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An Inside Look at Mexican Guns and Arms Trafficking

June 18, 2010
Barnard R. Thompson
5/31/2010

In his Washington, D.C. speech of May 20, to a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress, Mexican President Felipe Calderón criticized gun and assault weapon sales in the USA, and their subsequent unlawful exportation to Mexico. Saying these are major contributing factors in the violence and drug cartel fighting that are raking his country, the President called on U.S. officials to take action in order to end the flow of deadly weapons going south of the border.

The obvious fact is Mexico has a serious problem with the number of assault weapons and other arms that are already in country — and that continue to be brought in, a plague that the Mexican Congress wants to know more about, and to know just what is being done to end this scourge and the brutal end results.

The story continues …..

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  1. June 19, 2010 2:56 pm

    Incredible story

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