Those in charge of leading these strategies, the statement detailed, will be the Mexican Secretary of Security, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, and the National Security Advisor to President Joe Biden, Elizabeth D. Sherwood-Randall.
At the meeting, the officials highlighted the “successes” that represented the capture of José “Lupe” Guadalupe Tapia, one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel and Ovidio Guzmán, the son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
In turn, the governments pledged to do “everything in their power” to identify and bring to justice those responsible for the kidnapping of four Americans and the murder of two of them in the border city of Matamoros.
The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, pointed out on Thursday, in the framework of the meeting between the officials, that his country neither manufactures nor consumes the powerful synthetic opioid.
“Here we do not produce fentanyl and we do not consume fentanyl. And we are very sorry for what is happening in the United States, but why don’t they address the problem, do they not fight the distribution of fentanyl in the United States,” he said.
The meeting came amid Republican criticism of the two governments’ strategy to combat drug trafficking, proposing that they declare war on the Mexican cartels and designate them as terrorists.
