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In 2021, the main weapons manufacturers were American companies.
The 100 largest global military equipment companies grew their revenue by 1.3 percent in real terms in 2020.
In 2021, the total sales figure amounted to 531 billion dollars.
Conversations about the sale of weapons and the manufacture of these continue to be a recurring theme between Mexico and the United States. This Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) of Mexico promoted the second complaint against arms manufacturers in the US, after the first was dismissed.
It is no secret to anyone that the arms industry is one of the most money-moving in the world, where since the beginning of the war between Russia and Ukraine, the value of the 15 arms companies with the highest sales in the world and that are listed on some stock market, soared by around 81 thousand 500 million dollars, reveal market data from the different companies.
Likewise, according to the report The 100 main companies producing arms and military services, published by the International Institute for Peace Studies in Stockholm (Sipri, for its acronym in English), In December 2021, among the 15 companies that trade the most military artifacts in the world and are listed on a stock market, there are nine Americans.
Mexico’s Second Lawsuit Against US Arms Manufacturers
This Monday, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, reported that Mexico promoted the second complaint against arms manufacturers in the United States, detailing this time it will proceed against five companies located in the border state of Arizona and whose weapons, he said, have been used to perpetrate crimes such as homicides or femicides.
“We are suing them because here, obviously, as there is a recurrence, we presume and it is evident that there is arms trafficking and that it is known that these weapons are directed to our country,” said the diplomat.
Given this, he also mentioned that Mexico’s request to the Court will seek that the companies be sanctioned for incurring in the recently enacted US law that makes weapons purchases through proxies a crime. In addition to establishing sentences of up to 15 to 25 years in prison if the offense is related to drug trafficking.
Let us remember that on September 30, the District Judge of Boston, F. Dennis Saylor, dismissed the first lawsuit that the Government of Mexico had filed in August against eleven arms manufacturers accused of facilitating the trafficking of their product in national territory, through criminal organizations.
For his part, Ebrard revealed that Mexico would file a second complaint, but directed at Arizona companies and based on the new US legislation that sanctions companies operating with proxies.
“We are going to show that, in many of these points, they are operating loan sharks and we have to start giving them criminal responsibilities”he said in an appearance before the Senate.
After that lawsuit, the Federal Government estimates that approximately 60 percent of the weapons seized in Mexico in recent years would have been sold in 10 counties in the United States, where the majority along the border with the Mexican Republic.
Federal Government estimates indicate that approximately 60% of the weapons seized in Mexico in recent years would have been sold in 10 US counties, most of them along the border with the Mexican Republic.
Given this, Mexico has accused the accused arms manufacturers of having promoted commercial practices “negligent and illicit that facilitate the illegal trafficking of weapons”.
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