- Title: Trump, Lopez Obrador agree to take action to freeze flow of weapons to Mexico
- Date: 19th October 2019
- Summary: TWO DEAD BODIES ON THE GROUND BEHIND AND SHOOTOUT TRUCK
- Embargoed: 2nd November 2019 21:15
- Keywords: Mexico violence Sinaloa Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador illegal weapons border trafficking arms
- Location: NOCHIXTLAN, OAXACA; AND CULIACAN, SINALOA, MEXICO
- City: NOCHIXTLAN, OAXACA; AND CULIACAN, SINALOA, MEXICO
- Country: Mexico
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA002B1RJLTZ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Mexico's foreign minister said on Saturday (October 19) that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump had agreed to take swift action to stem the flow of illegal weapons from the United States into Mexico.
Lopez Obrador told Trump on a phone call "I want to propose to you that both our countries use technology to close the border, to freeze the traffic of arms that is killing people in Mexico," Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told reporters.
Lopez Obrador told Trump "he was very concerned" that gang members were using .50 caliber, armor-piercing rifles during the breakout of violence in the northwestern city of Culiacan after Mexican authorities attempted to arrest Ovidio Guzman, one of jailed drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's dozen or so children.
The two leaders agreed that U.S. and Mexican officials would meet in the next few days to discuss options, and would announce actions to "freeze" illegal imports of weapons into Mexico through U.S. border crossings.
The discussion came in the wake of the bungled arrest attempt.
There was no immediate comment from U.S. authorities.
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