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four Caribbean countries joined Mexico in a $10 billion lawsuit against several US arms manufacturers. (EU) to those who are responsible for damage caused by this product in
four Caribbean countries joined Mexico in a $10 billion lawsuit against several US arms manufacturers. (EU) to those who are responsible for damage caused by this product in their territory.
The Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are four members of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) that have joined to a brief filed by Mexico with the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
“The firearms used in the violence in the Bahamas are not manufactured here, but overseas and smuggled across our borders,” the Office of the Prime Minister of the Bahamas said in a statement.
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“A critical element of the government’s efforts to reduce violent crime in the country is the adoption of measures against the spread of weapons, focused on strengthening borders and points of entry by breaking down smuggling networks,” he added.
These countries have also been joined by the Latin American and Caribbean Network for Human Security, a network of non-governmental organizations working on humanitarian law and the pursuit of disarmament in the Latin America and Caribbean region.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley said earlier this month that despite Mexico losing its initial US lawsuit over gun control, “it will continue to fight” for it.
Rowley also claimed that the Mexican government called on Caricom to join the fight in the US courts for being “responsible for the chaos it has caused in our societies.”
In October last year, Mexico filed a lawsuit against five US companies for arms trafficking, a second for using the companies’ weapons devices to commit crimes in the country.
In August 2021, the Mexican government sued eleven gun manufacturers in Boston for negligence and facilitating illegal trafficking, but the judge dismissed the lawsuit.
In a court document the applicant countries argue that “illicit traffic in firearms in the United States should be restricted according to its main source: the country’s arms industry.”
The statement alleges that “the practices of the US arms industry, including the massive sale of weapons to dealers known to be engaged in illegal smuggling, have caused significant damage to countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region.”
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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