Mexicans Die from U.S Weapons

Mexicans Die from U.S WeaponsMexico City, Mar 15. -It is unacceptable for U.S. authorities to allow smuggling of weapons into Mexico, Senator Yeikol Polenski of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (DRP) said.

In statements to Prensa Latina, Polenski said the United States organizes coups by selling weapons to organized crime groups and drug traffickers, and said as a result, at least 36,000 Mexicans have died.

She said not even 10 percent of the deaths caused by clashes between organized crime and the government or between gangs are linked to drug-trafficking.

The arms trafficking went beyond all expectations regarding the U.S interference in Mexico, and the most dramatic point is Mexico allow it, she said.

The Senate recently demanded that the government thoroughly investigate the illegal weapons situation, while Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa and the Mexican ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhan, had been summoned to appear in the Senate Thursday.

The secretary of the Commission for National Defense, Pablo Escudero Morales, filed a complaint with the Attorney Generalâ�Ös Office regarding those responsible for bringing into Mesxico some 2,000 high-caliber weapons. (Prensa Latina)