The president of MexicoClaudia Sheinbaum, denounced on Thursday the existence in the United States of organized crime around drug trafficking and reiterated that Washington must act against that scourge in its own territory.
“What we have been raised is that in the United States there is also organized crime and there are American people who come to Mexico with those illegal activities,” said the president during her usual meeting with journalists, he said An office of the agency Latin press.
“Why do we say it? Because if not, who would distribute? Who would distribute the fentanyl in the cities of the United States? Because the matter is not only that drugs from Mexico (…), but who distributes that drug for the unfortunate great consumption ”in the United States, asked the president, who has not ceased to demand collaboration and coordination of the Trump administration for contain the phenomenon.
“Not only is Washington collaborate with information, intelligence for apprehensions in this Latin American country,” he explained, “but also do her work in the US territory for the arrests to avoid drug trafficking in her nation,” said Sheinbaum.
The dignitary recalled that the world’s largest drug use is the United States.
In 2022, approximately 70 million people in the United States, 12 years or more reported having consumed one or more illegal drugs. Such a number represents around a quarter of the adolescent and adult population.
In that same year, 107 941 people died in that American country due to drug overdose.
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Transfer of weapons to Mexico
72.92 % of homicides registered in Mexico during 2024 were committed with illegally trafficked firearms, said a study published Thursday.
“In the last year, according to the figure recovered by the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, the highest percentage registered in history was reached, with 72.92 percent (of illegal weapons) until November 2024” , details the document of the academic institution College of Mexico cited by press media.
A demand from the Government of Mexico against weapons manufacturers of the United States based that more than 200 thousand weapons enter Mexican territory every year, the majority for criminal groups.
In 2004, when the federal prohibition of assault weapons in the American nation expired, the deaths caused by the use of firearms in Mexico represented 50.5 % of the total; That percentage rose four years later to 62.92 %.
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Speech foreign ministers
The head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio, recognized Mexico’s efforts to contain irregular migration in a call with Mexican chancellor Juan Ramón de la Fuente, both governments reported Thursday.
The talk, carried out on Wednesday, revolved around the monitoring of the “agreed agreements” between the US President, Donald Trump, and his Mexican couple, Claudia Sheinbaum, reported the Foreign Ministry of the Latin American country in the social network X.
Rubio “expressed his gratitude for the recent efforts of Mexico to stop undocumented migration” and his collaboration for the process of repatriating them, the US State Department detailed on his side in a statement.
Both officials also talked about the fight against Fentanyl traffic, a dangerous synthetic opioid that causes at least 75 thousand dead a year in the United States, and the transfer of weapons towards Mexico.
