Mexico this “extremely worried” for him “excessive” increase of illicit firearms traffickingsaid at the UN General Assembly foreign ministerAlicia Bárcena.
His country, he said, “assumes in good faith its international commitments to combat drug trafficbut all efforts will be limited if the countries of manufacture and origin of trafficked weapons do not assume their responsibility in the face of this scourge.”.
He advocated for “stronger measures to reduce the wide availability of Firearms” in the country, where 200,000 firearms arrive every year that “fall into the hands of the delinquency organized, producing countless fatalities.”
In this sense, he asked the “manufacturing and distribution companies“that they assume”their responsibility and take diligent measures” to prevent them from falling into the illicit market.
Mexico filed a lawsuit in 2021 in a Boston court against gun manufacturers in USAwhom it considers partly responsible for the violence that has caused more than 350,000 victims since 2006 in the country, the majority attributed to the organized crime.
In September of last year, the investigating judge dismissed the complaint, but the Mexican authorities appealed the sentence last March.
Mexico demands compensation of about US$10 billion from the arms manufacturing companies Smith & Wesson, Beretta, Colt, Glock, Century Arms, Ruger and Barrett and Interstate Arms.
With information from AFP
Source: Gestion
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