In the plenary session of Morena deputies, the Secretary of Foreign Relations reported that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asked him “for no reason to release that because we have to reduce that number of weapons.”
He revealed that only in the capture of Ovidio Guzmán 47 weapons found in his room, some with high anti-aircraft power, so they are investigating where they came from and who sold them to him.
“So, we will locate who sold them; that is, who is arming these individuals? Where do they buy them? And those gun shops are going to vote for us, the same ones that we have already demanded,” he remarked.
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Foreign Minister of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard.
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He said that most weapons that come into Mexico from the border with the United States concentrate in ten Arizona counties.
“The whole problem of controlling the sale of arms to Mexico could be reduced to controlling the companies that sell arms in the ten counties listed there,” he said.
He explained that in Hartford, an armory sold 1,656 weapons located in high-powered criminal events in Mexico. In Maricopa, 1,482; in Harris, Texas, 1,156.
“They are companies that sell weapons but, by the number, we assume and will prove that they are linked to trafficking; because they can’t buy you 1,656 high-powered weapons, and you do not know that it cannot be,” he stressed.
“This is a crime in the United States as of July last year, and that is why we are hard and hit these demands, and we are going to move on,” insisted Marcelo Ebrard.