Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum He said Friday that efforts to slow Mexican cartels and migration from the north were showing “credible results” in an effort to counter the Trump administration’s intervention debate.
The comments come after US President Donald Trump threatened action against Mexican drug cartels last week. Mr Trump told Fox News last week that the US had “taken 97% of the drugs out of the water” and that the US was “going to hit the ground running now, in terms of the cartels”. The Trump administration has also begun add militarized zones to the southern border.
Sheinbaum, a leftist who prides himself on taking the chaos “with a cool head”, has sought to reassure Mr Trump and, unlike Maduro, has worked to build a strong relationship between the Mexican and US governments. A dramatic US military attack removed about Venezuela Former President Nicolás Maduro in early January had thrown much of Latin America into disarray, raising concerns that Mr. Trump would soon turn American forces to other nations, in particular. Cuba and Mexico.
On Thursday night, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente released a joint statement after a phone call, saying “more must be done to address shared threats.”
Sheinbaum, who mentioned Friday’s call at a morning press conference, said the Mexican government had made significant progress in cracking down on cartels, thanks to a sharp drop in the homicide rate, much smaller seizures of fentanyl by US authorities at the border. scarce migration. Mexican authorities More than 1,500 kilos were seized methamphetamine from the country’s clandestine laboratories earlier this week.
He stated that it was a joint effort with the US: “There are very credible results as a result of the joint cooperation and the work that Mexico is doing,” he said.
He reiterated the call for the US to stop arms trafficking to Mexico and highlighted that drug use in the US is a key factor that promotes cartel violence in Mexico.
“The other side must also do its part. This consumer crisis must also be dealt with from a public health perspective, through educational campaigns,” he said.
Sheinbaum and Mr. Trump also spoke by phone on Monday. Sheinbaum said it was a “very good conversation.”
“We told him, so far it’s going very well, it’s not necessary, and there’s Mexico’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and he understood,” he said.