Mexico Declares Plan With US to Enhance Firearm Tracing

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico and america have agreed to step up oversight of arms trafficking with a system to electronically observe firearms seized from felony organizations, Mexican Safety Minister Rosa Icela Rodriguez stated on Wednesday.

“America and Mexico have agreed to the digital monitoring of all of the firearms seized in our nation from felony organizations,” Rodriguez informed a press convention.

Officers from each nations this week mentioned the circulation of firearms from america to Mexican cartels that site visitors medicine resembling fentanyl into the U.S.

“We would like america to assist us so we will cease this circulation as a result of that is what strengthens the cartels,” incoming overseas minister Alicia Barcena stated on the press convention.

Barcena stated the plan aimed to maintain observe of the place weapons are present in Mexico to assist inform seizure methods. Neither official supplied additional particulars on the plan’s scope.

Some 200,000 weapons enter Mexico yearly, Barcena famous, citing information from the protection ministry.

Certainly one of Mexico’s primary proposals to the U.S. was that it revoke licenses of gun shops that promote firearms to cartels, she stated. Others included extra oversight of license suppliers, extra seizures and extra arrests that focus not simply on the center males.

Barcena stated the proposals had been “very nicely acquired.”

They arrive after Mexico urged a U.S. appeals court docket to revive a $10 billion lawsuit, backed by many Caribbean nations, that goals to carry U.S. gun makers liable for facilitating arms trafficking to drug cartels throughout the U.S.-Mexico border.

Based on U.S. gun-tracing bureau ATF, some 70% of traced firearms used to commit crimes and seized in Mexico come from the U.S. This rises to round 80% throughout the Caribbean.

(Reporting by Raul Cortes, Adriana Barrera and Sarah Morland; Modifying by Alistair Bell)

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