Hemisphere: Interview on stopping weapons traffic to Mexico
Elena Klaver interviews John Lindsay-Poland in this 25-minute interview aired on May 5, 2020 by Boulder, Colorado's KGNU community radio station. Tune in!
Carte blanche: “Mexico must be supported in its fight against firearms”
Le Soir, April 20, 2020 (google translation from French) By Fabián Medina, Chief of Staff to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico An increasing flow of firearms is circulating freely…
‘All weapons we sell are from the US’: Smuggling guns into Mexico
Source: Al Jazeera A Mexican arms trafficker, a hitman, and the wife of a victim of gun violence talk about weapons brought in from the US. The attack on October 17, 2019,…
Webinar recording: Gun Violence in the Americas: Focus on Mexico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtV-FWGCD8A&feature=youtu.be This 60-minute webinar on March 24, 2020 features presentations by Dr. Stephen Hargarten, Natalia Báez, and John Lindsay-Poland on gun violence in Mexico.
Why We Fight To End Gun Violence
Gun violence affects nearly everyone. Close to 40,000 Americans die and more than 100,000 are injured by gun violence every year. With numbers that large, it’s easy to lose sight…
Trump’s Export Reform Will Shower Gun Industry in Central American and Mexican Blood Money
by Brett Heinz, Center for Economic and Political Research (CEPR) February 20, 2020 El Salvador has one of the highest homicide rates in the world. Bordering the country are the other two nations…
New Arms Exports Rule Will Spread US Gun Violence Beyond Borders
The Globe Post, January 28, 2020 Adotei Akwei A new rule announced on Thursday by the Donald Trump administration will make it far easier to export the AR-15 and weapons like it abroad, spreading rampant gun…
European Gun Makers Are Quietly Supplying the Mexican Drug War
Vice, Robin Eveleigh January 28, 2020 From the safety of gleaming mansions in the foothills of the Italian Alps, government-owned munitions factories in Romania and Belgium, and boardrooms in Austria,…
How the US made the so-called ‘safe third countries’ unsafe
Despite Donald Trump's claims, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are everything but safe. by Belen Fernandez, Al Jazeera December 29, 2019 This year, US President and xenophobe-in-chief Donald Trump finagled "safe third…
Trump administration’s dangerous plan to make it easier to export assault weapons
By Jeff Abramson, November 18, 2019 CNN Less than 10 days after six children and three women of a US family of were killed in Mexico, drawing national and international…