Is the US arming Mexican cartels?
Al Jazeera
Eighty percent of weapons seized from Mexican cartels come from the US, according to Mexico’s defence minister. How are they making it across the border?
The day after one of Mexico’s most wanted drug lords, known as “El Mencho”, was killed in a dawn raid last week, Defence Minister Ricardo Trevilla Trejo told reporters that 80 percent of weapons seized from cartels have been smuggled across the border from the United States.
With the aid of US intelligence, Mexican security forces tracked El Mencho, whose real name is Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes and was also wanted in the US, to a property in the mountain town of Tapalpa in west-central Mexico. He was the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), which is known for its military-style arsenal of weapons and amassing large amounts of power in just a couple of decades.
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