Mexico’s foreign minister accuses US companies of contributing to spread of illegal weapons, high homicide rates.
'If we do not stop this large influx of weapons to Mexico, how could we stop the violence here?' Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard says [File: Luis Cortes/Reuters]
Published On 10 Oct 202210 Oct 2022
Mexico has filed another lawsuit in the United States against US companies it says are fuelling a surge in homicides and the flow of illegal weapons into the country, the Mexican foreign minister announced.
Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said the new lawsuit targets five US gun dealers — all based in the state of Arizona — that have contributed to the widespread availability of weapons in Mexico and the country’s high homicide rate.
The move comes just more than a week after a US judge dismissed a separate $10bn lawsuit Mexico filed last year against 11 US gun manufacturers.
“If we do not stop this large influx of weapons to Mexico, how could we stop the violence here?” Ebrard said in a video shared on Twitter on Monday.
“If the United States is asking us to support them — and this a good thing that we would work together to combat fentanyl, chemical ingredients, drug cartels — we also want them to help us reduce this influx of weapons that does us great harm.”
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