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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
By John Lindsay-Poland and Dee Rowland Salt Lake Tribune, November 16, 2019 The massacre of six children and three women in northern Mexico touched many Utahns. Occurring on the heels of other…
November 12, 2019 - Italy is exporting tens of thousands of high-powered weapons to Mexican forces involved in human rights violations, corruption, and widespread violence, a study by a bi-national…
Leader calls US approach against drugs a ‘disaster’ By Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post MEXICO CITY — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday rejected US suggestions he get more…
By Ioan Grillo, New York Times November 6, 2019 If the president wants to fight the cartels behind killings like Monday’s attack on a Mormon family, he can start with gun control.…