Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced the 10 counties that sell the most weapons to organized crime in Mexico during the High-Level Security Dialogue in the United States.
During his joint press conference between Mexico and the United States on the strategy of the bicentennial agreement, the Mexican foreign minister showed the participants two maps in relation to arms trafficking, he said Aristegui news.
First, it showed a map that revealed the Mexican municipalities where weapons produced and sold in the United States were seized and which ended up in the hands of organized crime.
In the map – previously consulted by US Secretary of State Antony Blink – it can be seen that US-made weapons were seized mainly in northern Mexico.
On social media Ebrard explained that the registration of the seizure of weapons complies with what was seized by the Secretaries of National Defense (Sedena), the Navy (Semar), the National Guard, the Attorney General (FGR) and authorities. .
Ebrard showed a second map revealing the 10 U.S. counties with the highest gun sales to organized crime, including the arms shops sued by Mexico in Arizona.
From what the foreign minister said, it can be seen that the states of Arizona, California, Connecticut and Texas are the main arms traffickers in our country.
The US counties with the highest sales to criminal organizations are Hartford, Connecticut (1,656); Maricopa in Arizona (1,482); Harris, Texas (1,156); Hampden, Massachusetts (895); Pima, Arizona (707); Los Angeles, California (637); Dallas, Texas (637); El Paso, Texas (553); Bexar, Texas (499) and Orange, Texas (487).
In Mexico, the military and law enforcement have seized more than 32,000 weapons, 17 million cartridges and 2,300 grenades since 2019. United States law enforcement seized more than 600,000 firearms in 2021, according to one. statement of the SRE.
