After the announcement of the United States to designate several Mexican drug cartels as terrorists, the new Canadian ambassador to Mexico, Cameron Mackay, said that his country will do the same with those drug trafficking organizations, but said that the measure will apply in territory in territory Canadian and with respect to the sovereignty of Mexico.
This was indicated by the Canadian diplomat after his meeting with the president of the Senate, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, and Senator Ruth González.
“We reaffirm that Canada and Mexico are strong partners, allies and friends. We need to work together more than ever to face our common challenges. In my country, the fentatyl crisis is a public health crisis with thousands of dead and that is why we are also going to designate drug groups as terrorists, ”Mackay said at a press conference.
The Canadian ambassador, who arrived in Mexico at the end of last year, said that the designation “is only to have a tool for the Canadian police that they can use only to face these groups.”
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Subsequently, in a message on social network X, he also referred to the meeting in the Senate where, he said, he talked about the fentanyl crisis in Canada and stressed that the designation will only have application in Canadian territory.
“In that sense, I emphasized that Canada respects Mexican sovereignty full and unwaveringly,” he added.
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In contrast, Fernández Noroña criticized the designation of terrorists to Mexican posters and pointed out that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, uses that pretext to attribute the right to intervene in other nations.
“In Mexico it has no interference, no command (…) we agree to combat them and that there is coordination, communication,” said Fernández Noroña, although he warned that “in terms of independence and sovereignty we will not yield a millimeter.”
“Trump has so far made statements, has made decisions that have not become materialized. So, while things are in that field of tension, ‘stretch and loosen’, as it is said, because nothing happens, ”said the senator.
The United States announced on Wednesday the official designation as terrorist groups to six drug cartels in Mexico, including the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), in addition to the Venezuelan band of the Aragua Train and the Mara Salvatrucha gang ( MS-13).
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In addition to the Sinaloa Cartel and the CJNG, the Mexican cartels of the Northeast, the Gulf, the New Michoacan family and the United Cartels were also included in the list of terrorist groups.
“I designate the aforementioned organizations and their respective alias as foreign terrorist organizations,” the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, in a document published in the Federal Registry that will enter into force on Thursday, determined on Wednesday.
American media reported Tuesday that spy drones of the CIA have spied on organized crime in Mexican territory to detect fentanyl laboratories.
President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday “not being afraid” of an invasion of the United States because she feels supported by the population.
Mexico has opposed in recent years to the United States to take that step by fear that it will open the door to an American intervention in Mexican territory.
With EFE information
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