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Originally Posted by KirStang
Baraka, with all due respect....Mexico's bordered on the South by Guatemala, which has a murder rate twice as high as Mexico's (Source: Central America: The tormented isthmus | The Economist)
Indeed, the 3 states south of Mexico (Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua) are mired in a drug war, with over 50% of their inhabitants living in poverty.
It's incredible that, so much murder and violence are happening in the Countries south of Mexico (Panama's murder rate has also doubled in the past 3 years), yet, for all of the Isthmus's lawlessnes and drugs and violence (including many light aircraft using Guatemala as a backwater airport of sorts), it must be the AMERICAN border that's shifting guns south.
Also don't forget the porous Mexican Guatemalan Border.
Mexico's Other Border - National Geographic Magazine |
Yet nearly all the black market cash and the most recent focus of the Mexican government is US 100 bill. Do you also find it hard to believe they come from the US?
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Also BK look at this graph again-
What exactly are the "other sources" mentioned?
I'd also contend that the total number of "seized" weapons seems awfully low. My guess is there are two reasons for this- first, a lot of seized weapons never make it to any official location. They're either sold or kept by the seizing officials. Second, so many LEO here are on the drug lords payroll I'd guess the % of gun seized as compared to the number of guns in the country is extremely low.
I'm just guessing but I base those guesses on newspaper and other news reports here in Mexico.