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Monday, July 02, 2018 8:45:08 AM
Five Takeaways From Mexico’s Election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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"Donald Trump’s Central America strategy is both cruel and incompetent
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Stray bullets
The US’s lax gun laws, particularly in border states, feed the very violence that migrants head northward to escape. Many critics have singled out the 2004 expiration of the US’s assault weapons ban, arguing that the subsequent resurgence in assault weapons sales has contributed to the grisly massacres and cartel brutality that spiked in Mexico and Central America over the past decade.
Some 2,000 illegal firearms cross the border into Mexico daily, and in recent years Mexican cartels .. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/the-american-gun-glut-is-a-problem-for-the-entire-world.html .. have linked up with Central American criminal outfits to import US-made firearms and to push cocaine up the isthmus and across the US border. But of course, firearms manufacturers in the US are hardly keen to see assault weapons banned again, and Trump is on their side. His recently renewed embrace of the gun lobby .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/04/trump-nra-convention-dallas-gun-control .. sent a strong message to the governments of the region that as far as eliminating violence goes, the US is an unreliable partner."
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador celebrating his victory in the presidential election with supporters at the Hilton Hotel in Mexico City on
Sunday. Alex Cruz/EPA, via Shutterstock
By Azam Ahmed and Kirk Semple
July 2, 2018
MEXICO CITY — After 18 years of establishment politics, Mexicans decided on Sunday that enough was enough,
electing the leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador as president in a landslide victory in an election of firsts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/world/americas/mexico-election-lopez-obrador.html
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"Donald Trump’s Central America strategy is both cruel and incompetent
[...]
Stray bullets
The US’s lax gun laws, particularly in border states, feed the very violence that migrants head northward to escape. Many critics have singled out the 2004 expiration of the US’s assault weapons ban, arguing that the subsequent resurgence in assault weapons sales has contributed to the grisly massacres and cartel brutality that spiked in Mexico and Central America over the past decade.
Some 2,000 illegal firearms cross the border into Mexico daily, and in recent years Mexican cartels .. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/the-american-gun-glut-is-a-problem-for-the-entire-world.html .. have linked up with Central American criminal outfits to import US-made firearms and to push cocaine up the isthmus and across the US border. But of course, firearms manufacturers in the US are hardly keen to see assault weapons banned again, and Trump is on their side. His recently renewed embrace of the gun lobby .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/04/trump-nra-convention-dallas-gun-control .. sent a strong message to the governments of the region that as far as eliminating violence goes, the US is an unreliable partner."
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador celebrating his victory in the presidential election with supporters at the Hilton Hotel in Mexico City on
Sunday. Alex Cruz/EPA, via Shutterstock
By Azam Ahmed and Kirk Semple
July 2, 2018
MEXICO CITY — After 18 years of establishment politics, Mexicans decided on Sunday that enough was enough,
electing the leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador as president in a landslide victory in an election of firsts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/world/americas/mexico-election-lopez-obrador.html
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