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US-Made Grenades Used in Mexican Drug War

HeadlineJul 20, 2010

In news from Mexico, the Washington Post reports grenades made in the United States and sent to Central America during the 1980s and ’90s are now being used by Mexican drug cartels. There have been more than seventy-two grenade attacks in Mexico in the last year, including assaults on police convoys and public officials. The majority of the grenades have been traced back to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, countries where the US sent hundreds of thousands of hand grenades in the 1980s and early 1990s. One of the most common hand grenades found in Mexico is the US-made M67. Between 1980 and 1993, the Reagan and Bush administrations sent some 266,000 M67 grenades to El Salvador.

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