The Prosecutor Gertz Manero accused that there is a “sort of conspiracy” from the US to Mexico regarding the trafficking of weapons that end up in the hands of organized crime.
This Thursday, when questioned about the report of the US Department of Statethat 74 percent of the weapons trafficked to Mexico come from the United States, the Prosecutor pointed out in La Mañanera that:
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“From the moment of commercialization, all Mexican efforts to be able to track the weapons that we are detaining here, have a limit within the North American system, and that the control systems they have are so backward that the information we request may take months to arrive.
It’s some kind of conspiracy “so that that amount of weapons can be penetrated, this is a really very very serious matter.”
This is because, he argued, the document offers “truly very serious” data, recognizing, without taking into account the black figure, that 74 percent of the weapons that organized crime has come from the United States, and he questioned that:
“How is it possible that a weapons production, which is an industrial production, where a very clear catalog is kept of how all the weapons are formulated (…) and then how they are marketed?”
Gertz Manero asks for US cooperation
Due to the above, the prosecutor stressed that there must be a positive relationship with the United States to contain the problem, since it generates and multiplies the problem that exists in Mexico, since:
“All the strength of the criminal cartels is in their firepower, and we suffer that every day. All the efforts that the Armed Forces have to make to contain that lethality.”
And to reinforce his statements, the head of the FGR emphasized that the Government makes a record of the serial numbers of the equipment and “immediately” passes the report to the US to follow up on them from production to marketing, despite this , the results are not satisfactory and therefore, the amount of illegal weapons.
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Yesterday, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) presented a report indicating that 74 percent of the weapons trafficked from the United States to cartels in Mexico come from the states from Texas, Arizona and California.
This document details that the Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) cartels are the ones that acquire most of said weapons (82 percent).
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