AMLO rejects US initiative that proposes to fight Mexican cartels

A bill from the United States House of Representatives calls for allowing the use of the Armed Forces against Mexican drug cartelsparticularly against the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel indicated for their responsibility in fentanyl trafficking.

In the bill, lawmakers say fentanyl is killing more than 80,000 Americans, mostly men ages 18 to 45.

In his press conference this Monday, President López Obrador rejected this approach.

“It is even worse that they want to use military force to intervene in the public life of another, invade another country with the excuse that they are targeting drug traffickers, terrorists. Of course it is pure propaganda, however we must be rejecting all these claims of interventionism in Mexico, “warned the federal president.

The president stated that the report on terrorism presented by the State Department of the United States Government to Congress specifies that there is no evidence that terrorist groups are collaborating with Mexican drug cartels, and also highlights Mexico’s willingness to dismantle to terrorism.

The president questioned the article written by former prosecutor William Barr, who assured that during the government of Felipe Calderón it is the only government in which they have faced drug cartels.

“During President Calderón’s six-year term, the security secretary was in charge of carrying out the agreements with drug trafficking and was or is being tried in the United States for that. What also calls my attention a lot about this is that even President Calderón put that on his Twitter, citing Barr, noting that Barr had said that only he had confronted the drug traffickers, ”he said.