President Claudia Sheinbaum stated this Sunday that the United States also has to work to “reduce the consumption” of drugs and “get closer to its young people so that there is not so much drug addiction,” in addition to bragging about the 50% decrease in fentanyl that crosses between both countries.
“They (the United States) also have to work to reduce consumption, they have to get closer to their young people so that there is not so much drug addiction. It is a comprehensive effort to address the causes and also to reduce impunity,” the president stressed during her visit to the state of Michoacán, one of the most dangerous in Mexico.
He also argued that thanks to the joint work between his Government’s security strategy and the collaboration of the United States, “the amount of fentanyl crossing from Mexico to the United States has been reduced by half.”
Within the framework of these statements, Sheinbaum reiterated that there is collaboration with the North American neighbor, but he stressed that “there is something that is not negotiated and that is the sovereignty and independence of the country.”
“Let it be clear and this is how your president will always act, do not have the slightest doubt about that, with the United States we coordinate, we collaborate but we never subordinate ourselves and independence is not negotiated,” he concluded.
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US threats to Mexico
The president’s repeated statements this weekend regarding the defense of the country’s sovereignty come after her American counterpart, Donald Trump, assured that he is going to “start attacking on the ground” the Mexican cartels that, according to him, “are running Mexico.”
Trump also accused these criminal groups of “killing 250,000 or 300,000 people” in his country each year.
Regarding this attack, 75 Democratic congressmen alerted the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, of the “disaster” that bombing Mexico would entail.
Members of the House of Representatives considered that military action would “undermine” the “decades” efforts that the United States made in Mexico against drug supply chains, such as programs to strengthen the rule of law and combat corruption.
They also highlighted that Sheinbaum, who took office in October 2024, “has strengthened intelligence to combat organized crime, has significantly reduced homicide levels, and has supervised the largest seizure of fentanyl in the history of Mexico.”
On his tour of Michoacán, one of the states that brings together at least twelve drug trafficking cartels – among them the powerful one designated by the US as terrorist, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel -, Sheinbaum highlighted the execution of the Plan for Peace and Justice in the entity.
“We know about the insecurity problems that exist in the state,” he highlighted, mentioning that to resolve insecurity in Michoacán, the causes must be addressed, mainly that “no young person approaches a criminal group,” which, he said, are an “option of jail or death.”
With information from EFE
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