The Secretaria de Estado de EEUU Hillary Rodham Clinton caused a stir last week by suggesting that Mexico’s drug trafficking gangs were beginning to resemble the insurgency that has plagued Colombia for decades. He is right in the sense that the cartels have come to effectively control regions of the country, where attempt to replace the State. As most of the insurgency, Mexican drug armies also has an external source of financing and to get their weapons, which do so precisely in the USA. A new report exposes the abundance of U.S. weapons.UU. delivered to the cartels and the ineffectiveness of U.S. efforts.UU. to stop the illegal trafficking.
According to authors Colby Goodman and Marizco Michel, at least 62.800 of more than 80,000 firearms confiscated by Mexican authorities from December 2006 to February 2010 came from the United States. The weapons are smuggled through the hot border at a rate of up to 5,000 weapons per year. Distributed two varieties are assault rifles: AK-47 of Romanian manufacture and clones of the Bushmaster AR-15. Traffickers have used these weapons to inflict terrible casualties on Mexican police and other security forces, who often are ill-prepared. More than 2,000 police officers and federal agents were among the 28,000 dead in violence related to drugs in the past four years. According to Mr.
Goodman and Mr. Marizco, whose work was sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Center and the University of San Diego, a store of weapons in Houston has supplied 339 weapons of assault rifles and pistols to cartel buyers in only 15 months which were responsible for the death of 18 Mexican of order and civil actors. Some 7,000 gun stores operate along the Mexico-United States border. Most are not obliged to notify the authorities, even if an individual buys dozens of weapons of assault in a short period. In fiscal year 2009 U.S. agents.UU. they revoked the licenses of only 11 stores by violations and missing the importance of the Ethics in this dangerous trade. The Obama Government and the Calderon Government have stepped up programs to combat trafficking, for example, Mexican officials have been updated it with a U.S. database system.UU. It allows them more quickly trace captured weapons and report the information on the trade in alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives Office. However, there is a great effort from us.UU. to help the fateful battle of Mexico against cartels, resources applied to stop the traffic of weapons are insignificant in comparison with the threat. Despite an eloquent appeal by Mr. Calderon in a speech to Congress last spring, nor the democratic leadership nor President Obama has dared to promote the restoration of the ban on the sale of assault weapons. Regardless of the differences between the two countries, the fact is that Mexico and its citizens a country of indisputable strategic importance for the United States lies in a desperate fight to preserve civil order and liberal democracy. The United States must be the source of many of the weapons used to attack that order is scandalous and unacceptable. Obama should stop arms trafficking and is should be one of the priorities of national security.