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Mexican official: Weapons from US fuel drug war
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 12 - 04 - 2009


Stopping the flow of money and weapons
from the United States into Mexico is critical to dealing
with the violent drug cartels creating havoc on the border,
the Mexican ambassador to the U.S. said Sunday, according to AP.
Mexican officials believe that 90 percent of the weapons
seized there can be traced to the U.S., Ambassador Arturo
Sarukhan said.
«The key issue right now is how can the United States
help to shut down those guns and shut down that bulk cash
that is providing the drug syndicates in Mexico with the
wherewithal to corrupt, to bribe, to kill,» Sarukhan said
on CBS televsion's «Face the Nation.»
Mexican President Felipe Calderon began a national
crackdown on organized crime in 2006. Since then, violence
among the drug cartels, their rivals and soldiers have led
to nearly 9,000 deaths and crime that has spilled across
the border into the U.S.
Although Sarukhan contended that the cartels' use of
assault weapons rose dramatically after the U.S. ended its
ban on the firearms in 2004, he stopped short of advocating
that Congress reinstate the ban.
«What we will say is ... by reinstating the ban, that
could have a profound impact on the number and the caliber
of weapons going down to Mexico,» he said.
President Barack Obama plans to visit Mexico this week
before attending the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Attorney General
Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano have visited Mexico recently as part of renewed
efforts to work with their counterparts on anti-cartel
strategies.
The Obama administration said it was taking several steps
to provide more assistance to Mexico in its fight against
drug violence, including providing more federal agents to
try to stop gun smuggling.
Tightening border security through fencing and similar
means has not had an impact on guns and drugs, Sarukhan
said.
«We will be able to control our border if we can control
illicit traffic in moving both directions, the drugs moving
north, the weapons and the cash moving south,» he said.
«We will have to work together. And it behooves Mexico to
ensure that this common border is secure, that we're doing
things on both sides of the border to jointly ensure that
the border is secure, that the well-being of our citizens
on both sides of the border is being protected.»


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