Arms Trafficking in the Americas

Autor: Adriana Piotrowska. 20 de abril, 2009.

Mexican President, Felipe Calderon, has been fighting the war against drugs for two years. With a transnational concentrated effort on combating the cartels, turf wars over trade routes have increased and violence has started spilling over the US border. Mexico and the US, together, have acknowledged the role the US plays not only as the demand region for drugs, but also as a supplier of guns. Drugs tend to travel north as weapons travel south.

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