President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that the fact that Canada, like the United States, declares Mexican criminal organizations as terrorist groups “does not help” combat organized crime in the three nations.
“We believe that cataloging them as terrorist groups does not help for various reasons, which can be exposed by the Secretary of Defense (Ricardo Trevilla), the Secretary of Security (Omar García Harfuch), does not help collaboration and combat (drug trafficking (drug trafficking ) ”, Said the president during her morning press conference.
Sheinbaum thus referred to Monday’s announcement of the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, who revealed that he will include Mexican posters in the terrorist list as part of the new commitments with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to pause for a month the imposition of tariffs.
In this regard, Sheinbaum said that the “terrorist catalog” does not help fight criminal organizations operating in the three countries.
“There are many other forms of collaboration, coordination within the framework of our sovereignty that we can use to help in the fentanyl crisis they have in the United States,” he said.
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Sheinbaum said the three nations want to fight criminal groups
Sheinbaum said that the three nations want to fight criminal groups and, therefore, questioned US shipowners who provide weapons to organized crime in Mexico.
“What happens in the United States with arms shipowners that assemble these groups illegally? It does not mean that it is the United States government, much less, but that illegally, weapons are going to our territory, ”he said.
Therefore, he said, everyone has to “do their share in their country.”
“We do not believe that it is the best form of coordination and cooperation, I repeat again, that means that we are all fighting criminal groups, fighting, attacking, that is, we want to pacify the country, but this catalog is not, it does not help,” he reiterated .
According to the White House, “Mexican posters are the world leaders of Fentanil Public Health of the United States ”.
Sheinbaum “categorically” rejected these accusations and proposed a “dialogue” to Trump, in which they agreed to the deployment of 10,000 elements on the northern border of Mexico to stop the traffic of fentanyl and avoid the imposition of 25% of tariffs on Mexican products .
With EFE information.
