According to Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, head of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena): “we must reinforce the actions” that have been taken on the basis of the document to combat the illicit trafficking of weapons from the United States to Mexico.

Regarding the issue, the President stated that the lawsuits filed during the six-year term of office of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador against arms manufacturers and sellers in the United States, continue their course in the courts of that country and indicated that her government will give them continuity.

Trevilla Trejo assured that during the Lopez Obrador administration “great efforts were made to make the United States understand that part of the great problem of violence we have in Mexico, is a product of the weapons that come from the United States”.

He added that, in the Bicentennial Understanding, and for the first time in a bilateral agreement, the need to jointly address the illicit trafficking of weapons into Mexico was included, highlights La Jornada newspaper.

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