Mexico pressures the US to contain the flow
Just as the United States has pressured Mexico to contain fentanyl trafficking, the Mexican government has intensified its call to stop the illegal flow of weapons.
“We do our part in our territory, but it is the insistence to the security and justice institutions of the United States: they have to do their part in their territory, for money laundering, for control of illegal arms trafficking. They have to do their part in the United States and we do our part in Mexico, and coordination,” he asked the US government last July.
Mexico’s demand was considered by the Donald Trump government and the “Cooperation Program on Border Security and Law Enforcement between Mexico and the United States” included a commitment to reduce the flow of weapons to Mexico.
According to the president, one of the agreements with the United States includes tracking weapons that enter Mexico illegally to the sellers who sell them.
“In the particular case of reducing the crossing of illegal firearms from the United States to Mexico, they committed to strengthening operations in the United States to reduce the illegal passage of firearms from the United States to Mexico. And, in addition, strengthening the investigation of a weapon found in Mexico, which came from the United States, its monitoring to know where it came from and to be able to make investigation orders,” he reported last September.
