Much stronger cooperation for drug and human trafficking, asks US ambassador

Mireya Cuellar

Correspondent

La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, p. 8

Tijuana, BC., To confront problems such as arms trafficking from the United States to Mexico and human or fentanyl trafficking, which is from south to north, both countries require a much stronger cooperation than exists, a cooperation of trust is required from both sides of the bordersaid the US ambassador, Ken Salazar, yesterday during a visit to Tijuana.

In a speech in front of a small group of journalists and residents of Rancho Las Flores, which sounded like a farewell, Ambassador Salazar said that the people of Mexico and the United States deserve mutual work, trustwhich allows them to face problems and strengthen trade.

The podium for Salazar was placed on the side of the canal – now dry – in what was his second visit to this neighborhood where a group of neighbors organized with environmentalists to place garbage collectors. Tijuana has been dumping millions of liters of sewage into the sea for several years and the ambassador has been working on both sides to find a solution.

Today the neighboring country is expanding the international treatment plant located in San Ysidro and the Defense has almost finished building another one in San Antonio de los Buenos.

Salazar met with San Diego merchants in the morning and after noon with the settlers of Rancho Las Flores to recount what had been achieved, and although he said that there is no exact date to end the problem of coastal pollution, We are in a much better place now than where we were..

Additionally, in a message spread on social networks, he stressed the importance of strengthening academic exchanges between both nations.

He assured that in recent years the number of Mexicans studying in the United States has grown from 14 thousand to 30 thousand. However, he added, the goal is to reach 200,000.