Significance: The restriction on foreign law enforcement agents carrying weapons in Mexico has been a significant source of tension with the US, especially after the fatal attack on a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official, Jaime Zapata, in February 2011, after his armoured car was ambushed by members of a drug gang on a highway near the eponymous capital of the state of San Luis Potosí. The issue of foreign agents bearing arms in Mexico has always been highly sensitive, however, with the Left in particular claiming that it would violate the country’s sovereignty.
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