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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | April 2007 
US Arms Mexican Drug Traffickers
 Prensa Latina
| | Mexico’s school libraries are stocking a book that includes the lyrics of “narcocorridos” — folk songs that glorify drug traffickers — causing a storm of criticism in a country where the drug market and its violence have become part of life in thousands of communities. |
Organized crime in Mexico has a weapons power and potential today because of arms smuggling from the United States, where weapons sales are uncontrolled, a Mexican intelligence report revealed on Tuesday.
According to the Mexican Attorney General s Office report, the use of weapons in common and organized crimes in Mexico is directly traceable to the large number of legal arms dealers in the United States, where a local resident can buy weapons and deliver them to drug traffickers.
The document adds that the drug cartels have high-power weapons such as anti-aircraft missiles, machine guns able to penetrate armored cars (Barret), grenade throwers, and AR-15 and AK-17 assault rifles.
They also have 5.7x28-caliber weapons, known as cop killers due to their capacity to penetrate bulletproof vests, as well as night and expansive bullets.
The report points out that despite confiscation by the Federal government of 90,829 weapons over the past 11 years, the fire power of organized crime has not been damaged because only 22.7 percent of arms seized were related to drug traffic activities.
Further, the document says that 22 weapons a day were confiscated in Mexico from 1995 to 2006, but only five of them were used by drug traffickers. The rest belonged to common criminals. |
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