LatinNews Daily Report - 30 July 2014

It is not yet on the same scale as Mexico, but gunrunning from the US to Central America has grown into a sizable problem. In 2013 the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) found that of 3,966 firearms submitted to it for tracing by the countries of Central America’s ‘Northern Triangle’ (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras), 1,553 (39%) had been either made in the US or been imported to the US. Proportions varied from one country to the next. Guatemala submitted 2,045 firearms for tracing, of which 30% had come from the US; El Salvador submitted 1,079 with 52% coming from the US; Honduras 842 (46% from the US).

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