Mexican President warns us against any “invasion” that fights cartels – State
Mexico will not tolerate “invasions” of its national sovereignty after the Trump administration proposes formally designating eight Latin American criminal organizations as “foreign terrorist organizations” .
“This is not an opportunity for the United States to invade our sovereignty,” Sheinbaum said in a daily press conference on Thursday. “With Mexico, it is cooperation and coordination, never obedience or interventionism, not even too invading,” Sheinbaum said. .”
“We want to be clear given that we will not negotiate our sovereignty,” Sheinbaum added. “No interference or subordinate.
“Both countries want to reduce drug consumption and illegal drug trafficking.”
Sheinbaum said the United States did not consult with her government and decided to include the Mexican cartel on the list of global terrorist organizations, including the Sinaloa cartel, the United Cartel, the Mimocana family and the Jalisco new generation cartel. The Public Safety Minister announced Thursday that Canada also listed seven transnational criminal organizations, including multiple drug cartels, as terrorist entities under the criminal law.
“Under no circumstances will the Mexican people accept interventions, invasions or any other actions from abroad that are detrimental to the integrity, independence or sovereignty of the state… [including] “Break Mexican territory,” Sheinbaum said.
Sheinbaum said on Thursday that she also proposed a second constitutional reform that would punish Mexicans and foreigners engaged in arms trafficking, a major diplomatic issue in Mexico, as most of the guns used in crimes in the country are from Trafficked in the United States.
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Last week, Trump's administration threatened to take legal action if it intends to declare the Mexican drug cartel a terrorist group.
“If they declare these organized criminal groups terrorists, we have no choice but to expand litigation against the United States because, as the Justice Department has already admitted, 74% of all guns that own drug cartels are from the United States,” Sheinbaum said .
“So, where is the ordnance station after the designated?” she added.
In a February 14 press conference, she said the new allegations could include alleged “complicity” with the terrorist group's gunmaker.
On February 13, the New York Times reported that the U.S. State Department plans to classify criminal groups in Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador and Venezuela as “terrorist organizations.”
“The executive order calls on these names, saying that cartels pose a national security threat posed by traditional organized crime” and the United States will “ensure that all eliminate” groups. ”
The report added that criminal groups and their members “can be labeled as foreign terrorist organizations or specially designated global terrorists”, “these names mean that the U.S. government can impose extensive economic sanctions on these groups and those associated with them. ”.
Last August, a U.S. judge dismissed a $10 billion lawsuit filed by the Mexican government against six U.S. gun manufacturers. Mexico had believed that the companies knew the weapons were sold to traffickers, and they smuggled them to Mexico and decided to cash them in the market.
However, the judge ruled that Mexico did not provide concrete evidence that any of the activities of six Massachusetts companies were related to any suffering caused by guns in Mexico.
Earlier this month, Sheinbaum accused the U.S. of possessing drug cartels and claimed that U.S. citizens were working with organized crime groups in Mexico after Trump's “slanderous” claims that Mexico had teamed up with drug traffickers.
“There are also organized crimes in the United States, and some Americans come to Mexico. Transparent
Sheinbaum is responding to a reporter from the animal Político news media, who mentioned in an investigation published this week that more than 2,600 U.S. citizens were found to have been arrested in Mexico for crimes related to organized crime, including Mexico since Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2018 He took office in December 2019.
“The problem is not just drugs from Mexico to the United States,” she added.
–Documents with Reuters
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