{"id":7205,"date":"2009-04-16T09:34:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2009-04-16T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:34:13","slug":"mexican-gun-traffickers-buy-american-made-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/04\/16\/mexican-gun-traffickers-buy-american-made-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Gun Traffickers Buy American-made Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest041609\/2009_04_16_rand.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest041609\/2009_04_16_uprising.MP3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/mexicoinstitute.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/gun-store.jpg\" alt=\"gun violence\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thirteen people died yesterday in a violent shoot-out between Mexican soldiers and suspected drug traffickers in Guerrero, as reported by the newspaper Reforma. The traffickers were heavily armed and also threw grenades at the soldiers, who stumbled upon them as they were reportedly transporting narcotics down from the mountains. Drug-related border violence has claimed more than 6000 lives over the past year. As President Obama stops in Mexico today to meet with President Felipe Calderon, his administration has placed three more Mexican drug gangs onto a list for special sanctions as part of his strategy to combat the violence. Meanwhile, the Obama administration yesterday announced that former federal prosecutor Alan Bersin was named to lead efforts to crack down on drug-related violence along the U.S.-Mexican border. Bersin served as &#8220;border czar&#8221; in the Justice Department under President Clinton, and also the former California Education Secretary and San Diego&#8217;s School Superintendent. Many experts have asserted that most of the weapons flow into Mexico from the United States, but a spokesperson for the National Rifle Association, the main pro-gun lobbying organization in the US, said recently that Mexican cartels do not &#8220;trifle with paperwork at U.S. gun stores.&#8221; Now, a new study refutes the NRA position by showing that Mexican gun traffickers were obtaining the majority of their weapons from the US. In fact, the Violence Policy Center showed that nearly two thirds of weapons obtained are military-style guns easily and legally available on the civilian US gun market. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Kristen Rand, author of report &#8220;Indicted,&#8221; Legislative Director with the Violence Policy Center<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Download the report, entitled &#8220;Indicted: Types of Firearms and Methods of Gun Trafficking from the United States to Mexico as Revealed in U.S. Court Documents,&#8221; here: http:\/\/www.vpc.org\/studies\/indicted.pdf<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpc.org\">www.vpc.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen people died yesterday in a violent shoot-out between Mexican soldiers and suspected drug traffickers in Guerrero, as reported by the newspaper Reforma. The traffickers were heavily armed and also threw grenades at the soldiers, who stumbled upon them as they were reportedly transporting narcotics down from the mountains. Drug-related border violence has claimed more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}