The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, is accusing the United States to house drug cartels, and states that US citizens are working with groups of crimes organized in Mexico, after the “slander” statements of the president of the United States, to The beginning of this month, which Mexico had joined forces with drug traffickers.
“There is also organized crime in the United States and there are American people who come to Mexico with these illegal activities,” said Sheinbaum During a press conference Thursday. “Otherwise, who would distribute fentanil in the cities of the United States?”
Sheinbaum was responding to a journalist from the news of animal policy, who mentioned a research they published This week, that found that more than 2,600 US citizens were arrested in Mexico for crimes related to organized crime, including smuggling of drugs and firearms, since the former president of Mexico, Andrés, Manuel López, Obrador, assumed the position in December 2018.
“The problem is not just that drugs pass from Mexico to the United States,” he added.
Sheinbaum said Mexico is willing to work with the United States government in security matters in Mexico, but emphasized that the United States government also has to “do its job” to “avoid drug trafficking in your country” .
“In the United States, they also have to act,” he said.
During his press conference, Sheinbaum also urged Google to reconsider his decision to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America for US users. Sheinbaum said Mexico could file a civil lawsuit against Google.
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Google changed the name of US users of Google Maps to reflect the decision of Trump's government to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.
Sheinbaum has repeatedly denounced the movement, arguing that the name of the “Gulf of Mexico” has been recognized internationally for a long time. On Thursday, he said that Google had not resolved the previous complaints of Mexico.
“If necessary, we will file a civil demand,” he said. “Even President Trump is not proposing that the entire Gulf of Mexico be called the 'Gulf of America', but only its continental platform. Then Google is wrong.”
He urged Google to review the Decree of the White House, arguing “the only place where it was effective was (United States) has sovereignty, or up to 22 nautical miles on the coast.”
In Long statement Last week, Sheinbaum approached Trump's statement that tariffs against Mexico were an response to illegal immigration and “alliance” between drug trafficking organizations and the Government of Mexico.
“We categorically reject the 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,” Sheinbaum wrote In social networks. “If there is such an alliance anywhere, it is in the US weapons stores. The ones that sell high -power weapons to these criminal groups.”
Sheinbaum said the Mexican government has “seized more than 40 tons of drugs in four months”, including “20 million doses of fentanyl” and “arrested more than ten thousand people linked to these groups.”
“If the United States government and its agencies want Money The washing generated by this illegal activity, which has caused significant damage to its population, ”he added.
Sheinbaum also suggested that the United States could “launch a massive campaign to prevent drug use and protect its youth,” as Mexico has done.
“The consumption and distribution of drugs occur in their own country, and that is a public health problem that they have not addressed. In addition, the synthetic opioid epidemic in the United States originates in the indiscriminate prescription of these medications, authorized by the Food and Medicines Administration (FDA), as evidenced by the legal case against a pharmaceutical company, ”Sheinbaum wrote.
“Mexico does not seek confrontation. We believe in collaboration between neighboring countries. Mexico does not want fentanil to reach the United States, or anywhere else. Therefore, if the United States really wants to combat criminal groups that drug trafficking and fuel violence, we must work together in an integral way, but always under the principles of shared responsibility, mutual trust, collaboration and, above all, respect for Sovereignty, 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 statement.
“We strongly condemn the accusations that suggest that there is a link between our government and drug trafficking posters,” he said. “These statements not only have no basis, but also ignore the main and verifiable efforts that Mexico has made to combat organized crime,” reads the statement.
Marcelo Ebrard, Minister of Economy of Mexico, He said in x Trump is hurting himself.
“Accusing the Mexican government of being a narco ally (traffickers) is, apart from an insult to our country, a pretext to distract the public opinion of the United States from the tremendous mistake of imposing disruptive tariffs on the companies of Mexico and America of the America of the North operating here. Shooting on the foot, ”Ebrard wrote.
– With Reuters files
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