Mexico wants an urgent investigation into how U.S. military-grade weapons are increasingly being found in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, Mexico’s top diplomat said Monday.
Mexico’s army is finding belt-fed machine guns, rocket launchers and grenades that are not sold for civilian use in the United States.
“The (Mexican) Defense Department has warned the United States about weapons entering Mexico that are for the exclusive use of the U.S. army,” Foreign Relations Secretary Alicia Bárcena said. “It is very urgent that an investigation into this be carried out.”
The Mexican army said in June that it had seized 221 fully automatic machine guns, 56 grenade launchers and a dozen rocket launchers from drug cartels since late 2018.
The military-grade U.S. weaponry — which cartels have bragged about and openly displayed on social media — poses a special challenge for Mexico’s army, which along with police and the National Guard already faces cartels operating homemade armored vehicles and bomb-dropping drones.
The reason is the same as Abu Sayyaf, al Queda, ISIL and other terror organizations get their hands on US or western made weapons.
Arms dealers don’t care about borders and exist specifically to spite those borders.
Somebody get Stanley Stupid on the case. I mean, you’ll have just about as much luck with him as you would our congress actually getting anything done.
We all know why this is happening. The wheels are flying off this fucking turkey. Corruption isn’t just rampant, its the norm. Anyone who doesn’t see that is blind or doesn’t want to see it.
Mexico can demand all they want. The State Department will do fuckall about it. Hell, the CIA will probably send more.
They’re for sale to anyone that will destabilize their government. That’s how it works.
Can’t have South America having agency or resources, amirite?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America
Elon Musk on Bolivia: “We’ll coup who we want.”
Welcome to America, Mexico.
Fucking breaking bad had more ethics on weapon sales to Mexico
Either the US is selling them to the cartels or the corrupted Mexican gouvernement. I bet it is both.
My money is on the Texas local, city & state police offloading their old US military hardware for a good markup while obtaining more from the Gov.
With all the drug money the cartels get from selling drugs to Americans they will get guns from somewhere, it’s just a matter of where.
Maybe we sold them to the cartels.
Such tired nonsense. Republicans made this a scandal. It’s a perfectly valid law enforcement strategy and was otherwise effective. Next you’ll be linking stories about Benghazi.
It’s a perfectly valid law enforcement strategy and was otherwise effective
They used the guns to kill a border patrol agent. Over a hundred murders are linked to the guns.
how about we abolish DHS and cbp, then they can’t be killed.
Only if we abolish the ATF first