Mexico wants an urgent investigation into how U.S. military-grade weapons are increasingly being found in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, Mexico’s top diplomat said Monday.
Mexico’s army is finding belt-fed machine guns, rocket launchers and grenades that are not sold for civilian use in the United States.
“The (Mexican) Defense Department has warned the United States about weapons entering Mexico that are for the exclusive use of the U.S. army,” Foreign Relations Secretary Alicia Bárcena said. “It is very urgent that an investigation into this be carried out.”
The Mexican army said in June that it had seized 221 fully automatic machine guns, 56 grenade launchers and a dozen rocket launchers from drug cartels since late 2018.
The military-grade U.S. weaponry — which cartels have bragged about and openly displayed on social media — poses a special challenge for Mexico’s army, which along with police and the National Guard already faces cartels operating homemade armored vehicles and bomb-dropping drones.
They’re for sale to anyone that will destabilize their government. That’s how it works.
Can’t have South America having agency or resources, amirite?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America
Elon Musk on Bolivia: “We’ll coup who we want.”
Elon Musk has zero say in who we coup.
And also Mexico I’m pretty sure is part of north America.
Elon has the money to coup nations on his own, he doesn’t really need the cooperation of any government in funding and weaponizing dissidents
The United Fruit Company would like to have a word about this.
The United Fruit Company (UFC), whose highly profitable business had been affected by the softening of exploitative labor practices in Guatemala, engaged in an influential lobbying campaign to persuade the U.S. to overthrow the Guatemalan government
The United Fruit Company, through its investment and influence, took on the role of nation-building in Central America throughout the first half of the twentieth century and is what one would call the epitome of U.S imperialism. The freedom granted to this company throughout Central America is one that is mostly indebted to the authoritarian regimes that assisted in their economic pillaging. Under the nickname of “Banana Republics,” many Central American nations were forced into a subservient relationship with the U.S. through their corporations.
Hence, the UFC utilized its strong ties with the US government and, more specifically, the CIA. On December 6, 1928, the US government threatened to invade Colombia with the US Marine Corps that were stationed off the shores of Ciénaga should the Colombian government not act to protect the UFC’s interests. Concerned with this threat and its potential economic impact, the Colombian government decided to act in favor of the interests of the United Fruit Company.
What? Mexico is literally not in South America.
Yep. The southern border of Mexico is the border between N. America and C. America.
Has the CIA been giving the cartels more military equipment and weaponry again? Honestly, Mexico should build a wall, against the US government.
And make America pay for it. Wait that is already kind of happening. Has this been the plan all along?
Maybe we sold them to the cartels.
Such tired nonsense. Republicans made this a scandal. It’s a perfectly valid law enforcement strategy and was otherwise effective. Next you’ll be linking stories about Benghazi.
It’s a perfectly valid law enforcement strategy and was otherwise effective
They used the guns to kill a border patrol agent. Over a hundred murders are linked to the guns.
how about we abolish DHS and cbp, then they can’t be killed.
Only if we abolish the ATF first
Over 1 million deaths for ignoring COVID are linked to Donald Trump.
And?
What does Benghazi have to do with this ? Because it has nothing to do with this.
It was another fake scandal.
E: Oh wow! We have Benghazi truthers in the house. I thought you guys all died of COVID.
They ran out of horse dewormer.
I’d bet 20 bucks its some cops in texas
I’d bet 20 bucks they buy direct from the manufacturer.
Fucking breaking bad had more ethics on weapon sales to Mexico
Welcome to America, Mexico.
Somebody get Stanley Stupid on the case. I mean, you’ll have just about as much luck with him as you would our congress actually getting anything done.
We all know why this is happening. The wheels are flying off this fucking turkey. Corruption isn’t just rampant, its the norm. Anyone who doesn’t see that is blind or doesn’t want to see it.
Love that movie
We should meme it more, it’s got something for everyone.
Doris Roberts, weed, videogames, and…
Well, mainly those three things.
Jonah hill sucking on tiddies, androids, ddr
Great movie!
Frankenstein!
Mexico can demand all they want. The State Department will do fuckall about it. Hell, the CIA will probably send more.
Either the US is selling them to the cartels or the corrupted Mexican gouvernement. I bet it is both.
My money is on the Texas local, city & state police offloading their old US military hardware for a good markup while obtaining more from the Gov.
As much as that is probably happening. Even Texas couldn’t justify giving the police rocket launchers.
10 Lemmy bucks says
Ft. HoodFt. Cavazos is involved.With all the drug money the cartels get from selling drugs to Americans they will get guns from somewhere, it’s just a matter of where.
In most cases, they’re buying from the source.
DOD can’t pass an audit, hmmm wonder where it all went.
The reason is the same as Abu Sayyaf, al Queda, ISIL and other terror organizations get their hands on US or western made weapons.
Arms dealers don’t care about borders and exist specifically to spite those borders.
Cartel probably stole them from a military base or in transit.
Yeah sure, it can’t be bought so that must be it. Steal from a military base is the most reasonable answer.
It’s not an unreasonable answer. There’s quite a few places they could steal/buy/acquire them from. And stealing them from one of the largest Army bases in the US, that’s also in a border state, isn’t beyond reasonable at all.
It’s definitely not unreasonable. It’s also happened before on several occasions. These peope think members of the military are immune from cartel extortion and threats?
I will not be surprised if Ft. Cavazos is involved in some way.
