Sheinbaum demands that the US combat fentanyl distribution on its ground

Alma E. Muñoz and Alonso Urrutia

La Jornada newspaper
Friday, February 14, 2025, p. 5

By insisting on the need to strengthen collaboration and coordination with the United States to face organized crime on both sides of the border, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said that the neighboring country must do its part with those who distribute fentanil in their territory.

In another order of ideas, in the face of the migratory problem, he informed that in the 10 Centers for Care for Repatriates they have served 2,186 people and on Wednesday they only spent the night 158. “Obviously, the capacity is greater.

Anyway, they will remain there, I have made that decision, also to wait for the following months and always give support to our brothers and sistershe stressed.

Yesterday at her press conference, the president said that It does not alarm us What US military planes make flights in the vicinity of national territory, because it is an international airspace. It is not the first time that happenshe said, nor is it that the Mexican Senate authorizes the entry of military from that country for training exercises.

To an express question, he said that he will ask for an explanation regarding the flights, but as part of the coordination work. It is not that we are going to make a special letter, because it is not the first time that this type’s flight is happening. What happens is that now there is more sensitivity on the issues and can be alert in this circumstance.

He pointed out that in The United States is organized crime and there are Americans who come to Mexico with these illegal activities, because if not, who would distribute and distribute fentanyl in its cities?

That’s why Collaboration and coordination is important, and not only to think that organized crime is in Mexico and that we must act in Mexico to avoid drug trafficking. You have to do it, nobody is denying it, but also in the United States you have to acthe said.

The main drug use is in the United States; This is not now. The new is the fentanyl, which is an extremely addictive drug that causes overdose and causes death, but 40 or 50 years ago was mainly marijuana, then it was cocaine and then there were many other drugshe said. By insisting that the neighboring country fights organized crime in its territory, he stressed that Antier stopped a criminal of US -Sotelo Sotelo – with extradition order to that nation.

The president stressed that the increase in this type of arrest in Mexico is due to the fact that there has been a greater use of intelligence and research, and in this context, she recalled that this week she sent the law for the National System of Intelligence and Research to Congress, in order to combine the work in this area between the corporations of the Mexican State.

He affirmed that stigmatization to Mexico It’s wrong. What we are raising is a collaboration between governments that allows us to reduce drug trafficking, address the causes of consumption and, at the same time, reduce impunity and stop drug and weapons trafficking. The performance, to each one corresponds in their territory, but it is a coordination and collaboration, because it is an issue that concerns the two countries.