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(CNN Spanish) - Representatives of the Government of Mexico will discuss the illegal trafficking of weapons from the United States with that country's attorney general, William Barr, during his visit to Mexico this week.
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, detailed in a press conference on Wednesday that they also discussed "the introduction of dollars and of course also the drug."
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More than 19,000 firearms that had been confiscated in at least 26 states in Mexico were destroyed by authorities of the Ministry of Defense, Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval said on Wednesday.
Sandoval said at least 70% of these weapons have been introduced from the United States, mainly from the states of Texas, Arizona and California.
Arms trafficking