During an event in the Mexican state of Sonora, just south of Arizona, Mexico’s military destroyed more than 900 firearms Thursday on International Firearms Destruction Day.
At a military base in the state capital of Hermosillo, military members sawed through the barrels of firearms and destroyed more than 400,000 rounds of ammunition.
The event in Hermosillo coincided with a national event in Mexico City led by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Mexico launched a gun buyback program last year, in which people can exchange firearms for cash. The government says it has recuperated more than 2,000 firearms under the program.
Mexico has extremely restrictive firearms laws, and officials say more than 70% of guns used by organized crime in the country can be traced back to the United States.
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Andrés Manuel López Beltrán says the revocation of his U.S. visa was politically motivated. -
The project to clean up sediment and soil in the Rio Sonora comes more than a decade after what Mexico considers the worst environmental mining disaster in its history. Some say the government and Grupo México could have done more and demand transparency. -
As officials turn to native trees to deal with urban heat, Sonora is hoping to create a "green lung" in the state capital. -
Mexican authorities have arrested a former Mexican governor accused of concealing evidence related to the case of 43 students who went missing in 2014. -
As summer temperatures have soared, so too have cases of dehydration and heatstroke in the Mexican state south of Arizona.
