2021 Arms Control Person of the Year – Vote Now!
The illicit arms trade is a subject of the utmost interest for Mexico and the entire Latin American region due to the violence that this activity brings about. Despite the specific national contexts, the violence caused by arms trafficking has consequences of great magnitude on the quality of life of our populations, as well as, on the development of our countries.
In that regard, last August, the Government of Mexico filed a lawsuit, before a United States federal district court against manufacturers and distributors of firearms, for negligent commercial practices that promote arms trafficking to our country. It is important to point out that the litigation is not against the U.S. government nor against the right of U.S. citizens to own and bear arms in their country (Second Amendment of its Constitution). The aim is to prevent criminal groups from benefiting from this illicit trafficking, that is, the drug cartels who do not have the right to possess and bear arms.
This unprecedented legal action has drawn the attention of the international community, in such a way that the non-profit organization, Arms Control Association, nominated the Government of Mexico and the Secretary of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, to compete for the recognition of the Arms Control Person of the Year, 2021 edition. This action is the sole recognition of the efforts of the Government of Mexico, and its diplomacy, to stop the illicit trafficking of weapons, so that between December 8 and January 12, voting will be open on the following website of this association: https://www.armscontrol.org/acpoy/2021
Please consider casting your vote in favor of Mexico, in the person of the Secretary of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard. |
