Roberto Garduno and Fabiola Martinez
Newspaper La Jornada
Friday, March 11, 2022, p. 8
All the weapons seized last week in Caborca, Sonora, were introduced into Mexican territory by the criminal group The Salazars, of the fraction the minors, related to the Pacific cartel, informed the head of the Secretary of National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval.
Of the 150 long and 38 short weapons that were seized, he said, 129 are of US origin and the rest from other parts of the world, and in what corresponds to cartridges, of the more than 3 million seized, 75 percent comes from Russia. and 25 percent from the United States.
He pointed out that the 50 caliber rifles and machine guns, as well as the 223 rifles, mostly come from the neighboring country. This information was obtained after analyzing all the weapons seized in Sonora.
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In the morning conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, an explanatory sheet was shown with the characteristics, origin and origin of the arsenal (it was accounted for by elements of the Military Police and the Attorney General of the Republic): the long weapons (150) were produced in the United States, Poland, Russia, Belgium, Romania and Serbia. The 38 short in the United States, Austria, Croatia, Spain, Italy and Turkey, and of that cluster, 68 percent originate in the United States.
The document underlines that “the entire arsenal comes from the United States, and it is inferred that The Salazars, of the fraction the minors, related to the Pacific cartel, they introduced weapons and ammunition to the country”.
