Stop Enabling Latin America's Gun Addiction
Stop Enabling Latin America's Gun Addiction
By
Robert Muggah
The U.S. can change a historic pattern of irresponsible arms sales driving regional violence.
In the new issue of Americas Quarterly, we asked people, “What would you tell the next U.S. president about Latin America?” To see other authors’ responses, click here.
Dear Mister / Madam President,
As the world’s largest arms exporter, the U.S. plays an outsize role in fueling Latin America’s insatiable addiction to fi rearms. To take one example, during most of the 1980s, El Salvador was the largest consumer of U.S. military...
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