Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum Accuses the United States of feeding drug cartels and says that American citizens are working with groups of crimes organized in Mexico, according to the American president Donald Trump “Slanderous” said earlier this month that Mexico had united its forces with drug traffickers.
“There is also a crime organized in the United States and there are Americans who come to Mexico with these illegal activities,” said Sheinbaum During a press conference THURSDAY. “Otherwise, which would distribute fentanyl In the cities of the United States? »»
Sheinbaum reacted to a journalist from the Político Animal news store, who mentioned a Investigation they published This week which discovered that more than 2,600 American citizens had been arrested in Mexico for organized crime offenses, including smuggling of drugs and firearms, since the former president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in December 2018.
“The problem is not only that drugs go from Mexico to the United States,” she added.
Sheinbaum said Mexico was ready to work with the American government on security issues in Mexico, but it stressed that the US government should also “do its job” to “avoid trafficking in their country”.
“In the United States, they must also act,” she said.
During his press conference, Sheinbaum also urged Google to reconsider your decision To rename the Gulf of Mexico At Gulf of America For American users. Sheinbaum said Mexico could bring civil action against Google.
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Google has changed the name of the American users of Google Maps to reflect Trump’s government’s decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
Sheinbaum has repeatedly criticized the moveArguing that the name of the “Gulf of Mexico” has long been recognized internationally. Thursday, she said that Google had not resolved the previous complaints of Mexico.
“If necessary, we will put a civil action,” she said. “Even President Trump does not propose that the whole Gulf of Mexico be called the” Gulf of America “, but only their continental plateau. So Google is wrong. “”
She urged Google to review the Decree of the White House, arguing “the only place where it was effective was the place where (the United States) have sovereignty, or up to 22 sea kilometers from the coast. »»
In a long declaration On X last week, Sheinbaum addressed Trump’s statement That prices against Mexico were an answer to illegal immigration and “the alliance” between drug trafficking organizations and the government of Mexico.
“We categorically reject slander made by the White House against the Mexican government about alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any attempt to intervene in our territory,” wrote Sheinbaum on social networks. “If there is such an alliance anywhere, it is in American firearm stores that sell high power weapons to these criminal groups.”
Sheinbaum said the Mexican government “seized more than 40 tonnes of drugs in four months”, including “20 million doses of fentanyl” and “arrested more than ten thousand people related to these groups”.
“If the American government and its agencies wish to solve the serious problem of fentanyl consumption in their country, they could, for example, fight the sale of narcotics in the streets of their big cities – which they do not do – as well as The money The laundering generated by this illegal activity, which has caused significant damage to their population, “she added.
Sheinbaum also suggested that the United States could “launch a massive campaign to prevent drug use and protect their youth”, as Mexico has done.
“The consumption and distribution of drugs occur in their own country, and it is a public health problem that they have not resolved. In addition, the epidemic of synthetic opioids in the United States comes from the blind prescription of these drugs, authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as demonstrated by the legal case against a pharmaceutical enterprise, ” writes Sheinbaum.
“Mexico is not looking for confrontation. We believe in collaboration between neighboring countries. Mexico does not want fentanyl to reach the United States – or elsewhere. Consequently, if the United States really wants to fight against criminal groups that drug trafficking and fuel violence, we must work together completely, but always under the principles of shared responsibility, mutual trust, of Collaboration and, above all, respect for sovereign – which is not negotiable. Coordination, yes; Subordination, no. “”
On February 2, the governors of the 31 states of Mexico and Mexico City supported Sheinbaum in a joint declaration.
“We vigorously condemn the accusations that suggest that there is a link between our government and the Cartels of the Narco trafficking,” he said. “These statements are not only baseless, they also ignore the major and verifiable efforts that Mexico has made to combat organized crime,” the statement said.
Marcelo Ebrard, Minister of Mexico of the Economy, said on x that Trump hurts.
“Accusing the Mexican government of being an ally of Narco (traffickers) is – apart from an insult to our country – a pretext to distract American public opinion of the enormous error of imposing disruptive rates on Mexico and societies North Americans who operate here. Pulling yourself in your foot, ”wrote Ebrard.
– With reuters files
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