President in Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico will not tolerate an “invasion” of its national sovereignty after the Asset The administration has officially increased Designate eight criminal organizations from Latin America as “foreign terrorist organizations”.
“This cannot be an opportunity for the United States to invade our sovereignty,” said Sheinbaum during his daily press briefing on Thursday. “With Mexico, it is collaboration and coordination, never of subordination or interventionism, and even less invasion.”
“We want to be clear given this designation that we do not negotiate our sovereignty,” added Sheinbaum. “There can be no interference or subordination.
“The two countries want to reduce drug use and illegal drug trafficking.”
Sheinbaum said his government had not been consulted by the United States in its decision to Include Mexican cartels on a list of global terrorist organizations, including Sinaloa cartelUnited Cartel, the Michoacana family and the Jalisco New Generation cartel. Canada, too, lists seven transnational criminal organizations – including several drug cartels – as the terrorist pruning of the Criminal Code, the Minister of Public Security announced on Thursday.
“The Mexican people will in no way accept interventions, intrusions or any other action from abroad which harm the integrity, independence or sovereignty of the nation … (including) the violations of the territory Mexican, whether on land, sea or air, “Sheinbaum said.
Sheinbaum said Thursday that she would also propose a second constitutional reform that would stiffen sanctions for Mexicans and foreigners who engage in arms trafficking, which is a higher diplomatic problem for Mexico, because most firearms Used in the country’s crimes are victims of the United States of the United States.
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Last week, She threatened master’s degree with legal action if Trump The administration concluded its intentions to declare Mexican drugs cartels as terrorist organizations.
“If they declare these crime groups organized as terrorists, we will have no option to extend our proceedings against the United States, because as the Ministry of Justice has already confessed, 74% of all Firearms in possession of drug cartels come from the United States, “Sheinbaum said.
“So where is the armor after the designation?” She added.
During her press conference on February 14, she said that a new accusation could include an alleged “complicity” of shooters with terrorist groups.
On February 13, the New York Times indicated that the US State Department provided for Classify criminal groups from Mexico, Colombia, Salvador and Venezuela as “terrorist organizations”.
“The decree called for designations, claiming that cartels” constitute a national security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime “and that the United States” would ensure total elimination “,” reported the Times.
The report added that criminal groups and their members “could be labeled foreign terrorist organizations or specially designated global terrorists” and “designations mean that the United States government can impose vast economic sanctions on groups and people or entities related to them”.
Last August, an American judge rejected a trial of 10 billion dollars brought by the Mexican government against six manufacturers of American firearms. Mexico had argued that companies knew that weapons were sold to traffickers who had introduced them as a smuggling in Mexico and decided to take advantage of this market.
However, the judge ruled that Mexico had not provided concrete evidence according to which none of the activities of the six companies in the Massachusetts was linked to any suffering caused in Mexico by firearms.
Earlier this month, Sheinbaum accused the United States of feeding drug cartelsAnd said that American citizens worked with groups of organized crimes in Mexico after Trump’s “slanderous” claims that Mexico had united their 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 February 13. “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.
–With reuters files
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