Buying arms in Mexico set a historic record in the last few years, marked by the spiral of violence that unleashed the cartel of drug trafficking in the country.
An official study reveals that the acquisition of arms in legal form or illegal between the civilian population has been steadily declining in the last few years until 2018 to 352,000, which represents an annual increase of 33%.
The document “Acquisition of Arms in Mexico 2012-18: Hall of Fame of the National Inquiry into Victimization of Mexico”, signals that the majority of Mexicans who buy arms for self-defense son “young men who are defying the police forces” and live in rural areas or with continued criminal activity “.
If there is a tendency to oppose the phenomenon in the United States, then the people of the mayor’s office, about all seniors, are the ones who have the most arms.
Other differences in living countries are that in Mexico the people with mayor education and ingressos are the ones who acquire arms, which interferes with the hypotheses formulated in initiating the study.
A cliffhanger in the municipality of El Salto in the state of Jalisco (Mexico). EFE Photo
The information, prepared by Carlos Pérez Ricart, Member of the Center for Investigation and Economic Documentation (CIDE), based on data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), first identifies the number of people in the position of people to crime or narcotics.
Pérez Ricart estimates that, between 2012 and 2018, at least 1,890,000 hogares contaban with an army of fugue for its protection, 5.5% of total Mexican wages.
“We assume that the number of people living in a house is 3.6 inhabitants in our country, inferior that hubo for at least 6.8 million people “Tuvieron accesses the arms of the fugue from the comfort of his house”, he explained.
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The specialist exposes that the number of Mexicans with at least one gun in his hogar could be superior to the relevance, “because one of the big problems that the questions are that a good percentage of people do not recognize tener arms, although the link “.
In its extension study, the investigator ensures that living in an insuring environment exposes people to delictual offenses, which in turn multiplies the probabilities of an aggravated person “being the need to acquire an army to defend, on top of all because it confuses police confidence “.
“We see that people who have been victims tend to be the people who buy arms. This is the effect of contagion, which acts as an epidemic: if you are victimized, you are more likely to buy arms”, the investigator said.
The document cites the case of Marcos, 62 years old, who lives in Ecatepec, a gigantic suburbio poor in the north of the capital. Acquired short arms in 2017 through a robe in his house while vacation is hallaba. “We live in a barricade where the brilliant police for their auspices and for sure the robbery robbery when we are not at home, but if we are married with what he has defended to my family”, asks the man, who says he also tries to “save” a mist hijas “.
The problem is that the arms the access to the illegal circuit, for which there is no registered ante the Ministry of Defense.
Various regions of Mexico, especially the north, in the frontier provinces with the United States, are dominated by drug cartels. They are very frequent the matanzas, products of the luchas between these organizations by the regional control.
The spiral of violence violated since 2006 arroja casi 350,000 deaths and 77,000 disappearances in the country, and the figures continue to rise dramatically.
Since the context does not lead to the civil reaction being la población, poor para defender decides.
Source: ANSA and Clarín
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