United States must control the flow of weapons from the vast majority are supplied violent Mexican drug cartels, insisted on Friday the new Attorney General of Mexico, Arturo Chavez.
"We ask that you control the flow of weapons into Mexico, as many are used by organized crime," said Chavez at a press conference in his first Attorney day after being ratified by the Senate on Thursday amid questions of numerous NGOs.
is estimated that 90% of the sophisticated weapons used by drug cartels in Mexico from the United States, where restrictions for purchase are limited.
According to Attorney General, Mexico on your side is making an effort to prevent drugs from reaching into the United States, the largest cocaine market in the world.
The official said that the fight against drug mafias, which hit several parts of the country, particularly in the United States border, "must be integral" and reaffirmed the president's strategy Felipe Calderon's fight with "all the forces of the State, without this meaning only repression."
The government has deployed about 50,000 soldiers and thousands of policemen in the hottest areas of Mexico to try to curb the drug trade.
The new attorney general, a key position in the fight against drug trafficking, said lack of precise figures on crimes linked to the cartels because many of them have not been clarified, but felt that "must be many, many."
Other sources indicate that about 14,000 people were executed for crimes linked to the cartels from the beginning of Calderon, in December 2006.
Chavez's appointment as a federal prosecutor was surrounded by fierce controversy because, as attorney general of the state of Chihuahua from 1996 to 1998, was questioned for his role in investigations of murders of dozens of women in Ciudad Juárez (North) occurred at the time.
said that while serving as state attorney general further clarified "65 of the 93 cases" reported and pledged to cooperate with the state of Chihuahua for the cases "are outstanding."
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