As mass shootings continue in the US, does Mexico’s lawsuit against gun corporations have a chance?

As mass shootings continue in the US, does Mexico’s lawsuit against gun corporations have a chance?

The case is building for US companies to move operations they offshored to Asia closer to home.

Citigroup is selling Citibanamex, whose assets include a vast collection of Mexican masterpieces.

Cultivating genetically modified corn is banned in Mexico, but the country still imports it from the US.

A massive lithium deposit in Mexico’s Sonora state was exempt from AMLO’s drive to nationalise strategic minerals.

Major firms are eager to profit from a legal Mexican cannabis market, but will they be able to navigate the risks?
![Mexico's proposal to legalise cannabis - shown growing here at a Cannativa AC research lab in Mexico City - has hit a snag in the country's senate, where a revised version of the bill is under consideration [File: Maurio Palos/Bloomberg]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/370849393.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The Mexican government took the unprecedented step of filing a lawsuit against US-based gun manufacturers this month.
![Mexico is seeking to hold US gun manufacturers and distributors accountable for high levels of gun violence in the country, where legal firearm ownership is restricted [File: Mario Rivera Alvarado/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/AP17182792587795.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Mexicans head to the polls Sunday in a referendum on whether former presidents should be prosecuted for corruption.
![In Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, a woman pushes a stroller past a sign showing images of several Mexican former presidents and calling for citizens to participate in a referendum on whether ex-presidents should be tried for their alleged crimes during their time in office [File: Fernando Llano/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/AP21207744906009.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Mexico’s poorer households are hardest hit by food price inflation because it eats up a bigger share of their income.
![A view shows tortillas in preparation to be wrapped in paper with contact information to help women victims of gender violence, as a part of a government program called "Break the Silence", at a tortilla stall in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, March 10, 2020. [Daniel Becerril/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2020-03-12T164351Z_610767495_RC2GIF9LT85D_RTRMADP_3_WOMEN-VIOLENCE-GENDER.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The US FAA downgraded Mexico’s civil aviation safety rating at a time when the Mexican tourism industry needs a rebound.
![The skies between Mexico and the United States could be a little quieter than anticipated in the coming months following the US Federal Aviation Administration’s announcement on May 25 that it has downgraded Mexico’s aviation safety rating from category one to category two [File: Victor Ruiz/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AP20166185094043.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)