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American guns are killing more people in Mexico that in the United States, because of the illicit traffic in the same ones, which in many cases fall into
American guns are killing more people in Mexico that in the United States, because of the illicit traffic in the same ones, which in many cases fall into the hands organized crimeshowed the investigation “Foreign weapons in Mexico”.
“70% of the weapons that kill in Mexico come from the United States, and based on these statistics, it is more likely that in More murders in Mexico with American weapons than in the United States,” said researcher John Lindsay-Poland, who moderated a panel composed of experts from the US, Mexico, Germany and Italy.
At the same time, he emphasized that the calculation made in the framework of the study is only an “estimate”.
Also exhibited responsibility of states and military industry without tracking exports to Mexico, especially from the US, but also from Europe, which is sometimes bypassing the current legislation and contracts.
In this way, speakers pointed out, weapons end up in the hands of organized crime or police agencies through which murders are carried out.
“But in the US they don’t know about it. Weapons that enter Mexico illegally are used to control and scare the mexican population“, – said Poe Murray, a member of the American movement Guns Down America.
Lorena Reza, a member of the Regresando a Casa Morelos collective, pointed to the involvement of this weapon in the 2007 disappearance of one of her brothers in Cuernavaca, Morelos, and in torture and murder of another of his brothers.
“The weapons of the United States come here and destroy our families. We no longer want to continue in the same spirit,” he said.
Leticia Sedu and Charlotte Quesne, experts from Belgium and Germany respectively, detailed how weapons exported from both countries were used in 2014 in the enforced disappearance of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero, known as Ayotzinapa case.
“Italy is the main European exporter, especially of light weapons. These weapons are used by the police in human rights violations, for example in Ayotzinapa. The Iguala police had 63 Beretta rifles.said Sedu, a member of the European Network Against the Arms Trade.
For his part, Kene assured that in disappearance of 43 normalists from Iguala, German-made G36 rifles were usedand that, according to the law of that country, they should never have come to Guerrero.
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According to data provided by Mexico, 40,644 weapons were exported from Europe to Mexico under the Arms Control Treaty between 2019 and 2021, 24,395 for civilian use and 16,249 for military use.
“European companies are placing their production in the US, which allows them to have less stringent export laws to export them to Mexico,” Sedu warned. (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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