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The agency recently noted that cartels use a range of weapons, including the Barrett M82 .50-caliber semiautomatic rifle, a gun designed to pierce light vehicles and fortified positions. 0.900

👤 Paulina Villegas 📋 News Article 🏷️ Crime , Weaponry

Simplified: Cartels use the Barrett M82 .50-caliber semiautomatic rifle

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She said that 70 percent of those in Mexico came from the United States. 0.800

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Simplified: 70 percent of high-powered military-use weapons in Mexico came from the United States

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Just as drones, cheap and easy to modify, have proliferated in the battlefields of Ukraine, their use by cartels — for surveillance and precision bombing — has surged drastically in recent years, acco... 0.900

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Simplified: Cartel use of drones has surged drastically in recent years

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Mexican officials say that most of the military-grade weapons that powerful groups have acquired originated in the United States, and that up to half a million firearms are smuggled south each year. 0.800

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Simplified: Most military-grade weapons acquired by Mexican cartels originated in the United States up to half a million firearms are smuggled south each year

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Drug smugglers and cartel gunmen no longer wield just handguns or automatic rifles, officials and experts say, but also Claymore land mines, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars built from gas-tank tube... 0.900

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Simplified: Drug smugglers and cartel gunmen now use land mines rocket-propelled grenades mortars and armored trucks

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They were criminal groups, armed with military-grade weapons and fighting just a few hundred miles from the U.S. border, in Mexico’s western state of Michoacán. 0.900

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Simplified: Criminal groups armed with military-grade weapons are fighting in Michoacán near the US border

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Some of Mexico’s most formidable cartels are locked in a vicious arms race on multiple fronts. 0.900

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Simplified: Mexico's cartels are locked in a vicious arms race

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Under pressure from the government and each other, some of Mexico’s most powerful criminal groups are amassing homemade mortars, land mines, rocket-propelled grenades and bomber drones. 0.900

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Simplified: Mexico's criminal groups are amassing homemade mortars land mines rocket-propelled grenades and bomber drones under pressure

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