President Claudia Sheinbaum ruled out on Tuesday that the United States security agreement is at risk due to drug trafficking cartels, as the newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) assured in a report.
“No, I don’t know where the Wall Street Journal takes off their sources, but their sources are not well,” said the president during the town’s morning.
The head of the Executive said that the security agreement is “almost ready”, although it still has no date for its signature.
“We have to define that. But the agreement is ready and part of four principles, the most important: respect for sovereignty. Thus says the agreement,” he said.
Among the points that the agreement has, he stressed, in addition to respect for sovereignty, are respect for territoriality, mutual trust and cooperation.
On Monday the American media The Wall Street Journal said the Mexican cartels harm the security agreement between President Sheinbaum with her American counterpart Donald Trump.
He affirmed that this is exemplified with the escape in July of Zhi Dong Zhang, Chinese operator who is investigated in the US for smuggling fentanyl and was in house arrest while waiting for his extradition process to the United States.
Dong Zhang was accused of washing for about 150 million dollars for Mexican bands and smuggling large amounts of cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine.
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Trump has pressed Mexico to improve its security strategy and threatened to impose tariffs on all imports from Mexico if the country did not take effective measures to stop the traffic of fentanyl that reaches the US.
Last week, both countries reached an agreement to pause for 90 days the imposition of 30% tariffs on Mexican products.
The US president has prioritized the fight against fentanyl, a synthetic drug that, according to his government, is prepared in countries like Mexico with China’s chemical precursors and caused more than 48 thousand deaths due to overdose in the US for 2024, according to the centers for disease control and prevention (CDC).
For its part, the Government of Mexico has said that since February, thanks to the ‘North Border Operation’, agreed with Trump, to avoid tariffs to Mexico, 5,996 people and almost 54 tons of drugs have been confiscated, including 310 kilograms of fentanil.
With EFE information
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