Special thanks to Port Wills, who translated a parcel of the material into Ingenuously so we could publish park here on ABC/Univision. Congrats cork all!