The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, said that Mexico will not tolerate an “invasion” of her national sovereignty after the Trump administration moved to formally designate eight organizations of Latin American crimes as “foreign terrorist organizations.”
“This cannot be an opportunity for the United States to invade our sovereignty,” said Sheinbaum during his daily press conference on Thursday. “With Mexico is collaboration and coordination, never subordination or interventionism, and even less invasion.”
“We want to be clear given this designation that we do not negotiate our sovereignty,” Sheinbaum added. “There can be no interference or subordination.
“Both countries want to reduce drug use and illegal drug trafficking.”
Sheinbaum said his government was not consulted by the United States in his decision to include Mexican posters in a list of global terrorist organizations, including the Sinaloa cartel, United Cartel, the Michoacan family and the poster of the new generation of Jalisco. Canada is also listing seven transnational criminal organizations, including multiple drug cartels, as terrorist entities under the Criminal Code, the Minister of Public Security announced Thursday.
“The Mexican people will not accept in any circumstances interventions, intrusions or any other action from abroad that is detrimental to integrity, independence or sovereignty of the nation … (including) violations of the Mexican territory, either by land, sea Or air, “Sheinbaum said.
Sheinbaum said Thursday that he would also propose a second constitutional reform that would harden the sanctions for Mexicans and foreigners who participate in arms trafficking, which is a main diplomatic issue for Mexico, since most of the weapons used in crimes in the Country are trafficked with the United States. .
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Last week, she threatened American gunmen with legal action if Trump's administration carried out her intentions to declare Mexican drug posters as terrorist organizations.
“If they declare these groups of crimes organized as terrorists, we will not have the option to extend our demands against the United States, because as the Department of Justice has already confessed, 74 percent of all firearms in possession of posters of Drugs come from the United States, “Sheinbaum said.
“So, where are the assemblies after the designation?” She added.
During his press conference on February 14, he said that a new position could include an alleged “complicity” of arms manufacturers with terrorist groups.
February 13, The New York Times He informed that the United States Department of State plans Classify criminal groups from Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador and Venezuela as “terrorist organizations.”
“The Executive Order requested the designations, saying that the posters constitute a threat of national security beyond that raised by traditional organized crime” and that the United States “would guarantee the total elimination” of the groups, “said the Times.
The report added that criminal groups and their members “could be labeled as foreign terrorist organizations or especially designated global terrorists” and “designations mean that the United States government can impose broad economic sanctions on groups and groups or entities linked them”.
Last August, an American judge dismissed a claim of $ 10 billion filed by the Mexican government against six weapons manufacturers in the United States. Mexico had argued that companies knew that weapons were sold to the traffickers who smuggled them in Mexico and decided to take advantage of that market.
However, the judge ruled that Mexico had not provided concrete evidence that none of the six activities of the companies in Massachusetts were connected with any suffering caused in Mexico by weapons.
Earlier this month, Sheinbaum accused the United States to house drug cartels, and said that US citizens are working with groups of crimes organized in Mexico after Trump's “defamatory” statements that Mexico had joined forces with the 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 February 13. “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.
–With Reuters files
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