Mexico wants flow of guns from US cut. (and drug demand)

[rodeodance]

Mexico AG calls U.S. policy 'cynical'
MEXICO CITY - Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina called U.S. policies on drugs and firearms "cynical" and "absurd," some of the toughest language used by Mexican officials prodding Washington to cut U.S. drug demand and stem the flow of guns they say fuel violence here.

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thanks Caro for the headine

[Raven]

1. This is rich! We are helping make Mexico an unbearable country

to live in and then when people come here to get away from the crime and the guns and make a better life for themselves, we want to throw them out.

[msongs]

4. it doesnt need our help for that, it already is nt

[Kolesar]

2. Brings to mind the plot to Jackie Brown

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4891497.html

[Robson]

3. Maybe they should stop the flow of illegal workers to our country

Mexico has had a world renowned reputation for corrupt bribe ridden government since its inception, and now they say it's our fault...LOL.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. Well, seeing as how the US has undermined just about every

attempt by Mexico to clean up their governments for the past 150 years, yeah, I'd say maybe so.

[jeff30997]

5. "wants flow of guns from US cut. (and drug demand)"

So they want less gun and more dope? :silly:

[benEzra]

7. I don't think the RPG's and military AK-47's being used in Nuevo Laredo drug shootouts

are coming from the United States...those are more likely being smuggled into Mexico from the south (plenty of Cold War insurgency leftovers available in Central America).

I do think our War on Non-Approved Herbs is probably a major destabilizing force in Mexico, though. We probably understimate how damaging it is.

[Kolesar]

8. That's what the Mexican Attorney General says

What do you have that shows you know better?

[benEzra]

9. The fact that RPG's and automatic weapons are so tightly controlled in the United States...

I can see the potential for cross-border trade in black-market handguns (smuggling them across the border would presumably be no harder than all the meth and whatnot coming the other way), but the U.S. regulatory regime covering military hardware is among the strictest in the world (possession outside of police/law enforcement is a 10-year felony, unless you have Federal authorization to possess, and a civilian-transferable AK-47 from a Title 2/Class III dealer will set you back ~$15,000), whereas such hardware is freely available in Columbia and elsewhere for relative peanuts.

Diversion from U.S. law enforcement or military would be a possiblity, except that the U.S. military uses neither RPG's nor AK's in significant quantities.