One country against 11 giants of the arms industry. That is the legal battle unleashed by the lawsuit that Mexico filed against illegal arms trafficking last August. At stake is the possibility of compensating tens of thousands of victims of armed violence in Mexican territory and receiving compensation estimated in billions of dollars. However, bringing America’s top producers to the dock would be a milestone. It has never been done. That decision is now in the hands of a Massachusetts court. Alejandro Celorio, the official to whom the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador has entrusted this task, is a lawyer who is not scared by sports metaphors and who says he is ready for combat. “We are going to win,” says the legal consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Relations in an interview. “Our demand is overwhelming: the arms industry must assume the damage it has done,” he adds.
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