Drug trafficking posters have lost at least 53,770 million pesos (almost 2.6 billion dollars) for the actions of the first four -month period of Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidency in Mexico, said the government on Tuesday in the face of the pressure of the Donald Trump administration in states in states Joined.
The authorities have arrested 10,148 people for high -impact crimes, and have confiscated 4,981 firearms and 90 tons of drugs, including 1,252 kilograms of fentanyl and 738,790 pills of this synthetic narcotic since Sheinbaum assumed on October 1, said Omar García Harfuch, Secretary of Security.
Army elements, the Navy, the Ministry of Safety and Citizen Protection (SSPC) and the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) “carried out various activities of prevention, surveillance and recognition, coupled with numerous research papers,” said the official.
The head of the SSPC presented a report from the first semester of the Government in the National Palace, where it highlighted the dismantling of 139 clandestine laboratories of synthetic drugs with 239,361 liters and 91,443 kilograms of chemical substances.
They have also confiscated 232 organic synthesis reactors, 81 capacitors and 63 distillians in these actions, in the entities of Baja California, State of Mexico, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Michoacán, Puebla, Querétaro, Sinaloa, Sonora and Tlaxcala.
Only these operations have resulted in economic affectation to criminal organizations greater than 53,770 million pesos (almost 2.6 billion dollars), he reported.
The Security Chief highlighted in January the seizure of 560 kilograms of methamphetamines and 30 kilograms of fentanyl in Tecate, Baja California border city with the United States, for a value of 416 million pesos (about 20 million dollars).
While in Manzanillo, the main port of Mexico in the Pacific, the sailors found on January 10 a container from China with 65 liters of substances to produce drugs.
Mexico defends its security policy before the US
The president of Mexico defended these “very important figures” become their four -axis security strategy: attention to the causes of violence, consolidation of the National Guard, intelligence against crime, and coordination between federal and state authorities,
“We are going to continue every month giving results and informing the people of Mexico for the construction of peace and security in our country,” he said.
The president reiterated that she will seek “high -level” meetings once all the appointments of the Trump government are ratified, who assumed on January 20 and on his first day in the position he cataloged the cartels as terrorists, to which he holds on The death of between 250,000 and 300,000 Americans per year.
In addition, Trump notified 25% tariffs to Mexican products from February 1 for the flow of migrants and drugs, particular The cartels control 30% of the territory, according to Washington.
Sheinbaum insisted on analyzing Trump’s decrees with “cold head” by reiterating that will prioritize coordination with respect to sovereignty for drug trafficking, reduction of homicides and the transfer of weapons from the United States to Mexico, where three quarters of the guns They are of American origin.
Homicide data
The president assumed after an accumulated record of more than 196,000 murders during the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), of the same party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
And the murders rose 1.2% per year in 2024 to 30,057, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP).
But Sheinbaum said the trend is down since the management of López Obrador.
“The estimate is that, if we take into account from 2018 to date, the reduction in intention Government, ”he said.
With EFE information
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