Mexico - February 2025

We begin this February 2025 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Mexico by examining President Claudia Sheinbaum’s efforts to reduce gun violence. While a new programme incentivising citizens to surrender their firearms in exchange for money may go some way to reducing the prevalence of firearms among the public, this piece argues that it will fail to tackle the main source of gun violence in the country.

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