Infographics on the Illegal Gun Trade to Mexico
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Deadly Trade: How European and Israeli Arms Exports are Accelerating Violence in Mexico
Español aquí Weapons companies based in Europe and Israel exported more than 238,000 firearms to Mexico for use by police between 2006 and 2018, in addition to thousands of weapons…
The Kidnapped American Trump Forgot
Jorge Dominguez was a U.S. citizen kidnapped in Mexico by the military. Did the U.S. government do anything to find him? By J. Weston Pippen Politico, December 18, 2020 NUEVO…
The Hidden Pandemic: How U.S. Arms Sales Have Fueled Decades of Violence in Latin America
Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective December 14, 2020, 51:39 minutes In this episode of Solidarity Radio we are joined by Honduras Program Co-Director, Allison Lira, and researcher, author and activist,…
Deadly Trade – Infographics
All infographics created by Agir pour la Paix. (Ver infográficos en Español) Read the report: Deadly Trade: How European and Israeli Arms Exports are Accelerating Violence in Mexico
An Ocean of Guns:
Mexico's Journalists in the Crossfire of the International Arms Trade by Phineas Rueckert, Forbidden Stories December 9, 2020 At least 86 of 119 journalists and media workers killed in Mexico since…
A soldier rides atop a military vehicle in a convoy carrying the bodies of soldiers killed one day earlier in an ambush, inside the Novena Military Zone in Culiacan, Sinaloa State, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. A brazen ambush on a military convoy Friday left five soldiers dead and 10 wounded in what was the worst attack on military personnel since 2015, when drug cartel gunmen in the state of Jalisco shot down an army helicopter with a rocket launcher, killing 10 people.(AP Photo/Rashide Frias)
Somewhere in Mexico
Control of arms exports Wolf-Dieter Vogel, taz [google translate from the German original] December 7, 2020 The German arms factory Dynamit Nobel has exported rocket launchers to Mexico. It is unclear where…
Welcoming Marco Castillo
We are delighted to announce the hiring by Global Exchange of Marco Castillo, who will serve as lead U.S. organizer and advocacy coordinator for Stop US Arms to Mexico, beginning…
The Sniper Rifles Flowing to Mexican Cartels Show a Decade of U.S. Failure
The Washington Post, November 19, 2020 By Kevin Sieff and Nick Miroff NOGALES, Mexico — North of the border, the .50-caliber sniper rifle is the stuff of YouTube celebrity, shown…
Webinar: Deadly Trade
Deadly Trade: How European and Israeli weapons exports are accelerating violence in Mexico Watch the Webinar November 24, 2020 Weapons companies based in Europe and Israel exported more than 238,000…