How do you need to fight prisons?
You have to go with everything, I think there are different tools and you have to use them all. One thing, for example, that I think can help a lot is, and that has a lot to do with the politicians who are suspected have ties with drug traffickers.
The cartels are huge criminal networks that not only include drug trafficking, but many illicit activities and I do believe that you have to go with everything, with a firm hand.
Does the narcomopolitics worry?
Much, a lot. It is impossible to think that a government is going to fight against drug posters, against organized crime, if politicians who make decisions are financed or not financed by drug traffickers, the criminals themselves. Then, in order to change the system, to be able to implement policies against organized crime, against posters, you cannot have those who make decisions in bed with criminals.
Is there the possibility that there are cases such as attacks on Venezuelan boats?
I think so, and not only in Mexico, in any country where there is evidence that there are boats that are transporting drugs that can easily reach the United States.
“If the Government of Mexico shows that it is doing everything possible to collaborate on important issues for the United States, it will be a review of the T-MEC) and it will be quite well.”
Carlos Díaz-Rosillo
Is there still trust towards Mexico as an ally?
Yes. I believe that undoubtedly Mexico is, it is still and will continue to be one of the most important allies in the United States. In all issues, not only in the issue of drug trafficking, organized crime. They are two neighbors who share a huge border, have historical, cultural ties, are not two distant countries. They have to be allies, there is no other.
Why does the Mexican-United States relationship go?
The relationship between the United States and Mexico is too important for not doing well. So the main message is that the thing is going well, that does not mean that there will be no high and low.
Day by day both governments are collaborating on security, migration, health, everything. There is a very good collaboration.
I believe that the president has handled the relationship quite well, and as shown, they see how the president reacted when President Trump at the beginning of her government said she was going to impose tariffs against Mexico and Canada unlike how Canada’s prime minister reacted.
The president endured, said nothing until the morning of next Monday with great prudence said that Mexico does not want to confront that the best negotiators of both countries are going to put the agreement and lowered the tone, the intensity and showed that he wants to collaborate and immediately said that he was going to send 10,000 troops to the border, which was going to collaborate. Her tone was a much more conciliatory tone, much more negotiation, we are neighbors.
I see the relationship quite well.
Do you see review or renegotiation of the T-MEC?
In a few months, what should be a review of the T-MEC will begin, but it can certainly be a renegotiation of zero.
If the Government of Mexico shows the United States government that it is doing everything possible to stop illegal migration, to stop migratory flows, to stop the amount of fentanyl that arrives, for controlling the issue of drug trafficking, for curbing organized crime, I think it will go quite well. If on the contrary there are no advances and Trump’s government sees that the Government of Mexico has much to do and that it is not doing, I think it will be a renegotiation from scratch.
