© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Weapons are displayed within the Medication Museum, utilized by the navy to showcase to troopers the existence of Mexican drug lords, on the headquarters of the Ministry of Protection in Mexico Metropolis, October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Picture
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A U.S. choose has canceled a listening to on a $10 billion lawsuit filed by Mexico searching for to carry U.S. gun producers accountable for facilitating arms trafficking to drug cartels, Mexico’s international ministry stated on Saturday.
The ministry, which has been urging a U.S. appeals court docket to revive the case, stated that the listening to, attributable to happen on Monday, had been canceled final Thursday.
“The choose assigned to the case, Cindy Jorgenson, issued an order canceling the listening to wherein she solely acknowledged that she is contemplating excusing herself from listening to the current litigation,” the ministry stated.
The choose and U.S. court docket officers weren’t instantly accessible for remark.
Seven in 10 crime weapons recovered and traced in Mexico come from the US, in keeping with U.S. gun management company ATF. This stage nears 80% throughout the Caribbean, the place many international locations have backed the Mexican lawsuit.
The Mexican and U.S. governments have not too long ago agreed to spice up controls in opposition to arms trafficking via an digital monitoring program for weapons seized from prison teams, however neither has supplied particulars on the plan.