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July 20, 2010

US-Made Grenades Used in Mexican Drug War
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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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