tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727365383026508777.post5438166299424246897..comments2023-10-23T06:11:42.779-07:00Comments on Eyes Over Arizona: 70% of Arms Seized in Mexico Come from US, Report SaysAzEyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640055285070700153noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2727365383026508777.post-35702415074371836592011-06-14T20:29:04.614-07:002011-06-14T20:29:04.614-07:002/10/11....Mexico's Gun Supply and the 90 Per...2/10/11....Mexico's Gun Supply and the 90 Percent Myth<br /><a href="http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110209-mexicos-gun-supply-and-90-percent-myth" rel="nofollow">http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110209-mexicos-gun-supply-and-90-percent-myth</a><br /><br />-- The Black Market. Mexico is a virtual arms bazaar, with fragmentation grenades from South Korea, AK-47s ...from China, and shoulder-fired rocket launchers from Spain, Israel and former Soviet bloc manufacturers.<br /><br />-- Russian crime organizations. Interpol says Russian Mafia groups such as Poldolskaya and Moscow-based Solntsevskaya are actively trafficking drugs and arms in Mexico.<br /><br />- South America. During the late 1990s, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) established a clandestine arms smuggling and drug trafficking partnership with the Tijuana cartel, according to the Federal Research Division report from the Library of Congress.<br /><br />-- Asia. According to a 2006 Amnesty International Report, China has provided arms to countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Chinese assault weapons and Korean explosives have been recovered in Mexico.<br /><br />-- The Mexican Army. More than 150,000 soldiers deserted in the last six years, according to Mexican Congressman Robert Badillo. Many took their weapons with them, including the standard issue M-16 assault rifle made in Belgium.<br /><br />-- Guatemala. U.S. intelligence agencies say traffickers move immigrants, stolen cars, guns and drugs, including most of America's cocaine, along the porous Mexican-Guatemalan border. On March 27, La Hora, a Guatemalan newspaper, reported that police seized 500 grenades and a load of AK-47s on the border. Police say the cache was transported by a Mexican drug cartel operating out of Ixcan, a border town.<br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/02/myth-percent-small-fraction-guns-mexico-come#ixzz1PJNdYCKT" rel="nofollow">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/02/myth-percent-small-fraction-guns-mexico-come#ixzz1PJNdYCKT</a>TJVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17179082890073189401noreply@blogger.com